HOUSE FILE 174

BY  SCHULTE

A BILL FOR

An Act revising requirements for family support programs provided under the school ready children grant program and including effective and applicability date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 256I.9, subsection 3, paragraph b, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  Family support services and parent education programs promoted to parents of children from zero through age five. Family support services shall include but are not limited to home visitation. Of the funding from all sources that an area board designates for family support programs, at least sixty percent shall be committed to programs with a home visitation component.
   Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT AND RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment and applies retroactively to July 1, 2010.
EXPLANATION
   This bill eliminates a requirement in Code section 256I.9 for family support programs provided under the school ready children grant program implemented by early childhood Iowa areas. The requirement provides that of the funding from all sources that an area board designates for family support programs, at least 60 percent shall be committed to programs with a home visitation component.
   The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2010.