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    CHAPTER 103Legalizing act — Bennett community school district instructional support programH.F. 609AN ACT to legalize the participation in the instructional support program by the Bennett community school district, and providing an effective date.WHEREAS, section 257.18 authorizes a school district to participate in the instructional support program, if the board of directors of the school district takes action by adopting a resolution to participate in the program and after twenty-eight days following the board’s action, the secretary of the board does not receive a petition asking that the question to approve or disapprove the board’s action be submitted to the voters of the school district; and WHEREAS, on April 9, 2018, the board of directors of the Bennett community school district duly adopted a resolution to participate in the instructional support program in compliance with section 257.18; and WHEREAS, on April 12, 2018, the action of the board of directors of the Bennett community school district was certified to the department of management; and WHEREAS, the certification of the board’s action was in error since it did not comply with the twenty-eight-day requirement; and WHEREAS, the secretary of the board has not received a petition asking that the question to approve or disapprove the board’s action be submitted to the voters of the school district; NOW THEREFORE,Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:   Section 1.  The Bennett community school district’s actions to participate in the instructional support program as described in this Act, and as authorized pursuant to chapter 257, including but not limited to section 257.18, is valid and legal, in the same manner as if that school district had complied with the twenty-eight-day requirement, and the certification of the board’s action had not been in error, nothwithstandingAccording to Act; the word “notwithstanding” probably intended any provision in that chapter to the contrary.    Sec. 2.   EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.Approved May 9, 2019