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Relating to the date for an election to authorize the issuance of certain indebtedness by school districts
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2020
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary School districts currently hold elections to decide if they can borrow money to build or fix school buildings and athletic fields. This bill would require those bond elections to happen only during the regular school election held in November of odd-numbered years.1
Read the official explanation
25 percent of the assessed value of the taxable property, school districts are authorized in Code chapter 296 to contract indebtedness up to percent of the actual value of the taxable value and to issue general obligation bonds to provide funds to defray the cost of purchasing, building, furnishing, reconstructing, repairing, improving or remodeling a schoolhouse or schoolhouses and additions thereto, gymnasium, stadium, field house, school bus garage, teachers’ or superintendent’s home or homes, and procuring a site or sites for such buildings, or purchasing land to add to a site already owned, or procuring and improving a site for an athletic field, or improving a site already owned for an athletic field. This bill limits elections for the issuance of bonds by school districts under Code chapter 296 to only being conducted on the regular school election date, which is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year.
House subcommittee
Named January 22, 2020. Meeting: Tuesday, January 28 · 3:00 PM · House Lounge.
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Lobbying
1 for · 7 against · 5 undecided · Who →
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