House File 2280 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  PETTENGILL, HOFFMAN, HORBACH,
                                           DE BOEF, DEYOE, KAUFMANN,
                                           S. OLSON, WINDSCHITL, GRANZOW,
                                           GREINER, DOLECHECK, SWAIM,
                                           RASMUSSEN, ARNOLD, and HEATON


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act creating a supplementary weighting plan for certain rural
  2    school districts.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 5971YH 82
  5 ak/sc/8

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 257.11, Code Supplement 2007, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  7A.  a.  In order to provide additional
  1  4 funds for rural school districts, a rural supplementary
  1  5 weighting plan is adopted.  To be eligible for supplementary
  1  6 weighting under this subsection, a school district must have a
  1  7 budget enrollment of six hundred seventy=five students or less
  1  8 and a district square mile per pupil ratio of greater than one
  1  9 hundred sixty=one thousandths.
  1 10    b.  The rural supplementary weighting, which shall be
  1 11 calculated by the department of management, shall be
  1 12 calculated by multiplying the district square mile per pupil
  1 13 ratio by a weighting of fourteen and eighty=two thousandths.
  1 14    c.  For purposes of this subsection, the district square
  1 15 mile per pupil ratio is defined as the total number of square
  1 16 miles in the school district divided by the school district's
  1 17 budget enrollment for the budget year.
  1 18                           EXPLANATION
  1 19    This bill creates a rural supplementary weighting plan to
  1 20 provide rural school districts with additional funds.  A
  1 21 school district that qualifies for the supplementary weighting
  1 22 must have a budget enrollment of 675 students or less and a
  1 23 district square mile per pupil ratio of greater than 0.161.
  1 24 The bill defines the district square mile per pupil ratio as
  1 25 the school district's square miles divided by the school
  1 26 district's budget enrollment for the budget year.
  1 27    The rural supplementary weighting, which is calculated by
  1 28 the department of management, is calculated by multiplying the
  1 29 district square mile per pupil ratio by a weighting of 14.082.
  1 30 LSB 5971YH 82
  1 31 ak/sc/8