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Relating to teacher and education support professional compensation, including teacher salary supplement cost per pupil calculations, teacher minimum starting salary requirements, Iowa public employees’ retirement system bona fide retirement requirements, and school district budget statement reporting, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions
Sponsored by the House Appropriations (successor To Hsb 714) Committee
Topics:State budgetK–12 educationJobs & workersTeacher pay & licensing
Same legislation: HF 2611
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 19, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 22, 2024
- Done: House committeeFebruary 26, 2024
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 7, 202493–1
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to school funding, including the teacher salary supplement cost per pupil and teacher and education support professional compensation. Currently, Code chapter 284 (teacher compensation) provides that the minimum annual salary for an initial teacher who has successfully completed an approved practitioner preparation program or holds an initial or intern teacher license issued by the board of educational examiners (BOEE) shall be at least $33,500. For the 2024-2025 school year, the bill increases the minimum teacher starting salary to $47,500.
Read the full explanation
For school years beginning on or after July 1, 2026, the bill increases the minimum teacher starting salary to $50,000. The bill defines “education support personnel” as regular and part-time employees of a school district who are not salaried. For the budget year beginning July 1, 2024, the department of management must calculate a teacher salary supplement district cost per pupil in an amount equal to the sum of the amount necessary to allow the school district to provide the minimum starting teacher salary, the amount necessary, not to exceed $14 million in the aggregate among all school districts, to allow each school district to provide a minimum education support personnel (ESP) wage of $15 per hour including costs associated with the employer’s share of contributions to the Iowa public employees’ retirement system and the employer’s share of the tax imposed by the federal Insurance Contributions Act, and $22 million to supplement teacher salaries and ESP wages in a manner that promotes quality teaching and rewards experience that will be divided based on each school district’s percentage of the statewide total budget enrollment for the budget year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024. The bill requires similar calculations in the budget year beginning July 1, 2025, to account for the increase in the minimum annual teacher salary. The bill also provides that the amount calculated related to ESP wage increases and quality teaching and experience reward supplements shall grow by the categorical state percent of growth. For budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2026, the amounts for teacher minimum salaries, ESP wage increases, and quality teaching and experience reward supplements shall all grow by the categorical state percent of growth. The bill makes conforming changes.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Senate subcommittee
Named March 13, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Fiscal note
Cost: up to $50,000 Compare with other bills
4 million compared to estimated FY 2024. 4 million (not including any adjustment to the pay scale a district may make) due to the increase to $47,500 in the minimum initial teacher salary. 0 million. 0 million. 2 million compared to estimated FY 2024. 8 million (not including any adjustment to the pay scale a district may make) due to increasing the minimum initial teacher salary to $50,000. 00%.
- Teacher Compensation · March 20, 2024
- Teacher Compensation · March 4, 2024
Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§257.10§284.15§284.16§284.17
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Lobbying
8 for · 0 against · 1 undecided · Who →
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