Modifying provisions related to open enrollment policies and English-language learners

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 16, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 25, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeMarch 5, 2025
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

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What’s in it

This bill modifies provisions related to open enrollment policies and English-language learners. Current law requires receiving school districts to approve applications for open enrollment that are submitted in a timely manner unless the receiving school district has insufficient classroom space. Current law also requires each school district to adopt a policy that defines insufficient classroom space for purposes of open enrollment. The bill requires the definition of insufficient classroom space adopted by the school district to include standards related to the school district’s capacity to provide instruction to English learners.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

House subcommittee

Named February 25, 2025. On March 5, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Heather Hora REmail
• Rep. Henry Stone REmail
• Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§282.18

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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