Bill Text: IA SF2318 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the issuance of high school credit for satisfactory completion of high school-level units of instruction. (Formerly SF 2085.) Effective 7-1-18.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-04-17 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 959. [SF2318 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2318-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 2318 - Enrolled




                              SENATE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                              (SUCCESSOR TO SF 2085)
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                                   A BILL FOR
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                                       Senate File 2318

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT FOR
    SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF HIGH SCHOOL=LEVEL UNITS OF
    INSTRUCTION.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 256.7, subsection 26, paragraph a,
 subparagraph (1), Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
    (1)  The rules establishing high school graduation
 requirements shall authorize a school district or accredited
 nonpublic school to consider provide that any student, at any
 grade level, who satisfactorily completes a high school=level
 unit of instruction at a school accredited under section
 256.11 has satisfactorily completed a unit of the high school
 graduation requirements for that area of instruction, and
 shall authorize the school district or accredited nonpublic
 school to of enrollment shall issue high school credit for
 the unit to the student unless the student is unable to
 demonstrate proficiency or the school district or accredited
 nonpublic school determines that the course unit completed by
 the student does not meet the school district's or accredited
 nonpublic school's standards, as appropriate.  If a student is
 denied credit under this subparagraph, the school district or
 accredited nonpublic school denying credit shall provide to
 the student's parent or guardian in writing the reason for the
 denial.


                                                                                            CHARLES SCHNEIDE


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            W. CHARLES SMITH


                                                                                            KIM REYNOLDS

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