SF 247 (LSB 2165SS (3) 87)

SENATE FILE 247

BY  DANIELSON

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to an exemption from school district retention and intensive summer reading program requirements for students showing good cause. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 279.68, subsection 5, paragraph a, subparagraph (2), Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (2)  Students requiring special education whose individualized education program indicates does any of the following:
   (a)  Indicates that participation in a locally determined or statewide assessment as provided in section 256.7, subsection 31, is not appropriate, consistent with the requirements of rules adopted by the state board of education for the administration of chapter 256B.
   (b)  Includes reading goals and the student has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and is considered to have an intellectual disability.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill provides that a student enrolled in a school district has a good cause exemption from the retention and intensive summer reading program requirements of Code section 279.68 if the student has an individualized education program that includes reading goals and the student has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and is considered to have an intellectual disability.