Bill Text: IA HF462 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act providing for a waiver of eligibility requirements to receive a high school equivalency diploma. (See Cmte. Bill HF 559)

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-05 - Passed subcommittee. [HF462 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF462-Introduced.html

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House File 462 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  WESSEL=KROESCHELL and
                                     JORGENSEN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for a waiver of eligibility requirements to
  2    receive a high school equivalency diploma.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 259A.2, Code 2015, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    259A.2  Age == waiver.
  1  4    1.  Every applicant must have attained the age of eighteen
  1  5 years, be a nonhigh school graduate, and not currently enrolled
  1  6 in a secondary school. However, an applicant is not eligible
  1  7 for the diploma until after the class in which the applicant
  1  8 was enrolled has graduated.  An applicant may request a waiver
  1  9 of the requirements of this subsection from the department of
  1 10 education. The department shall grant such a waiver if the
  1 11 department determines that such a waiver would be in the best
  1 12 interests of the applicant.
  1 13    2.  Application shall be made to a testing center approved
  1 14 by the department of education, accompanied by an application
  1 15 fee in an amount prescribed by the department. The test scores
  1 16 shall be forwarded by the scorer of the test to the department.
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 19 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 20    This bill permits an applicant for a high school equivalency
  1 21 diploma to request a waiver from the department of education of
  1 22 the eligibility requirements for a diploma. The bill requires
  1 23 the department to grant such a waiver if the department
  1 24 determines that such a waiver would be in the best interests
  1 25 of the applicant.
  1 26    To be eligible for a high school equivalency diploma under
  1 27 current law, an applicant must have attained the age of 18
  1 28 years, not be a high school graduate, and not be currently
  1 29 enrolled in a secondary school, and an applicant is not
  1 30 eligible for the diploma until after the class in which the
  1 31 applicant was enrolled has graduated.
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