DISTRICT UNIFORMITY
301.1 Adoption — purchase and sale — accredited nonpublic school pupil textbook
services.
1.The board of directors of each and every school district is hereby authorized and
empowered to adopt textbooks for the teaching of all branches that are now or may hereafter
be authorized to be taught in the public schools of the state, and to contract for and buy
said books and any and all other necessary school supplies at said contract prices, and to
sell the same to the pupils of their respective districts at cost, loan such textbooks to such
pupils free, or rent them to such pupils at such reasonable fee as the board shall fix, and said
money so received shall be returned to the general fund.
2.Textbooks adopted and purchased by a school district shall, to the extent funds
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DISTRICT UNIFORMITY
301.1 Adoption — purchase and sale — accredited nonpublic school pupil textbook
services.
1. The board of directors of each and every school district is hereby authorized and
empowered to adopt textbooks for the teaching of all branches that are now or may hereafter
be authorized to be taught in the public schools of the state, and to contract for and buy
said books and any and all other necessary school supplies at said contract prices, and to
sell the same to the pupils of their respective districts at cost, loan such textbooks to such
pupils free, or rent them to such pupils at such reasonable fee as the board shall fix, and said
money so received shall be returned to the general fund.
2. Textbooks adopted and purchased by a school district shall, to the extent funds are
appropriated by the general assembly, be made available to pupils attending accredited
nonpublic schools upon request of the pupil or the pupil’s parent under comparable terms
as made available to pupils attending public schools. If the general assembly appropriates
moneys for purposes of making textbooks available to accredited nonpublic school pupils,
the department of education shall ascertain the amount available to a school district for the
purchase of nonsectarian, nonreligious textbooks for pupils attending accredited nonpublic
schools. The amount shall be in the proportion that the basic enrollment of a participating
accredited nonpublic school bears to the sum of the basic enrollments of all participating
accredited nonpublic schools in the state for the budget year. For purposes of this section,
a “participating accredited nonpublic school” means an accredited nonpublic school that
submits a written request on behalf of the school’s pupils in accordance with this subsection,
and that certifies its actual enrollment to the department of education by October 1, annually.
By November 1, annually, the department of education shall certify to the director of the
department of administrative services the annual amount to be paid to each school district,
and the director of the department of administrative services shall draw warrants payable
to school districts in accordance with this subsection. For purposes of this subsection,
an accredited nonpublic school’s enrollment count shall include only students who are
residents of Iowa. The costs of providing textbooks to accredited nonpublic school pupils as
provided in this subsection shall not be included in the computation of district cost under
chapter 257, but shall be shown in the budget as an expense from miscellaneous income.
Textbook expenditures made in accordance with this subsection shall be kept on file in
the school district. In the event that a participating accredited nonpublic school physically
relocates to another school district, textbooks purchased for the nonpublic school with funds
appropriated for purposes of this chapter shall be transferred to the school district in which
the nonpublic school has relocated and may be made available to the nonpublic school.
Funds distributed to a school district for purposes of purchasing textbooks in accordance
with this subsection which remain unexpended and available for the purchase of textbooks
for the nonpublic school that relocated in the fiscal year in which the funds were distributed
shall also be transferred to the school district in which the nonpublic school has relocated.
3. As used in subsection 2, “textbooks” means any of the following:
a. Books and loose-leaf or bound manuals, systems of reusable instructional materials or
combinations of books and supplementary instructional materials which convey information
to the student or otherwise contribute to the learning process.
b. Electronic textbooks, including but not limited to computer software, applications
using computer-assisted instruction, interactive videodisc, and other computer courseware
and magnetic media.
c. Laptop computers or other portable personal computing devices which are used for
nonreligious instructional purposes only.