House Amendment 1731
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 478, as amended, passed, and
1 2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
1 3 #1. Page 31, by inserting after line 30 the
1 4 following:
1 5 <Sec. . IOWA CAREER GUIDANCE TASK FORCE.
1 6 1. An Iowa career guidance task force is created
1 7 as a quasi=public instrumentality. The task force
1 8 shall be located within the department of economic
1 9 development for administrative purposes only. The
1 10 task force shall examine the career guidance system
1 11 currently in place in the state and make
1 12 recommendations intended to do all of the following:
1 13 a. Improve transition of students from secondary
1 14 to postsecondary institutions.
1 15 b. Decrease dropout rates from secondary and
1 16 postsecondary institutions.
1 17 c. Determine the essential components of a
1 18 personalized career plan for students.
1 19 d. Increase high school attendance rates.
1 20 e. Encourage teachers to teach career awareness as
1 21 it relates to a teacher's content area.
1 22 f. Encourage students to explore occupations
1 23 within the state.
1 24 g. Encourage organizations engaged in workforce
1 25 development within the state, including trade
1 26 associations representing business, industry, and
1 27 organized labor, to participate in a comprehensive
1 28 career guidance system.
1 29 h. Determine the role each sector should play in
1 30 the management of career information systems and
1 31 school=to=work programs.
1 32 2. The task force membership shall consist of all
1 33 of the following:
1 34 a. The director of the department of economic
1 35 development or the director's designee.
1 36 b. The director of the department of workforce
1 37 development or the director's designee.
1 38 c. The labor commissioner or the labor
1 39 commissioner's designee.
1 40 d. A representative of an organized labor group on
1 41 behalf of building trades appointed by the governor.
1 42 e. A representative of a business and industry
1 43 trade group appointed by the governor.
1 44 f. A representative of the Iowa state education
1 45 association selected by the association.
1 46 g. A representative of the department of education
1 47 selected by the director of the department.
1 48 h. A representative of the state board of regents
1 49 selected by the chairperson of the board.
1 50 i. A representative of the college student aid
2 1 commission selected by the commission.
2 2 j. A representative of the Iowa association of
2 3 community college trustees selected by the
2 4 association.
2 5 k. A representative of the Iowa association of
2 6 independent colleges selected by the association.
2 7 3. The following members of the general assembly
2 8 shall serve as nonvoting, ex officio members:
2 9 a. The chairpersons and ranking members of the
2 10 senate and house standing committees on education.
2 11 b. The chairpersons and ranking members of the
2 12 senate and house standing committees on economic
2 13 growth.
2 14 c. The chairpersons and ranking members of the
2 15 senate and house standing committees on commerce.
2 16 d. The chairpersons and ranking members of the
2 17 senate standing committee on labor and business
2 18 relations and the house standing committee on labor.
2 19 4. The director of the department of economic
2 20 development and the director of the department of
2 21 workforce development shall serve as co=chairpersons
2 22 of the task force.
2 23 5. Moneys may be appropriated by the general
2 24 assembly for purposes of the task force. The task
2 25 force may accept private moneys for purposes of
2 26 conducting the examination required in subsection 1.
2 27 6. The department of economic development shall
2 28 provide staffing resources in support of the task
2 29 force.
2 30 7. The task force shall submit its findings and
2 31 recommendations by December 11, 2009, in a report
2 32 submitted to the governor, the general assembly, and
2 33 entities represented on the task force.>
2 34 #2. By renumbering as necessary.
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2 38 WENDT of Woodbury
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2 42 HUNTER of Polk
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2 46 WATTS of Dallas
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2 50 DOLECHECK of Ringgold
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3 4 MAY of Dickinson
3 5 SF 478.211 83
3 6 tm/sc/24624
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