Senate File 2085 - Introduced SENATE FILE 2085 BY CHELGREN A BILL FOR An Act requiring school districts and accredited nonpublic 1 schools to issue high school credit for satisfactory 2 completion of high school-level units of instruction. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5542XS (2) 87 kh/jh

S.F. 2085 Section 1. Section 256.7, subsection 26, paragraph a, 1 subparagraph (1), Code 2018, is amended to read as follows: 2 (1) The rules establishing high school graduation 3 requirements shall authorize a school district or accredited 4 nonpublic school to consider provide that any student, at any 5 grade level, who satisfactorily completes a high school-level 6 unit of instruction has satisfactorily completed a unit 7 of the high school graduation requirements for that area 8 of instruction , and shall authorize the school district or 9 accredited nonpublic school to of enrollment shall issue high 10 school credit for the unit to the student. 11 EXPLANATION 12 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 13 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 14 This bill provides that under the state board of education’s 15 rules establishing high school graduation requirements, any 16 student at any grade level who satisfactorily completes a high 17 school-level unit of instruction has satisfactorily completed a 18 unit of the high school graduation requirements for that area 19 of instruction, and the board’s rules shall require the school 20 district or accredited nonpublic school of enrollment to issue 21 high school credit to the student. 22 -1- LSB 5542XS (2) 87 kh/jh 1/ 1