HF 491: Relating to assessments administered by school districts to evaluate and reevaluate students for reading proficiency and including effective date provisions

Died when the session ended · The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill provides that, effective July 1, 2020, locally determined and statewide reading assessments administered to evaluate students for reading proficiency shall include progress-monitoring tools to assist students and monitor and measure phonological awareness, word identification, and spelling skills. The bill directs the department of education to reissue the bid for a statewide reading assessment that includes the tools required effective July 1, 2020. The bill takes effect upon enactment.

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named February 27, 2019

Rep. Tom Moore (R) · tom.moore@legis.iowa.gov
Rep. Joel Fry (R)
Rep. Mary Mascher (D)

Lobbying · 2 for, 0 against

For: Des Moines Public Schools; Iowa Association of School Boards

In plain words

February 21, 2019Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
February 27, 2019House subcommittee named: Moore, T., Fry and Mascher