Bill Text: IA HF488 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the programs of the Iowa commission on volunteer service by establishing an Iowa reading corps and specifying uses of funds. Effective 7-1-15.
Sponsorship: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-04-14 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 842. [HF488 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-HF488-Enrolled.html
House File 488 - Enrolled
HOUSE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 156)
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A BILL FOR
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House File 488
AN ACT
RELATING TO THE PROGRAMS OF THE IOWA COMMISSION ON VOLUNTEER
SERVICE BY ESTABLISHING AN IOWA READING CORPS AND SPECIFYING
USES OF FUNDS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 15H.5, subsection 5, paragraph a, Code
2015, is amended to read as follows:
a. Funding for the Iowa summer youth corps program, and the
Iowa green corps program established pursuant to section 15H.6,
and the Iowa reading corps program established pursuant to
section 15H.7 shall be obtained from private sector, and local,
state, and federal government sources, or from other available
funds credited to the community programs account, which shall
be created within the economic development authority under the
authority of the commission. Moneys available in the account
for a fiscal year are appropriated to the commission
to be used for the programs. The commission may establish
an escrow account within the authority and obligate moneys
within that escrow account for tuition or program payments to
be made beyond the term of any fiscal year. Notwithstanding
section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest earned on moneys in the
community programs account shall be credited to the account.
Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the community programs
account or escrow account shall not revert to the general fund
but shall remain available for expenditure in future fiscal
years.
Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 15H.7 Iowa reading corps.
1. a. The Iowa commission on volunteer service, in
collaboration with the department of education, may establish
an Iowa reading corps program to provide Iowa reading corps
Americorps members with a data=based, problem=solving model
of literacy instruction to use in tutoring students from
prekindergarten to third grade who are not proficient in
reading or who are at risk of becoming not proficient in
reading.
b. The program shall use models of early literacy
instruction reviewed and approved by the department of
education pursuant to section 256.9, subsection 53, paragraph
"c".
c. The commission and the department of education shall
grant Americorps programs that are operating an early literacy
intervention program within a single school district on the
date of enactment of this Act that seek to be included in the
Iowa reading corps program adequate time to make adjustments
to align the currently operating program with commission and
department goals and strategies for the Iowa reading corps
program.
2. a. The models of literacy instruction utilized by Iowa
reading corps Americorps members shall align with literacy
program goals and strategies developed by the state department
of education, the local school district, and the Iowa reading
research center.
b. The commission, in collaboration with the department of
education, may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to implement
and administer this section.
3. The commission may use moneys in and lawfully available
to the community programs account created in section 15H.5 to
fund the program.
4. The commission shall submit an annual report to the
general assembly and the state department of education that
records and evaluates program data to determine the efficacy
of the program.
KRAIG PAULSEN
Speaker of the House
PAM JOCHUM
President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 488, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.
CARMINE BOAL
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved , 2015
TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor
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