SF 2105 (LSB 6164XS (1) 90)

SENATE FILE 2105

BY  EVANS

A BILL FOR

An Act raising the maximum amount of additional weighting a school district may receive for sharing operational functions and including applicability provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 257.11, subsection 5, paragraph d, Code 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   d.  Supplementary weighting pursuant to this subsection shall be available to a school district during the period commencing with the budget year beginning July 1, 2014, through the budget year beginning July 1, 2034. The maximum amount of additional weighting for which a school district shall be eligible in a budget year is twenty-one twenty-nine additional pupils. Criteria for determining the qualification of operational functions for supplementary weighting shall be determined by the department by rule, through consideration of increased student opportunities.
    Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2025, 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.
   Pursuant to Code section 257.11, in order to provide additional funding to increase student opportunities and redirect resources to student programming that share operation functions, a school district or area education agency that shares with another political subdivision one or more specified operational functions is assigned a supplementary weighting for each shared operational function. The maximum additional weighting that a school district may receive in one year is 21 additional pupils.
   This bill raises the maximum amount of additional weighting a school district may receive for sharing operational functions to 29 additional pupils.
   The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2025, subject to the limitation of Code section 257.11(5), which sunsets the availability of supplementary weighting following the school budget year beginning July 1, 2034.