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

SF 578: Relating to state finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of certain unappropriated moneys, making corrections, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions

Signed into law

What it does

APPROPRIATIONS, DISTRIBUTIONS, TRANSFERS, AND EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY.21 relating to certain property assessment limitations. The bill authorizes salary adjustments to be funded as determined by the department of management (DOM) from unappropriated moneys in certain special funds.55(2), but shall instead be distributed as provided in the bill. Under the bill, moneys are first transferred to the general fund of the state in an amount equal to the difference in foundation property tax statewide based on 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 181, to pay foundation aid under Code chapter 257 for FY 2023-2024.

Sponsors

Appropriations committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 0 for, 2 against

Against: Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa

In plain words

  1. May 2, 2023Filed in the Senate
  2. May 2, 2023Approved by the Senate committee
  3. May 3, 2023Passed the Senate, 31–16
  4. May 3, 2023Took the place of HF 729 on the House floor (the same legislation)
  5. May 3, 2023Passed the House, 55–38
  6. May 11, 2023Sent to the Governor
  7. June 1, 2023Signed into law

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/SF578