Iowa-2017-SF247-Introduced
Senate File 247 - Introduced
SENATE FILE
BY DANIELSON
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to an exemption from school district retention
2 and intensive summer reading program requirements for
3 students showing good cause.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 279.68, subsection 5, paragraph a,
1 2 subparagraph (2), Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
1 3 (2) Students requiring special education whose
1 4 individualized education program indicates does any of the
1 5 following:
1 6 (a) Indicates that participation in a locally determined or
1 7 statewide assessment as provided in section 256.7, subsection
1 8 31, is not appropriate, consistent with the requirements
1 9 of rules adopted by the state board of education for the
1 10 administration of chapter 256B.
1 11 (b) Includes reading goals and the student has been
1 12 diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and is considered to
1 13 have an intellectual disability.
1 14 EXPLANATION
1 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
1 16 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
1 17 This bill provides that a student enrolled in a school
1 18 district has a good cause exemption from the retention and
1 19 intensive summer reading program requirements of Code section
1 20 279.68 if the student has an individualized education program
1 21 that includes reading goals and the student has been diagnosed
1 22 with autism spectrum disorder and is considered to have an
1 23 intellectual disability.
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