HF 403 (LSB 2114YH (2) 88)

HOUSE FILE 403

BY  RUNNING-MARQUARDT

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the list of shared operational functions for which school districts and area education agencies may be eligible to receive supplementary weighting and including applicability provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 257.11, subsection 5, paragraph a, subparagraph (1), unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   In order to provide additional funding to increase student opportunities and redirect more resources to student programming for school districts that share operational functions, a district that shares with a political subdivision one or more operational functions of a curriculum director, special education director, school safety director, master social worker, independent social worker, or school counselor, or one or more operational functions in the areas of superintendent management, business management, human resources, transportation, or operation and maintenance for at least twenty percent of the school year shall be assigned a supplementary weighting for each shared operational function. A school district that shares an operational function in the area of superintendent management shall be assigned a supplementary weighting of eight pupils for the function. A school district that shares an operational function in the area of business management, human resources, transportation, or operation and maintenance shall be assigned a supplementary weighting of five pupils for the function. A school district that shares the operational functions of a curriculum director, special education director, school safety director, a master social worker or an independent social worker licensed under chapters 147 and 154C, or a school counselor shall be assigned a supplementary weighting of three pupils for the function. The additional weighting shall be assigned for each discrete operational function shared. However, a school district may receive the additional weighting under this subsection for sharing the services of an individual with a political subdivision even if the type of operational function performed by the individual for the school district and the type of operational function performed by the individual for the political subdivision are not the same operational function, so long as both operational functions are eligible for weighting under this subsection. In such case, the school district shall be assigned the additional weighting for the type of operational function that the individual performs for the school district, and the school district shall not receive additional weighting for any other function performed by the individual. The operational function sharing arrangement does not need to be a newly implemented sharing arrangement to receive supplementary weighting under this subsection.
    Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2019, subject to the school budget year limitations of section 257.11, subsection 5.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to the provision of supplementary weighting to school districts that share with a political subdivision one or more specified operational functions. 
   The bill adds special education director and school safety director to the list of operational functions for which supplementary weighting is provided to school districts. The department of management annually sets a weighting for each area education agency under current law. 
   Supplementary weighting for shared operational functions is available through the budget year beginning July 1, 2024. The maximum amount of additional weighting for which a school district is eligible in a budget year is 21 additional pupils; the maximum amount of additional funding for which an AEA is eligible is $200,000.
   The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2019.