House File 2620 - Reprinted



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 537)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing exceptions to the age of admission to
  2    kindergarten.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 HF 2620
  5 kh/es/25

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 282.3, subsection 2, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 3, Code 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    No A child shall not be admitted to school work for the
  1  4 year immediately preceding the first grade unless the child is
  1  5 five years of age on or before the fifteenth of September 15
  1  6 of the current school year, except as provided in this
  1  7 section.  A school district shall, at the request of the
  1  8 parent or guardian, enroll in kindergarten a child who is five
  1  9 years of age after September 15 of the current school year if
  1 10 the child was enrolled in kindergarten in another state.  A
  1 11 school district may enroll a child in kindergarten who is five
  1 12 years of age after September 15 of the current school year and
  1 13 who has demonstrated the possession of sufficient ability to
  1 14 benefit from kindergarten work on the basis of tests or other
  1 15 means of evaluation recommended or approved by the department
  1 16 of education.
  1 17 HF 2620
  1 18 kh:rj/es/25