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 PAG LIN 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