SF 2047: Prohibiting the expenditure of certain public moneys for dues or membership fees to high school organizations that do not meet certain requirements concerning school classifications for extracurricular interscholastic activities

What it does

This bill relates to the expenditure of public moneys for dues or membership fees to high school organizations that do not meet certain requirements concerning school classifications for extracurricular interscholastic activities. The bill defines “extracurricular interscholastic activity” as a contest or competition for academics, arts, music, speech, or sports between different schools and outside the regular scope of a school’s curriculum. The bill defines “organization” as a corporation, association, or organization which has as one of its primary purposes the sponsoring or administration of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, but does not include an agency of this state, a public or private school or school board, or an athletic conference or other association whose interscholastic contests or competitions do not include more than schools.

Senate subcommittee · named January 24, 2022

• Sen. Tim Goodwin (R)
• Sen. Amy Sinclair (R) · amy.sinclair@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. J. Smith

Lobbying · 0 for, 2 against

Against: Iowa Association of Christian Schools; Iowa Catholic Conference

In plain words

1. January 13, 2022Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee
2. January 24, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Goodwin, Sinclair and J. Smith