H-1351

   Amend Senate File 475, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  By striking page 1, line 3, through page 6, line 34, and inserting: 
   Section 1.  FUTURE CONTINGENT REPEAL, CODE EDITOR NOTIFICATION, AND CODE EDITOR DIRECTIVE.
   1.  Section 256.7, subsection 32, paragraph “c”, is repealed on July 1, 2018, if the department of education’s virtual schools in the Iowa annual report issued during the 2018 legislative session does not document a ten percent improvement in both retention rates and achievement data, percent proficient based on the Iowa assessments, including alternate assessment scores in reading, math, and science for both the Iowa connections academy at CAM community school district and the Iowa virtual academy at Clayton ridge community school district, over the previous school year’s scores. The department of education shall notify the Iowa Code editor if the ten percent improvement level is not achieved.
   2.  If the department of education informs the Iowa Code editor that the ten percent improvement level was not achieved as required under subsection 1, the Iowa Code editor is directed to repeal Code section 256.7, subsection 32, paragraph “c” from the Code of Iowa and to make conforming changes, as appropriate, to the Code of Iowa to reflect the provisions of this division of this Act, including but not limited to striking the words “Except as provided in paragraph “c”,” from section 256.7, subsection 32, paragraph “b”.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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MASCHER of Johnson