House File 156 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 156 BY STECKMAN , WOOD , MASCHER , COHOON , RUFF , HANSON , WINCKLER , GAINES , ABDUL-SAMAD , ANDERSON , T. TAYLOR , OURTH , M. SMITH , GASKILL , R. OLSON , BERRY , KRESSIG , LYKAM , PRICHARD , KELLEY , OLDSON , FORBES , MUHLBAUER , WOLFE , KAJTAZOVIC , ISENHART , HALL , and DUNKEL A BILL FOR An Act relating to state funding for intensive instructional 1 services and supports and to the retention in grade three of 2 students who are deficient in reading and who fail to enroll 3 in an intensive summer reading program. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1052YH (7) 85 kh/rj

H.F. 156 Section 1. Section 279.68, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code 1 2013, is amended to read as follows: 2 c. Beginning May 1, 2017, unless the school district is 3 granted a waiver pursuant to subsection 2 , paragraph “e” , 4 if the student’s reading deficiency is not remedied by the 5 end of grade three, as demonstrated by scoring on a locally 6 determined or statewide assessment as provided in section 7 256.7, subsection 31 , the school district shall notify the 8 student’s parent or guardian that the parent or guardian may 9 enroll the student in an intensive summer reading program 10 offered in accordance with subsection 2 , paragraph “e” . If the 11 general assembly appropriates funds as provided in subsection 12 2, and the parent or guardian does not enroll the student 13 in the intensive summer reading program and the student is 14 ineligible for the good cause exemption under subsection 5 , the 15 student shall be retained in grade three pursuant to subsection 16 3 . If the student is exempt from participating in an intensive 17 summer reading program for good cause, pursuant to subsection 18 5 , or completes the intensive summer reading program but is 19 not reading proficient upon completion of the program, the 20 student may be promoted to grade four, but the school district 21 shall continue to provide the student with intensive reading 22 instruction until the student is proficient in reading as 23 demonstrated by scoring on locally determined or statewide 24 assessments. 25 Sec. 2. Section 279.68, subsection 2, unnumbered paragraph 26 1, Code 2013, is amended to read as follows: 27 If funds are specifically appropriated by the general 28 assembly for purposes of implementing all of this subsection , a 29 school district shall do all of the following: 30 EXPLANATION 31 This bill specifically makes conditional a requirement that 32 school districts retain in grade three a student whose reading 33 deficiency is not remedied by the end of grade three and whose 34 parent or guardian does not enroll the student in the school 35 -1- LSB 1052YH (7) 85 kh/rj 1/ 2

H.F. 156 district’s intensive summer reading program. The retention 1 requirement is conditioned on the specific appropriation of 2 funds by the general assembly to implement a current Code 3 provision that requires school districts to provide a full 4 range of intensive instructional services and supports to 5 remedy reading deficiencies of students in kindergarten through 6 grade three. 7 -2- LSB 1052YH (7) 85 kh/rj 2/ 2