Bill Text: IA SF120 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to supplementary weighting for school districts for shared operational functions and including applicability provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-25 - Subcommittee: Sinclair, Bowman, and Kraayenbrink. S.J. 131. [SF120 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF120-Introduced.html

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Senate File 120 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  BOWMAN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to supplementary weighting for school districts
  2    for shared operational functions and including applicability
  3    provisions.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 257.11, subsection 5, Code 2017, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    5.  Shared operational functions ==== increased student
  1  4 opportunities ==== budget years beginning in 2014 through 2019
  1  5  2029.
  1  6    a.  (1)  In order to provide additional funding to increase
  1  7 student opportunities and redirect more resources to student
  1  8 programming for school districts that share operational
  1  9 functions, a district that shares with a political subdivision
  1 10 one or more operational functions of a curriculum director or
  1 11 school counselor, or one or more operational functions in the
  1 12 areas of superintendent management, business management, human
  1 13 resources, transportation, or operation and maintenance for at
  1 14 least twenty percent of the school year shall be assigned a
  1 15 supplementary weighting for each shared operational function.
  1 16 A school district that shares an operational function in
  1 17 the area of superintendent management shall be assigned a
  1 18 supplementary weighting of eight pupils for the function. A
  1 19 school district that shares an operational function in the area
  1 20 of business management, human resources, transportation, or
  1 21 operation and maintenance shall be assigned a supplementary
  1 22 weighting of five pupils for the function. A school district
  1 23 that shares the operational functions of a curriculum director
  1 24 or a school counselor shall be assigned a supplementary
  1 25 weighting of three pupils for the function. The additional
  1 26 weighting shall be assigned for each discrete operational
  1 27 function shared. However, a school district may receive the
  1 28 additional weighting under this subsection for sharing the
  1 29 services of an individual with a political subdivision even if
  1 30 the type of operational function performed by the individual
  1 31 for the school district and the type of operational function
  1 32 performed by the individual for the political subdivision are
  1 33 not the same operational function, so long as both operational
  1 34 functions are eligible for weighting under this subsection. In
  1 35 such case, the school district shall be assigned the additional
  2  1 weighting for the type of operational function that the
  2  2 individual performs for the school district, and the school
  2  3 district shall not receive additional weighting for any other
  2  4 function performed by the individual. The operational function
  2  5 sharing arrangement does not need to be a newly implemented
  2  6 sharing arrangement to receive supplementary weighting under
  2  7 this subsection.
  2  8    (2)  For the purposes of this section, "political
  2  9 subdivision" means a city, township, county, school corporation,
  2 10 merged area, area education agency, institution governed by the
  2 11 state board of regents, or any other governmental subdivision.
  2 12    b.  School districts that share operational functions with
  2 13 other school districts are not required to be contiguous school
  2 14 districts. If two or more districts sharing operational
  2 15 functions are not contiguous to each other, the districts
  2 16 separating those districts are not required to be a party to
  2 17 the operational functions sharing arrangement.
  2 18    c.  Supplementary weighting pursuant to this subsection
  2 19 shall be available to a school district for a maximum of
  2 20 five years during the period commencing with the budget year
  2 21 beginning July 1, 2014, through the budget year beginning July
  2 22 1, 2019 2029. The maximum amount of additional weighting for
  2 23 which a school district shall be eligible in a budget year
  2 24 is twenty=one additional pupils. Criteria for determining
  2 25 the qualification of operational functions for supplementary
  2 26 weighting shall be determined by the department by rule,
  2 27 through consideration of increased student opportunities.
  2 28    d.  Supplementary weighting pursuant to this subsection
  2 29 shall be available to an area education agency for a maximum of
  2 30 five years during the period commencing with the budget year
  2 31 beginning July 1, 2014, through the budget year beginning July
  2 32 1, 2019 2029. The minimum amount of additional funding for
  2 33 which an area education agency shall be eligible in a budget
  2 34 year is thirty thousand dollars, and the maximum amount of
  2 35 additional funding for which an area education agency shall
  3  1 be eligible is two hundred thousand dollars. The department
  3  2 of management shall annually set a weighting for each area
  3  3 education agency to generate the approved operational sharing
  3  4 expense using the area education agency's special education
  3  5 cost per pupil amount and foundation level. Criteria for
  3  6 determining the qualification of operational functions
  3  7 for supplementary weighting shall be determined by the
  3  8 department by rule, through consideration of increased student
  3  9 opportunities.
  3 10    e.  This subsection is repealed effective July 1, 2020 2030.
  3 11    Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to school budget
  3 12 years beginning on or after January 1, 2018.
  3 13                           EXPLANATION
  3 14 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  3 15 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  3 16    Code section 257.11(5) provides supplementary weighting
  3 17 for school districts and area education agencies that share
  3 18 operational functions. A district that shares with a political
  3 19 subdivision one or more operational functions of a curriculum
  3 20 director or school counselor, or one or more operational
  3 21 functions in the areas of superintendent management, business
  3 22 management, human resources, transportation, or operation and
  3 23 maintenance for at least 20 percent of the school year is
  3 24 assigned a supplementary weighting for each shared operational
  3 25 function. Supplementary weighting under this provision is
  3 26 available for a maximum of five school budget years beginning
  3 27 July 1, 2014, through the budget year beginning July 1, 2019.
  3 28    This bill strikes the provisions limiting the number of
  3 29 years for which the weighting may be claimed. The bill also
  3 30 extends the period of school budget years during which the
  3 31 weighting for shared operational functions may be claimed so
  3 32 that the period ends on the last day of the school budget year
  3 33 beginning July 1, 2029.
  3 34    The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or after
  3 35 July 1, 2018.
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