Bills › 91st General Assembly
Establishing an agriculture education grant program within the department of education and making appropriations
Sponsored by the House Education Committee, Rep. Chad Ingels (R), Rep. Shannon Latham (R)
Topics:State budgetK–12 education
Same legislation: HF 33
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 30, 2025
- Done: House committeeFebruary 11, 2025
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill establishes an agriculture education grant program within the department of education (DE) to expand student access to instruction related to agriculture, food, and natural resources.20 (career and technical agriculture education), and “personal services costs” as the costs associated with a school district employing a teacher for a maximum of days of additional instruction outside of the teacher’s regularly scheduled teaching duties to provide instruction in an agriculture education program.
Read the full explanation
The bill authorizes school districts to apply to DE for grants under the program to offset the personal services costs associated with employing teachers to provide instruction in an agriculture education program. The department of education may award a grant to a school district under the program totaling 100 percent of the teacher’s personal services costs if the school district’s agriculture education program has existed for less than consecutive years and totaling percent of the teacher’s personal services costs for all other programs. School districts must use these moneys to supplement, not supplant, existing public funding used by a school district for similar purposes. The bill establishes an agriculture education grant program fund in the state treasury. The bill requires DE to develop and make available to school districts a statewide system to track the time teachers devote to instruction facilitated by grants provided under the program. The bill requires the state board of education to adopt rules to administer the program.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
House subcommittee
Named March 24, 2025. On March 26, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Iowa Code it changes
Creates§256.20
Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works
Lobbying
17 for · 1 against · 1 undecided · Who →
Family tree
Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 559 Establishing an agriculture education grant program within the department of education and…90th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same titleCleared committee
- HF 389 Establishing an agriculture education grant program within the department of education and…90th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 559 · same titleCleared committee
Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.