Bill Text: IA HF665 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act establishing the categorical state percent of growth. (Formerly HSB 253)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-01-12 - Subcommittee, Quirmbach, Schoenjahn, and Sinclair. S.J. 47. [HF665 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF665-Introduced.html

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House File 665 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON
                                     APPROPRIATIONS

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 253)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act establishing the categorical state percent of growth.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 257.8, subsection 2, Code 2015, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  Categorical state percent of growth.  The categorical
  1  4 state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1,
  1  5 2012, is two percent. The categorical state percent of growth
  1  6 for the budget year beginning July 1, 2013, is two percent.
  1  7 The categorical state percent of growth for the budget year
  1  8 beginning July 1, 2014, is four percent.  The categorical state
  1  9 percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2016,
  1 10 is two percent. The categorical state percent of growth for
  1 11 each budget year shall be established by statute which shall
  1 12 be enacted within thirty days of the submission in the year
  1 13 preceding the base year of the governor's budget under section
  1 14 8.21. The establishment of the categorical state percent of
  1 15 growth for a budget year shall be the only subject matter of
  1 16 the bill which enacts the categorical state percent of growth
  1 17 for a budget year. The categorical state percent of growth
  1 18 may include state percents of growth for the teacher salary
  1 19 supplement, the professional development supplement, the early
  1 20 intervention supplement, and the teacher leadership supplement.
  1 21    Sec. 2.  CODE SECTION 257.8 ==== IMPLEMENTATION.  The
  1 22 requirement of section 257.8, subsection 2, regarding the
  1 23 enactment of bills establishing the categorical state percent
  1 24 of growth within thirty days of the submission in the year
  1 25 preceding the base year of the governor's budget does not apply
  1 26 to this Act.
  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    This bill establishes a categorical state percent of growth
  1 31 of 2 percent for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2016.
  1 32    The requirement of Code section 257.8(2) regarding the
  1 33 enactment of bills establishing the categorical state percent
  1 34 of growth within 30 days of the submission in the year
  1 35 preceding the base year of the governor's budget does not apply
  2  1 to the bill.
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