Bill Text: IA SF443 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to children’s residential facility certification requirements and care furnished by bona fide religious institutions, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1114.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-09 - Subcommittee: Sinclair, Chelgren, and Quirmbach. S.J. 68. [SF443 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF443-Introduced.html

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Senate File 443 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                     1114)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to children's residential facility
  2    certification requirements and care furnished by bona
  3    fide religious institutions, and including effective date
  4    provisions.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 282.34, Code 2017, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  4A.  Subsection 1, paragraph "a", relating
  1  4 to the provision of an educational program and appropriate
  1  5 education services, shall not apply to a children's residential
  1  6 facility operated by a bona fide religious institution if the
  1  7 facility was in operation prior to the effective date of this
  1  8 Act.
  1  9    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 10 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 11                           EXPLANATION
  1 12 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 13 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 14    This bill exempts certain bona fide religious institutions
  1 15 operating children's residential facilities from a requirement
  1 16 that such facilities provide an educational program and
  1 17 appropriate education services to children residing in the
  1 18 facility by contracting with the school district in which the
  1 19 facility is located, or with an accredited nonpublic school, or
  1 20 becoming accredited as a nonpublic school.
  1 21    The exemption applies to a children's residential facility
  1 22 operated by a bona fide religious institution only if the
  1 23 facility was in operation prior to the effective date of the
  1 24 bill.
  1 25    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
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