Authorizing the use of revenues from the district management levy for the employment of school resource officers and including applicability provisions

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2022
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 12, 2022
3. ✕
   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill authorizes the use of revenues from the district management levy for the employment of school resource officers. Under current law, the board of directors of a school district may certify for levy a tax on all taxable property in the school district for a district management levy. The bill authorizes revenues from the district management levy to be expended to pay the costs of employing a school resource officer. The bill defines “school resource officer” to mean a career law enforcement officer, with sworn authority, deployed in community-oriented policing, and assigned by the employing police department or agency to work in collaboration with schools and community-based organizations to address crime and disorder problems, gangs, and drug activities affecting or occurring in or around an elementary or secondary school; to develop or expand crime prevention efforts for students; to educate likely school-age victims in crime prevention and safety; to develop or expand community justice initiatives for students; to train students in conflict resolution, restorative justice, and crime awareness; to assist in the identification of physical changes in the environment that may reduce crime in or around the school; and to assist in developing school policy that addresses crime and to recommend procedural changes.

Full bill text¹

House subcommittee

Named January 12, 2022. On January 25, 2022 it recommended indefinite postponement. Vote Total: 3-0.

• Rep. Skyler Wheeler REmail
• Rep. Mary Mascher D
• Rep. Sandy Salmon REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§298.4

How the Code works²