Amendment S-5220 to HF 2754
Relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to charter school approval, contracts, funding, and operations, services provided to charter schools by area education agencies, charter school student participation in extracurricular activities provided by public schools, the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, education savings accounts, independent accreditation, teacher training and licensure, the statewide voluntary preschool program, the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program, open enrollment, school tuition organizations, private instruction, and innovation zone schools; making appropriations; and including effective date and applicability provisions
Failed · April 27, 2026
Filed April 27, 2026 in the Senate by Sen. Renee Hardman (D)
What it changes
- By striking page 35, line 29, through page 36, line 6, and inserting: “c. If the The board of directors of a school district has established a fee for the cost of a student’s participation in an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition, a student who is enrolled in a nonpublic school and is participating in a contest or competition at a public school pursuant to paragraph “a” or “b” , or the student’s parent or guardian, shall be responsible for the payment of such fee. The amount of such fee shall not exceed the amount of the fee the board of directors of the school district has established for students who are enrolled in the school district shall charge a fee of up to two hundred dollars to each student who is enrolled in a nonpublic school or a charter school established pursuant to chapter 256E, subchapter I, and who is participating in an extracurricular interscholastic contest or competition or extracurricular activity at a public school pursuant to paragraph “a” or “b” . The student, or the student’s parent or guardian, shall be responsible for the payment of such fee.”