Bill Text: IA HF79 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act establishing the categorical state percent of growth. (Formerly HSB 55)
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-03 - Referred to Education. H.J. 752. [HF79 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-HF79-Introduced.html
House File 79 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 55) 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: TLSB 1550HV (3) 86 md/sc PAG LIN 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 1 9 state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1 10 1, 2016, is two and forty=five hundredths percent. The 1 11 categorical state percent of growth for each budget year shall 1 12 be established by statute which shall be enacted within thirty 1 13 days of the submission in the year preceding the base year of 1 14 the governor's budget under section 8.21. The establishment 1 15 of the categorical state percent of growth for a budget year 1 16 shall be the only subject matter of the bill which enacts the 1 17 categorical state percent of growth for a budget year. The 1 18 categorical state percent of growth may include state percents 1 19 of growth for the teacher salary supplement, the professional 1 20 development supplement, the early intervention supplement, and 1 21 the teacher leadership supplement. 1 22 EXPLANATION 1 23 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 24 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 25 This bill establishes a categorical state percent of growth 1 26 of 2.45 percent for the school budget year beginning July 1, 1 27 2016. LSB 1550HV (3) 86 md/sc