House File 71 



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  HEATON


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act authorizing the school budget review committee to provide
  2    transportation assistance to certain school districts and
  3    providing an appropriation.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1424YH 83
  6 kh/sc/8

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 257.31, Code 2009, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  19.  a.  A school district that regulary
  1  4 pays more than two dollars and fifty cents per gallon of fuel
  1  5 for school buses used to transport students during a school
  1  6 year in accordance with section 285.1, subsection 1,
  1  7 paragraphs "a" and "b", may submit a request for
  1  8 transportation assistance.  Transportation assistance shall be
  1  9 paid from funds appropriated to the committee pursuant to
  1 10 paragraph "b".  The request shall be submitted in a format
  1 11 specified by the committee and shall include any documentation
  1 12 required by the committee.
  1 13    b.  There is annually appropriated from the general fund of
  1 14 the state to the committee the amount of one million dollars,
  1 15 or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used to pay
  1 16 transportation assistance to school districts as provided in
  1 17 paragraph "a".  If the amount appropriated pursuant to this
  1 18 paragraph is insufficient to pay all requests submitted and
  1 19 approved by the commission in accordance with paragraph "a",
  1 20 the commission shall prorate the payments to the school
  1 21 districts.
  1 22    c.  Transportation assistance paid pursuant to this
  1 23 subsection shall be miscellaneous income and shall not be
  1 24 included in district cost.
  1 25                           EXPLANATION
  1 26    This bill permits a school district that regularly pays
  1 27 more than $2.50 per gallon of fuel for school buses during a
  1 28 school year to submit a request to the school budget review
  1 29 committee for transportation assistance.  The bill provides
  1 30 for an appropriation of $1 million from the state general fund
  1 31 to the committee to pay transportation assistance to school
  1 32 districts whose requests are approved.  If the amount
  1 33 appropriated is insufficient to pay all approved requests, the
  1 34 committee shall prorate the payments to school districts whose
  1 35 requests are approved.
  2  1 LSB 1424YH 83
  2  2 kh/sc/8