Senate Study Bill 1175 



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            EDUCATION BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON SCHMITZ)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the transportation school districts may
  2    provide to students participating in open enrollment when
  3    construction requires temporary alteration of a regular school
  4    bus route.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  6 TLSB 1679XC 83
  7 kh/nh/8

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 282.18, subsection 10, Code 2009, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    10.  a.  Notwithstanding section 285.1 relating to
  1  4 transportation of nonresident pupils, the parent or guardian
  1  5 is responsible for transporting the pupil without
  1  6 reimbursement to and from a point on a regular school bus
  1  7 route of the receiving district.  However, a receiving
  1  8 district may send school vehicles into the district of
  1  9 residence of the pupil using the open enrollment option under
  1 10 this section, for the purpose of transporting the pupil to and
  1 11 from school in the receiving district, if either of the
  1 12 following conditions exist:
  1 13    (1)  The boards of both the sending and receiving districts
  1 14 agree to this arrangement.
  1 15    (2)  Road construction on the receiving school district's
  1 16 regular school bus route necessitates a temporary alteration
  1 17 of the receiving school district's regular school bus route
  1 18 for reasons of safety, economy, or efficiency.
  1 19    b.  If the pupil meets the economic eligibility
  1 20 requirements established by the department and state board of
  1 21 education, the sending district is responsible for providing
  1 22 transportation or paying the pro rata cost of the
  1 23 transportation to a parent or guardian for transporting the
  1 24 pupil to and from a point on a regular school bus route of a
  1 25 contiguous receiving district unless the cost of providing
  1 26 transportation or the pro rata cost of the transportation to a
  1 27 parent or guardian exceeds the average transportation cost per
  1 28 pupil transported for the previous school year in the
  1 29 district.  If the cost exceeds the average transportation cost
  1 30 per pupil transported for the previous school year, the
  1 31 sending district shall only be responsible for that average
  1 32 per pupil amount.  A sending district which provides
  1 33 transportation for a pupil to a contiguous receiving district
  1 34 under this subsection may withhold from the district cost per
  1 35 pupil amount, that is to be paid to the receiving district, an
  2  1 amount which represents the average or pro rata cost per pupil
  2  2 for transportation, whichever is less.
  2  3                           EXPLANATION
  2  4    This bill permits a receiving school district to send
  2  5 school vehicles into the school district of residence in order
  2  6 to transport a student participating in open enrollment to and
  2  7 from school when road construction necessitates a temporary
  2  8 alteration of the receiving school district's regular bus
  2  9 route for reasons of safety, economy, or efficiency.
  2 10    Currently, the receiving school district can only send
  2 11 vehicles into the district of residence for purposes of
  2 12 transporting students participating in open enrollment if both
  2 13 school districts agree to the arrangement.
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