H-1037

   Amend House File 189 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 
   <Section 1.  Section 257.11B, subsection 1, paragraph b, subparagraph (1), Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  “Qualified educational expenses” includes tuition and fees at a nonpublic school, textbooks, fees or payments for educational therapies, including tutoring or cognitive skills training, curriculum fees, software, and materials for a course of study for a specific subject matter or grade level, tuition or fees for nonpublic online education programs, tuition for vocational and life skills education approved by the department of education, education materials and services for pupils with disabilities from an accredited provider, including the cost of paraprofessionals and assistants who are trained in accordance with state law, standardized test fees, and advanced placement examinations or examinations related to postsecondary education admission or credentialing, and fees associated with the cost of the pupil participating in an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition provided by a school district pursuant to section 280.13D.
   Sec. ___.  Section 257.11B, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  Education savings account payments shall be made available to parents and guardians in the manner authorized under subsection 5 for the payment of qualified educational expenses as provided in this section.  Parents and guardians shall first use education savings account payments for all qualified educational expenses that are fees associated with the costs of the pupil participating in an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition provided by a school district pursuant to section 280.13D. Parents and guardians shall first next use education savings account payments for all qualified educational expenses that are tuition and fees for which the parent or guardian is responsible for payment at the pupil’s nonpublic school prior to using the education savings account for other qualified educational expenses.>
   2.  Page 1, by striking lines 23 through 32 and inserting: 
   <c.  If the board of directors of a school district has established a fee for the cost of a student’s participation in an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition, the nonpublic school in which a student who is participating in a contest or competition at a public school pursuant to paragraph “a” or “b” is enrolled shall be responsible for the payment of such fee. If the student has an account under the education savings account program established under section 257.11B, and the nonpublic school accepts payment from the pupil’s parent or guardian using moneys from the pupil’s individual account in the education savings account fund, the nonpublic school shall use not more than five hundred dollars from the moneys received in the payment to pay the fee.>
   3.  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 4 and inserting <An Act relating to students enrolled in nonpublic schools, including by modifying provisions related to the eligibility of such students to compete in extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or competitions provided by public schools and provisions related to the education savings account program, and including effective date provisions.>
   4.  By renumbering as necessary.

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JACOBY of Johnson