Relating to the calculation of education funding for children living in certain facilities and including applicability provisions

Sponsored by the House Education Committee

Topics:State budget K–12 education

Same legislation: SSB 1071, HSB 106, SF 287

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2021
Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 21, 2021
Done: House committeeJanuary 28, 2021
Done: Passes the HouseFebruary 10, 2021
Done: Senate committeeApril 1, 2021
Done: Passes the SenateApril 7, 202144–0
Done: To the GovernorApril 30, 2021
Done: Signed into lawApril 30, 2021

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What’s in it

AI summary School districts can request money from the state to help children living in places like foster care, juvenile detention, or residential treatment centers. Instead of calculating this funding based on how many months a child is enrolled in school, the new rule uses the number of days they are enrolled. This change affects how much money schools receive to provide services for these students.¹

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This bill modifies the methodology used to calculate the amount of funding a school district may request from the department of education for providing services to certain children living in an approved or licensed shelter care home or an approved juvenile detention home, and by operation of law children living in certain residential treatment facilities, a psychiatric unit or institution, or in a child foster care facility or placement. The current law methodology uses, in part, a calculation based on the number of months children were enrolled in the district. The bill changes the calculation to be, in part, based on the number of days children are enrolled in the district. The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2021.

Full bill text · What changed before it passed²

House subcommittee

Named January 21, 2021 (as HSB 106). On January 26, 2021 it recommended passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§282.31

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Lobbying

1 for · 0 against · 7 undecided · Who →

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HSB 106Renumbered SSB 1071Renumbered

89th General Assembly

HF 317Became lawfrom HSB 106 SF 287Didn’t advancefrom SSB 1071