Bill Text: IA SF2319 | 2013-2014 | 85th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to improving student literacy skills, including addressing dyslexia, and providing teacher assistance. (Formerly SF 2070.) Effective 7-1-14.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2014-04-09 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 754. [SF2319 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2013-SF2319-Enrolled.html
Senate
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AN
ACT
RELATING
TO
IMPROVING
STUDENT
LITERACY
SKILLS,
INCLUDING
ADDRESSING
DYSLEXIA,
AND
PROVIDING
TEACHER
ASSISTANCE.
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
Section
1.
Section
256.9,
subsection
53,
paragraph
c,
subparagraph
(1),
subparagraph
division
(e),
Code
2014,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
(e)
Professional
development
strategies
and
materials
to
support
teacher
effectiveness
in
student
literacy
development.
Subject
to
an
appropriation
of
funds
by
the
general
assembly,
the
center
shall
collaborate
and
coordinate
with
the
area
education
agencies
and
the
department
to
develop
and
offer
to
school
districts
at
no
cost
professional
development
services
to
enhance
the
skills
of
elementary
teachers
in
the
use
of
evidence-based
strategies
to
improve
the
literacy
skills
of
all
students.
Sec.
2.
Section
279.68,
subsection
2,
paragraph
d,
subparagraph
(3),
subparagraph
division
(a),
Code
2014,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
(a)
Assists
students
assessed
as
exhibiting
a
substantial
deficiency
in
reading
to
develop
the
skills
to
read
at
grade
level.
Assistance
shall
include
but
not
be
limited
to
strategies
that
formally
address
dyslexia,
when
appropriate.
For
purposes
of
this
subparagraph
division
(a),
“dyslexia”
means
a
specific
and
significant
impairment
in
the
development
of
reading,
including
but
not
limited
to
phonemic
awareness,
phonics,
fluency,
vocabulary,
and
comprehension,
that
is
not
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solely
accounted
for
by
intellectual
disability,
sensory
disability
or
impairment,
or
lack
of
appropriate
instruction.
______________________________
PAM
JOCHUM
President
of
the
Senate
______________________________
KRAIG
PAULSEN
Speaker
of
the
House
I
hereby
certify
that
this
bill
originated
in
the
Senate
and
is
known
as
Senate
File
2319,
Eighty-fifth
General
Assembly.
______________________________
MICHAEL
E.
MARSHALL
Secretary
of
the
Senate
Approved
_______________,
2014
______________________________
TERRY
E.
BRANSTAD
Governor
