Senate File 2307 - Enrolled

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  1  1                                             SENATE FILE 2307
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  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 ESTABLISHING COMMITTEES TO FORMULATE PLANS FOR A STATE
  1  5    RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PREKINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE
  1  6    TWELVE SCHOOL AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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  1  8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1 10    Section 1.  STATE OF IOWA RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT,
  1 11 DEMONSTRATION, AND DISSEMINATION SCHOOL == COMMITTEES
  1 12 ESTABLISHED.
  1 13    1.  a.  The director of the department of education and the
  1 14 president of the university of northern Iowa shall jointly
  1 15 establish a finance and funding committee and an
  1 16 implementation committee to develop detailed plans for
  1 17 expansion of the Price laboratory school at the university of
  1 18 northern Iowa as the state of Iowa research, development,
  1 19 demonstration, and dissemination school.  The committees shall
  1 20 file a joint report with the general assembly, the governor,
  1 21 the board of regents, and the state board of education by
  1 22 January 15, 2009.  The committees shall collaborate to ensure
  1 23 that their recommendations in the joint report are compatible.
  1 24    b.  The committees shall use the findings and
  1 25 recommendations of the research and development
  1 26 prekindergarten through grade twelve school feasibility study
  1 27 committee created in 2007 Iowa Acts, chapter 215, section 128,
  1 28 as the basis of each committee's plan.
  1 29    2.  Members of the finance and funding committee shall
  1 30 include individuals from the university of northern Iowa, the
  1 31 department of education, and educators with expertise in
  1 32 school finance.  The committee shall develop a plan for
  1 33 sustained operational and capital funding both through the
  1 34 identification of new funding sources and through the
  1 35 restructuring of existing funding sources for the school.  The
  2  1 committee shall evaluate the condition of the current Price
  2  2 laboratory school facility and determine whether renovation,
  2  3 including new construction, is recommended, and, in
  2  4 particular, renovation or new construction that would result
  2  5 in the Price laboratory school serving as a demonstration site
  2  6 in energy efficiency and energy efficient design.
  2  7    3.  Members of the implementation committee shall include
  2  8 Price laboratory school faculty, university of northern Iowa
  2  9 faculty, and department of education staff.  The committee
  2 10 shall develop a detailed transition plan for expanding the
  2 11 Price laboratory school as a state of Iowa research,
  2 12 development, demonstration, and dissemination school and shall
  2 13 develop a detailed governance structure that outlines the
  2 14 specific roles and responsibilities of the university of
  2 15 northern Iowa, the department of education, and the other
  2 16 individuals, boards, committees, and groups involved with the
  2 17 school.  The committee shall focus on making recommendations
  2 18 regarding governance structure that result in creating the
  2 19 type of environment that must exist for a research,
  2 20 development, demonstration, and dissemination school to be
  2 21 effective, including the methods by which research will be
  2 22 translated into practice in all accredited public and
  2 23 nonpublic prekindergarten through grade twelve schools.
  2 24    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  2 25 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
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  2 29                               JOHN P. KIBBIE
  2 30                               President of the Senate
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  2 33                                                             
  2 34                               PATRICK J. MURPHY
  2 35                               Speaker of the House
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  3  2    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
  3  3 is known as Senate File 2307, Eighty=second General Assembly.
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  3  6                                                             
  3  7                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
  3  8                               Secretary of the Senate
  3  9 Approved                , 2008
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  3 13 CHESTER J. CULVER
  3 14 Governor