Bills in Committee

Education (S)

Bills under consideration and review by committee.

Bill	Bill Title
SF 2354	A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a student advancement policy.
SF 2324	A bill for an act relating to a school board member's employment as a substitute teacher in a school district. (Formerly SF 2177.)
SF 2317	A bill for an act relating to a state of Iowa scholar program to award certificates of recognition to qualified graduating seniors. (Formerly SF 2132.)
SF 2311	A bill for an act directing the department of education to conduct a study of parental involvement programs and to develop a parental involvement liaison project and other mechanisms to increase personal responsibility and parental involvement in schools across the state.
SF 2209	A bill for an act relating to vocational-technical tuition grants administered by the college student aid commission.
SF 2190	A bill for an act directing the department of education to convene a healthy kids task force. (See SF 2251.)
SF 2177	A bill for an act relating to a school board member's interest in a school district contract for the performance of services and providing an exemption. (See SF 2324.)
SF 2176	A bill for an act relating to the administrative duties of the state board of regents and providing a premium tax exemption for regents' employee insurance policies. (See SF 2358.)
SF 2154	A bill for an act requiring school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to establish media centers supervised by qualified media services specialists, and providing for a waiver and a future effective date.
SF 2150	A bill for an act eliminating a waiver for early school starts.
SF 2132	A bill for an act relating to a state of Iowa scholar program to award certificates of recognition to qualified graduating seniors. (See SF 2317.)
SF 2131	A bill for an act relating to substitute teaching assignments for persons holding a license or certification to teach issued by another state.
SF 2108	A bill for an act relating to a requirement that public libraries which receive state funding adopt certain policies.
SF 2042	A bill for an act requiring the department of education and the area education agencies to facilitate meetings to discuss the implementation of graduation competency examinations.
SF 2025	A bill for an act providing for the inclusion of foreign exchange students in the actual enrollment of a school district.
SF 2001	A bill for an act allowing school districts to use biometric fingerprint identification systems for certain restricted purposes.
SF 306	A bill for an act providing for the establishment of a regional academy pilot program.
SF 297	A bill for an act providing for the establishment of an Iowa educator professional growth program, making an appropriation, and including effective and applicability date provisions.
SF 293	A bill for an act providing for increased flexibility in school district utilization of funding when authorized by the school budget review committee under specified circumstances.
SF 290	A bill for an act relating to school finance by increasing the foundation property tax, increasing the regular program and special education support services foundation base, distributing specified program funds on a per pupil basis through the school finance formula, making an appropriation, and providing an effective date and applicability provision.
SF 274	A bill for an act directing the department of education to perform a review of the educational standards for physical education.
SF 224	A bill for an act relating to childhood obesity and foods and beverages sold and served on public school campuses, providing for a task force, and providing an effective date.
SF 221	A bill for an act encouraging community investment in before and after school programs by allowing school districts to request additional allowable growth and providing for related matters.
SF 190	A bill for an act restricting the idling of school buses on school grounds.
SF 177	A bill for an act relating to education technology, including the creation of an Iowa learning technology commission and pilot program, establishment of a research triangle and clearinghouse, and allowing for the use of physical plant and equipment levy revenues for education technology.
SF 168	A bill for an act entering Iowa into the midwestern higher education compact. (See SF 176.)
SF 150	A bill for an act expanding prohibitions of unfair or discriminatory practices at educational institutions.
SF 135	A bill for an act relating to the imposition of the local option sales tax for school infrastructure purposes and including an effective date.
SF 115	A bill for an act relating to school corporations by changing the date of the election of directors of local school districts and merged areas, changing the terms of office for elective offices, changing the date of the organization meeting of a school board, requiring the oath of office for school corporation board members to be taken at the organization meeting, and including an effective date, applicability, and transition provision.
SF 92	A bill for an act providing for the elimination of specified school district budget guarantee provisions, and providing an effective date.
SF 84	A bill for an act requiring the department of education to study the sale of carbonated beverages in schools.
SF 59	A bill for an act relating to the licensure requirements for a practitioner who provides competent private instruction to a child of compulsory attendance age.
SF 53	A bill for an act establishing an educational technology grant program and making an appropriation.
SF 46	A bill for an act relating to a secondary school core curriculum, including requiring the state board of education to set a statewide core curriculum completion rate goal and requiring school districts and schools to report core curriculum completion percentages annually. (See SF 245.)
SF 45	A bill for an act relating to the educational placement of a student who is required to register as a sex offender.
SF 40	A bill for an act relating to establishing the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program and providing applicability and contingent applicability dates.
SF 27	A bill for an act relating to the development of an Iowa studies professional development plan and the establishment of an Iowa studies committee at the university of northern Iowa, and directing the department of education to evaluate and report on the plan. (See SF 2320.)
SF 26	A bill for an act requiring the state board of regents to conduct a study regarding the establishment of higher admissions standards for its institutions of higher learning.
SF 23	A bill for an act authorizing the use of revenue derived from the physical plant and equipment levy and the local option sales tax for school infrastructure purposes for maintenance costs for specified school buildings, and for maintenance and repair costs for school district transportation equipment, and including an applicability provision. (See SF 220.)
SF 7	A bill for an act limiting the types of courses secondary students may take under the postsecondary enrollment options Act.
SF 4	A bill for an act relating to utilization of the district management levy to pay the cost of employee health insurance benefits.
HF 2709	A bill for an act relating to the minimum hours of instructional school time in a school year for grades one through twelve for school districts, charter schools, and accredited nonpublic schools, and providing an effective date. (Formerly HSB 725)
HF 2656	A bill for an act relating to school reorganization and dissolution by allowing certain landowners in a reorganizing or dissolving school district to petition to join a contiguous school district. (Formerly HF 2048)
HF 2631	A bill for an act creating the Iowa proprietary tuition grant program, and adding a member to represent proprietary institutions to the college student aid commission. (Formerly HSB 600)
HF 2623	A bill for an act relating to the membership, authority, and duties of the board of educational examiners. (Formerly HSB 735)
HF 2621	A bill for an act requiring reports from the department of education and from school districts relating to student achievement, percentile rank, and grade equivalency levels. (Formerly HSB 539)
HF 2620	A bill for an act providing an exception to the age of admission to kindergarten. (Formerly HSB 537)
HF 2619	A bill for an act relating to high school graduation, dropout, and equivalency reporting requirements. (Formerly HSB 524)
HF 2445	A bill for an act authorizing community colleges and state universities to seek approval to establish charter magnet schools and increasing the number of charter schools that may be approved and providing an effective date. (Formerly HF 2109)
HF 2396	A bill for an act relating to the Iowa early intervention block grant program by requiring school districts to report certain reading assessment results to parents and extending the program's repeal date. (Formerly HSB 589)
HF 2284	A bill for an act relating to the core curriculum plan developed by a school district in cooperation with a student. (Formerly HSB 525)
HF 2239	A bill for an act requiring the board of directors of a school district to adopt a parent and guardian involvement policy. (Formerly HSB 523)
HF 740	A bill for an act relating to the duties and responsibilities of school districts, area education agencies, and the department of education by expanding school district audit requirements, requiring the department to submit an achievement gap report, changing deadlines and adding reporting requirements related to dropout and dropout prevention programs, changing testing requirements for the issuance of high school equivalency diplomas, eliminating certain requirements for school district payments and settlements, authorizing school site sale revenues to be used for physical plant and equipment levy fund expenditures, allowing school districts to establish nonprofit entities or organizations, eliminating Code provisions related to extended school programs and evening and part-time schools, providing for changes to open enrollment requirements, deadlines, and authorizations, repealing a school district lawful fence requirement, providing for the confidentiality of records regarding a child receiving competent private instruction, eliminating a requirement that school bus drivers submit a certificate of physical fitness annually, expanding the penalties for school bus drivers in violation of Code requirements, and revising requirements for prior authorization and a certificate of need for local option and services tax for school infrastructure fund use, and including a retroactive applicability provision.
HF 529	A bill for an act relating to the members of the board of educational examiners and the authority of the board regarding complaints. (Formerly HSB 121)