House File 2095      

                            AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE PERCENT OF GROWTH
   FOR PURPOSES OF THE STATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION PROGRAM AND
   PROVIDING AN APPLICABILITY DATE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 257.8, subsection 1, Code Supplement
2005, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  STATE PERCENT OF GROWTH.  The state percent of growth
for the budget year beginning July 1, 2005, is four percent.
The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July
1, 2006, is four percent.  The state percent of growth for the
budget year beginning July 1, 2007, is four percent.  The
state percent of growth for each subsequent budget year shall
be established by statute which shall be enacted within thirty
days of the submission in the year preceding the base year of
the governor's budget under section 8.21.  The establishment
of the state percent of growth for a budget year shall be the
only subject matter of the bill which enacts the state percent
of growth for a budget year.
   Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act is applicable for
computing state aid under the state school foundation program
for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2007.


                                                            
                              CHRISTOPHER C. RANTS
                              Speaker of the House


                                                            
                              JEFFREY M. LAMBERTI
                              President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 2095, Eighty=first General Assembly.


                                                            
                              MARGARET THOMSON
                              Chief Clerk of the House
Approved                , 2006


                           
THOMAS J. VILSACK
Governor