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House File 532 - Reprinted
                                  HOUSE FILE 532
                                  BY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  (SUCCESSOR TO HF 439)
                                  (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 184)
  (As Amended and Passed by the House February 18, 2021)
                            A BILL FOR
An Act establishing a qualified instruction funding supplement
  for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2020, making
  appropriations, and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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    Section 1. QUALIFIED INSTRUCTION FUNDING SUPPLEMENT FOR FY
 2020-2021 —— APPROPRIATION.
    1. a. For the school budget year beginning July 1,
 2020, and ending June 30, 2021, each public school district
 shall receive a qualified instruction funding supplement.
 The supplement shall be in an amount calculated by the
 department of management equal to the percentage of the amount
 appropriated under subsection 4 that is proportionate to the
 school district’s total in-person instruction days as a share
 of the statewide total in-person instruction days.
    b. For purposes of this section:
    (1) “Total in-person instruction days” means the sum of the
 number of school days the school district offered in-person
 instruction within the school district between July 1, 2020,
 and January 29, 2021, multiplied by the actual enrollment
 of the school district, as determined under section 257.6,
 subsection 1, for the budget year beginning July 1, 2020. Each
 school day for which the school district offered in-person
 instruction to all students within the school district for six
 or more hours shall be counted as one school day. Each school
 day for which the school district offered in-person instruction
 to all students within the school district for three or more
 hours but less than six hours shall be counted as one-half of
 a school day. Each school day for which the school district
 offered in-person instruction to one-half or more but less
 than all students for six or more hours shall be counted as
 one-half of a school day. For purposes of determining a school
 district’s total in-person instruction days, and subject to the
 instructional hour requirements of this subparagraph, students
 who were offered instruction primarily through remote learning
 or hybrid learning for school days between August 10, 2020, and
 January 29, 2021, 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, shall be considered as being offered
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 in-person instruction by the school district. In addition, if
 a school district was unable to provide in-person instruction,
 remote learning, or hybrid learning on a school day between
 August 10, 2020, and January 29, 2021, 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, then that day of missed instruction shall
 be considered one day of in-person instruction by the school
 district for purposes of determining a school district’s total
 in-person instruction days.
    (2) “Statewide total in-person instruction days” means the
 sum of each amount determined under subparagraph (1) for all
 public school districts in the state.
    2. The qualified instruction funding supplement shall be
 miscellaneous income, shall be deposited in the general fund of
 the school district, may be used for any school general fund
 purpose during any school budget year beginning on or after
 July 1, 2020, and shall not be included in district cost.
    3. The qualified instruction funding supplement 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
 remaining monthly payments of state aid under section 257.16,
 subsection 2, for the budget year beginning July 1, 2020.
    4. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
 to the department of management for the fiscal year beginning
 July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021, twenty-seven million
 two hundred thousand dollars to be used for the payment of
 qualified instruction funding supplement payments under this
 section.
    5. Each public school district in the state shall certify to
 the department of management on or before the fourteenth day
 after the effective date of this Act, the school district’s
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total in-person instruction days as determined under subsection
1, paragraph “b”, subparagraph (1).
  Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate
importance, takes effect upon enactment.
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