Bill Text: IA SF603 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to use of concurrent enrollment programs for teaching certain subjects required under the educational standards, to the enrollment of pupils under concurrent enrollment program agreements between certain accredited nonpublic schools and community colleges, and to the criminal offense of sexual exploitation by a school employee providing instruction under a concurrent enrollment program, making penalties applicable, and including retroactive and other applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1163, SF 488.) Effective 7-1-19.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-23 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 1197. [SF603 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2019-SF603-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 603 - Enrolled
Senate File 603
AN ACT
RELATING TO USE OF CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT PROGRAMS FOR TEACHING
CERTAIN SUBJECTS REQUIRED UNDER THE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS,
TO THE ENROLLMENT OF PUPILS UNDER CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT
PROGRAM AGREEMENTS BETWEEN CERTAIN ACCREDITED NONPUBLIC
SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES, AND TO THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE
OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION BY A SCHOOL EMPLOYEE PROVIDING
INSTRUCTION UNDER A CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT PROGRAM, MAKING
PENALTIES APPLICABLE, AND INCLUDING RETROACTIVE AND OTHER
APPLICABILITY PROVISIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
DIVISION I
CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT WEIGHTING AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE
EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS
Section 1. Section 257.11, subsection 3, paragraph b,
unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2019, is amended to read as
follows:
If the school budget review committee certifies to the
department of management that the class would not otherwise be
implemented without the assignment of additional weighting,
pupils attending a community college-offered class or attending
a class taught by a community college-employed instructor
are assigned a weighting of the percentage of the pupil’s
school day during which the pupil attends class in the
community college or attends a class taught by a community
college-employed instructor times seventy hundredths for career

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and technical courses or forty-six fifty hundredths for liberal
arts and sciences courses. The following requirements shall be
met for the purposes of assigning an additional weighting for
classes offered through a sharing agreement between a school
district and community college. The class must be:
Sec. 2. Section 257.11, subsection 3, paragraph c, Code
2019, is amended to read as follows:
c. Notwithstanding paragraph “b” , subparagraph (1), a
school district that otherwise meets the requirements of this
subsection may enter into a sharing agreement with a community
college under which the community college may offer, or provide
a community college-employed instructor to teach, one of the
science or one of the mathematics units in accordance with
section 256.11, subsection 5, and one or more classes units
in only one of the six career and technical education service
areas specified in accordance with section 256.11, subsection
5 , paragraph “h” , and the pupils . Pupils enrolled in such a
class unit in accordance with this paragraph shall be assigned
additional weighting in accordance with this subsection if the
number of pupils enrolled in such a class unit exceeds five
and the school district’s total enrollment does not exceed six
hundred pupils. A school district that enters into a sharing
agreement with a community college under this paragraph to
provide a unit of science or mathematics in accordance with
section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph “a” , “d” , or “e” , shall
be deemed to have met the requirement that the school district
offer and teach such a unit under the educational standards
of section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph “a” , “d” , or “e” .
However, the provisions of this paragraph “c” relating to a
sharing agreement for a unit of science or mathematics are
applicable only if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The school district has made every reasonable and
good-faith effort to employ a teacher licensed under chapter
272 for the science or mathematics unit, as applicable, and
is unable to employ such a teacher. For purposes of this
paragraph “c” , “good-faith effort” means the same as defined in
section 279.19A, subsection 9.
(2) Enrollment for the unit exceeds five pupils.
(3) The unit is offered during the regular school day.

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(4) The unit is made accessible by the school district to
all eligible pupils.
Sec. 3. Section 261E.2, Code 2019, is amended by adding the
following new subsections:
NEW SUBSECTION . 05. “Full-time” means enrollment at
any one eligible postsecondary institution through a school
district or accredited nonpublic school in twenty-four or more
postsecondary credit hours per academic year, exclusive of
summer terms. Enrollment in a course or courses that result in
credit hours in excess of the part-time limit shall be subject
to applicable provisions of this chapter including section
261E.6 or 261E.8, except that the cost of enrollment shall be
the responsibility of the student, or parent or legal guardian
of the student. The provisions of section 257.11, subsection
3, and section 261E.7 do not apply to such enrollments.
NEW SUBSECTION . 06. “Part-time” means enrollment at any
one eligible postsecondary institution under section 261E.6 or
261E.8 in no more than twenty-three postsecondary credit hours
per academic year, exclusive of any summer terms.
Sec. 4. NEW SECTION . 279.50A Educational standards ——
agreements for mathematics and science units.
1. If a school district’s total enrollment exceeds six
hundred pupils, the school district may enter into an agreement
with a community college under which the community college may
offer, or provide a community college-employed instructor to
teach, one of the units in accordance with section 256.11,
subsection 5, paragraph “a” , one of the units in accordance with
section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph “d” or “e” , and if the
unit of coursework under the agreement meets the requirements
specified in section 257.11, subsection 3, paragraph “b” ,
subparagraphs (2) through (7), the unit offered shall be
deemed to meet the education program requirement for a unit of
mathematics or science, as applicable, under section 256.11,
subsection 5, paragraph “a” , “d” , or “e” . The provisions of
this subsection are applicable only if all of the following
conditions are met:
a. The school district has made every reasonable and
good-faith effort to employ a teacher licensed under chapter
272 for the unit of science or mathematics, as applicable,

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and is unable to employ such a teacher. For purposes of this
subsection, “good-faith effort” means the same as defined in
section 279.19A, subsection 9.
b. Enrollment for the unit exceeds five pupils.
c. The unit is offered during the regular school day.
d. The unit is made accessible by the school district to all
eligible pupils.
2. Pupils enrolled in a unit of coursework offered pursuant
to subsection 1 are not eligible for supplementary weighting
under section 257.11, subsection 3.
Sec. 5. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. The following applies
retroactively to July 1, 2018, for a school district that
entered into an agreement with a community college for
coursework that meets the requirements of section 279.50A, as
enacted by this division of this Act:
The section of this division of this Act enacting section
279.50A.
Sec. 6. APPLICABILITY. The section of this division of
this Act amending section 257.11, subsection 3, paragraph “b”,
unnumbered paragraph 1, applies to certifications by the school
budget review committee under section 257.11, subsection 3,
paragraph “b”, occurring before, on, or after the effective
date of this division of this Act for school budget years
beginning on or after July 1, 2019.
DIVISION II
CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT PROGRAM CONTRACTS BETWEEN ACCREDITED
NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES
Sec. 7. Section 261E.2, subsection 1, Code 2019, is amended
to read as follows:
1. “Concurrent enrollment” means any course offered to
students in grades nine through twelve during the regular
school year approved by the board of directors of a school
district through a contractual agreement between a community
college and the school district that meets the provisions
of section 257.11, subsection 3 . “Concurrent enrollment”
also means any course offered to students in grades nine
through twelve during the regular school year approved by the
authorities in charge of an accredited nonpublic school through
a contract with a community college in accordance with section

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261E.8, subsection 2, paragraph “b” .
Sec. 8. Section 261E.8, subsection 2, Code 2019, is amended
to read as follows:
2. a. Students from accredited nonpublic schools and
students receiving competent private instruction or independent
private instruction under chapter 299A may access the program
through the school district in which the accredited nonpublic
school or private institution is located.
b. (1) Students from accredited nonpublic schools may
also access the program if the accredited nonpublic school in
which the students are enrolled meets the requirements of this
section and section 257.11, subsection 3, as if the accredited
nonpublic school were a school district, and enters into a
contract with a community college that meets the requirements
of this section and section 257.11, subsection 3, for the
provision of academic or career and technical coursework to
high school students enrolled in the accredited nonpublic
school. However, the accredited nonpublic school need not meet
requirements for career and technical education more stringent
than the requirements of section 256.11B. A student who wishes
to participate in the program must make application to the
accredited nonpublic school and the community college in the
manner established under subsection 3 and meet the requirements
of this section.
(2) An accredited nonpublic school that provides units of
mathematics, science, and career and technical education under
an agreement that meets the requirements of subparagraph (1)
shall be deemed to have met the education program requirement
for the units of mathematics, science, and career and technical
education provided, as applicable, under section 256.11,
subsection 5, paragraphs “a” , “d” , or “e” , or section 256.11B.
(a) Subject to an appropriation of funds by the general
assembly for this purpose, a student enrolled in a unit of
coursework provided under this subparagraph shall be counted
as if the student was assigned a weighting under section
257.11, subsection 3, paragraph “b” , in determining the amount
calculated and paid to a community college under subparagraph
(4) if the accredited nonpublic school is accredited under the
standards required of a school district pursuant to section

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256.11, the number of students enrolled in a class used to meet
the unit requirement exceeds five, and the accredited nonpublic
school’s total enrollment in grades nine through twelve does
not exceed two hundred pupils.
(b) A student enrolled in a unit of coursework provided
under this subparagraph is not eligible to be counted as if
the student was assigned a weighting under section 257.11,
subsection 3, paragraph “b” , in determining the amount
calculated and paid to a community college under subparagraph
(4) if the accredited nonpublic school’s total enrollment in
grades nine through twelve exceeds two hundred pupils.
(3) A community college that enters into a contract as
provided in this paragraph shall submit to the department,
during the fall and spring semesters, or the equivalent, a
list of the accredited nonpublic school students enrolled for
the semester, or the equivalent, who are participating in the
program. The community college and the accredited nonpublic
school shall verify to the department that the accredited
nonpublic school and the coursework provided under this
paragraph meet the requirements of this section and section
257.11, subsection 3, and shall provide to the department data
and information elements as required under subsection 8 by
rule.
(4) Subject to an appropriation of funds by the general
assembly for this purpose, the department shall calculate,
using the state cost per pupil, and pay to a community college
for each semester in which a student is concurrently enrolled
in the community college in accordance with this paragraph “b”
an amount equivalent to the amount a school district would
receive if the student was assigned a weighting under section
257.11, subsection 3, paragraph “b” . If the amount appropriated
annually for purposes of this paragraph “b” is insufficient
to pay to community colleges the full amount for students
concurrently enrolled in a community college in accordance
with this paragraph “b” , the department shall annually
prorate the amount for payments to community colleges for the
concurrent enrollment of accredited nonpublic students under
this paragraph “b” . A community college shall decrease the
amount billed to the accredited nonpublic school by the amount

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calculated and paid to the community college by the department
in accordance with this paragraph.
DIVISION III
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION BY A SCHOOL EMPLOYEE —— DEFINITION
Sec. 9. Section 709.15, subsection 1, paragraph f,
subparagraph (1), Code 2019, is amended by adding the following
new subparagraph division:
NEW SUBPARAGRAPH DIVISION . (f) A person employed by a
community college full-time, part-time, or as a substitute who
provides instruction to high school students under a concurrent
enrollment program offered in accordance with section 257.11
or 261E.8.
______________________________ ______________________________
CHARLES SCHNEIDER LINDA UPMEYER
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 603, Eighty-eighth General Assembly.
______________________________
W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Secretary of the Senate
Approved _______________, 2019 ______________________________
KIM REYNOLDS
Governor