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Relating to the date for an election to authorize the issuance of certain indebtedness by school districts
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 12, 2023
- 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 School districts would only be allowed to hold elections for borrowing money or issuing bonds on the regular school election date in November. If a natural disaster occurs, districts could instead hold these elections on a special election date. This change affects how and when voters decide on funding for school buildings, land, and athletic fields.1
Read the official explanation
25 percent of the assessed value of the taxable property, school districts are authorized in Code chapter 296 to contract indebtedness up to percent of the actual value of the taxable value and to issue general obligation bonds to provide funds to defray the cost of purchasing, building, furnishing, reconstructing, repairing, improving or remodeling a schoolhouse or schoolhouses and additions thereto, gymnasium, stadium, field house, school bus garage, teachers’ or superintendent’s home or homes, and procuring a site or sites for such buildings, or purchasing land to add to a site already owned, or procuring and improving a site for an athletic field, or improving a site already owned for an athletic field. This bill limits elections for the contracting of indebtedness and the issuance of bonds by school districts under Code chapter 296 to only being conducted on the regular school election date, which is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year. However, if the purpose of contracting indebtedness or issuing bonds is the result of a natural disaster, the bill authorizes the election to be held on any date authorized for school district special elections.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 12, 2023. Meeting: Tuesday, January 17 · 4:30 PM · Room 315.
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Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
0 for · 5 against · 3 undecided · Who →
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. None got through a chamber.
- HF 96 Relating to the date for an election to authorize the issuance of certain indebtedness by …89th General Assembly · In committee · nearly identicalCleared committee
- HF 2060 Relating to the date for an election to authorize the issuance of certain indebtedness by …88th General Assembly · In committee · very similarCleared committee
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