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  1  1                                           HOUSE FILE 2179     
  1  2                                    
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO THE CERTIFIED SCHOOL TO CAREER PROGRAM.  
  1  5 
  1  6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1  7 
  1  8    Section 1.  Section 15.362, subsections 1 and 2, Code 1999,
  1  9 are amended to read as follows:
  1 10    1.  "Certified school to career program" or "certified
  1 11 program" means a sequenced and articulated secondary and
  1 12 postsecondary program registered as an apprenticeship program
  1 13 under 29 C.F.R. subtit. A, pt. 29, which is conducted pursuant
  1 14 to an agreement as provided in section 15.364 or a program
  1 15 approved by the state board of education, in conjunction with
  1 16 the department of economic development, as meeting an
  1 17 individual program of study developed jointly by a secondary
  1 18 school, postsecondary institution, and an employer that meets
  1 19 the standards enumerated in section 15.363, that integrates a
  1 20 secondary school curriculum with private sector job training
  1 21 which places students in job internships, and which is
  1 22 designed to continue into postsecondary education and that
  1 23 will result in teaching new skills and adding value to the
  1 24 wage-earning potential of participants and increase their
  1 25 long-term employability in the state and which is conducted
  1 26 pursuant to an agreement as provided in section 15.364.
  1 27    2.  "Participant" means an individual between the ages of
  1 28 sixteen and twenty-four who is enrolled in a public or private
  1 29 secondary or postsecondary school and who initiated
  1 30 participation in a certified school to career program as part
  1 31 of secondary no later than the start of the student's senior
  1 32 year of high school education.
  1 33    Sec. 2.  Section 15.363, unnumbered paragraphs 1 and 2,
  1 34 Code 1999, are amended to read as follows:
  1 35    The state board of education, in consultation with the
  2  1 department of economic development, shall adopt rules pursuant
  2  2 to chapter 17A to guide the board and department school
  2  3 districts in determining whether a potential school to career
  2  4 program should be approved meets the standards for
  2  5 certification.
  2  6    A certified school to career program which is approved by
  2  7 the state board of education in conjunction with the
  2  8 department of economic development other than a sequenced and
  2  9 articulated secondary and postsecondary program registered as
  2 10 an apprenticeship program under 29 C.F.R. subtit. A, pt. 29,
  2 11 shall comply with all of the following standards:
  2 12    Sec. 3.  Section 15.363, Code 1999, is amended by adding
  2 13 the following new subsection:
  2 14    NEW SUBSECTION.  6.  The participant's high school agrees
  2 15 to file with the department of education an initial notice of
  2 16 intent to conduct a certified program, and shall include in
  2 17 the notice the name of the contact person charged with
  2 18 overseeing the school district's certified program.  The
  2 19 participant's high school shall maintain on file the certified
  2 20 program agreement required by section 15.364.
  2 21    Sec. 4.  Section 15.364, subsections 2, 3, and 8, Code
  2 22 Supplement 1999, are amended to read as follows:
  2 23    2.  A description of the career field in which the
  2 24 participant is to be trained, and the beginning date and
  2 25 duration of the training and employment.
  2 26    3.  The employer's agreement to provide paid employment, at
  2 27 a base wage, for the participant during the summer months
  2 28 after beginning no earlier than the participant's junior and
  2 29 senior years year in high school and ending no later than the
  2 30 fall after the participant's first second year of
  2 31 postsecondary education.
  2 32    8.  If the participant does not complete the two-year
  2 33 employment obligation, the participant's agreement to repay to
  2 34 the employer the amount paid by the employer toward the
  2 35 participant's postsecondary education expenses pursuant to
  3  1 subsection 6.  However, if the participant is unable to
  3  2 complete the two-year employment obligation because the
  3  3 employer did not afford the participant a two-year employment
  3  4 opportunity, the participant shall not be required to repay to
  3  5 the employer the amount paid by the employer toward the
  3  6 participant's postsecondary education expenses.  
  3  7 
  3  8 
  3  9                                                             
  3 10                               BRENT SIEGRIST
  3 11                               Speaker of the House
  3 12 
  3 13 
  3 14                                                             
  3 15                               MARY E. KRAMER
  3 16                               President of the Senate
  3 17 
  3 18    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  3 19 is known as House File 2179, Seventy-eighth General Assembly.
  3 20 
  3 21 
  3 22                                                             
  3 23                               ELIZABETH ISAACSON
  3 24                               Chief Clerk of the House
  3 25 Approved                , 2000
  3 26 
  3 27 
  3 28                               
  3 29 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  3 30 Governor
     
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