Amendment S-3134 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. Janet Petersen (D)
What it changes
- By striking page 18, line 6, through page 19, line 26, and inserting: “Sec. ___. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION —— WORKING GROUP —— EARLY CHILDHOOD IOWA AREAS.
- The department of education shall convene and provide administrative support to a working group that shall study whether and to what extent the early childhood Iowa areas throughout the state should be consolidated, and what impacts such consolidation might have on children, families, and other citizens.
- Any expense incurred by a member of the working group shall be the responsibility of the individual member or the respective entity the member represents.
- The working group shall submit its findings and recommendations to the general assembly, and to the governor, on or before January 1,
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- By renumbering as necessary.