House File 6 



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  HEDDENS and DANDEKAR


    Passed House,  Date              Passed Senate, Date              
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the compulsory school attendance age and
  2    providing an effective date.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1326HH 82
  5 kh/gg/14

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  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  4    A Except as provided in section 299.2, a child who has
  1  5 reached the age of six and is under sixteen eighteen 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 of sixteen eighteen 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 299.2, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2007,
  1 12 is amended to read as follows:
  1 13    Section Sections 299.1 and 299.1A shall not apply to any
  1 14 child:
  1 15    Sec. 3.  Section 299A.8, Code 2007, is amended to read as
  1 16 follows:
  1 17    299A.8  DUAL ENROLLMENT.
  1 18    If a parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a child who is
  1 19 receiving competent private instruction under this chapter or
  1 20 a child over compulsory age who is receiving private
  1 21 instruction submits a request, the child shall also be
  1 22 registered in a public school for dual enrollment purposes.
  1 23 If the child is enrolled in a public school district for dual
  1 24 enrollment purposes, the child shall be permitted to
  1 25 participate in any academic activities in the district and
  1 26 shall also be permitted to participate on the same basis as
  1 27 public school children in any extracurricular activities
  1 28 available to children in the child's grade or group, and the
  1 29 parent, guardian, or legal custodian shall not be required to
  1 30 pay the costs of any annual evaluation under this chapter.  If
  1 31 the child is enrolled for dual enrollment purposes, the child
  1 32 shall be included in the public school's basic enrollment
  1 33 under section 257.6.  A pupil who is participating only in
  1 34 extracurricular activities shall be counted under section
  1 35 257.6, subsection 1, paragraph "f".  A pupil enrolled in
  2  1 grades nine through twelve under this section shall be counted
  2  2 in the same manner as a shared=time pupil under section 257.6,
  2  3 subsection 1, paragraph "c".
  2  4    Sec. 4.  STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.  In accordance
  2  5 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
  2  6 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
  2  7 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
  2  8 received by the school district under section 257.16.  This
  2  9 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
  2 10 to meet all the state funding=related requirements of section
  2 11 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be
  2 12 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and
  2 13 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts.
  2 14    Sec. 5.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect July 1,
  2 15 2008.
  2 16                           EXPLANATION
  2 17    This bill raises the compulsory school attendance age from
  2 18 16 to 18 years of age.  The bill includes technical amendments
  2 19 to eliminate a reference to the compulsory attendance age for
  2 20 purposes of dual enrollment and to exempt children who meet
  2 21 conditions existing in Code section 299.2.
  2 22    The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  2 23 section 25B.3.  The bill requires that the state cost of any
  2 24 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
  2 25 district from state school foundation aid received by the
  2 26 school district under Code section 257.16.  The specification
  2 27 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state
  2 28 mandate funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2.
  2 29 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate
  2 30 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any
  2 31 state mandates included in the bill.
  2 32    The bill takes effect July 1, 2008.
  2 33 LSB 1326HH 82
  2 34 kh:nh/gg/14