Bill Text: IA SF69 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the determination of preschool budget enrollment for purposes of the statewide preschool program for four-year-old children and including effective date and applicability provisions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-12 - Subcommittee: Behn, Chelgren, and Mathis. S.J. 84. [SF69 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF69-Introduced.html

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Senate File 69 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  PETERSEN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the determination of preschool budget
  2    enrollment for purposes of the statewide preschool program
  3    for four=year=old children and including effective date and
  4    applicability provisions.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256C.5, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code
  1  2 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    c.  "Preschool budget enrollment" means the figure that is
  1  4 equal to fifty the sum of the following:
  1  5    (1)  Fifty percent of the actual enrollment of eligible
  1  6 students in the preschool programming provided by a school
  1  7 district approved to participate in the preschool program on
  1  8 October 1 of the base year, or the first Monday in October if
  1  9 October 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday.
  1 10    (2)  Fifty percent of the actual enrollment of eligible
  1 11 students in the preschool programming provided by a school
  1 12 district approved to participate in the preschool program on
  1 13 October 1 of the base year, or the first Monday in October if
  1 14 October 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, whose family income is
  1 15 at or below two hundred percent of the federal poverty level as
  1 16 defined by the most recently revised poverty income guidelines
  1 17 published by the United States department of health and human
  1 18 services.
  1 19    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 20 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 21    Sec. 3.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to school budget
  1 22 years beginning on or after July 1, 2017.
  1 23                           EXPLANATION
  1 24 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 25 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 26    Under current law, the preschool budget enrollment figure
  1 27 used to calculate the amount of preschool foundation aid
  1 28 paid to a school district participating in the statewide
  1 29 preschool program for four=year=old children is equal to 50
  1 30 percent of the actual enrollment of eligible students in the
  1 31 preschool programming provided by a school district approved to
  1 32 participate in the preschool program on October 1 of the base
  1 33 year.
  1 34    This bill modifies the method of calculating the preschool
  1 35 budget enrollment by adding to the current calculation an
  2  1 amount equal to 50 percent of the actual enrollment of eligible
  2  2 students in the preschool programming provided by a school
  2  3 district approved to participate in the preschool program on
  2  4 October 1 of the base year, whose family income is at or below
  2  5 200 percent of the federal poverty level as defined by the most
  2  6 recently revised poverty income guidelines published by the
  2  7 United States department of health and human services.
  2  8    The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to school
  2  9 budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2017.
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