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Relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and including applicability provisions
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 3, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 8, 2022
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa school districts can now choose to include certain five-year-olds in the statewide preschool program. If a district picks these older children, the state will provide funding for them just like it does for four-year-olds. Local preschool programs must also offer services to help parents figure out if their child is ready for kindergarten.1
Read the official explanation
The statewide preschool program for four-year-old children under Code chapter 256C provides that a child who is a resident of Iowa and is four years of age on or before September of a school year shall be eligible to enroll in the preschool program. Additionally, to be included as an eligible student in the enrollment count of the preschool programming for state funding purposes, a child must be four years of age by September in the base year and attending the school district’s approved local program. For school budget years beginning July 1, 2023, July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, this bill expands the eligibility and state funding provisions of the statewide preschool program for four-year-old children under Code chapter 256C to also include five-year-old children who reach the age of five on or after March but on or before September of the calendar year during which the school year begins if the school district elects to enroll such children. For school districts that elect to enroll children who are five years of age during such three-year period, a child who enrolled as a four-year-old may enroll again as a five-year-old. However, if insufficient space is available in a preschool program for all eligible children, priority for enrollment shall be given to children who are four years of age on or before September of a school year.1A relating to compulsory education is also modified to reflect changes made in the bill. The bill also requires each approved local program to provide consultation services for parents or guardians of children enrolled in the approved local program and parents or guardians of children eligible to enroll in the approved local program to assist parents or guardians in assessing the child’s readiness for enrollment in kindergarten or in a preschool program, as applicable. The bill modifies provisions relating to school district participation in data collection and performance measurement processes under the statewide preschool program. The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2023.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 8, 2022. It hasn’t reported yet.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
4 for · 0 against · 6 undecided · Who →
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Tried before
89th General Assembly
Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.
Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 2621 Relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibilit…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2048 Relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibilit…88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2460 Relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibilit…88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 783 Relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibilit…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 592 Relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibilit…88th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
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- HF 14 Relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibilit…89th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 318Nearly identical
- HF 2450 Relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibilit…91st General Assembly · In committeeSimilar
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