Bill Text: IA SSB1124 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to school district finance by modifying provisions relating to the calculation of the regular program state cost per pupil and the regular program district cost per pupil, and by establishing a supplementary weighting plan for certain mandatory school district transportation costs and including effective date provisions.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (N/A - Dead) 2017-02-21 - Subcommittee Meeting: 02/23/2017 11:30AM RM 116 [SSB1124 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-SSB1124-Introduced.html
Senate
Study
Bill
1124
-
Introduced
SENATE
FILE
_____
BY
(PROPOSED
COMMITTEE
ON
EDUCATION
BILL
BY
CHAIRPERSON
SINCLAIR)
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
school
district
finance
by
modifying
1
provisions
relating
to
the
calculation
of
the
regular
2
program
state
cost
per
pupil
and
the
regular
program
3
district
cost
per
pupil,
and
by
establishing
a
supplementary
4
weighting
plan
for
certain
mandatory
school
district
5
transportation
costs
and
including
effective
date
6
provisions.
7
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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DIVISION
I
1
STATE
AND
DISTRICT
COSTS
PER
PUPIL
2
Section
1.
Section
257.8,
subsection
5,
Code
2017,
is
3
amended
to
read
as
follows:
4
5.
Alternate
supplemental
state
aid
——
definitions.
5
a.
For
budget
years
beginning
July
1,
2000,
and
subsequent
6
budget
years,
references
to
the
terms
“supplemental
state
aid”
,
7
“regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil”
,
and
“regular
program
8
district
cost
per
pupil”
shall
mean
those
terms
as
calculated
9
for
those
school
districts
that
calculated
regular
program
10
supplemental
state
aid
for
the
school
budget
year
beginning
11
July
1,
1999,
with
the
additional
thirty-eight
dollars
12
specified
in
section
257.8,
subsection
4,
Code
2013
.
13
b.
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2017,
and
14
subsequent
budget
years,
references
to
“supplemental
state
15
aid”
and
“regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil”
shall
mean
16
those
terms
as
calculated
including
the
additional
amounts
17
for
specified
budget
years
under
section
257.9,
subsection
18
2,
paragraphs
“b”
and
“c”
,
and
references
to
“regular
program
19
district
cost
per
pupil”
shall
mean
that
term
as
calculated
20
including
any
adjustments
made
under
section
257.10,
subsection
21
2.
22
Sec.
2.
Section
257.9,
subsection
2,
Code
2017,
is
amended
23
to
read
as
follows:
24
2.
Regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
1992-1993
and
25
succeeding
years.
26
a.
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
1992,
and
27
succeeding
budget
years
beginning
before
July
1,
2017
,
the
28
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
a
budget
year
is
the
29
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
year
plus
the
30
regular
program
supplemental
state
aid
for
the
budget
year.
31
b.
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2017,
the
regular
32
program
state
cost
per
pupil
is
the
regular
program
state
33
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
year
plus
the
regular
program
34
supplemental
state
aid
for
the
budget
year,
plus
five
dollars.
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c.
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2018,
the
regular
1
program
state
cost
per
pupil
is
the
regular
program
state
2
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
year
plus
the
regular
program
3
supplemental
state
aid
for
the
budget
year,
plus
ten
dollars.
4
d.
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2019,
and
5
succeeding
budget
years
beginning
before
July
1,
2027,
the
6
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
a
budget
year
is
the
7
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
year
plus
the
8
regular
program
supplemental
state
aid
for
the
budget
year,
9
plus
twenty
dollars.
10
e.
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2027,
and
11
succeeding
budget
years,
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
12
pupil
for
a
budget
year
is
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
13
pupil
for
the
base
year
plus
the
regular
program
supplemental
14
state
aid
for
the
budget
year.
15
Sec.
3.
Section
257.10,
subsection
2,
paragraph
b,
Code
16
2017,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
17
b.
If
the
regular
program
district
cost
per
pupil
of
a
18
school
district
for
the
budget
year
under
paragraph
“a”
exceeds
19
one
hundred
five
percent
of
the
regular
program
state
cost
20
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year
and
the
state
percent
of
growth
21
for
the
budget
year
is
greater
than
two
percent,
the
regular
22
program
district
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year
for
that
23
district
shall
be
reduced
to
one
hundred
five
percent
of
the
24
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year.
25
However,
under
such
conditions,
if
the
difference
between
the
26
regular
program
district
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year
and
27
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year
28
is
greater
than
an
amount
equal
to
two
percent
multiplied
by
29
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
year,
the
30
regular
program
district
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year
31
shall
be
reduced
by
the
amount
equal
to
two
percent
multiplied
32
by
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
year.
33
Sec.
4.
Section
257.10,
subsection
2,
Code
2017,
is
amended
34
by
adding
the
following
new
paragraph:
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NEW
PARAGRAPH
.
c.
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
1
2017,
and
succeeding
budget
years,
if
the
regular
program
2
district
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year
calculated
under
3
this
subsection
in
any
school
district
is
less
than
the
4
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year,
the
5
department
of
management
shall
increase
the
regular
program
6
district
cost
per
pupil
of
that
district
to
an
amount
equal
to
7
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year.
8
Sec.
5.
EFFECTIVE
UPON
ENACTMENT.
This
division
of
this
9
Act,
being
deemed
of
immediate
importance,
takes
effect
upon
10
enactment.
11
DIVISION
II
12
SCHOOL
DISTRICT
SUPPLEMENTARY
WEIGHTING
13
Sec.
6.
Section
257.11,
Code
2017,
is
amended
by
adding
the
14
following
new
subsection:
15
NEW
SUBSECTION
.
7A.
School
district
transportation
costs.
16
a.
In
order
to
provide
additional
funds
for
school
district
17
transportation
costs
resulting
from
the
transportation
of
18
resident
pupils
required
by
chapter
285
and
paid
from
sources
19
other
than
the
district’s
physical
plant
and
equipment
levy
20
fund
under
section
298A.4
or
revenue
received
from
the
secure
21
an
advanced
vision
for
education
fund
under
section
423F.2,
a
22
supplementary
weighting
plan
for
such
pupils
is
adopted.
23
b.
Each
school
district
shall
be
assigned
a
supplementary
24
weighting
amount
as
follows:
25
(1)
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2017,
ten
percent
26
of
the
combined
weighting
amount
calculated
under
paragraph
27
“c”
,
subparagraph
(2),
for
that
budget
year.
28
(2)
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2018,
twenty
29
percent
of
the
combined
weighting
amount
calculated
under
30
paragraph
“c”
,
subparagraph
(2),
for
that
budget
year.
31
(3)
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2019,
thirty
32
percent
of
the
combined
weighting
amount
calculated
under
33
paragraph
“c”
,
subparagraph
(2),
for
that
budget
year.
34
(4)
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2020,
forty
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percent
of
the
combined
weighting
amount
calculated
under
1
paragraph
“c”
,
subparagraph
(2),
for
that
budget
year.
2
(5)
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2021,
fifty
3
percent
of
the
combined
weighting
amount
calculated
under
4
paragraph
“c”
,
subparagraph
(2),
for
that
budget
year.
5
(6)
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2022,
sixty
6
percent
of
the
combined
weighting
amount
calculated
under
7
paragraph
“c”
,
subparagraph
(2),
for
that
budget
year.
8
(7)
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2023,
seventy
9
percent
of
the
combined
weighting
amount
calculated
under
10
paragraph
“c”
,
subparagraph
(2),
for
that
budget
year.
11
(8)
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2024,
eighty
12
percent
of
the
combined
weighting
amount
calculated
under
13
paragraph
“c”
,
subparagraph
(2),
for
that
budget
year.
14
(9)
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2025,
ninety
15
percent
of
the
combined
weighting
amount
calculated
under
16
paragraph
“c”
,
subparagraph
(2),
for
that
budget
year.
17
(10)
For
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2026,
and
each
18
succeeding
budget
year,
one
hundred
percent
of
the
combined
19
weighting
amount
calculated
under
paragraph
“c”
,
subparagraph
20
(2),
for
that
budget
year.
21
c.
(1)
(a)
Transportation
cost
factor.
For
each
budget
22
year
beginning
on
or
after
July
1,
2017,
the
department
of
23
management
shall
calculate
for
each
school
district
all
of
the
24
following:
25
(i)
The
sum
of
the
school
district’s
total
transportation
26
costs
incurred
for
the
transportation
of
pupils
required
under
27
chapter
285,
and
paid
from
sources
other
than
the
district’s
28
physical
plant
and
equipment
levy
fund
under
section
298A.4
29
or
revenue
received
from
the
secure
an
advanced
vision
for
30
education
fund
under
section
423F.2,
for
the
three
years
31
immediately
preceding
the
base
year.
32
(ii)
The
sum
of
the
school
district’s
regular
program
33
district
cost
for
the
three
years
immediately
preceding
the
34
base
year,
excluding
amounts
attributable
to
budget
adjustments
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received
under
section
257.14.
1
(iii)
The
school
district’s
budget
enrollment
multiplied
by
2
the
quotient
of
the
school
district’s
amount
under
subparagraph
3
subdivision
(i)
divided
by
the
school
district’s
amount
under
4
subparagraph
subdivision
(ii).
5
(iv)
The
school
district’s
amount
under
subparagraph
6
subdivision
(iii)
divided
by
the
sum
of
the
amounts
calculated
7
under
subparagraph
subdivision
(iii)
for
all
school
districts.
8
(v)
The
amount
calculated
under
subparagraph
subdivision
9
(iv)
multiplied
by
ninety
percent
of
the
sum
of
all
school
10
districts’
transportation
costs
incurred
for
the
transportation
11
of
pupils
required
under
chapter
285
for
the
year
preceding
12
the
base
year
and
paid
from
sources
other
than
the
district’s
13
physical
plant
and
equipment
levy
fund
under
section
298A.4
14
or
revenue
received
from
the
secure
an
advanced
vision
for
15
education
fund
under
section
423F.2.
16
(vi)
The
quotient
of
the
amount
calculated
under
17
subparagraph
subdivision
(v)
divided
by
the
regular
program
18
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
year.
19
(b)
Budget
enrollment
factor.
For
each
budget
year
20
beginning
on
or
after
July
1,
2017,
the
department
of
21
management
shall
calculate
for
each
school
district
all
of
the
22
following:
23
(i)
The
quotient
of
the
school
district’s
budget
enrollment
24
divided
by
the
statewide
total
budget
enrollment
multiplied
by
25
five
percent
of
the
sum
of
all
school
districts’
transportation
26
costs
incurred
for
the
transportation
of
pupils
required
under
27
chapter
285
for
the
year
preceding
the
base
year
and
paid
from
28
sources
other
than
the
district’s
physical
plant
and
equipment
29
levy
fund
under
section
298A.4
or
revenue
received
from
the
30
secure
an
advanced
vision
for
education
fund
under
section
31
423F.2.
32
(ii)
The
amount
calculated
under
subparagraph
subdivision
33
(i)
divided
by
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
34
base
year.
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(c)
Route
miles
factor.
For
each
budget
year
beginning
1
on
or
after
July
1,
2017,
the
department
of
management
shall
2
calculate
for
each
school
district
all
of
the
following:
3
(i)
The
quotient
of
the
school
district’s
total
route
4
miles
traveled
for
the
transportation
of
pupils
required
under
5
chapter
285
for
the
year
preceding
the
base
year
divided
by
the
6
school
district’s
budget
enrollment.
7
(ii)
The
school
district’s
amount
under
subparagraph
8
subdivision
(i)
divided
by
the
sum
of
the
amounts
calculated
9
under
subparagraph
subdivision
(i)
for
all
school
districts.
10
(iii)
The
amount
calculated
under
subparagraph
subdivision
11
(ii)
multiplied
by
five
percent
of
the
sum
of
all
school
12
districts’
transportation
costs
incurred
for
the
transportation
13
of
pupils
required
under
chapter
285
for
the
year
preceding
14
the
base
year
and
paid
from
sources
other
than
the
district’s
15
physical
plant
and
equipment
levy
fund
under
section
298A.4
16
or
revenue
received
from
the
secure
an
advanced
vision
for
17
education
fund
under
section
423F.2.
18
(iv)
The
amount
calculated
under
subparagraph
subdivision
19
(iii)
divided
by
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
20
the
base
year.
21
(2)
The
combined
weighting
amount
for
each
school
district
22
is
the
sum
of
the
following:
23
(a)
The
amount
calculated
under
subparagraph
(1),
24
subparagraph
division
(a),
subparagraph
subdivision
(vi).
25
(b)
The
amount
calculated
under
subparagraph
(1),
26
subparagraph
division
(b),
subparagraph
subdivision
(ii).
27
(c)
The
amount
calculated
under
subparagraph
(1),
28
subparagraph
division
(c),
subparagraph
subdivision
(iv).
29
d.
Funding
received
by
a
school
district
as
the
result
of
30
supplementary
weighting
under
this
subsection
shall
not
affect
31
a
school
district’s
eligibility
for
transportation
assistance
32
under
section
257.31,
subsection
17.
33
e.
Funding
received
by
a
school
district
as
the
result
34
of
supplementary
weighting
under
this
subsection
shall
be
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used
only
for
transportation
costs
incurred
in
providing
1
transportation
to
pupils
required
by
chapter
285.
2
Sec.
7.
Section
257.11,
subsection
8,
Code
2017,
is
amended
3
to
read
as
follows:
4
8.
Pupils
ineligible.
A
Except
for
transportation
weighting
5
under
subsection
7A,
a
pupil
eligible
for
the
weighting
plan
6
provided
in
section
256B.9
is
not
eligible
for
supplementary
7
weighting
pursuant
to
this
section
unless
it
is
determined
8
that
the
course
generating
the
supplemental
weighting
has
no
9
relationship
to
the
pupil’s
disability.
A
pupil
attending
an
10
alternative
program
or
an
at-risk
pupils’
program,
including
11
alternative
high
school
programs,
is
not
eligible
for
12
supplementary
weighting
under
subsection
2
.
13
Sec.
8.
EFFECTIVE
UPON
ENACTMENT.
This
division
of
this
14
Act,
being
deemed
of
immediate
importance,
takes
effect
upon
15
enactment.
16
EXPLANATION
17
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
18
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
19
This
bill
relates
to
school
district
finance
by
modifying
20
provisions
relating
to
the
calculation
of
the
regular
program
21
state
cost
per
pupil
and
the
regular
program
district
cost
22
per
pupil
and
establishing
a
supplementary
weighting
plan
for
23
certain
mandatory
school
district
transportation
costs.
24
Division
I
of
the
bill
relates
to
the
determination
of
the
25
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
and
the
determination
of
26
regular
program
district
cost
per
pupil
for
school
districts.
27
Those
amounts
are
used
to
determine
supplemental
state
aid
28
amounts
for
each
school
budget
year,
determining
the
budget
29
authority
for
each
school
district,
and
determining
amounts
30
of
preschool
foundation
aid
for
schools
participating
in
the
31
statewide
preschool
program
for
four-year-old
children
under
32
Code
chapter
256C.
33
Current
Code
section
257.9
provides
that
for
the
budget
34
year
beginning
July
1,
1992,
and
succeeding
budget
years,
the
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regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
a
budget
year
is
the
1
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
year
plus
the
2
regular
program
supplemental
state
aid
for
the
budget
year.
3
Under
the
bill,
for
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2017,
4
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
is
the
regular
program
5
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
year
plus
the
regular
program
6
supplemental
state
aid
for
the
budget
year,
plus
$5.
For
7
the
budget
year
beginning
July
1,
2018,
the
regular
program
8
state
cost
per
pupil
is
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
9
pupil
for
the
base
year
plus
the
regular
program
supplemental
10
state
aid
for
the
budget
year,
plus
$10.
For
the
budget
year
11
beginning
July
1,
2019,
and
succeeding
budget
years
beginning
12
before
July
1,
2027,
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
13
is
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
14
year
plus
the
regular
program
supplemental
state
aid
for
the
15
budget
year,
plus
$20.
Then
with
the
budget
year
beginning
16
July
1,
2027,
and
succeeding
budget
years,
the
regular
program
17
state
cost
per
pupil
will
again
be
calculated
as
the
regular
18
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
base
year
plus
the
regular
19
program
supplemental
state
aid
for
the
budget
year
without
any
20
additional
amount
added.
21
The
bill
amends
Code
section
257.10
to
provide
that
if
22
the
regular
program
district
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
23
year
calculated
in
any
school
district
is
less
than
the
24
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year,
the
25
department
of
management
shall
increase
the
regular
program
26
district
cost
per
pupil
of
that
district
to
an
amount
equal
to
27
the
regular
program
state
cost
per
pupil
for
the
budget
year.
28
Division
I
of
the
bill
takes
effect
upon
enactment.
29
Division
II
of
the
bill
establishes
a
supplementary
30
weighting
plan
for
school
district
transportation
costs
31
resulting
from
the
transportation
of
pupils
as
required
under
32
Code
chapter
285.
33
The
bill
establishes
a
methodology
for
calculating
the
34
amount
of
supplementary
weighting
assigned
to
each
school
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district.
The
calculation
is
made
using
school
district
1
transportation
cost
data,
school
district
enrollment
data,
and
2
school
district
transportation
route
mile
data.
The
amount
of
3
the
supplementary
weighting
is
phased
in
over
a
period
of
10
4
school
budget
years
beginning
with
the
budget
year
beginning
5
July
1,
2017.
6
The
bill
specifies
that
funding
received
by
a
school
7
district
as
the
result
of
supplementary
weighting
in
the
8
bill
does
not
affect
a
school
district’s
eligibility
for
9
transportation
assistance
granted
by
the
school
budget
review
10
committee
and
requires
that
funding
received
by
a
school
11
district
as
the
result
of
the
supplementary
weighting
be
12
used
only
for
transportation
costs
incurred
in
providing
13
transportation
to
those
pupils
specified
in
the
bill.
14
Division
II
of
the
bill
takes
effect
upon
enactment.
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