HF 603: Relating to school safety, including grant programs, attendance center standards, and emergency planning, and making appropriations

What it does

This bill relates to school safety, including grant programs, attendance center standards, and emergency planning. The bill provides that if moneys are appropriated by the general assembly, DE is required to establish an attendance center doors grant program to provide grants to applicant school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to allow such schools to purchase doors that comply with the bill’s requirements related to locks on attendance center doors.

House subcommittee · named March 24, 2025

• Rep. Dan Gehlbach (R) · dan.gehlbach@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. David L. Blom (R) · david.blom@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Timi M. Brown-Powers (D) · timi.brown-powers@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Amy Nielsen (D) · amy.nielsen@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Henry Stone (R) · henry.stone@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 6 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Association of School Boards; Master Builders of Iowa; Professional Educators of Iowa; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

In plain words

1. February 26, 2025Filed in the House and sent to the Appropriations committee
2. March 24, 2025House subcommittee named: Gehlbach, Blom, Brown-Powers, Nielsen and Stone
3. March 25, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it