Modifying the earliest possible start date of the school calendar for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeFebruary 4, 2025
4. ✕
   Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the House
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 modifies the earliest possible start date of the school calendar for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools. Current law provides that the school calendar for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools shall begin no sooner than August 23. The bill modifies this provision to provide that the school calendar shall, instead, begin no sooner than the Monday immediately preceding the last Monday in August.

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

Senate subcommittee

Named January 15, 2026. On January 21, 2026 it recommended passage.

• Sen. Tom Shipley REmail
• Sen. Lynn Evans REmail
• Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§279.10

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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.

• SF 2010 Modifying the earliest possible start date of the school calendar for school districts and…
  90th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same title
  Cleared committee

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