Senate Study Bill 1301 



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            ECONOMIC GROWTH BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON STEWART)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act to support efforts to strengthen after school programming
  2    using the arts and making an appropriation.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2542SC 82
  5 kh/es/88

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  1  1    Section 1.  DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS == AFTER SCHOOL
  1  2 ARTS == APPROPRIATION.  There is appropriated from the general
  1  3 fund of the state to the department of cultural affairs for
  1  4 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007, and ending June 30,
  1  5 2008, the following amount, or so much thereof as is
  1  6 necessary, to be used for the purpose designated:
  1  7    For efforts to strengthen after school programming using
  1  8 the arts:
  1  9 .................................................. $    100,000
  1 10    Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall be used
  1 11 by the department to employ on a part=time basis an arts
  1 12 education specialist, organize a professional development
  1 13 network to provide intensive professional development
  1 14 opportunities to after school providers and teaching artists
  1 15 throughout the state, initiate ongoing research on best
  1 16 practices, engage in partnering opportunities with other state
  1 17 agencies, and to provide grants to support development of
  1 18 arts=based after school programming models for students at any
  1 19 grade level or at various grade levels from prekindergarten
  1 20 through high school.
  1 21                           EXPLANATION
  1 22    This bill appropriates $100,000 from the state general fund
  1 23 for FY 2007=2008 to the department of cultural affairs for
  1 24 efforts to strengthen after school programming using the arts.
  1 25 The bill directs the department to use the funds to employ an
  1 26 arts education specialist, organize a professional development
  1 27 network to provide intensive professional development
  1 28 opportunities to after school providers and teaching artists
  1 29 throughout the state, initiate ongoing research on best
  1 30 practices, engage in partnering opportunities with other state
  1 31 agencies, and to provide grants to support development of
  1 32 arts=based after school programming models for students at any
  1 33 grade level or at various grade levels from prekindergarten
  1 34 through high school.
  1 35 LSB 2542SC 82
  2  1 kh:sc/es/88