90th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Wednesday, November 11, 2026
SF 49: Relating to the date for an election to authorize the issuance of certain indebtedness by school districts
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
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.
Sponsors
Not listed
Cost
No fiscal note
Senate subcommittee · named January 12, 2023
- Sen. Sandy Salmon (R) · sandy.salmon@legis.iowa.gov
- Sen. Chris Cournoyer (R)
- Sen. Janice Weiner (D) · janice.weiner@legis.iowa.gov
Lobbying · 0 for, 5 against
Against: Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa State Education Association; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa
In plain words
- January 11, 2023Filed in the Senate and sent to the State Government committee
- January 12, 2023Senate subcommittee named: Salmon, Cournoyer and Weiner
From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Wednesday, November 11, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/SF49