88th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Thursday, November 12, 2026

HF 614: Establishing a requirement for administrators employed by school districts with enrollments of more than two thousand five hundred students

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 it does

This bill requires administrators employed by school districts with enrollments of 2,500 or more to have at least years of teaching experience. Such a school district is prohibited from renewing an administrator’s contract if the administrator fails to meet the requirement. “Administrator” is defined as an individual holding a professional administrator license who is employed in a school district as a superintendent, principal, associate principal, or assistant principal.

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named March 5, 2019

Rep. Skyler Wheeler (R) · skyler.wheeler@legis.iowa.gov
Rep. Molly Donahue (D) · molly.donahue@legis.iowa.gov
Rep. Norlin G. Mommsen (R) · norlin.mommsen@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 0 for, 4 against

Against: Iowa Association of School Boards; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

In plain words

March 5, 2019Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
March 5, 2019House subcommittee named: Wheeler, Donahue and Mommsen