House File 174 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 174 BY SCHULTE A BILL FOR An Act revising requirements for family support programs 1 provided under the school ready children grant program and 2 including effective and applicability date provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1791YH (2) 84 jp/nh

H.F. 174 Section 1. Section 256I.9, subsection 3, paragraph b, Code 1 2011, is amended to read as follows: 2 b. Family support services and parent education programs 3 promoted to parents of children from zero through age five. 4 Family support services shall include but are not limited to 5 home visitation. Of the funding from all sources that an area 6 board designates for family support programs, at least sixty 7 percent shall be committed to programs with a home visitation 8 component. 9 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT AND RETROACTIVE 10 APPLICABILITY. This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, 11 takes effect upon enactment and applies retroactively to July 12 1, 2010. 13 EXPLANATION 14 This bill eliminates a requirement in Code section 256I.9 15 for family support programs provided under the school ready 16 children grant program implemented by early childhood Iowa 17 areas. The requirement provides that of the funding from 18 all sources that an area board designates for family support 19 programs, at least 60 percent shall be committed to programs 20 with a home visitation component. 21 The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively 22 applicable to July 1, 2010. 23 -1- LSB 1791YH (2) 84 jp/nh 1/ 1