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Establishing the national FFA organization advisors competitive grant program within the department of education and making appropriations
Topics:State budgetK–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 8, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 17, 2024
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa will create a new grant program to help school districts pay for teachers who work with the national FFA organization. The state will provide $500,000 every year to a special fund to pay for these grants. This money is meant to add to what schools already spend on these teachers rather than replacing their current funding.1
Read the official explanation
This bill establishes the national FFA organization advisors competitive grant program within the department of education (DE) to provide grants under the program to school districts to help offset the cost associated with employing teachers who are involved in the national FFA organization. The bill requires DE to adopt rules to administer the program. The bill provides that moneys awarded under the program shall be used to supplement, not supplant, existing public funding used by a school district for similar purposes. The bill establishes a national FFA organization advisors competitive grant program fund and transfers $500,000 from the general fund of the state to this new fund each fiscal year beginning in FY 2024-2025.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 17, 2024. On February 1, 2024 it recommended passage. [].
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
1 written public comment to its subcommittee: February 1, 2024 (1) · on the Legislature’s site