House File 2212 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2212 BY STONE A BILL FOR An Act relating to school districts and area education agencies 1 that share bachelor social workers as part of an operational 2 sharing agreement, and including applicability provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5926YH (2) 90 dg/jh
H.F. 2212 Section 1. Section 257.11, subsection 5, paragraph a, 1 subparagraph (1), Code 2024, is amended to read as follows: 2 (1) In order to provide additional funding to increase 3 student opportunities and redirect more resources to student 4 programming for school districts that share operational 5 functions, a district that shares with a political subdivision 6 one or more operational functions of a curriculum director, 7 bachelor social worker, master social worker, independent 8 social worker, work-based learning coordinator, special 9 education director, mental health professional who holds a 10 statement of recognition issued by the board of educational 11 examiners, college and career transition counselor or 12 coordinator, school resource officer, or school counselor, 13 or one or more operational functions in the areas of 14 superintendent management, business management, human 15 resources, transportation, or operation and maintenance for at 16 least twenty percent of the school year shall be assigned a 17 supplementary weighting for each shared operational function. 18 A school district that shares an operational function in 19 the area of superintendent management shall be assigned a 20 supplementary weighting of nine pupils for the function. A 21 school district that shares an operational function in the area 22 of business management, human resources, transportation, or 23 operation and maintenance shall be assigned a supplementary 24 weighting of five pupils for the function. A school district 25 that shares the operational functions of a curriculum 26 director; a bachelor social worker, master social worker , or 27 an independent social worker licensed under chapters 147 and 28 154C ; a work-based learning coordinator; a special education 29 director; a mental health professional who holds a statement 30 of recognition issued by the board of educational examiners; 31 a college and career transition counselor or coordinator; 32 a school resource officer; or a school counselor shall be 33 assigned a supplementary weighting of three pupils for the 34 function. The additional weighting shall be assigned for 35 -1- LSB 5926YH (2) 90 dg/jh 1/ 3
H.F. 2212 each discrete operational function shared. However, a school 1 district may receive the additional weighting under this 2 subsection for sharing the services of an individual with 3 a political subdivision or another school district even if 4 the type of operational function performed by the individual 5 for the school district and the type of operational function 6 performed by the individual for the political subdivision or 7 another school district are not the same operational function, 8 so long as either both operational functions are eligible for 9 weighting under this subsection or the operational function 10 the individual performs for the school district is special 11 education director. In either case, the school district 12 shall be assigned the additional weighting for the type of 13 operational function that the individual performs for the 14 school district, and the school district shall not receive 15 additional weighting for any other function performed by the 16 individual. The operational function sharing arrangement does 17 not need to be a newly implemented sharing arrangement to 18 receive supplementary weighting under this subsection . 19 Sec. 3. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to school budget 20 years beginning on or after July 1, 2025, subject to the school 21 budget year limitations of section 257.11, subsection 5. 22 EXPLANATION 23 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 24 the explanations substance by the members of the general assembly. 25 Pursuant to Code section 257.11, in order to provide 26 additional funding to increase student opportunities 27 and redirect resources to student programming that share 28 operational functions, a school district or area education 29 agency that shares with another political subdivision 30 one or more specified operational functions is assigned a 31 supplementary weighting for each shared operational function. 32 This bill adds a bachelor social worker licensed by the state 33 to the eligible shared operational functions. By operation 34 of Code section 257.11(5)(b)(2), a bachelor social worker is 35 -2- LSB 5926YH (2) 90 dg/jh 2/ 3
H.F. 2212 assigned a supplementary weighting of two pupils under the 1 bill. 2 The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or 3 after July 1, 2025, subject to the limitation of Code section 4 257.11(5), which sunsets the availability of supplementary 5 weighting following the school budget year beginning July 1, 6 2034. 7 -3- LSB 5926YH (2) 90 dg/jh 3/ 3