Senate File 2150 - Introduced



                                  SENATE FILE       
                                  BY  PUTNEY, LUNDBY, TINSMAN, ZAUN,
                                      WIECK, McKIBBEN, GASKILL, BEHN,
                                      JOHNSON, MILLER, SHULL, MULDER,
                                      KETTERING, SEYMOUR, BOETTGER,
                                      ZIEMAN, IVERSON, LAMBERTI,
                                      McKINLEY, WARD, HAHN, DEARDEN,
                                      DOTZLER, HOUSER, and KIBBIE


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act eliminating a waiver for early school starts.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  3 TLSB 5361XS 81
  4 kh/je/5

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 257.17, Code 2005, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    257.17  AID REDUCTION FOR EARLY SCHOOL STARTS.
  1  4    State aid payments made pursuant to section 257.16 for a
  1  5 fiscal year shall be reduced by one one=hundred=eightieth for
  1  6 each day of that fiscal year for which the school district
  1  7 begins school before the earliest starting date specified in
  1  8 section 279.10, subsection 1.  However, this section does not
  1  9 apply to a school district that has received approval from the
  1 10 director of the department of education under section 279.10,
  1 11 subsection 4, to commence classes for regularly established
  1 12 elementary and secondary schools in advance of the starting
  1 13 date established in section 279.10, subsection 1.
  1 14    Sec. 2.  Section 279.10, subsection 2, Code 2005, is
  1 15 amended to read as follows:
  1 16    2.  The board of directors shall hold a public hearing on
  1 17 any proposal request made pursuant to subsection 3 prior to
  1 18 submitting it to the department of education for approval.
  1 19    Sec. 3.  Section 279.10, subsection 4, Code 2005, is
  1 20 amended by striking the subsection.
  1 21                           EXPLANATION
  1 22    This bill eliminates the authority of the director of the
  1 23 department of education to grant a request made by a board of
  1 24 directors of a school district to commence classes prior to
  1 25 the earliest starting date allowed, which is no sooner than a
  1 26 day during the calendar week in which the first day of
  1 27 September falls or, if the first day of September falls on a
  1 28 Sunday, a day during the prior week.  The bill makes a
  1 29 conforming change to eliminate an exemption from aid reduction
  1 30 for early school starts that school districts qualify for if
  1 31 they are granted a waiver from the school start date.  Without
  1 32 the waiver, the school district's state aid payments are
  1 33 reduced by 1/180 for each day of that fiscal year for which
  1 34 the school district begins school before the earliest starting
  1 35 date allowed.  The bill includes a technical correction.
  2  1 LSB 5361XS 81
  2  2 kh:rj/je/5.1