Senate File 72 - Introduced





                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  BOETTGER


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the history requirements secondary school
  2    students must meet as a condition of graduation.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1687XS 83
  5 kh/nh/24

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 280.9A, subsection 1, Code 2009, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  The board of directors of each local public school
  1  4 district and the authorities in charge of each nonpublic
  1  5 school shall require that all students in grades nine through
  1  6 twelve successfully complete, as a condition of graduation,
  1  7 instruction in at least one unit of American history, one unit
  1  8 of Iowa history, and instruction in the governments of Iowa
  1  9 and the United States, including instruction in voting
  1 10 statutes and procedures, voter registration requirements, the
  1 11 use of paper ballots and voting machines in the election
  1 12 process, and the method of acquiring and casting an absentee
  1 13 ballot.
  1 14    Sec. 2.  STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.  In accordance
  1 15 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
  1 16 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
  1 17 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
  1 18 received by the school district under section 257.16.  This
  1 19 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
  1 20 to meet all of the state funding=related requirements of
  1 21 section 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding
  1 22 shall be necessary for the full implementation of this Act by
  1 23 and enforcement of this Act against all affected school
  1 24 districts.
  1 25                           EXPLANATION
  1 26    This bill specifies that a secondary school student must
  1 27 successfully complete one unit in American history as a
  1 28 condition of graduation and adds a requirement that each
  1 29 secondary student complete at least one unit of Iowa history
  1 30 as a condition of graduation.  Currently, the statutory
  1 31 provision requires only that secondary students complete
  1 32 instruction in American history.
  1 33    The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  1 34 section 25B.3.  The bill requires that the state cost of any
  1 35 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
  2  1 district from state school foundation aid received by the
  2  2 school district under Code section 257.16.  The specification
  2  3 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state
  2  4 mandate funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2.
  2  5 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate
  2  6 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any
  2  7 state mandates included in the bill.
  2  8 LSB 1687XS 83
  2  9 kh/nh/24.1