HF 2359 (LSB 5166HV (6) 88)

RELATING TO THE REPORTING OF CERTAIN ASSESSMENT SCORES  BY APPROVED PRACTITIONER PREPARATION PROGRAMS. 

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

    Section 1.  Section 256.16, subsection 1, paragraph a, subparagraph (1), Code 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  Administer If the institution administers a preprofessional skills test offered by a nationally recognized testing service to practitioner preparation program admission candidates, the institution shall report to the department no later than August 1 annually, in the form and manner prescribed by the department, the percentage of students whose scores on the assessments administered during the prior fiscal year were above, at, and below the minimum passing score set by the institution, and shall report any services or opportunities to retake the assessment the institution may make available to a student who fails assessment. Rules adopted shall require institutions to deny admission to the program to any candidate who does not successfully pass the test.  The department shall 

compile the reports submitted under this subparagraph and publish the compiled information on its internet site.

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PAT GRASSLEY
Speaker of the House

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CHARLES SCHNEIDER
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2359, Eighty-eighth General Assembly.

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MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House

Approved _______________, 2020

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KIM REYNOLDS
Governor