Bill Text: IA HF2073 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the authorized expenditure of funds for school programs serving at-risk students, alternative schools, returning dropouts, and potential dropouts and including applicability provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-31 - Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. [HF2073 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF2073-Introduced.html

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House File 2073 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  FRY

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the authorized expenditure of funds for
  2    school programs serving at=risk students, alternative
  3    schools, returning dropouts, and potential dropouts and
  4    including applicability provisions.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 257.41, subsection 2, paragraphs a and b,
  1  2 Code 2018, are amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  Salary and benefits for instructional staff,
  1  4 instructional support staff, guidance counselors, psychologists
  1  5 licensed under chapter 154B, licensed independent social
  1  6 workers under chapter 154C, licensed mental health counselors
  1  7 under chapter 154D, and school=based youth services staff who
  1  8 are working with students who are participating in at=risk
  1  9 or dropout prevention programs, alternative programs, and
  1 10 alternative schools, in a traditional or alternative setting,
  1 11 if the staff such person's or counselor's time is dedicated to
  1 12 working with such students in order to provide services beyond
  1 13 those which are provided by the school district to students
  1 14 who are not participating in such programs or alternative
  1 15 schools. However, if the staff such person or counselor works
  1 16 part=time with students who are participating in a program
  1 17 or alternative school and the staff person or counselor has
  1 18 another unrelated staff assignment, only the portion of the
  1 19 staff person's or counselor's time that is related to the
  1 20 program or alternative school may be charged to the program
  1 21 or school. For each such staff person or counselor who works
  1 22 part time with students who are participating in a program
  1 23 or alternative school, the school district shall have the
  1 24 authority to designate the portion of the staff person's or
  1 25 counselor's time and the corresponding amount of salary and
  1 26 benefits that is related to the program or alternative school
  1 27 and shall include such designation as part of the program plan
  1 28 under section 257.38, if applicable. For purposes of this
  1 29 paragraph, if an alternative setting is necessary to provide
  1 30 for a program which is offered at a location off school grounds
  1 31 and which is intended to serve student needs by improving
  1 32 relationships and connections to school, decreasing truancy and
  1 33 tardiness, providing opportunities for course credit recovery,
  1 34 or helping students identified as at risk to accelerate through
  1 35 multiple grade levels of achievement within a shortened time
  2  1 frame, the tuition costs for a student identified as at risk
  2  2 shall be considered an appropriate use of the program funding
  2  3 under this section.
  2  4    b.  Professional development for all teachers, counselors,
  2  5 psychologists, social workers, and staff identified in
  2  6 paragraph "a" who are working with at=risk students under a
  2  7 program or an alternative school setting.
  2  8    Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to school budget
  2  9 years beginning on or after July 1, 2019.
  2 10                           EXPLANATION
  2 11 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  2 12 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2 13    Under current Code section 257.41, appropriate uses of the
  2 14 funding for an approved program for at=risk students, secondary
  2 15 students who attend alternative programs and schools, and
  2 16 returning dropouts and dropout prevention include the salary,
  2 17 benefits, and professional development for instructional
  2 18 staff, instructional support staff, guidance counselors,
  2 19 and school=based youth services staff who are working with
  2 20 students who are participating in such programs.  This bill
  2 21 adds the salary, benefits, and professional development of
  2 22 licensed psychologists, licensed independent social workers,
  2 23 and licensed mental health counselors to the category of
  2 24 permissible expenditures for such funds.
  2 25    The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or after
  2 26 July 1, 2019.
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