SF 2507: Relating to state and local government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds, making corrections, and providing for properly related matters including the national electrical code, local civil rights laws, political party state central committees, noxious weeds, nonresident deer hunting licenses, proprietary treatment systems, poultry associations, tax credits, alternative nicotine and vapor products, public assistance programs, judicial branch and county attorney salaries, civil litigation abuse, human trafficking, federal grants and loans notifications, quarterly payments to area education agencies, civic proficiency in higher education, charter schools under the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, school district incentives, extracurricular interscholastic eligibility, and levy increases, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions

What it does

APPROPRIATIONS, DISTRIBUTIONS, TRANSFERS, AND EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY. This bill limits or reduces the standing appropriations for FY 2026-2027 for payment of claims for nonpublic school pupil transportation and instructional support state aid; provides for the use of federal incentive payments by the department of workforce development for FY 2025-2026 and FY 2026-2027; transfers federal coronavirus aid moneys to the health and human services information technology fund and appropriates moneys in that fund for FY 2026-2027 for various projects; authorizes salary adjustments to be funded for FY 2026-2027 as determined by the department of management from unappropriated moneys in certain special funds; makes an appropriation from the sports wagering receipts fund each fiscal year for the double up food bucks program; provides for expenditure each fiscal year of unencumbered and unobligated moneys appropriated for the future ready Iowa registered apprenticeship development program and future ready Iowa expanded registered apprenticeship opportunities program; and increases the reduction each fiscal year to state aid for school district special education support services funding and appropriates moneys from the reduction beginning in FY 2027-2028.

Lobbying · 7 for, 5 against

For: Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Nut Growers Association; Iowa Woodland Owners Association; Iowans for Tax Relief; Lutheran Services in IA, Inc.; State Policy Network

Against: IBEW Iowa State Conference; Iowa Safe Schools; Iowa State Bar Association; One Iowa; One Iowa Action

In plain words

1. May 2, 2026Filed in the Senate
2. May 3, 2026Approved by the Senate committee
3. May 3, 2026Withdrawn