H-8111

   Amend the amendment, H-8001, to Senate File 475, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 12, after line 24 by inserting: 
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SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS —— PROHIBITION

   Sec. ___.  Section 256.7, subsection 26, paragraph a, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   Adopt rules that establish a core curriculum and high school graduation requirements for all students in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools that include at a minimum satisfactory completion of four years of English and language arts, three years of mathematics, three years of science, and three years of social studies.  The state board shall not adopt, and the department shall not authorize or require, statewide core social studies standards for kindergarten through grade twelve. This prohibition shall not be construed to limit the state board’s or the department’s authority relating to the accreditation of school districts and nonpublic schools under section 256.11.
   Sec. ___.  Section 256.7, subsection 26, paragraph a, subparagraph (3), Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   (3)  The rules establishing a core curriculum shall address the core content standards in subsection 28 and the skills and knowledge students need to be successful in the twenty-first century. The core curriculum shall include social studies and twenty-first century learning skills which include, including but are not limited to civic literacy, health literacy, technology literacy, financial literacy, family life and consumer sciences, and employability skills; and shall address the curricular needs of students in kindergarten through grade twelve in those areas. The state board shall further define the twenty-first century learning skills components by rule.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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SALMON of Black Hawk

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FISHER of Tama

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HEARTSILL of Marion

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HAGER of Allamakee

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WHEELER of Sioux

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GASSMAN of Winnebago

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WATTS of Dallas

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SHEETS of Appanoose

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BAXTER of Hancock

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JACOBSEN of Pottawattamie

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HOLT of Crawford