AMENDMENT FOR PRINTED BILL
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___________________ moved that SB 72 be amended as follows:


    On page 2 of the printed bill, delete lines 16 to 24, inclusive, and insert:

"(2A)    "Fall enrollment," the number of kindergarten through twelfth grade students enrolled in all schools operated by the school district on the last Friday of September of the current school year minus the number of students for whom the district receives tuition, except nonresident students who are in the care and custody of a state agency and are attending a public school and students for whom tuition is being paid pursuant to § 13-28-42.1, plus the number of students for whom the district pays tuition. Any student enrolled in a kindergarten program operating for less than eight hundred and seventy-five hours, exclusive of intermissions, in a school term shall be counted on a pro rata basis as follows:

            (a)    For fiscal year 2012, any such student shall be counted as 0.75 fall enrollment; and
            (b)    For fiscal year 2013 and thereafter, any such student shall be counted on a pro rata basis according to the number of hours of operation of the program in which the student is enrolled.
                When computing state aid to education for a school district under the foundation program pursuant to § 13-13-73, the secretary of the Department of Education shall use either the school district's fall enrollment or the average of the school district's fall enrollment from the previous two years, whichever is higher;".

    On page 3, delete lines 1 to 4, inclusive.