House Amendment 1772


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend Senate File 478, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 59, by inserting after line 25 the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Sec.    .  COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AGE ==
     1  6 WORKING GROUP.
     1  7    1.  Of the amount appropriated from the human
     1  8 services reinvestment fund created in 2009 Iowa Acts,
     1  9 House File 820, if enacted, to the legislative
     1 10 services agency for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
     1 11 2009, and ending June 30, 2010, $115,000 is
     1 12 transferred to the department of education to be used
     1 13 for costs associated with the working group convened
     1 14 pursuant to subsection 2.
     1 15    2.  The department of education shall convene a
     1 16 working group comprised of the director of the
     1 17 department of education, or the director's designee,
     1 18 and other education stakeholders appointed by the
     1 19 department to review supports for students affected by
     1 20 an increase in the compulsory attendance age from
     1 21 sixteen to eighteen years of age.  The working group
     1 22 shall consider, at a minimum, the necessity of
     1 23 expansion of support programs and services for such
     1 24 students, online at=risk academy courses, career
     1 25 academies, and current at=risk allowable growth
     1 26 provisions, and full funding of the instructional
     1 27 support levy.  The working group shall submit its
     1 28 findings and recommendations, including any proposed
     1 29 changes in policy or statute, to the state board of
     1 30 education and the general assembly by January 15,
     1 31 2010.>
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     1 35 FORD of Polk
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     1 39 WINCKLER of Scott
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     1 43 ABDUL-SAMAD of Polk
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     1 47 BURT of Black Hawk
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     2  1 SMITH of Marshall
     2  2 SF 478.756 83
     2  3 jp/sc/22955

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