Bill Text: IA SF131 | 2021-2022 | 89th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to funding amounts for the statewide preschool program and including effective date and applicability provisions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-27 - Subcommittee: Sinclair, Quirmbach, and Rozenboom. S.J. 172. [SF131 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2021-SF131-Introduced.html
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BY
QUIRMBACH
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
funding
amounts
for
the
statewide
preschool
1
program
and
including
effective
date
and
applicability
2
provisions.
3
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
256C.5,
subsection
1,
paragraph
c,
Code
1
2021,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
c.
“Preschool
budget
enrollment”
means
:
3
(1)
For
school
districts
providing
ten
or
more
hours,
but
4
less
than
fourteen
hours
per
week
of
instruction,
the
figure
5
that
is
equal
to
fifty
percent
of
the
actual
enrollment
of
6
eligible
students
in
the
preschool
programming
provided
by
7
a
school
district
approved
to
participate
in
the
preschool
8
program
on
October
1
of
the
base
year,
or
the
first
Monday
in
9
October
if
October
1
falls
on
a
Saturday
or
Sunday.
10
(2)
For
school
districts
providing
fourteen
or
more
hours,
11
but
less
than
eighteen
hours
per
week
of
instruction,
the
12
figure
that
is
equal
to
sixty
percent
of
the
actual
enrollment
13
of
eligible
students
in
the
preschool
programming
provided
by
14
a
school
district
approved
to
participate
in
the
preschool
15
program
on
October
1
of
the
base
year,
or
the
first
Monday
in
16
October
if
October
1
falls
on
a
Saturday
or
Sunday.
17
(3)
For
school
districts
providing
eighteen
or
more
hours
18
per
week
of
instruction,
the
figure
that
is
equal
to
seventy
19
percent
of
the
actual
enrollment
of
eligible
students
in
the
20
preschool
programming
provided
by
a
school
district
approved
to
21
participate
in
the
preschool
program
on
October
1
of
the
base
22
year,
or
the
first
Monday
in
October
if
October
1
falls
on
a
23
Saturday
or
Sunday.
24
Sec.
2.
EFFECTIVE
DATE.
This
Act
takes
effect
January
1,
25
2022.
26
Sec.
3.
APPLICABILITY.
This
Act
applies
to
school
budget
27
years
beginning
on
or
after
July
1,
2022.
28
EXPLANATION
29
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
30
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
31
Under
Code
chapter
256C,
preschool
foundation
aid
is
32
calculated
by
multiplying
the
school
district’s
preschool
33
budget
enrollment
by
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
34
pupil
for
the
budget
year.
“Preschool
budget
enrollment”
is
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defined
as
the
figure
that
is
equal
to
50
percent
of
the
actual
1
enrollment
of
eligible
students
in
the
preschool
programming
2
provided
by
a
school
district
approved
to
participate
in
the
3
preschool
program
on
October
1
of
the
base
year.
4
This
bill
modifies
the
percentage
used
to
calculate
5
“preschool
budget
enrollment”
based
on
the
number
of
hours
of
6
instruction
provided.
For
school
districts
providing
10
or
7
more
hours,
but
less
than
14
hours
per
week
of
instruction,
8
the
percentage
remains
at
50
percent.
For
school
districts
9
providing
14
or
more
hours,
but
less
than
18
hours
per
week
10
of
instruction,
the
percentage
is
60
percent.
For
school
11
districts
providing
18
or
more
hours
per
week
of
instruction,
12
the
percentage
is
70
percent.
13
The
bill
takes
effect
January
1,
2022,
and
applies
to
school
14
budget
years
beginning
on
or
after
July
1,
2022.
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