Bill Text: IA HF383 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to conduct of a superintendent under the board of educational examiners’ standards of professional conduct and ethics and including retroactive applicability provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-21 - Introduced, referred to Education. H.J. 421. [HF383 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF383-Introduced.html

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House File 383 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  WINCKLER, MASCHER,
                                     THEDE, and KURTH

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to conduct of a superintendent under the
  2    board of educational examiners' standards of professional
  3    conduct and ethics and including retroactive applicability
  4    provisions.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 272.9A, Code 2017, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  4.  A superintendent of a school district
  1  4 shall not be considered to be in violation of the board's
  1  5 standards of professional conduct and ethics if the school
  1  6 budget review committee denied the school district's request
  1  7 for a modified supplementary amount for a budget year and the
  1  8 superintendent approves the school budget and requests the
  1  9 school board's authorization for the use of funds from the
  1 10 school district's cash reserve in an amount not to exceed the
  1 11 district's weighted enrollment multiplied by the difference
  1 12 between the school district's regular program district cost per
  1 13 pupil and the highest regular program district cost per pupil
  1 14 among all school districts in the state.
  1 15    Sec. 2.  RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies
  1 16 retroactively to actions taken by the superintendent of a
  1 17 school district for school budget years beginning on or after
  1 18 July 1, 2016.
  1 19                           EXPLANATION
  1 20 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 21 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 22    This bill establishes that a superintendent of a school
  1 23 district shall not be considered to be in violation of the
  1 24 board of educational examiner's standards of professional
  1 25 conduct and ethics if the school budget review committee
  1 26 denied the district's request for a modified supplementary
  1 27 amount for a budget year and the superintendent approves the
  1 28 school budget and requests the school board's authorization
  1 29 for the use of funds from the school district's cash reserve
  1 30 in an amount not to exceed the district's weighted enrollment
  1 31 multiplied by the difference between the school district's
  1 32 regular program district cost per pupil and the highest regular
  1 33 program district cost per pupil among all school districts in
  1 34 the state.
  1 35    The bill is retroactively applicable to actions taken by the
  2  1 superintendent of a school district for school budget years
  2  2 beginning on or after July 1, 2016.
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