SF 121: 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 31, 2023

• Sen. Lynn Evans (R) · lynn.evans@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Chris Cournoyer (R)
• Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D) · sarah.trone.garriott@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 2 for, 0 against

For: Rural School Advocates of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

In plain words

1. January 24, 2023Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee
2. January 31, 2023Senate subcommittee named: Evans, Cournoyer and Trone Garriott