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Senate File 2003

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Bill Introduced: S.J. 14
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  1  1    Section 1.  INTENT – PURPOSE.  It is the intent of the
  1  2 general assembly to require the teaching of the nation's
  1  3 founding and related documents, which shall include the
  1  4 Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United
  1  5 States, and the Federalist Papers; and to require each high
  1  6 school student to successfully pass a test of knowledge of the
  1  7 Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United
  1  8 States, and the Federalist Papers prior to receiving a high
  1  9 school diploma or a high school equivalency diploma.
  1 10    Sec. 2.  Section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph b,
  1 11 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code Supplement 2001, is amended to
  1 12 read as follows:
  1 13    Five units of the social studies including instruction in
  1 14 voting statutes and procedures, voter registration
  1 15 requirements, the use of paper ballots and voting machines in
  1 16 the election process, and the method of acquiring and casting
  1 17 an absentee ballot.  All students shall complete a minimum of
  1 18 one-half unit of United States government and one unit of
  1 19 United States history.  The one-half unit of United States
  1 20 government shall include the voting procedure as described in
  1 21 this lettered paragraph and section 280.9A.  The government
  1 22 instruction shall also include a study of the Constitution of
  1 23 the United States and the Bill of Rights contained in the
  1 24 Constitution and, the Declaration of Independence, and the
  1 25 Federalist Papers.  Each student shall successfully pass an
  1 26 assessment of a the student's knowledge of the Constitution
  1 27 and, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and
  1 28 the Federalist Papers prior to receiving a high school diploma
  1 29 or a high school equivalency diploma.  The unit of United
  1 30 States history shall include the rights and responsibilities
  1 31 of American citizenship and shall adequately stress the
  1 32 contributions of all ethnic groups relating to the development
  1 33 and growth of the United States into a great nation; to art,
  1 34 music, education, medicine, literature, science, politics, and
  1 35 government; and to employment in the service of the United
  2  1 States during the nation's wars.
  2  2    Sec. 3.  STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.  In accordance
  2  3 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
  2  4 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
  2  5 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
  2  6 received by the school district under section 257.16.  This
  2  7 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
  2  8 to meet all the state funding-related requirements of section
  2  9 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be
  2 10 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and
  2 11 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts.  
  2 12                           EXPLANATION 
  2 13    This bill states the intent of the general assembly to
  2 14 require the teaching of the nation's founding and related
  2 15 documents and to require each high school student to
  2 16 successfully pass a test of knowledge of those documents prior
  2 17 to receiving a high school diploma or a high school
  2 18 equivalency diploma.  The bill expands the educational
  2 19 standards specified in the Code to accomplish this intent.
  2 20    The bill expands the educational standards by amending the
  2 21 Code provision that requires public schools and accredited
  2 22 nonpublic schools to provide one-half unit of United States
  2 23 government and one unit of United States history, to require
  2 24 that the half-unit of government instruction include, in
  2 25 addition to study of the Constitution of the United States and
  2 26 the Bill of Rights, study of the Declaration of Independence
  2 27 and the Federalist Papers.  The bill also requires that the
  2 28 unit of United States history include the rights and
  2 29 responsibilities of American citizenship, which must
  2 30 adequately stress the contributions of all ethnic groups
  2 31 relating to the growth, development, and wars of the United
  2 32 States.
  2 33    The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  2 34 section 25B.3.  The bill requires that the state cost of any
  2 35 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
  3  1 district from state school foundation aid received by the
  3  2 school district under Code section 257.16.  The specification
  3  3 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state
  3  4 mandate funding-related requirements of Code section 25B.2.
  3  5 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate
  3  6 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any
  3  7 state mandates included in the bill.  
  3  8 LSB 5248XS 79
  3  9 kh/sh/8

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