HF 161: Relating to subject and performance-based assessments administered prior to a student’s completion of a practitioner preparation program, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

What it does

This bill strikes a requirement that postsecondary institutions with an approved practitioner preparation program administer a subject or performance-based assessment to a student prior to the student’s completion of the program, and concomitantly strikes the requirement that a student achieve a score above the 25th percentile nationally on the assessment. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies retroactively to July 1, 2012, to provide that individuals who on or after that date completed course requirements for an approved practitioner preparation program, but did not attain the assessment score necessary to successfully complete the program, shall be deemed to have successfully completed the program.

House subcommittee · named February 4, 2019

• Rep. Tom Moore (R) · tom.moore@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. David Kerr (R)
• Rep. Cindy Winckler (D) · cindy.winckler@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 3 for, 1 against

For: Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

Against: Iowa State Education Association

In plain words

1. January 30, 2019Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
2. February 4, 2019House subcommittee named: Moore, T., Kerr and Winckler