Bill Text: IA HF2315 | 2021-2022 | 89th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act establishing a school district funding supplement, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 660.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-02-17 - Subcommittee: Kraayenbrink, Cournoyer, and J. Smith. S.J. 321. [HF2315 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2021-HF2315-Introduced.html
House File 2315 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2315 BY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 660) A BILL FOR An Act establishing a school district funding supplement, 1 making appropriations, and including effective date 2 provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 6213HV (1) 89 md/jh
H.F. 2315 Section 1. SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDING SUPPLEMENT —— FISCAL 1 YEAR 2022-2023. 2 1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state 3 to the department of education for the fiscal year beginning 4 July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022, nineteen million 5 two hundred thousand dollars to make all payments to school 6 districts required under subsection 2. 7 2. a. Moneys appropriated to the department of education 8 under this section shall be used to provide a funding 9 supplement to each school district during the fiscal year 10 beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023. 11 b. Each school district’s funding supplement amount shall 12 be equal to nineteen million two hundred thousand dollars 13 multiplied by the quotient of the school district’s budget 14 enrollment for the budget year beginning July 1, 2022, and 15 ending June 30, 2023, divided by the statewide total budget 16 enrollment for the budget year beginning July 1, 2022, and 17 ending June 30, 2023. 18 c. Moneys received by a school district under this section 19 shall be miscellaneous income for purposes of chapter 257 and 20 shall not be included in district cost. 21 d. The school district funding supplement received by 22 a school district under this section shall be used for the 23 increased cost of employing para-educators, substitute 24 teachers, bus drivers, and administrative and support staff 25 due to worker shortages, and other increased costs incurred by 26 the school district resulting from goods and services price 27 inflation. 28 3. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in 29 this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the 30 close of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending 31 June 30, 2022, shall not revert but shall remain available for 32 expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of the 33 succeeding fiscal year. 34 4. The payment of funding supplement amounts under this 35 -1- LSB 6213HV (1) 89 md/jh 1/ 3
H.F. 2315 section shall be paid by the department of education at the 1 same time and in the same manner as foundation aid is paid 2 under section 257.16 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 3 2022, and ending June 30, 2023, and may be included in the 4 monthly payment of state aid under section 257.16, subsection 5 2. 6 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate 7 importance, takes effect upon enactment. 8 EXPLANATION 9 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 10 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 11 This bill provides a school district funding supplement 12 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, and appropriates 13 from the general fund of the state to the department of 14 education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and 15 ending June 30, 2022, $19.2 million to make all school district 16 funding supplement payments. The bill specifies that moneys 17 appropriated for school district funding supplement payments 18 that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of 19 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, shall not revert 20 but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes 21 designated until the close of the succeeding fiscal year. Each 22 school district’s funding supplement amount shall be equal 23 to the portion of the $19.2 million appropriation that is 24 proportionate to the school district’s budget enrollment as a 25 percentage of the statewide total budget enrollment for the 26 budget year beginning July 1, 2022. Such funds received by a 27 school district under the bill shall be used for the increased 28 cost of employing para-educators, substitute teachers, bus 29 drivers, and administrative and support staff due to worker 30 shortages, and other increased costs incurred by the school 31 district resulting from goods and services price inflation. 32 School district funding supplement payments received by a 33 school district shall be miscellaneous income for purposes of 34 Code chapter 257 and shall not be included in district cost. 35 -2- LSB 6213HV (1) 89 md/jh 2/ 3
H.F. 2315 The bill takes effect upon enactment. 1 -3- LSB 6213HV (1) 89 md/jh 3/ 3
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