Amendment S-3133 to SF 445
Relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations and reducing appropriations, and including effective date provisions
Failed · April 23, 2025
Filed April 23, 2025 in the Senate by Sen. Molly Donahue (D)
What it changes
- Page 2, line 9, by striking “paragraph h” and inserting “paragraphs f and h”
- Page 2, line 10, by striking “is” and inserting “are”
- Page 2, after line 10 by inserting: “f. A minimum of ten thirty hours per week of instruction delivered on the skills and knowledge included in the student learning standards developed for the preschool program.”
- Page 8, line 1, by striking “fifty percent of” and inserting “fifty percent of”
- Page 8, after line 11 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 256C.5, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: a. For the initial school year for which a school district approved to participate in the preschool program receives that approval and implements the preschool program, the funding for the preschool foundation aid payable to that school district shall be paid from the appropriation made for that school year in section 256C.6 , Code 2011, or in another appropriation made for purposes of this chapter . For that school year, the preschool foundation aid payable to the school district is the product of the regular program state cost per pupil for the school year multiplied by sixty percent of the school district’s eligible student enrollment on the date in the school year determined by rule.”
- Page 8, line 21, by striking “fifty percent of”
- Page 9, after line 21 by inserting: “Sec. ___. APPLICABILITY. This division of this Act applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1,
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- Page 14, after line 34 by inserting: Sec. ___. Section 279.51, subsection 1, paragraph b, Code 2025, is amended by striking the paragraph.
- Page 14, line 35, by striking “paragraphs b and d” and inserting “paragraph d”
- Page 15, line 1, by striking “are” and inserting “is”
- Title page, line 9, after “services” by inserting “, and including applicability provisions”
- By renumbering as necessary.