CHAPTER 1102Sharing of operational functions by school districtsH.F. 2080AN ACT relating to school districts that share operational functions, including operational functions in the areas of school resource officer, superintendent management, and special education director, and including effective date and 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), Code 2022, is amended to read as follows: (1) 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, master social worker, independent social worker, work-based learning coordinator, special education director, mental health professional who holds a statement of recognition issued by the board of educational examiners, school resource officer, 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 nine 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; a master social worker or an independent social worker licensed under chapters 147 and 154C; a work-based learning coordinator; a special education director; a mental health professional who holds a statement of recognition issued by the board of educational examiners; a school resource officer; 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 or another school district 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 or another school district are not the same operational function, so long as either both operational functions are eligible for weighting under this subsection or the operational function the individual performs for the school district is special education director. In such either 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. Section 257.11, subsection 5, paragraph a, subparagraph (2), Code 2022, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph division: NEW SUBPARAGRAPH DIVISION. (0b) “School resource officer” means the same as defined in 34 U.S.C. §10389. Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. Sec. 4. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2022, subject to the school budget year limitations of section 257.11, subsection 5.Approved June 13, 2022
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