SF 2183: Providing for the Iowa individual income tax checkoff for public schools and the public school checkoff fund, making appropriations, and providing for implementation of the checkoff on the return

What it does

This bill provides that taxpayers filing individual income tax returns will be allowed to designate $1 or more on the return to be paid to the public school checkoff fund. The bill creates the public school checkoff fund in the state treasury under the control of the department of management (DOM). The bill requires the department of revenue to annually remit moneys collected from the checkoff to the fund. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2027, and each fiscal year thereafter, moneys available in the fund are appropriated to DOM to be used to provide a funding supplement to each school district during the fiscal year.

Senate subcommittee · named February 4, 2026

• Sen. Adrian Dickey (R) · adrian.dickey@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Tony Bisignano (D) · tony.bisignano@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Jeff Taylor (R) · jeff.taylor@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 5 for, 0 against

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

In plain words

1. February 3, 2026Filed in the Senate and sent to the Ways and Means committee
2. February 4, 2026Senate subcommittee named: Dickey, Bisignano and Taylor
3. February 24, 2026Subcommittee recommended passing it with changes