House File 2032 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY STRUYK, MAY, JACOBS, HORBACH, HEATON, DE BOEF, BOAL, UPMEYER, TYMESON, FORRISTALL, DRAKE, ALONS, and HUSER Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act providing exceptions to the age of admission to 2 kindergarten. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5057HH 82 5 kh/rj/5 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 282.3, subsection 2, unnumbered 1 2 paragraph 3, Code 2007, is amended to read as follows: 1 3NoA 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 beforethe fifteenth ofSeptember 15 1 6 of the current school year, except as provided in this 1 7 section. A school district shall, at the request of the 1 8 parent or guardian, enroll in kindergarten a child who is five 1 9 years of age after September 15 of the current school year if 1 10 the child was enrolled in kindergarten in another state. A 1 11 school district may enroll a child in kindergarten who is five 1 12 years of age after September 15 of the current school year and 1 13 who has demonstrated the possession of sufficient ability to 1 14 benefit from kindergarten work on the basis of tests or other 1 15 means of evaluation recommended or approved by the department 1 16 of education. 1 17 EXPLANATION 1 18 This bill allows exceptions to a provision that prohibits a 1 19 child who is five years of age on or after September 15 from 1 20 being admitted to kindergarten. 1 21 The bill requires a school district to enroll in 1 22 kindergarten a child who is five years of age after September 1 23 15 of the current school year if the child was enrolled in 1 24 kindergarten in another state and if the child's parent or 1 25 guardian requests that the child be enrolled. 1 26 The bill permits a school district to enroll a child in 1 27 kindergarten who is five years of age after September 15 if 1 28 the child demonstrates sufficient ability to benefit from 1 29 kindergarten work using evaluations recommended or approved by 1 30 the department of education. 1 31 LSB 5057HH 82 1 32 kh/rj/5