Bill Text: IA SF187 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 187 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act authorizing the use of school district cash reserve funds for initial year preschool program funding and including effective date and applicability date provisions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-06 - Subcommittee: Behn, Chelgren, and Danielson. S.J. 225. [SF187 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF187-Introduced.html


Senate File 187 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  DANIELSON

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act authorizing the use of school district cash reserve
  2    funds for initial year preschool program funding and
  3    including effective date and applicability date provisions.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256C.5, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  For the initial school year for which a school district
  1  4 approved to participate in the preschool program receives that
  1  5 approval and implements the preschool program, the funding for
  1  6 the preschool foundation aid payable to that school district
  1  7 shall be paid from the appropriation made for that school year
  1  8 in section 256C.6, Code 2011, or in another appropriation
  1  9 made for purposes of this chapter. For that school year, the
  1 10 preschool foundation aid payable to the school district is
  1 11 the product of the regular program state cost per pupil for
  1 12 the school year multiplied by sixty percent of the school
  1 13 district's eligible student enrollment on the date in the
  1 14 school year determined by rule.  In addition to the amount of
  1 15 preschool foundation aid payable to the school district for
  1 16 the initial year of implementation, the school district may
  1 17 authorize the expenditure of funds from the school district's
  1 18 cash reserve in order to meet the program's funding needs in
  1 19 the initial year of implementation if the amount needed by the
  1 20 school district exceeds the amount of preschool foundation
  1 21 aid received by the school district for that initial year of
  1 22 implementation.
  1 23    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 24 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 25    Sec. 3.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to school budget
  1 26 years beginning on or after July 1, 2017.
  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    Code section 256C.5 establishes requirements for the funding
  1 31 of a school district's approved preschool program during the
  1 32 program's initial year of implementation.  For the initial
  1 33 school year for which a school district approved to participate
  1 34 in the preschool program receives that approval and implements
  1 35 the preschool program, the funding for the preschool foundation
  2  1 aid payable to that school district shall be paid from the
  2  2 appropriation made for that school year in Code section 256C.6,
  2  3 Code 2011 (appropriations ended with FY 2011), or in another
  2  4 appropriation made for purposes of Code chapter 256C.
  2  5    This bill provides that in addition to the amount of
  2  6 preschool foundation aid payable to the school district for
  2  7 the initial year of implementation, a school district may
  2  8 authorize the expenditure of funds from the school district's
  2  9 cash reserve in order to meet the program's funding needs in
  2 10 the initial year of implementation if the amount needed by the
  2 11 school district exceeds the amount of preschool foundation
  2 12 aid received by the school district for that initial year of
  2 13 implementation.
  2 14    The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to school
  2 15 budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2017.
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