90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 2105: Raising the maximum amount of additional weighting a school district may receive for sharing operational functions and including applicability provisions

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 it does

11, in order to provide additional funding to increase student opportunities and redirect resources to student programming that share operation functions, a school district or area education agency that shares with another political subdivision one or more specified operational functions is assigned a supplementary weighting for each shared operational function. The maximum additional weighting that a school district may receive in one year is additional pupils. This bill raises the maximum amount of additional weighting a school district may receive for sharing operational functions to additional pupils.

Cost

Cost: up to $973,000

1 million beginning with FY 2026 and ending after FY 2035. The estimated increase will be funded with approximately $973,000 from the State General Fund and $96,000 from local property tax through the school aid formula.

Senate subcommittee · named January 25, 2024

Sen. Lynn Evans (R) · lynn.evans@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Eric Giddens (D)
Sen. Ken Rozenboom (R) · ken.rozenboom@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 5 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa State Education Association; Professional Educators of Iowa; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa

In plain words

January 24, 2024Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee
January 25, 2024Senate subcommittee named: Evans, Giddens and Rozenboom
February 1, 2024Subcommittee recommended passing it
February 7, 2024Approved by the Senate committee
February 9, 2024Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted