House File 157 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  SCHUELLER, SWAIM, KAUFMANN,
                                           LUKAN, HOFFMAN, DOLECHECK,
                                           MERTZ, FREVERT, ALONS,
                                           WORTHAN, TJEPKES, WHITAKER,
                                           BERRY, GASKILL, THOMAS,
                                           WENTHE, BUKTA, and JACOBY


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring the school budget review committee to grant
  2    transportation assistance aid to school districts under
  3    certain circumstances and providing a statutory appropriation.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1492HH 82
  6 kh/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 257.31, subsection 17, paragraph a,
  1  2 Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  If a district's average transportation costs per pupil
  1  4 exceed the state average transportation costs per pupil
  1  5 determined under paragraph "c" by one hundred fifty percent,
  1  6 the committee may shall grant transportation assistance aid to
  1  7 the district in an amount up to, but not exceeding, one dollar
  1  8 of transportation assistance for each dollar by which the
  1  9 district's average transportation costs per pupil exceed the
  1 10 state average transportation costs per pupil as determined
  1 11 under paragraph "c".  Such aid shall be miscellaneous income
  1 12 and shall not be included in district cost.
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 257.31, subsection 17, Code 2007, is
  1 14 amended by adding the following new paragraphs:
  1 15    NEW PARAGRAPH.  e.  There is appropriated from the general
  1 16 fund of the state to the committee, for the fiscal year
  1 17 beginning July 1, 2007, and each succeeding fiscal year, up to
  1 18 seventeen million five hundred twenty=eight thousand dollars
  1 19 for transportation assistance aid to school districts as
  1 20 provided in this subsection, which shall supplement, not
  1 21 supplant, the moneys appropriated pursuant to paragraph "d".
  1 22 If the amount appropriated under this paragraph is
  1 23 insufficient to pay the amount of transportation assistance
  1 24 aid determined under this subsection, the committee shall
  1 25 prorate the amount of the transportation assistance aid
  1 26 provided to each district.
  1 27    NEW PARAGRAPH.  f.  The committee shall adopt rules
  1 28 pursuant to chapter 17A for granting transportation assistance
  1 29 aid and for otherwise administering this subsection.
  1 30                           EXPLANATION
  1 31    This bill appropriates, beginning July 1, 2007, $17.528
  1 32 million annually to the school budget review committee for
  1 33 transportation assistance aid to school districts, in an
  1 34 amount up to $1 for each dollar by which the district's
  1 35 average transportation costs exceed the state average
  2  1 transportation costs per pupil.
  2  2    If the amount appropriated is insufficient, the committee
  2  3 is directed to prorate the amount of aid provided to school
  2  4 districts.
  2  5    The moneys appropriated are to supplement, not supplant,
  2  6 moneys appropriated to the committee from the sale of vehicle
  2  7 registration plates with an education emblem.
  2  8 LSB 1492HH 82
  2  9 kh:nh/gg/14