House File 255 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  SANDS


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to rules adopted by the state board of education
  2    to waive school fees for indigent families.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1830YH 82
  5 kh/es/88

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256.7, subsection 20, Code 2007, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    20.  Adopt rules that require the board of directors of a
  1  4 school district to waive school fees for indigent families,
  1  5 with the exception of fees covering instructional costs for a
  1  6 driver education course.
  1  7    Sec. 2.  Section 282.6, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2007,
  1  8 is amended to read as follows:
  1  9    Every school shall be free of tuition to all actual
  1 10 residents between the ages of five and twenty=one years and to
  1 11 resident veterans as defined in section 35.1, as many months
  1 12 after becoming twenty=one years of age as they have spent in
  1 13 the armed forces of the United States before they became
  1 14 twenty=one, provided, however, fees may be charged covering
  1 15 instructional costs for a summer school or drivers education
  1 16 program.  The board of education may, in a hardship case,
  1 17 exempt a student from payment of the above fees covering
  1 18 instructional costs for a summer school.  Every person,
  1 19 however, who shall attend any school after graduation from a
  1 20 four=year course in an approved high school or its equivalent
  1 21 shall be charged a sufficient tuition fee to cover the cost of
  1 22 the instruction received by the person.
  1 23                           EXPLANATION
  1 24    This bill eliminates the state board of education's
  1 25 authority to adopt rules to waive fees charged to indigent
  1 26 families for the instructional costs for a driver education
  1 27 course offered by a school district, as well as the state
  1 28 board's authority to exempt a student from paying driver
  1 29 education course fees in a hardship case.
  1 30 LSB 1830YH 82
  1 31 kh:nh/es/88