House File 390 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  KAUFMANN


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for an increase in the amount of supplementary
  2    weighting applicable to limited English proficient students,
  3    and providing an effective date.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 2664YH 81
  6 rn/pj/5

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 280.4, subsection 3, Code 2005, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    3.  In order to provide funds for the excess costs of
  1  4 instruction of limited English proficient students above the
  1  5 costs of instruction of pupils in a regular curriculum,
  1  6 students identified as limited English proficient shall be
  1  7 assigned an additional weighting of twenty=two thirty=two
  1  8 hundredths, and that weighting shall be included in the
  1  9 weighted enrollment of the school district of residence for a
  1 10 period not exceeding three years.  However, the school budget
  1 11 review committee may grant supplemental aid or modified
  1 12 allowable growth to a school district to continue funding a
  1 13 program for students after the expiration of the three=year
  1 14 period.
  1 15    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 16 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18    This bill increases the additional weighting assigned to
  1 19 limited English proficient students under the school finance
  1 20 formula from the current level of twenty=two hundredths to the
  1 21 level of thirty=two hundredths.  The effect of the additional
  1 22 weighting is to count a limited English proficient student as
  1 23 more than one student for purposes of determining enrollment
  1 24 in a school district, which generates additional funding for
  1 25 limited English proficient programs.
  1 26    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
  1 27 LSB 2664YH 81
  1 28 rn:nh/pj/5