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House Journal: Page 1391: Monday, April 21, 1997

10   deduction of twenty-five percent from the net cash
11   assistance grant amount payable to the child's family
12   prior to any deduction for recoupment of prior
13   overpayment."
14     3.  Page 3, by striking lines 21 through 27.
15     4.  By striking page 3, line 33, through page 4,
16   line 6, and inserting the following:  "that the child
17   does attend.  Prior to deeming a child who has
18   completed educational requirements through the sixth
19   grade truant, the school may utilize an attendance
20   cooperation process which substantially conforms with
21   the provisions of section 299.12.  If the parent,".
22     5.  Page 5, line 12, by striking the words "TRUANT
23   CHILDREN" and inserting the following:  "VIOLATION OF
24   ATTENDANCE POLICY".
25     6.  By striking page 5, line 19, through page 6,
26   line 9, and inserting the following:
27     "___.  Prior to a child who has not completed
28   educational requirements through the sixth grade being
29   deemed to be truant, the school truancy officer shall
30   contact the child's parent, guardian, or legal or
31   actual custodian to participate as a member of an
32   attendance team for the child.  Parties who are
33   members of an attendance team may include the child
34   and shall include the child's parent, guardian, or
35   legal or actual custodian and the school truancy
36   officer.  If the child is a member of a family
37   receiving assistance under the family investment
38   program, the department of human services shall be
39   notified and shall make the contacts for attendance
40   team participation in lieu of the school truancy
41   officer.  For a child who is a member of a family
42   receiving assistance under the family investment
43   program, the attendance team shall include the child's
44   parent or specified relative whose needs are included
45   in the child's assistance grant and a representative
46   of the department of human services.  The school
47   truancy officer or the representative of the
48   department of human services making the attendance
49   team participation contacts may invite other school
50   officials, a designee of the juvenile court, the

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 1   county attorney or the county attorney's designee, or
 2   other persons deemed appropriate to participate in the
 3   attendance team.
 4     ___.  The attendance team shall hold an attendance
 5   cooperation meeting.  The purpose of the attendance
 6   cooperation meeting is for the parties participating
 7   in the meeting to attempt to ascertain the cause of
 8   the child's nonattendance, to cause the parties to
 9   arrive at an agreement relative to addressing the

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