HF 2009: Authorizing the use of revenues from the district management levy for the employment of school resource officers and including applicability provisions

What it does

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.

House subcommittee · named January 12, 2022

• Rep. Skyler Wheeler (R) · skyler.wheeler@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Mary Mascher (D)
• Rep. Sandy Salmon (R) · sandy.salmon@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 7 for, 2 against

For: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa State Education Association; Professional Educators of Iowa; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

Against: Iowa Conference of United Methodist Church; Iowa Farm Bureau Federation

In plain words

1. January 11, 2022Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
2. January 12, 2022House subcommittee named: Wheeler, Mascher and Salmon
3. January 25, 2022Subcommittee recommended against it