House Study Bill 589



                                       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 relating to the Iowa early intervention block grant
  2    program by requiring school districts to report certain
  3    reading assessment results to parents and extending the
  4    program's repeal date.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  6 TLSB 5747YC 81
  7 kh/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256D.1, subsection 1, paragraph b,
  1  2 subparagraph (1), Code 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    (1)  A school district shall at a minimum biannually inform
  1  4 parents of their individual child's performance on the
  1  5 diagnostic assessments in kindergarten through grade three.
  1  6 If intervention is appropriate, the school district shall
  1  7 inform the parents of the actions the school district intends
  1  8 to take to improve the child's reading skills and provide the
  1  9 parents with strategies to enable the parents to improve their
  1 10 child's skills.  If the diagnostic assessments administered in
  1 11 accordance with this subsection indicate that a child is
  1 12 reading below grade level, the school district shall submit a
  1 13 report of the assessment results to the parent, which the
  1 14 parent shall sign and return to the school district.  The
  1 15 board of directors of each school district shall adopt a
  1 16 policy indicating the methods the school district will use to
  1 17 inform parents of their individual child's performance.
  1 18    Sec. 2.  Section 256D.9, Code Supplement 2005, is amended
  1 19 to read as follows:
  1 20    256D.9  FUTURE REPEAL.
  1 21    This chapter is repealed effective July 1, 2006 2007.
  1 22                           EXPLANATION
  1 23    This bill extends the repeal of the Iowa early intervention
  1 24 block grant program to July 1, 2007, and amends the program's
  1 25 provisions to require a school district to submit a report to
  1 26 a parent when the parent's child is reading below grade level.
  1 27 The parent must sign and return the report to the school
  1 28 district.
  1 29 LSB 5747YC 81
  1 30 kh:nh/gg/14.1