Bill Text: IA HF411 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act authorizing the school budget review committee to grant supplemental aid or establish a modified supplemental amount for a school district with an unusual increase in students eligible for free and reduced price meals and including applicability provisions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-23 - Introduced, referred to Education. H.J. 456. [HF411 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-HF411-Introduced.html
House File 411 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY WINCKLER, MASCHER, LENSING, KURTH, THEDE, NIELSEN, HUNTER, BRECKENRIDGE, KACENA, JACOBY, STECKMAN, ANDERSON, KEARNS, T. TAYLOR, OURTH, HANSON, BEARINGER, GASKILL, WOLFE, STAED, BROWN=POWERS, FORBES, HEDDENS, COHOON, and PRICHARD A BILL FOR 1 An Act authorizing the school budget review committee to grant 2 supplemental aid or establish a modified supplemental amount 3 for a school district with an unusual increase in students 4 eligible for free and reduced price meals and including 5 applicability provisions. 6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 2615YH (3) 87 md/jh/sc PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 257.31, subsection 5, unnumbered 1 2 paragraph 1, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 If a district has unusual circumstances, creating an unusual 1 4 need for additional funds, including but not limited to the 1 5 circumstances enumerated in paragraphs "a" through"n""o", 1 6 the committee may grant supplemental aid to the district from 1 7 any funds appropriated to the department of education for the 1 8 use of the school budget review committee for the purposes of 1 9 this subsection. The school budget review committee shall 1 10 review a school district's unexpended fund balance prior to 1 11 any decision regarding unusual finance circumstances. Such 1 12 aid shall be miscellaneous income and shall not be included in 1 13 district cost. In addition to or as an alternative to granting 1 14 supplemental aid the committee may establish a modified 1 15 supplemental amount for the district. The school budget review 1 16 committee shall review a school district's unspent balance 1 17 prior to any decision to establish a modified supplemental 1 18 amount under this subsection. 1 19 Sec. 2. Section 257.31, subsection 5, Code 2017, is amended 1 20 by adding the following new paragraph: 1 21 NEW PARAGRAPH. o. Any unusual increase in the number of 1 22 pupils in the district who are eligible for free and reduced 1 23 price meals under the federal National School Lunch Act and the 1 24 federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 42 U.S.C. {1751=1785. 1 25 Sec. 3. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to school budget 1 26 years beginning on or after July 1, 2018. 1 27 EXPLANATION 1 28 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 29 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 30 Code section 257.31 specifies the types of unusual 1 31 circumstances under which the school budget review committee 1 32 may grant supplemental aid to a school district from available 1 33 funding or establish a modified supplemental amount for a 1 34 school district. 1 35 This bill adds any unusual increase in the number of pupils 2 1 in the district who are eligible for free and reduced price 2 2 meals to the list of authorized circumstances. 2 3 The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or after 2 4 July 1, 2018. LSB 2615YH (3) 87 md/jh/sc
