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House File 366

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph b, Code
  1  2 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    b.  Five units of the social studies including instruction
  1  4 in voting statutes and procedures, voter registration
  1  5 requirements, the use of paper ballots and voting machines in
  1  6 the election process, and the method of acquiring and casting
  1  7 an absentee ballot.  All students shall complete a minimum of
  1  8 one-half unit of United States government, one-half unit of
  1  9 Iowa history, and one unit of United States history.  The one-
  1 10 half unit of United States government shall include the voting
  1 11 procedure as described in this lettered paragraph and section
  1 12 280.9A.  The government instruction shall also include a study
  1 13 of the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of
  1 14 Rights contained in the Constitution and an assessment of a
  1 15 student's knowledge of the Constitution and the Bill of
  1 16 Rights.
  1 17    Sec. 2.  STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.  In accordance
  1 18 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
  1 19 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
  1 20 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
  1 21 received by the school district under section 257.16.  This
  1 22 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
  1 23 to meet all the state funding-related requirements of section
  1 24 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be
  1 25 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and
  1 26 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts.  
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill requires all accredited public and nonpublic
  1 29 schools in Iowa to include one-half unit of Iowa history in
  1 30 the educational programs taught to ninth through 12th grade
  1 31 students.
  1 32    Current law requires that the educational program provided
  1 33 by school districts and accredited nonpublic schools for
  1 34 students in grades nine through 12 include five units of
  1 35 social studies.  As a component of that requirement, students
  2  1 are currently obligated to complete a minimum of one-half unit
  2  2 of United States government and one unit of United States
  2  3 history.
  2  4    This bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  2  5 section 25B.3.  The bill requires that the state cost of any
  2  6 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
  2  7 district from state school foundation aid received by the
  2  8 school district under section 257.16.  The specification is
  2  9 deemed to constitute state compliance with any state mandate
  2 10 funding-related requirements of Code section 25B.2.  The
  2 11 inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the
  2 12 requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state
  2 13 mandates included in the bill.  
  2 14 LSB 2421YH 78
  2 15 kh/jw/5
     

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