Senate File 67 - Introduced SENATE FILE 67 BY BEALL A BILL FOR An Act relating to the description of shared operational 1 functions for which school districts receive supplementary 2 weighting and including effective date and applicability 3 provisions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1626XS (4) 84 md/sc

S.F. 67 Section 1. Section 257.11, subsection 6, paragraph a, Code 1 2011, is amended to read as follows: 2 a. In order to provide additional funding to increase 3 student opportunities and redirect more resources to student 4 programming for school districts that share operational 5 functions, a supplementary weighting of two hundredths per 6 pupil shall be assigned to pupils enrolled in a district that 7 shares with a political subdivision one or more operational 8 functions in the areas of superintendent management, business 9 management, human resources, transportation, curriculum 10 management, or operation and maintenance for at least twenty 11 percent of the school year. The additional weighting shall be 12 assigned for each discrete operational function shared. For 13 the purposes of this section , “political subdivision” means a 14 city, township, county, school corporation, merged area, area 15 education agency, institution governed by the state board of 16 regents, or any other governmental subdivision. 17 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT AND APPLICABILITY. This 18 Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon 19 enactment and applies to school budget years beginning on or 20 after July 1, 2011. 21 EXPLANATION 22 This bill adds curriculum management to the list of 23 operational functions that school districts may receive 24 supplementary weighting incentives for when the school district 25 shares such operational functions with a political subdivision. 26 The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to school 27 budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2011. 28 -1- LSB 1626XS (4) 84 md/sc 1/ 1