Senate File 192 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  BOLKCOM


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to a change in the compulsory education
  2    attendance age and providing an effective date.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2493SS 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 seventeen 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 seventeen 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.  STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.  In accordance
  1 16 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
  1 17 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
  1 18 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
  1 19 received by the school district under section 257.16.  This
  1 20 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
  1 21 to meet all the state funding=related requirements of section
  1 22 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding shall be
  1 23 necessary for the full implementation of this Act by and
  1 24 enforcement of this Act against all affected school districts.
  1 25    Sec. 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect July 1,
  1 26 2008.
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill raises the compulsory school attendance age from
  1 29 16 to 17 years of age.  The bill includes a technical
  1 30 amendment to exempt children who meet conditions existing in
  1 31 Code section 299.2.
  1 32    The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  1 33 section 25B.3.  The bill requires that the state cost of any
  1 34 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
  1 35 district from state school foundation aid received by the
  2  1 school district under Code section 257.16.  The specification
  2  2 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state
  2  3 mandate funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2.
  2  4 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate
  2  5 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any
  2  6 state mandates included in the bill.
  2  7    The bill takes effect July 1, 2008.
  2  8 LSB 2493SS 82
  2  9 kh:nh/gg/14