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:
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PAG LIN
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.
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