This file contains STRIKE and UNDERSCORE. If you cannot see either STRIKE or UNDERSCORE attributes or would like to change how these attributes are displayed, please use the following form to make the desired changes.

House Journal: Page 1392: Monday, April 21, 1997

10   child's attendance, and to initiate referrals to any
11   services or counseling that the attendance team
12   believes to be appropriate under the circumstances.
13   The terms agreed to shall be reduced to writing in an
14   attendance cooperation agreement and signed by the
15   parties to the agreement.  Each party signing the
16   agreement shall receive a copy of the agreement, which
17   shall set forth the cause identified for the child's
18   nonattendance and future responsibilities of each
19   party.
20     ___.  If an attendance team determines that a
21   monitor would improve compliance with the attendance
22   cooperation agreement, the attendance team may
23   designate a person to monitor the agreement.  The
24   monitor may be a volunteer, a member of the attendance
25   team, a designee of the public school board or
26   governing body of the accredited nonpublic school, or
27   other appropriate person.  A monitor shall contact
28   parties to the attendance cooperation agreement on a
29   periodic basis as appropriate to monitor performance
30   of the agreement.
31     ___.  If the parties fail to enter into an
32   attendance cooperation agreement, or the child's
33   parent, guardian, or custodian acting as a party
34   violates a term of the attendance cooperation
35   agreement or fails to participate in an attendance
36   cooperation meeting, the child may be deemed to be
37   truant.
38     ___.  a.  If a child deemed to be truant under this
39   section is a member of a family receiving family
40   investment program assistance under chapter 239 and
41   has not completed the sixth grade, the school truancy
42   officer may provide notification to the department of
43   human services.  An initial and any subsequent
44   notification shall be made in writing.  The form of
45   the notification shall be mutually determined by the
46   departments of human services and education.
47     b.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this
48   chapter to the contrary, unless prohibited by federal
49   law, a school truancy officer may release information
50   to the department of human services and may receive

Page 3

 1   information from the department of human services
 2   regarding a child described in paragraph "a".  In
 3   addition, the school truancy officer may utilize other
 4   sources available to the officer as necessary to
 5   verify whether a child is a member of a family
 6   receiving family investment program assistance.
 7   Release of information under this section shall be
 8   limited to the minimum access to information necessary
 9   to achieve the purposes of this section.

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (77th General Assembly: Session 1)

© 1997 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa

Comments about this site or page? hjourn@legis.iowa.gov. Please remember that the person listed above does not vote on bills. Direct all comments concerning legislation to State Legislators.

Last update: Tue Apr 22 13:40:03 CDT 1997
URL: /DOCS/GA/77GA/Session.1/HJournal/01300/01392.html
jhf