House File 2146 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2146 BY BOSSMAN A BILL FOR An Act relating to shared operational functions for purposes 1 of supplementary weighting for school districts that share 2 school resource officers, and including applicability 3 provisions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 5962HH (3) 90 dg/jh
H.F. 2146 Section 1. Section 257.11, subsection 5, paragraph d, Code 1 2024, is amended to read as follows: 2 d. Supplementary weighting pursuant to this subsection 3 shall be available to a school district during the period 4 commencing with the budget year beginning July 1, 2014, through 5 the budget year beginning July 1, 2034. The maximum amount 6 of additional weighting for which a school district shall be 7 eligible in a budget year , excluding additional weighting for 8 sharing operational functions of a school resource officer, 9 is twenty-one additional pupils. Criteria for determining 10 the qualification of operational functions for supplementary 11 weighting shall be determined by the department by rule, 12 through consideration of increased student opportunities. 13 Sec. 2. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to school budget 14 years beginning on or after July 1, 2025, subject to the school 15 budget year limitations of section 257.11, subsection 5. 16 EXPLANATION 17 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 18 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 19 Pursuant to Code section 257.11, in order to provide 20 additional funding to increase student opportunities 21 and redirect resources to student programming that share 22 operational functions, a school district or area education 23 agency that shares with another political subdivision 24 one or more specified operational functions is assigned a 25 supplementary weighting for each shared operational function. 26 The maximum additional weighting that a school district may 27 receive in one year is 21 additional pupils. 28 This bill excludes the shared operations of a school 29 resource officer from the calculation of maximum additional 30 weighting that a school district may receive in one year. 31 Under current law, the additional weighting for sharing a 32 school resource officer is two pupils. 33 The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or 34 after July 1, 2025, subject to the limitation of Code section 35 -1- LSB 5962HH (3) 90 dg/jh 1/ 2
H.F. 2146 257.11(5), which sunsets the availability of supplementary 1 weighting following the school budget year beginning July 1, 2 2034. 3 -2- LSB 5962HH (3) 90 dg/jh 2/ 2