Senate File 2318 - Enrolled Senate File 2318 AN ACT RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT FOR SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF HIGH SCHOOL-LEVEL UNITS OF INSTRUCTION. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. Section 256.7, subsection 26, paragraph a, subparagraph (1), Code 2018, is amended to read as follows: (1) The rules establishing high school graduation requirements shall authorize a school district or accredited nonpublic school to consider provide that any student, at any grade level, who satisfactorily completes a high school-level unit of instruction at a school accredited under section 256.11 has satisfactorily completed a unit of the high school graduation requirements for that area of instruction , and shall authorize the school district or accredited nonpublic school to of enrollment shall issue high school credit for the unit to the student unless the student is unable to demonstrate proficiency or the school district or accredited nonpublic school determines that the course unit completed by the student does not meet the school district’s or accredited nonpublic school’s standards, as appropriate . If a student is denied credit under this subparagraph, the school district or accredited nonpublic school denying credit shall provide to

Senate File 2318, p. 2 the student’s parent or guardian in writing the reason for the denial. ______________________________ CHARLES SCHNEIDER President of the Senate ______________________________ LINDA UPMEYER Speaker of the House I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and is known as Senate File 2318, Eighty-seventh General Assembly. ______________________________ W. CHARLES SMITHSON Secretary of the Senate Approved _______________, 2018 ______________________________ KIM REYNOLDS Governor