Relating to severance payments provided for in school administrator employment contracts and including applicability provisions

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 25, 2025
2. ✕
   Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
3. Next: House committeeFunnel: by February 20, 2026
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. 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 provides that if an employment contract between a school board and an administrator provides for one or more severance payments, the contract shall contain a statement that the administrator shall not receive such payments if the contract is terminated as a result of the administrator being found guilty in a criminal proceeding on a charge relating to the administrator’s official duties or a dereliction thereof for which the period for appeal has passed, other than a proceeding regarding a simple misdemeanor or a parking violation. The bill applies to contracts entered into or continued on or after the effective date of the bill.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§279.23

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.

• SF 2388 Relating to severance payments provided for in school administrator employment contracts a…
  90th General Assembly · Passed Senate · same title
  Passed a chamber
• SF 2041 Relating to severance payments provided for in school administrator employment contracts a…
  90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2388 · same title
  Cleared committee

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