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89th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Tuesday, November 10, 2026

SSB 3047: SSB 3047

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 it does

This bill relates to education, including the education of students who are not fully English proficient and the standards applicable to the hiring, developing, and evaluation of community college faculty. The bill modifies the Code to replace references to a student who is “limited English proficient” with “English learner”. Current law requires a community-college administration to establish a committee consisting of instructors and administrators to develop a plan for hiring and developing quality faculty that includes several provisions.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named January 19, 2022

  • Sen. Annette Sweeney (R) · annette.sweeney@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Craig Johnson (R) · craig.johnson@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Jackie Smith (D)

Lobbying · 2 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Annual Conference of United Methodist Church; Iowa Department of Education

In plain words

  1. January 19, 2022Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee
  2. January 19, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Sweeney, Johnson, Smith and J
  3. January 25, 2022Subcommittee recommended passing it
  4. January 26, 2022Approved by the Senate committee

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Tuesday, November 10, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SSB3047