House File 2276 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  CHAMBERS


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to a school district's authority regarding
  2    attendance for graduating seniors.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 6035YH 81
  5 kh/je/5

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 279.10, subsections 1 and 2, Code 2005,
  1  2 are amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  The school year shall begin on the first day of July
  1  4 and each regularly established elementary and secondary school
  1  5 shall begin no sooner than a day during the calendar week in
  1  6 which the first day of September falls but no later than the
  1  7 first Monday in December.  However, if the first day of
  1  8 September falls on a Sunday, school may begin on a day during
  1  9 the calendar week which immediately precedes the first day of
  1 10 September.  School shall continue for at least one hundred
  1 11 eighty days, except as provided in subsection 3, and may be
  1 12 maintained during the entire calendar year.  However, if the
  1 13 board of directors of a district extends the school calendar
  1 14 because inclement weather caused the district to temporarily
  1 15 close school during the regular school calendar, the A school
  1 16 district may excuse shall require a graduating senior who has
  1 17 met district or school to meet the same requirements for
  1 18 graduation from attendance during the extended school calendar
  1 19 as those required of any other class of students enrolled at
  1 20 the secondary level in the school district.  A school
  1 21 corporation may begin employment of personnel for in=service
  1 22 training and development purposes before the date to begin
  1 23 elementary and secondary school.
  1 24    2.  The board of directors shall hold a public hearing on
  1 25 any proposal request prior to submitting it to the department
  1 26 of education for approval.
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill eliminates a provision that authorized a school
  1 29 district to excuse a graduating senior from attendance on
  1 30 instructional days which the school district added to the
  1 31 school calendar to make up for school calendar days lost due
  1 32 to inclement weather.  The bill requires that graduating
  1 33 seniors meet the same attendance requirements as those
  1 34 required of any other class of students enrolled at the
  1 35 secondary level in the school district.
  2  1 LSB 6035YH 81
  2  2 kh:nh/je/5.1