House File 2039 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY BERRY Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act raising the compulsory education attendance age, providing 2 for related matters, and providing an effective date. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5683HH 82 5 kh/nh/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 299.1A, Code 2007, is amended to read 1 2 as follows: 1 3 299.1A COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE AGE. 1 4AExcept as provided in section 299.2, a child who has 1 5 reached the age of six and is undersixteeneighteen years of 1 6 age by September 15 is of compulsory attendance age. However, 1 7 if a child enrolled in a school district or accredited 1 8 nonpublic school reaches the age ofsixteeneighteen on or 1 9 after September 15, the child remains of compulsory age until 1 10 the end of the regular school calendar. 1 11 Sec. 2. Section 299A.8, Code Supplement 2007, is amended 1 12 to read as follows: 1 13 299A.8 DUAL ENROLLMENT. 1 14 If a parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a child who is 1 15 receiving competent private instruction under this chapteror 1 16 a child over compulsory age who is receiving private 1 17 instructionsubmits a request, the child shall also be 1 18 registered in a public school for dual enrollment purposes. 1 19 If the child is enrolled in a public school district for dual 1 20 enrollment purposes, the child shall be permitted to 1 21 participate in any academic activities in the district and 1 22 shall also be permitted to participate on the same basis as 1 23 public school children in any extracurricular activities 1 24 available to children in the child's grade or group, and the 1 25 parent, guardian, or legal custodian shall not be required to 1 26 pay the costs of any annual evaluation under this chapter. If 1 27 the child is enrolled for dual enrollment purposes, the child 1 28 shall be included in the public school's basic enrollment 1 29 under section 257.6. A pupil who is participating only in 1 30 extracurricular activities shall be counted under section 1 31 257.6, subsection 1, paragraph "a", subparagraph (6). A pupil 1 32 enrolled in grades nine through twelve under this section 1 33 shall be counted in the same manner as a shared=time pupil 1 34 under section 257.6, subsection 1, paragraph "a", subparagraph 1 35 (3). 2 1 Sec. 3. STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED. In accordance 2 2 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring 2 3 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall 2 4 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid 2 5 received by the school district under section 257.16. This 2 6 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed 2 7 to meet all the state funding=related requirements of section 2 8 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be 2 9 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and 2 10 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts. 2 11 Sec. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect July 1, 2 12 2009. 2 13 EXPLANATION 2 14 This bill raises the compulsory school attendance age from 2 15 16 to 18 years of age. The bill includes technical amendments 2 16 to eliminate a reference to the compulsory attendance age for 2 17 purposes of dual enrollment. 2 18 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code 2 19 section 25B.3. The bill requires that the state cost of any 2 20 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school 2 21 district from state school foundation aid received by the 2 22 school district under Code section 257.16. The specification 2 23 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state 2 24 mandate funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2. 2 25 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate 2 26 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any 2 27 state mandates included in the bill. 2 28 The bill takes effect July 1, 2009. 2 29 LSB 5683HH 82 2 30 kh/nh/14