Senate File 2273 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  QUIRMBACH


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act creating a supplementary weighting plan for school
  2    districts that have enrolled students residing in group foster
  3    care facilities and residential substance abuse treatment
  4    program facilities.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  6 TLSB 6117XS 82
  7 ak/sc/14

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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 a school district with enrolled students in a group
  1  5 foster care facility operated by an agency, as defined in
  1  6 section 237.1, and licensed pursuant to section 237.4 or a
  1  7 residential substance abuse treatment program facility
  1  8 licensed pursuant to section 125.13, each student residing in
  1  9 a group foster care facility or residential substance abuse
  1 10 treatment program facility who is enrolled in the district
  1 11 where the facility is located shall be assigned an additional
  1 12 weighting of forty=five hundredths.  The supplementary
  1 13 weighting shall be calculated by the department of management.
  1 14    b.  (1)  The department of human services shall provide the
  1 15 number of students residing in group foster care facilities by
  1 16 school district as of October 1 to the department of education
  1 17 by October 15 each year.
  1 18    (2)  The department of public health shall provide the
  1 19 number of students residing in residential substance abuse
  1 20 treatment program facilities by school districts as of October
  1 21 1 to the department of education by October 15 each year.
  1 22                           EXPLANATION
  1 23    This bill creates a supplementary weighting plan for school
  1 24 districts that have enrolled students residing in group foster
  1 25 care facilities and residential substance abuse treatment
  1 26 program facilities.  A supplementary weighting of forty=five
  1 27 hundredths is assigned to each such student.  The department
  1 28 of management shall calculate the supplementary weighting.
  1 29    The department of human services and the department of
  1 30 public safety shall provide the number of students residing in
  1 31 group foster care facilities and resident substance abuse
  1 32 treatment program facilities, respectively, by school district
  1 33 as of October 1 to the department of education by October 15
  1 34 each year.
  1 35 LSB 6117XS 82
  2  1 ak/sc/14.1