House File 530 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY COHOON Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act requiring school districts to provide school 2 superintendents and other administrators with training to 3 identify gifted and talented students. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 2337HH 82 6 ak/es/88 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 257.43, Code 2007, is amended by adding 1 2 the following new subsection: 1 3 NEW SUBSECTION. 7A. Training for school superintendents 1 4 and other school administrators to identify gifted and 1 5 talented children as defined in section 257.44. 1 6 Sec. 2. STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED. In accordance 1 7 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring 1 8 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall 1 9 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid 1 10 received by the school district under section 257.16. This 1 11 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed 1 12 to meet all the state funding=related requirements of section 1 13 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be 1 14 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and 1 15 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts. 1 16 EXPLANATION 1 17 This bill requires school districts to add training for 1 18 school superintendents and other school administrators to 1 19 identify gifted and talented students in the program plans 1 20 that school districts submit as part of the school improvement 1 21 plans required pursuant to Code section 256.7, subsection 21, 1 22 paragraph "a". 1 23 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code 1 24 section 25B.3. The bill requires that the state cost of any 1 25 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school 1 26 district from state school foundation aid received by the 1 27 school district under Code section 257.16. The specification 1 28 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state 1 29 mandate funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2. 1 30 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate 1 31 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any 1 32 state mandates included in the bill. 1 33 LSB 2337HH 82 1 34 ak:nh/es/88