Bills in Committee

Education (S)

Bills under consideration and review by committee.

Bill	Bill Title
SF 2261	A bill for an act providing education savings grants for pupils attending a public school or an accredited nonpublic school or receiving competent private instruction, establishing an education savings grant fund, providing for the establishment of education achievement standards, making appropriations, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions.
SF 2258	A bill for an act establishing an internet site to distribute information regarding internship opportunities in Iowa. (Formerly SSB 3166.)
SF 2241	A bill for an act relating to education and school district funding by abolishing the department of education and the state board of education, modifying the duties and authority of certain state and local governmental entities, establishing an education savings grant program and fund, making appropriations, modifying the school district funding formula, providing penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
SF 2235	A bill for an act relating to high school examinations on the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Iowa.
SF 2179	A bill for an act establishing a teacher loan forgiveness match program.
SF 2155	A bill for an act relating to the appropriate uses of returning dropout and dropout prevention program funding.
SF 2087	A bill for an act establishing the creating outstanding instructional leaders pilot program for school districts, making an appropriation, and including a repeal date. (See SF 2268.)
SF 2044	A bill for an act relating to the licensing of schools of cosmetology arts and sciences. (See SF 2220.)
SF 2036	A bill for an act relating to rules adopted by the state board of education for the provision and supervision of courses delivered by means of telecommunications.
SF 2035	A bill for an act relating to child abuse by prohibiting retaliation for reporting, providing for implementation of reporting policies at postsecondary institutions, requiring planning for training requirements, and providing for the distribution of information on child sexual abuse, and providing a remedy. (See SF 2225.)
SF 2023	A bill for an act eliminating the department of education's authority to approve certain requests to waive the school start date.
SF 467	A bill for an act relating to the duties and operations of the department of education, the school budget review committee, and local school boards and to student eligibility under the senior year plus program, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1108.)
SF 455	A bill for an act relating to the period of ineligibility for participation in interscholastic athletic contests and competitions by high school students and requesting a report. (Formerly SF 74.)
SF 423	A bill for an act relating to the demonstration of proficiency by students receiving competent private instruction for purposes of senior year plus program eligibility. (Formerly SSB 1163.)
SF 422	A bill for an act relating to the use of certain revenues resulting from the physical plant and equipment levies and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1164.)
SF 421	A bill for an act establishing a pilot program relating to state aid funding for special education support services, media services, educational services, area education agency professional development supplement, and area education agency teacher salary supplement, allowing certain school districts to select the method of providing services the funding supports, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 382.)
SF 382	A bill for an act establishing a pilot program relating to state aid funding for special education support services, media services, educational services, area education agency professional development supplement, and area education agency teacher salary supplement, allowing certain school districts to select the method of providing services the funding supports, and including applicability provisions. (See SF 421.)
SF 345	A bill for an act relating to misconduct by a school employee and providing related duties, responsibilities, or civil and criminal immunity for other persons, accredited public and private schools, the department of education, and the board of educational examiners. (See SF 454.)
SF 337	A bill for an act authorizing the establishment of a philanthropy account within a student activity fund. (See SF 419.)
SF 330	A bill for an act establishing an annual appropriation to the property tax equity and relief fund and including effective date and applicability provisions. (See SF 425.)
SF 310	A bill for an act relating to the planning, approval, supplementary weighting, and operation of regional academies and including effective date and applicability provisions. (See SF 420.)
SF 256	A bill for an act relating to school reorganization by establishing an office of county school superintendent in each county, requiring the reorganization of certain school districts and the approval of certain expenditures of supplemental school infrastructure revenues, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
SF 247	A bill for an act relating to the allowable uses for modified allowable growth for programs for returning dropouts and dropout prevention. (See SF 451.)
SF 222	A bill for an act relating to the establishment, funding, and bonding authority of public charter schools and making an appropriation.
SF 202	A bill for an act relating to education and employment training by establishing the pathways for academic career and employment program and fund and the gap tuition assistance program and fund. (See SF 328.)
SF 191	A bill for an act relating to funding requirements for whole grade sharing agreements.
SF 190	A bill for an act providing for a deaf and hard-of-hearing children's educational bill of rights. (See SF 445.)
SF 180	A bill for an act prohibiting school districts and area education agencies from making teacher payroll deductions for membership dues for employment organizations or labor unions and including applicability provisions.
SF 176	A bill for an act relating to state student assistance for students enrolled in certain postsecondary institutions.
SF 174	A bill for an act relating to certain reporting requirements required of school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and community colleges.
SF 173	A bill for an act providing for a special education alternative reading instruction pilot program and including a contingency clause and effective date provisions.
SF 172	A bill for an act authorizing a school district to adopt a mandatory uniform policy.
SF 171	A bill for an act suspending certain financial mandates and restrictions for school districts for certain school budget years and including effective date and applicability provisions.
SF 170	A bill for an act establishing a deregulated schools pilot program for certain public and nonpublic schools.
SF 160	A bill for an act relating to the establishment of an independent private instruction option for students of compulsory attendance age.
SF 159	A bill for an act providing a school tuition credit for certain pupils attending an accredited nonpublic school and including applicability provisions.
SF 153	A bill for an act concerning the protection of student athletes from concussions and other head injuries. (See SF 367.)
SF 151	A bill for an act increasing the property tax levy for community college operations and including applicability provisions.
SF 141	A bill for an act concerning the legislative members of the college student aid commission and including applicability date provisions.
SF 137	A bill for an act establishing a value=added assessment system to calculate annually the academic growth of students enrolled in school districts at grade levels three through eleven.
SF 136	A bill for an act relating to alternative practitioner preparation pilot programs to prepare individuals to teach elementary and secondary students.
SF 135	A bill for an act relating to the minimum hours of instructional time in a school day for school districts, charter schools, and accredited nonpublic schools and including effective date and applicability provisions.
SF 134	A bill for an act relating to the discontinuance of a teacher contract by the board of directors of a school district.
SF 133	A bill for an act authorizing school districts to pay certain teachers a mathematics or science teacher salary supplement.
SF 132	A bill for an act relating to testing requirements for applicants for teacher licensure or endorsement.
SF 86	A bill for an act relating to the establishment of school district policies to prevent and address incidents of dating violence, and providing effective date provisions.
SF 85	A bill for an act establishing the Iowa online advanced placement academy science, technology, engineering, and mathematics initiative and making an appropriation. (See SF 437.)
SF 74	A bill for an act extending the period of ineligibility for participation in varsity interscholastic athletic contests and competitions by high school students participating in open enrollment. (See SF 455.)
SF 70	A bill for an act relating to licensure by the board of educational examiners of persons who complete an administrator preparation program offered by a recognized non-Iowa institution. (See SF 483.)
SF 67	A bill for an act relating to the description of shared operational functions for which school districts receive supplementary weighting and including effective date and applicability provisions.
SF 66	A bill for an act relating to the use of statewide school infrastructure funding. (See SF 424.)
SF 65	A bill for an act requiring public libraries that receive state funding to adopt a policy restricting the content of video materials borrowed by children under seventeen years of age.
SF 63	A bill for an act establishing an alternative supplementary weighting plan for at=risk pupils and including applicability provisions.
SF 59	A bill for an act providing for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at regents universities for Iowa national guard members who are residents of Iowa.
SF 51	A bill for an act directing state aid funding for special education support services, media services, educational services, area education agency professional development supplement, and area education agency teacher salary supplement to the applicable school districts, allowing area education agencies and other organizations to bid to provide the services the funding supports, and including applicability provisions.
SF 37	A bill for an act relating to early school starts and including effective date and applicability provisions.
SF 36	A bill for an act relating to high school graduation requirements. (See SF 453.)
SF 22	A bill for an act relating to community college administrator contracts.
SF 10	A bill for an act authorizing a school district to adopt and implement a policy addressing sexual abuse of children and establishing a task force on the prevention of sexual abuse of children and including effective date provisions. (See SF 204.)
HF 2385	A bill for an act providing for the licensure of applicants with professional employment experience in a profession related to science, mathematics, engineering, or technology, as teachers for secondary level science, mathematics, engineering, or technology courses. (Formerly HF 2208)
HF 588	A bill for an act relating to the establishment of an independent private instruction option for students of compulsory attendance age. (Formerly HSB 147)
HF 585	A bill for an act relating to charter school and innovation zone school approval and revocation or nonrenewal requirements under the state's system of public education. (Formerly HF 124)
HF 584	A bill for an act concerning driver education instruction by a teaching parent. (Formerly HF 160)
HF 583	A bill for an act relating to independent accreditation of nonpublic schools. (Formerly HF 167)
HF 582	A bill for an act exempting junior reserve officer training corps program instructors from board of educational examiners licensing requirements. (Formerly HF 247)
HF 535	A bill for an act creating an Iowa preschool scholarship program for four-year-old children, repealing the statewide preschool program for four-year-old children, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 145)
HF 534	A bill for an act relating to school instructional hours and school instructional days and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 144)
HF 260	A bill for an act relating to the exercise, by school districts, of any broad and implied powers except as expressly prohibited or prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Iowa or by statute, and to the construction of statutes related to school district boards and school districts, and providing an exception. (Formerly HSB 47)
HF 212	A bill for an act relating to school district dress code policies and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 77)