Bill Text: IA SF161 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act providing for additional weighting for eligible students identified as limited English proficient who are enrolled in the statewide preschool program for four-year-old children. (See SF 295 and SF 476.)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-17 - Passed subcommittee. [SF161 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-SF161-Introduced.html
Senate File 161 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY PETERSEN A BILL FOR 1 An Act providing for additional weighting for eligible students 2 identified as limited English proficient who are enrolled in 3 the statewide preschool program for four=year=old children. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 1734XS (4) 86 kh/sc PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 256C.5, subsection 1, Code 2015, is 1 2 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 1 3 NEW PARAGRAPH. 0d. "Preschool budget weighted enrollment" 1 4 means the sum of the preschool budget enrollment plus the 1 5 supplementary weighting received under section 280.4, 1 6 subsection 4. 1 7 Sec. 2. Section 256C.5, subsection 1, paragraph d, Code 1 8 2015, is amended to read as follows: 1 9 d. "Preschool foundation aid" means the product of the 1 10 regular program state cost per pupil for the budget year 1 11 multiplied by the school district's preschool budget weighted 1 12 enrollment. 1 13 Sec. 3. Section 280.4, subsection 3, paragraph b, Code 2015, 1 14 is amended to read as follows: 1 15 b. For students enrolled in kindergarten through grade 1 16 twelve who are first determined to be limited English 1 17 proficient for a budget year beginning on or after July 1, 1 18 2010, the additional weighting provided under paragraph "a" 1 19 shall be included in the weighted enrollment of the school 1 20 district of residence for a cumulative period of time not 1 21 exceeding five years beginning with the budget year for 1 22 which the student was first determined to be limited English 1 23 proficient. The five years of eligibility for the additional 1 24 weighting need not be consecutive, does not include additional 1 25 weighting received for all or part of a year under subsection 1 26 4, and a student's eligibility for the additional weighting is 1 27 transferable to another district of residence. 1 28 Sec. 4. Section 280.4, Code 2015, is amended by adding the 1 29 following new subsection: 1 30 NEW SUBSECTION. 4. For a budget year beginning on or after 1 31 July 1, 2015, in order to provide funds for the excess costs of 1 32 instruction of limited English proficient students, eligible 1 33 students, as defined in section 256C.5, who are enrolled in 1 34 the statewide preschool program under chapter 256C and who 1 35 have been identified as limited English proficient shall be 2 1 assigned an additional weighting of eleven hundredths, and that 2 2 weighting shall be included in the preschool budget weighted 2 3 enrollment, as defined in section 256C.5, of the school 2 4 district of residence for the period of time the child is an 2 5 eligible student as defined in section 256C.5. 2 6 EXPLANATION 2 7 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 2 8 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 2 9 This bill provides for additional weighting of eleven 2 10 hundredths for students who are enrolled in the statewide 2 11 preschool program for four=year=old children if they are 2 12 identified as limited English proficient. 2 13 The bill provides that the additional weighting shall be 2 14 included in the preschool budget weighted enrollment, as 2 15 defined in the bill, of the school district of residence for 2 16 the budget year for which the eligible student was determined 2 17 to be limited English proficient. The five years of limited 2 18 English proficiency weighting received under current law for 2 19 students in kindergarten through grade 12 does not include the 2 20 year of limited English proficiency weighting received for an 2 21 eligible student enrolled in the statewide preschool program 2 22 for four=year=old children. LSB 1734XS (4) 86 kh/sc