Bill Text: IA SF135 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 135 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the compulsory age of attendance and to sanctions for failure to attend school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-26 - Subcommittee: Behn, Chelgren, and Quirmbach. S.J. 145. [SF135 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF135-Introduced.html


Senate File 135 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  QUIRMBACH

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the compulsory age of attendance and to
  2    sanctions for failure to attend school.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 299.1A, subsection 1, Code 2017, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  Except as provided in  subsections 2 and 3, a child
  1  4 who has reached the age of six and is under sixteen eighteen
  1  5  years of age by September 15 is of compulsory attendance age.
  1  6 However, if a child enrolled in a school district or accredited
  1  7 nonpublic school reaches the age of sixteen eighteen on or
  1  8 after September 15, the child remains of compulsory age until
  1  9 the end of the regular school calendar.
  1 10    Sec. 2.  STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.  In accordance
  1 11 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
  1 12 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
  1 13 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
  1 14 received by the school district under section 257.16.  This
  1 15 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
  1 16 to meet all of the state funding=related requirements of
  1 17 section 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding
  1 18 shall be necessary for the full implementation of this Act
  1 19 by and enforcement of this Act against all affected school
  1 20 districts.
  1 21                           EXPLANATION
  1 22 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 23 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 24    This bill relates to compulsory attendance age of secondary
  1 25 school students and sanctions for nonattendance.
  1 26    The bill raises the compulsory school attendance age from
  1 27 16 to 18, and therefore the driver's license sanctions of Code
  1 28 section 299.1B apply to such a person.  Under Code section
  1 29 299.1B, a person who is of compulsory attendance age who does
  1 30 not meet exception under Code section 299.2, does not attend
  1 31 a public school or an accredited nonpublic school, is not
  1 32 receiving competent private instruction or independent private
  1 33 instruction, and who does not attend an alternative school or
  1 34 adult education classes, shall not receive an intermediate or
  1 35 full driver's license until age 18.
  2  1 The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  2  2 section 25B.3.  The bill requires that the state cost of
  2  3 any state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
  2  4 district from state school foundation aid received by the
  2  5 school district under Code section 257.16.  The specification
  2  6 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state mandate
  2  7 funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2.  The
  2  8 inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the
  2  9 requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state
  2 10 mandates included in the bill.
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