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AN
ACT
RELATING
TO
EDUCATION
PROGRAMS
AND
SYSTEMS,
INCLUDING
CAREER
AND
TECHNICAL
EDUCATION
EXPENDITURES
AND
DEFINITIONS,
STATEWIDE
LOWER
DIVISION
GENERAL
EDUCATION
FRAMEWORK
AND
COMMON
COURSE
NUMBERING
SYSTEMS,
AND
THE
IMPLEMENTATION
OF
A
STATEWIDE
COREQUISITE
MODEL
IN
IOWA
COMMUNITY
COLLEGES.
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
Section
1.
Section
256.9,
subsection
70,
paragraph
a,
Code
2026,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
a.
Develop
and
make
available
on
the
department’s
internet
site
a
list
of
industry-recognized
credentials
or
certifications
that
are
attainable
by
students
enrolled
in
grades
nine
through
twelve
and
that
are
aligned
with
career
and
technical
education
service
content
areas.
Sec.
2.
Section
256.11,
subsection
4,
paragraph
b,
Code
2026,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
b.
Computer
science
instruction
incorporating
the
standards
established
under
section
256.7,
subsection
26
,
paragraph
“a”
,
subparagraph
(4),
shall
be
offered
in
at
least
one
grade
level
commencing
with
the
school
year
beginning
July
1,
2023.
Career
exploration
and
development
shall
be
designed
so
that
students
are
appropriately
prepared
to
create
an
individual
career
and
academic
plan
pursuant
to
section
279.61
,
incorporate
foundational
career
and
technical
education
concepts
aligned
with
the
six
career
and
technical
education
service
content
areas
as
defined
in
subsection
5
,
paragraph
“h”
,
incorporate
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relevant
twenty-first
century
skills
to
facilitate
career
readiness,
and
introduce
students
to
career
opportunities
within
the
local
community
and
across
this
state.
Sec.
3.
Section
256.11,
subsection
5,
paragraph
h,
subparagraph
(1),
Code
2026,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
(1)
A
minimum
of
three
sequential
units
in
at
least
four
of
the
following
six
career
and
technical
education
service
content
areas
.
The
department
shall
ensure
that
the
six
career
and
technical
education
content
areas
are
aligned
to
a
national
framework
representative
of
all
career
pathways
:
(a)
Agriculture
,
food,
and
natural
resources
.
(b)
Arts,
communications,
and
information
Information
systems.
(c)
Applied
sciences
,
technology,
engineering,
and
manufacturing,
including
transportation,
distribution,
logistics,
architecture,
and
construction
.
(d)
Health
sciences.
(e)
Human
services
,
including
law,
public
safety,
corrections,
security,
government,
public
administration,
and
education
and
training
.
(f)
Business
,
finance,
marketing,
and
management
.
Sec.
4.
Section
256.11,
subsection
5,
paragraph
h,
subparagraph
(3),
Code
2026,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
(3)
The
department
of
education
shall
permit
school
districts,
in
meeting
the
requirements
of
this
section
,
to
use
career
and
technical
education
core
courses
in
more
than
one
career
and
technical
education
service
content
area
and
to
use
multi-occupational
courses
to
complete
a
sequence
in
more
than
one
career
and
technical
education
service
content
area.
Sec.
5.
Section
256.125,
subsection
5,
Code
2026,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
5.
“Career
and
technical
education
service
content
area”
means
any
one
of
the
service
content
areas
specified
in
section
256.11,
subsection
5
,
paragraph
“h”
.
Sec.
6.
Section
256.125,
Code
2026,
is
amended
by
adding
the
following
new
subsections:
NEW
SUBSECTION
.
5A.
“High-demand
occupation”
means
an
occupation
in
which
state,
local,
or
regional
labor
market
forecasting
shows
occupational
demand
exceeds
the
overall
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state,
local,
or
regional
employer
demand
metrics,
including
in
openings,
numeric
change,
and
growth.
NEW
SUBSECTION
.
5B.
“High-skill
occupation”
means
an
occupation
with
education
or
training
requirements,
including
the
completion
of
an
apprenticeship
program,
an
industry-recognized
credential,
a
short-term
college
credential
such
as
a
certificate
or
diploma,
a
noncredit
college
credential
or
certification,
an
associate
degree
or
higher,
on-the-job
training,
or
on-the-job
credential
or
certification.
NEW
SUBSECTION
.
5C.
“High-wage
occupation”
means
an
occupation
for
which
at
least
three
of
five
hourly
wage
or
annual
salary
measurements
for
that
occupation
exceed
the
hourly
wage
or
annual
salary
for
all
occupations
in
the
state
or
region.
Sec.
7.
Section
256.129,
subsection
2,
Code
2026,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2.
Adopt
rules
prescribing
standards
for
teachers
in
the
six
career
and
technical
education
service
content
areas
specified
in
section
256.11,
subsection
5
,
paragraph
“h”
,
in
approved
programs.
Sec.
8.
Section
256.130,
subsection
5,
Code
2026,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
5.
Make
recommendations
to
the
board
of
educational
examiners
relating
to
the
enforcement
of
rules
prescribing
standards
for
teachers
of
career
and
technical
education
service
content
areas.
Sec.
9.
Section
256.136,
subsection
6,
Code
2026,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
6.
A
regional
career
and
technical
education
partnership
may
use
funds
received
from
state
and
federal
sources
on
behalf
of
school
districts
and
community
colleges
participating
in
the
regional
career
and
technical
education
planning
partnership
to
convene,
lead,
and
staff
the
regional
career
and
technical
education
planning
partnership;
to
offer
regional
career
and
technical
education
professional
development
opportunities;
to
coordinate
and
maintain
a
career
guidance
system
pursuant
to
section
279.61
;
to
purchase
career
and
technical
education
equipment;
and
to
purchase
standard
classroom
consumable
supplies
other
than
consumable
supplies
that
will
be
made
into
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products
to
be
sold
or
used
personally
by
students,
teachers,
and
other
persons.
The
regional
career
and
technical
education
partnership
shall
demonstrate
that
all
expenditures
are
aligned
with
high-skill,
high-wage,
and
high-demand
occupations
as
defined
in
section
256.125.
Sec.
10.
NEW
SECTION
.
256.139
Statewide
lower
division
general
education
and
common
course
numbering
systems.
1.
To
support
student
transfer
and
academic
transparency,
statewide
lower
division
general
education
framework
and
common
course
numbering
systems
shall
be
implemented
by
the
department
of
education,
in
coordination
with
the
Iowa
community
colleges
and
in
consultation
with
the
state
board
of
regents,
for
coursework
offered
by
Iowa
community
colleges.
2.
The
common
course
numbering
system
must
do
all
of
the
following:
a.
Assign
each
course
an
alphanumeric
prefix
and
number
reflecting
subject
area
and
level.
b.
Identify
equivalent
courses
across
institutions.
Each
course
shall
have
a
common
description
and
common
course
outcomes
developed
by
faculty
from
community
colleges,
with
consultation
from
the
board
of
regents.
c.
Be
used
in
all
course
catalogs,
registration
systems,
and
transcripts.
3.
The
department
shall
maintain
a
statewide
course
numbering
directory
and
shall
establish
a
faculty-led
process
for
determining
course
equivalency.
4.
For
the
school
year
beginning
July
1,
2027,
and
each
succeeding
school
year,
the
lower
division
general
education
framework
shall
apply
to
all
community
college
general
education
coursework,
inclusive
of
a
common
set
of
general
education
learning
requirements,
and
shall
be
built
upon
the
existing
statewide
transfer
pathways
used
by
public
institutions
of
higher
education
in
the
state.
This
process
shall
preserve
institutional
autonomy
over
course
delivery
and
content
while
ensuring
transfer
consistency.
5.
The
department
shall
adopt
rules
pursuant
to
chapter
17A
to
administer
this
section.
Sec.
11.
NEW
SECTION
.
256.140
Statewide
corequisite
model.
1.
By
the
2028-2029
school
year,
all
Iowa
community
colleges
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shall
replace
traditional,
prerequisite
remedial
coursework
in
mathematics
and
English
with
corequisite
models.
2.
The
department
of
education,
in
consultation
with
Iowa
community
colleges,
shall
by
rule
establish
a
statewide
framework
for
corequisite
developmental
education.
Sec.
12.
NEW
SECTION
.
256.141
Statewide
occupation
definitions.
The
department
of
education,
in
consultation
with
the
Iowa
workforce
development
board,
shall
adopt
rules
pursuant
to
chapter
17A
to
administer
the
process
of
selecting
the
occupations
that
qualify
as
a
high-demand
occupation,
high-skill
occupation,
or
high-wage
occupation,
each
as
defined
in
section
256.125,
for
purposes
of
use
by
government
agencies
and
statewide
programs.
Sec.
13.
Section
257.11,
subsection
3,
paragraph
c,
unnumbered
paragraph
1,
Code
2026,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
Notwithstanding
paragraph
“b”
,
subparagraph
(1),
a
school
district
that
otherwise
meets
the
requirements
of
this
subsection
may
enter
into
a
sharing
agreement
with
a
community
college
under
which
the
community
college
may
offer,
or
provide
a
community
college-employed
instructor
to
teach,
one
of
the
science
or
one
of
the
mathematics
units
in
accordance
with
section
256.11,
subsection
5
,
and
one
or
more
units
in
only
one
of
the
six
career
and
technical
education
service
content
areas
in
accordance
with
section
256.11,
subsection
5
,
paragraph
“h”
.
Pupils
enrolled
in
a
unit
in
accordance
with
this
paragraph
shall
be
assigned
additional
weighting
in
accordance
with
this
subsection
if
the
number
of
pupils
enrolled
in
such
a
unit
exceeds
five
and
the
school
district’s
total
enrollment
does
not
exceed
six
hundred
pupils.
A
school
district
that
enters
into
a
sharing
agreement
with
a
community
college
under
this
paragraph
to
provide
a
unit
of
science
or
mathematics
in
accordance
with
section
256.11,
subsection
5
,
paragraph
“a”
,
“d”
,
or
“e”
,
shall
be
deemed
to
have
met
the
requirement
that
the
school
district
offer
and
teach
such
a
unit
under
the
educational
standards
of
section
256.11,
subsection
5
,
paragraph
“a”
,
“d”
,
or
“e”
.
However,
the
provisions
of
this
paragraph
“c”
relating
to
a
sharing
agreement
for
a
unit
of
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science
or
mathematics
are
applicable
only
if
all
of
the
following
conditions
are
met:
Sec.
14.
Section
260C.14,
Code
2026,
is
amended
by
adding
the
following
new
subsection:
NEW
SUBSECTION
.
27.
Comply
with
the
requirements
of
section
256.140,
including
by
replacing
traditional,
prerequisite
remedial
coursework
in
mathematics
and
English
with
corequisite
models,
and
by
assisting
the
department
of
education
in
the
implementation
of
a
statewide
framework
for
corequisite
developmental
education.
Sec.
15.
IMPLEMENTATION
OF
A
COMMON
COURSE
NUMBERING
SYSTEM
STUDY.
By
December
31,
2026,
the
department
of
education,
in
consultation
with
the
state
board
of
regents,
shall
submit
to
the
general
assembly
a
study
on
the
systemic
implementation
considerations
of
statewide
lower
division
general
education
framework
and
common
course
numbering
systems
across
public
institutions
of
higher
education,
including
Iowa
community
colleges
and
the
institutions
governed
by
the
state
board
of
regents.
______________________________
PAT
GRASSLEY
Speaker
of
the
House
______________________________
AMY
SINCLAIR
President
of
the
Senate
I
hereby
certify
that
this
bill
originated
in
the
House
and
is
known
as
House
File
2610,
Ninety-first
General
Assembly.
______________________________
MEGHAN
NELSON
Chief
Clerk
of
the
House
Approved
_______________,
2026
______________________________
KIM
REYNOLDS
Governor