Bill Text: IA SF2270 | 2013-2014 | 85th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act establishing a refugee family support services pilot program and making appropriations. (Formerly SF 2176.)
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-27 - Subcommittee, Petersen, Chapman, and Dvorsky. S.J. 432. [SF2270 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2013-SF2270-Introduced.html
Senate
File
2270
-
Introduced
SENATE
FILE
2270
BY
COMMITTEE
ON
EDUCATION
(SUCCESSOR
TO
SF
2176)
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
establishing
a
refugee
family
support
services
pilot
1
program
and
making
appropriations.
2
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
NEW
SECTION
.
256I.14
Refugee
family
support
1
services
pilot
program.
2
1.
The
state
board
shall
develop,
promote,
and
administer
a
3
refugee
family
support
services
pilot
program
for
purposes
of
4
providing
grants
to
state,
local,
or
community
organizations
5
working
with
refugee
populations
to
contract
with
and
train
6
multiple
refugees
to
act
as
refugee
community
navigators.
7
Financial
assistance
under
the
program
shall
be
provided
from
8
moneys
allocated
to
the
school
ready
children
grants
account
in
9
the
early
childhood
Iowa
fund.
10
2.
A
state,
local,
or
community
organization
is
eligible
for
11
a
grant
if
at
least
one
school
district
in
the
organization’s
12
county
service
area
has
a
minority
student
enrollment
of
13
greater
than
fifty
percent
and
the
service
area
has
a
large
14
number
of
emerging
refugee
populations.
15
3.
The
organizations
awarded
a
grant
pursuant
to
this
16
section
shall
recruit
and
train
multiple
refugee
community
17
navigators
to
educate
and
provide
direct
assistance
to
their
18
respective
refugee
communities
so
the
refugee
communities
can
19
successfully
access
and
utilize
existing
community
resources
20
and
services.
21
4.
The
refugee
community
navigators
shall
train
other
22
refugee
community
members
and
shall
offer
home-based,
23
peer-group
learning
sessions
about
resources
in
the
community.
24
5.
The
grants
awarded
pursuant
to
this
section
shall
be
25
used
for
employment
costs
of
a
program
manager
and
community
26
navigator
coordinator,
and
contract
costs
for
multiple
27
refugee
community
navigators
for
each
organization.
The
28
refugee
community
navigators
recruited
and
trained
by
an
29
organization
under
a
grant
shall
receive
at
least
one
hundred
30
thousand
dollars
each
year
of
the
grant
moneys
awarded
to
the
31
organization.
32
6.
The
state
board
shall
award
four
grants
to
state,
33
local,
or
community
organizations
through
a
competitive
34
application
process.
The
state
board
shall
provide
moneys
over
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a
three-year
period
to
the
organizations
awarded
a
grant.
1
7.
A
state,
local,
or
community
organization
awarded
a
2
grant
pursuant
to
this
section
shall
provide
the
state
board
3
with
annual
progress
reports.
The
state
board
shall
present
a
4
report
of
the
program
goals
and
outcomes
of
each
awarded
grant
5
to
the
general
assembly.
6
8.
The
state
board
shall
conduct
a
comprehensive
review
of
7
the
refugee
family
support
services
pilot
program
and
shall,
8
by
December
31,
2016,
submit
a
report
of
its
review,
as
well
as
9
any
recommendations
and
cost
projections
of
its
recommendations
10
to
the
governor
and
the
general
assembly.
11
9.
The
state
board
may
expend
program
moneys
for
12
administrative
expenses
as
provided
by
law.
13
Sec.
2.
REFUGEE
FAMILY
SUPPORT
SERVICES
PILOT
PROGRAM
14
APPROPRIATION.
There
is
appropriated
from
the
general
fund
15
of
the
state
to
the
department
of
education
for
the
following
16
fiscal
years,
the
following
amounts,
or
so
much
thereof
as
is
17
necessary,
to
be
used
for
the
purposes
designated:
18
For
deposit
in
the
school
ready
children
grants
account
in
19
the
early
childhood
Iowa
fund
created
in
section
256I.11,
to
be
20
used
for
the
purposes
of
the
refugee
family
support
services
21
pilot
program
established
in
section
256I.14:
22
FY
2014-2015
.
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$
746,400
23
FY
2015-2016
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$
746,400
24
FY
2016-2017
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$
746,400
25
Of
the
moneys
appropriated
for
each
fiscal
year,
$40,000
26
may
be
used
for
the
early
childhood
Iowa
state
board’s
27
administration
costs
for
developing,
promoting,
and
28
administering
the
program.
29
EXPLANATION
30
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
31
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
32
This
bill
establishes
a
refugee
family
support
services
33
pilot
program
and
makes
appropriations.
The
bill
directs
the
34
early
childhood
Iowa
state
board
to
develop
and
administer
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the
refugee
family
support
services
pilot
program
to
provide
1
grants
to
state,
local,
or
community
organizations
working
2
with
refugee
populations
for
contracting
with
and
training
3
multiple
refugees
to
act
as
refugee
community
navigators.
4
An
organization
is
eligible
for
a
grant
if
at
least
one
5
school
district
within
that
organization’s
county
service
6
area
has
a
minority
student
enrollment
of
greater
than
50
7
percent
and
the
service
area
has
a
large
number
of
emerging
8
refugee
populations.
The
bill
requires
the
grants
to
be
used
9
for
employment
costs
of
a
program
manager
and
a
community
10
navigator
coordinator,
and
the
contract
costs
of
multiple
11
refugee
community
navigators.
The
bill
provides
that
the
12
community
navigators
shall
receive
at
least
$100,000
each
year
13
of
a
grant
awarded
to
an
organization.
The
bill
directs
the
14
early
childhood
Iowa
state
board
to
award
four
grants
through
15
a
competitive
application
process
and
to
provide
funding
16
for
those
organizations
over
a
three-year
period.
The
bill
17
requires
the
organizations
selected
to
provide
the
state
board
18
with
annual
progress
reports.
The
bill
requires
the
state
19
board
to
present
an
outcomes
report
to
the
general
assembly.
20
The
bill
appropriates
$746,400
from
the
general
fund
of
the
21
state
to
the
department
of
education
in
fiscal
years
2014-2015,
22
2015-2016,
and
2016-2017
for
deposit
in
the
school
ready
23
children
grants
account
in
the
early
childhood
Iowa
fund
to
be
24
used
for
purposes
of
the
program
established
in
the
bill.
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