Amendment S-3143 to HF 532

Filed April 7, 2021 in the Senate by

What it changes

1. By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: “Section
2. QUALIFIED INSTRUCTION FUNDING SUPPLEMENT FOR FY 2021-2022 —— APPROPRIATION.
3. a. For the school budget year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022, each brick-and-mortar public school district shall receive a qualified instruction funding supplement. Each school district’s qualified instruction funding supplement shall be in an amount calculated by the department of education equal to the school district’s enrollment served multiplied by the school district’s qualified instruction factor. b. For purposes of this section: (1) “Enrollment served” means that portion of the basic enrollment of the school district, as determined under section 257.6, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, subparagraphs (1), (3), (4), (7), and (8), for the budget year beginning July 1, 2020, minus the number of students under section 282.18 for which the school district was the district of residence, plus the number of students under section 282.18 for which the school was the receiving district, and excluding each pupil for which the portion of the pupil’s instruction received from the school district was provided by a full-time remote learning program offered by the school district. (2) “Qualified instruction factor” means an amount equal to sixty dollars multiplied by the quotient of the school district’s total qualified instruction days divided by ninety. (3) “Total qualified instruction days” means the sum of the number of school days during the period beginning July 1, 2020, and ending January 29, 2021, but not exceeding ninety days, that the school district offered at least one of the following: (a) Full-time in-person instruction. (b) Hybrid learning or remote learning in accordance with or under an approved waiver from the department of education pursuant to the requirements of 2020 Iowa Acts, chapter 1107; section 279.10; the governor’s proclamation of a public health disaster emergency issued July 24, 2020; or subsequent applicable proclamations of a public health disaster emergency issued by the governor pursuant to section 29C.6 and related to COVID-19. (c) (i) For school days between August 10, 2020, and January 29, 2021, instruction primarily through remote learning or hybrid learning, as the direct result of damage to a school attendance center caused by severe weather on or about August 10, 2020, for which a proclamation of disaster emergency was issued by the governor. (ii) In addition, for school days between August 10, 2020, and January 29, 2021, each day the school district was unable to provide in-person instruction, remote learning, or hybrid learning as the direct result of damage to a school attendance center caused by severe weather on or about August 10, 2020, for which a proclamation of disaster emergency was issued by the governor, and that day was previously scheduled as an instructional day as part of the school district’s calendar approved by the school district’s board of directors, shall be counted as a qualified instruction day.
4. Each school district shall pay to the school district’s area education agency a portion of the school district’s qualified instruction funding supplement. The amount to be paid to the area education agency shall be an amount equal to the product of one dollar multiplied by the school district’s enrollment served, but not to exceed the total amount of the school district’s qualified instruction funding supplement.
5. The qualified instruction funding supplement shall be miscellaneous income, shall be deposited in the general fund of the school district, shall not be included in district cost, and, except as provided in subsection 2, shall be used only for purposes for which a school district may use funds received from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund under the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Pub. L. No. 116-136, or the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Pub. L. No. 117-2.
6. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022, an amount necessary, but not to exceed twenty-seven million two hundred thousand dollars to be used for the payment of qualified instruction funding supplement payments under this section. If the amount appropriated under this subsection is insufficient to pay in full all qualified instruction funding supplements, the department of education shall prorate such supplement amounts. The proration of funding amounts under this subsection shall not, however, reduce the portion of the funding supplement amount required to be paid to the area education agencies under subsection
8. If requested by the department of education, each school district in the state shall provide to the department of education all necessary information in order for the department of education to determine the school district’s qualified instruction funding supplement amount. Sec.
9. PRESCHOOL MODIFIED SUPPLEMENTAL AMOUNT —— SCHOOL BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE.
10. Notwithstanding section 256C.4, subsection 1, paragraph “f”, and any provision of section 257.31 to the contrary, if fifty percent of a school district’s actual enrollment of eligible students in preschool programming provided by the school district within the meaning of section 256C.5 on October 1, 2021, is greater than the preschool budget enrollment determined under section 256C.5 for the budget year beginning July 1, 2021, the school district may apply to the school budget review committee for a modified supplemental amount for the budget year beginning July 1,
11. An approved modified supplemental amount under this section shall not exceed an amount equal to the product of the regular program state cost per pupil for the budget year beginning July 1, 2021, multiplied by the difference of fifty percent of a school district’s actual enrollment of eligible students in preschool programming provided by the school district on October 1, 2021, minus the preschool budget enrollment determined under section 256C.5 for the budget year beginning July 1,
13. The school budget review committee shall review a school district’s unexpended preschool fund balance for the budget year ending June 30, 2021, when deciding whether to grant a modified supplemental amount request under this section. For a school district with an unexpended preschool fund balance that is equal to or less than twenty-five percent of the school district’s preschool foundation aid under section 256C.5 for the budget year beginning July 1, 2020, the modified supplemental amount shall be granted. For a school district with an unexpended preschool fund balance that is greater than twenty-five percent of the school district’s preschool foundation aid under section 256C.5 for the budget year beginning July 1, 2020, the modified supplemental amount may be granted.
14. A modified supplemental amount granted under this section must be used for the purposes of chapter 256C, including amounts passed through to a community-based provider.
15. Amounts received as the result of a modified supplemental amount granted under this section shall not be eligible for transfer to a school district’s flexibility account under section 298A.2, subsection 2, and, notwithstanding section 256C.4, subsection 1, paragraph “e”, a school district that is granted a modified supplemental amount under this section shall not be eligible to transfer any preschool foundation aid that remains unexpended and unobligated at the end of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, to the school district’s flexibility account under section 298A.2, subsection
17. Modified supplemental amounts granted under this section shall be subject to available funding and be funded solely through aid awarded by the school budget review committee from funds made available to the school budget review committee for purposes of this section. If amounts made available to the school budget review committee for purposes of this section are insufficient to fund all modified supplemental amounts granted under this section, the amount of each modified supplement amount shall be prorated. Sec.
18. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.”
19. Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and inserting “An Act relating to education funding by establishing a qualified instruction funding supplement for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2021, authorizing modified supplemental amounts for preschool funding, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.”

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