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91st General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 2231: Relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the protected speech and expression rights of students, modifying provisions related to the duties of the department of education, and modifying eligibility and participation requirements for certain education programs, preschool programs, and tax provisions, providing civil penalties, and including retroactive applicability provisions

Signed into law

What it does

This bill relates to eligibility and participation requirements for certain education programs, preschool programs, and tax provisions. Under current law, a school district may enter into a Code chapter 28E agreement with a community-based provider with respect to the statewide preschool program for four-year-old children. If a school district does so, pupils enrolled in the school district’s approved local program may receive services from the community-based provider, and not less than percent of the per pupil amount paid to the school district under the statewide preschool program must be passed through to the community-based provider.

Sponsors

Sen. Amy Sinclair (R)

Cost

Can’t be estimated

The fiscal impact of the section of the Bill requiring school districts to enter into 28E agreements with community-based providers is undetermined because it is unknown whether there will be an increase in SWVPP due to additional pupils participating in presc…

House subcommittee · named March 10, 2026

  • Rep. Samantha Fett (R) · samantha.fett@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Dan Gehlbach (R) · dan.gehlbach@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Heather Matson (D) · heather.matson@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 8 for, 10 against

For: 1st Amendment Partnership; ADF Action; Inspired Life; Iowa Association of Christian Schools; Iowa Baptists For Biblical Values; Iowa Catholic Conference; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation

Against: Common Good Iowa; Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers; Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council; Iowa State Education Association; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

In plain words

  1. February 9, 2026Filed in the Senate
  2. February 9, 2026Approved by the Senate committee
  3. March 2, 2026Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  4. March 3, 2026Passed the Senate, 30–14
  5. March 4, 2026Arrived in the House
  6. March 10, 2026House subcommittee named: Fett, Gehlbach and Matson
  7. March 16, 2026Subcommittee recommended passing it
  8. March 19, 2026Approved by the House committee
  9. March 19, 2026Committee vote: 16–7
  10. April 7, 2026Approved by the House committee
  11. April 7, 2026Committee vote: 17–8
  12. April 8, 2026Passed the House, 63–25
  13. April 20, 2026Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  14. April 20, 2026Passed the Senate, 28–16
  15. May 5, 2026Sent to the Governor
  16. May 19, 2026Signed into law
  17. May 22, 2026Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/91/SF2231