Senate File 166 - EnrolledAn Actrelating to the state school foundation program, by modifying
requirements for the enactment of the state percents of
growth, establishing state percents of growth, modifying
provisions relating to school district property tax
replacement payments, and including effective date and
applicability provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
   Section 1.  Section 257.8, subsections 1 and 2, Code 2017,
are amended to read as follows:
   1.  State percent of growth.  The state percent of growth
for the budget year beginning July 1, 2014, is four percent.

The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning
July 1, 2015, is one and twenty-five hundredths percent. The
state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1,
2016, is two and twenty-five hundredths percent. The state
percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2017,
is one and eleven hundredths percent.
The state percent of
growth for each subsequent budget year shall be established
by statute which shall be enacted within thirty days of the
submission in the year preceding the base year transmission
of the governor’s budget required by February 1 under section
8.21 during the regular legislative session beginning in the
base year
. The establishment of the state percent of growth
for a budget year shall be the only subject matter of the bill
which enacts the state percent of growth for a budget year.

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   2.  Categorical state percent of growth.  The categorical
state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July
1, 2014, is four percent.
The categorical state percent of
growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2015, is one and
twenty-five hundredths percent. The categorical state percent
of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2016, is two
and twenty-five hundredths percent. The categorical state
percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2017,
is one and eleven hundredths percent.
The categorical state
percent of growth for each budget year shall be established
by statute which shall be enacted within thirty days of the
submission in the year preceding the base year transmission
of the governor’s budget required by February 1 under section
8.21 during the regular legislative session beginning in the
base year
. The establishment of the categorical state percent
of growth for a budget year shall be the only subject matter
of the bill which enacts the categorical state percent of
growth for a budget year.
The categorical state percent of
growth may include state percents of growth for the teacher
salary supplement, the professional development supplement,
the early intervention supplement, and the teacher leadership
supplement.
   Sec. 2.  Section 257.16B, subsection 2, paragraph d,
unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2017, is amended to read as
follows:
   For each the budget year beginning on or after July 1, 2016,
the department of management shall calculate for each school
district all of the following:
   Sec. 3.  Section 257.16B, subsection 2, paragraph d,
subparagraph (3), Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (3)  The amount of each school district’s property tax
replacement payment. Each school district’s property tax
replacement payment equals the school district’s weighted
enrollment for the budget year beginning July 1, 2016,
multiplied by the remainder of the amount calculated for
the school district under subparagraph (2) minus the amount
calculated for the school district under subparagraph (1).
   Sec. 4.  Section 257.16B, subsection 2, Code 2017, is
amended by adding the following new paragraph:
-1-   NEW PARAGRAPH.  e.  For each budget year beginning on
or after July 1, 2017, the department of management shall
calculate for each school district all of the following:
   (1)  The regular program state cost per pupil for the budget
year beginning July 1, 2012, multiplied by one hundred percent
less the regular program foundation base per pupil percentage
pursuant to section 257.1.
   (2)  The regular program state cost per pupil for the budget
year beginning July 1, 2017, multiplied by one hundred percent
less the regular program foundation base per pupil percentage
pursuant to section 257.1.
   (3)  The amount of each school district’s property tax
replacement payment. Each school district’s property tax
replacement payment equals the school district’s weighted
enrollment for the budget year multiplied by the remainder
of the amount calculated for the school district under
subparagraph (2) minus the amount calculated for the school
district under subparagraph (1).
   Sec. 5.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed
of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
   Sec. 6.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to school budget
years beginning on or after July 1, 2017.
______________________________
JACK WHITVER

President of the Senate
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LINDA UPMEYER

Speaker of the House
   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 166, Eighty-seventh General Assembly.
______________________________
W. CHARLES SMITHSON

Secretary of the Senate
Approved _______________, 2017
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TERRY E. BRANSTAD

Governor
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