HF 96: Relating to the date for an election to authorize the issuance of certain indebtedness by school districts

What it does

F.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.

House subcommittee · named February 3, 2021

• Rep. Mike Sexton (R)
• Rep. Robert P. Bacon (R)
• Rep. Molly Donahue (D) · molly.donahue@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 1 for, 5 against

For: Iowans for Tax Relief

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

In plain words

1. January 15, 2021Filed in the House and sent to the State Government committee
2. February 3, 2021House subcommittee named: Sexton, Bacon and Donahue