House File 71HOUSE 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