H.F. 2316 Section 1. Section 257.11, Code Supplement 2009, is amended 1 by adding the following new subsection: 2 NEW SUBSECTION . 7A. a. In order to provide additional 3 funds for rural school districts, a rural supplementary 4 weighting plan is adopted. To be eligible for supplementary 5 weighting under this subsection, a school district must have a 6 budget enrollment of six hundred seventy-five students or less 7 and a district square mile per pupil ratio of greater than one 8 hundred sixty-one thousandths. 9 b. The rural supplementary weighting, which shall be 10 calculated by the department of management, shall be calculated 11 by multiplying the district square mile per pupil ratio by a 12 weighting of fourteen and eighty-two thousandths. 13 c. For purposes of this subsection, the district square mile 14 per pupil ratio is defined as the total number of square miles 15 in the school district divided by the school district’s budget 16 enrollment for the budget year. 17 EXPLANATION 18 This bill creates a rural supplementary weighting plan to 19 provide rural school districts with additional funds. A school 20 district that qualifies for the supplementary weighting must 21 have a budget enrollment of 675 students or less and a district 22 square mile per pupil ratio of greater than 0.161. The bill 23 defines the district square mile per pupil ratio as the school 24 district’s square miles divided by the school district’s budget 25 enrollment for the budget year. 26 The rural supplementary weighting, which is calculated by 27 the department of management, is calculated by multiplying the 28 district square mile per pupil ratio by a weighting of 14.082. 29 -1- LSB 5297YH (5) 83 ak/sc 1/ 1