House File 6HOUSE 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 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 4 AExcept 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 299.2, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2007, 1 12 is amended to read as follows: 1 13SectionSections 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 chapteror 1 20 a child over compulsory age who is receiving private 1 21 instructionsubmits 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