Bill Text: IA SF2085 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 2085 (Prior Session Legislation)

IA State Legislature page for SF2085

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act requiring school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to issue high school credit for satisfactory completion of high school-level units of instruction. (See SF 2318.)

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-01 - Subcommittee recommends passage. [SF2085 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2085-Introduced.html


Senate File 2085 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  CHELGREN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring school districts and accredited nonpublic
  2    schools to issue high school credit for satisfactory
  3    completion of high school=level units of instruction.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    TLSB 5542XS (2) 87
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PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256.7, subsection 26, paragraph a,
  1  2 subparagraph (1), Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    (1)  The rules establishing high school graduation
  1  4 requirements shall authorize a school district or accredited
  1  5 nonpublic school to consider provide that any student, at any
  1  6 grade level, who satisfactorily completes a high school=level
  1  7 unit of instruction has satisfactorily completed a unit
  1  8 of the high school graduation requirements for that area
  1  9 of instruction, and shall authorize the school district or
  1 10 accredited nonpublic school to of enrollment shall issue high
  1 11 school credit for the unit to the student.
  1 12                           EXPLANATION
  1 13 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 14 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 15    This bill provides that under the state board of education's
  1 16 rules establishing high school graduation requirements, any
  1 17 student at any grade level who satisfactorily completes a high
  1 18 school=level unit of instruction has satisfactorily completed a
  1 19 unit of the high school graduation requirements for that area
  1 20 of instruction, and the board's rules shall require the school
  1 21 district or accredited nonpublic school of enrollment to issue
  1 22 high school credit to the student.
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