Bill Text: IA SF455 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to school district funding by modifying and establishing provisions relating to state school foundation program and school district transportation costs, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1124.) Effective 3-8-18.
Sponsorship: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2018-03-08 - NOBA: Final [SF455 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-SF455-Enrolled.html
Senate File 455 - Enrolled
SENATE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
(SUCCESSOR TO SSB
1124)
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A BILL FOR
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Senate File 455
AN ACT
RELATING TO SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDING BY MODIFYING AND
ESTABLISHING PROVISIONS RELATING TO STATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION
PROGRAM AND SCHOOL DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION COSTS, MAKING
APPROPRIATIONS, AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE DATE PROVISIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
DIVISION I
STATE AND DISTRICT COSTS PER PUPIL
Section 1. Section 257.2, subsection 12, Code 2018, is
amended to read as follows:
12. "Supplemental state aid" means the amount by which state
cost per pupil and district cost per pupil will increase from
one budget year to the next as the result of the state percent
of growth.
Sec. 2. Section 257.8, subsection 5, Code 2018, is amended
to read as follows:
5. Alternate supplemental state aid ==== definitions.
a. For budget years beginning July 1, 2000, and subsequent
budget years, references to the terms "supplemental state aid",
"regular program state cost per pupil", and "regular program
district cost per pupil" shall mean those terms as calculated
for those school districts that calculated regular program
supplemental state aid for the school budget year beginning
July 1, 1999, with the additional thirty=eight dollars
specified in section 257.8, subsection 4, Code 2013.
b. For the budget year beginning July 1, 2018, and
subsequent budget years, references to "supplemental state
aid" and "regular program state cost per pupil" shall mean
those terms as calculated including the additional amount for
the budget year beginning July 1, 2018, under section 257.9,
subsection 2, paragraph "b", and references to "regular program
district cost per pupil" shall mean that term as calculated
including any adjustments made under section 257.10, subsection
2.
Sec. 3. Section 257.9, subsection 2, Code 2018, is amended
to read as follows:
2. Regular program state cost per pupil for 1992=1993 and
succeeding years.
a. For the budget year beginning July 1, 1992, and
succeeding budget years beginning before July 1, 2018, the
regular program state cost per pupil for a budget year is the
regular program state cost per pupil for the base year plus the
regular program supplemental state aid for the budget year.
b. For the budget year beginning July 1, 2018, the regular
program state cost per pupil is the regular program state
cost per pupil for the base year plus the regular program
supplemental state aid for the budget year, plus five dollars.
c. For the budget year beginning July 1, 2019, and
succeeding budget years, the regular program state cost per
pupil for a budget year is the regular program state cost per
pupil for the base year plus the regular program supplemental
state aid for the budget year.
Sec. 4. Section 257.10, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code
2018, is amended to read as follows:
b. If the regular program district cost per pupil of a
school district for the budget year under paragraph "a" exceeds
one hundred five percent of the regular program state cost
per pupil for the budget year and the state percent of growth
for the budget year is greater than two percent, the regular
program district cost per pupil for the budget year for that
district shall be reduced to one hundred five percent of the
regular program state cost per pupil for the budget year.
However, under such conditions, if the difference between the
regular program district cost per pupil for the budget year and
the regular program state cost per pupil for the budget year
is greater than an amount equal to two percent multiplied by
the regular program state cost per pupil for the base year, the
regular program district cost per pupil for the budget year
shall be reduced by the amount equal to two percent multiplied
by the regular program state cost per pupil for the base year.
Sec. 5. Section 257.10, subsection 2, Code 2018, is amended
by adding the following new paragraph:
NEW PARAGRAPH. c. For the budget year beginning July 1,
2018, and succeeding budget years, if the regular program
district cost per pupil for the budget year calculated under
this subsection in any school district is less than the
regular program state cost per pupil for the budget year, the
department of management shall increase the regular program
district cost per pupil of that district to an amount equal to
the regular program state cost per pupil for the budget year.
Sec. 6. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT. This division of this
Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon
enactment.
DIVISION II
SCHOOL DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION COSTS
Sec. 7. NEW SECTION. 257.16C Transportation equity program
==== fund.
1. A transportation equity program is established to
provide prioritized additional funding for school districts
with a transportation cost per pupil that exceeds the statewide
adjusted transportation cost per pupil for the same budget
year.
2. a. For the budget year beginning July 1, 2018, and
each succeeding budget year, the department of management
shall annually determine a statewide adjusted transportation
cost per pupil that is not lower than the statewide average
transportation cost per pupil. The statewide adjusted
transportation cost per pupil shall be annually determined, by
taking into account amounts appropriated to the transportation
equity fund under subsection 3, for the purpose of providing
transportation equity aid for those school districts with the
highest transportation cost per pupil differential.
b. Each school district that satisfies the criteria of
subsection 1 shall receive transportation equity aid in an
amount equal to the school district's actual enrollment for
the school year, excluding the shared=time enrollment for the
school year, multiplied by the school district's transportation
cost per pupil differential for the budget year.
c. For purposes of this section:
(1) "Statewide average transportation cost per pupil" means
the total transportation cost for all school districts in the
state used to calculate each school district's transportation
cost per pupil under paragraph "d" divided by the total
enrollment for all school districts used to calculate each
school district's transportation cost per pupil under paragraph
"d".
(2) "Transportation cost per pupil differential" means an
amount equal to a school district's transportation cost per
pupil minus the statewide adjusted transportation cost per
pupil for the same budget year.
d. A school district's transportation cost per pupil
shall be determined by dividing the school district's actual
transportation cost for all children transported in all school
buses for a school year pursuant to section 285.1, subsection
12, less the amount received for transporting nonpublic school
pupils under section 285.1, by the district's actual enrollment
for the school year, excluding the shared=time enrollment for
the school year as defined in section 257.6.
3. a. A transportation equity fund is created as a separate
and distinct fund in the state treasury under the control of
the department of management. Moneys in the fund include
revenues credited to the fund, appropriations made to the
fund, and other moneys deposited in the fund. For each fiscal
year beginning on or after July 1, 2018, there is appropriated
all moneys in the fund to the department of management for
purposes of making transportation equity aid payments under
this section.
b. If the balance of the fund exceeds the amount necessary
to make all transportation equity aid payments under
subsection 2, moneys remaining in the fund shall be used for
transportation base funding payments under subsection 4.
c. If the balance of the fund exceeds the amount necessary
to make all transportation equity aid payments and all
transportation base funding payments, moneys remaining in the
fund at the end of a fiscal year, notwithstanding section 8.33,
shall remain in the fund and shall be available for expenditure
for the purposes of this section in subsequent fiscal years.
4. For budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2018, if
funding is available as provided in subsection 3, paragraph
"b", each school district in the state shall receive a
transportation base funding payment in an amount equal to
the school district's enrollment used under subsection 2,
paragraph "d", multiplied by the lesser of the statewide
average transportation cost per pupil or the school district's
transportation cost per pupil for the budget year. If an
amount appropriated for a budget year is insufficient to pay
all transportation base funding payments, the department of
management shall prorate such payment amounts.
5. a. The sum of the transportation equity aid payment
and the transportation base funding payment paid to a school
district for a budget year shall not exceed the school
district's actual transportation cost used to calculate
the school district's transportation cost per pupil under
subsection 2, paragraph "d", for the budget year.
b. Transportation equity aid payments and transportation
base funding payments shall be paid at the same time and in the
same manner as foundation aid is paid under section 257.16,
and may be included in the monthly payment of state aid under
section 257.16, subsection 2.
6. Transportation equity aid payments and transportation
base funding payments received under this section are
miscellaneous income and shall be deposited in the general fund
of the school district. However, the transportation equity aid
amount and the transportation base funding amount shall not be
included in district cost. Transportation equity aid under
this section shall not affect the receipt or amount of a budget
adjustment received under section 257.14 or transportation
assistance aid under section 257.31, subsection 17.
Sec. 8. TRANSPORTATION EQUITY FUND ==== APPROPRIATION. There
is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the
department of management for the fiscal year beginning July
1, 2018, and ending June 30, 2019, the following amount, or
so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
For deposit in the transportation equity fund created
pursuant to section 257.16C, subsection 3:
.................................................. $ 11,200,000
Sec. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE. This division of this Act, being
deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
JACK WHITVER
LINDA UPMEYER
W. CHARLES SMITH
KIM REYNOLDS
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