House Study Bill 537



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            EDUCATION BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON TYMESON)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing an exception to the age of admission to
  2    kindergarten.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 5018HC 81
  5 kh/je/5

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 282.3, subsection 2, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 3, Code 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    No A child shall not be admitted to school work for the
  1  4 year immediately preceding the first grade unless the child is
  1  5 five years of age on or before the fifteenth of September 15
  1  6 of the current school year.  However, a child who is five
  1  7 years of age after September 15 of the current school year and
  1  8 who has demonstrated the possession of sufficient ability to
  1  9 benefit from kindergarten work on the basis of tests or other
  1 10 means of evaluation recommended or approved by the department
  1 11 of education may be admitted to kindergarten if the department
  1 12 approves the admission prior to August 1.
  1 13                           EXPLANATION
  1 14    This bill allows a child who is five years of age on or
  1 15 after September 15 to be admitted to kindergarten if the child
  1 16 has demonstrated the possession of sufficient ability to
  1 17 benefit from kindergarten work on the basis of evaluations
  1 18 recommended or approved by the department of education and if
  1 19 the department approves the admission prior to August 1.
  1 20 Currently, no child shall be admitted to kindergarten unless
  1 21 the child reaches the age of five on or before September 15.
  1 22 LSB 5018HC 81
  1 23 kh:rj/je/5.1