Relating to the transportation to and from school of pupils participating in open enrollment

Where it is now

Done: IntroducedFebruary 17, 2025
Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 19, 2025
Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
Next: Passes the Senate
Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
Next: Passes the House
Next: To the Governor
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 relates to the transportation to and from school of pupils participating in open enrollment. Current law provides that a receiving district with a total enrollment of less than 2,000 students may send school vehicles not more than two miles into the district of residence of the pupil who open enrolls, for the purpose of transporting the pupil to and from school in the receiving district, if the pupil’s primary residence is closer to the attendance center the pupil attends in the receiving district than the residence is to the attendance center the pupil would be assigned in the sending district.

Read the full explanation

The bill modifies this provision to allow a receiving district with a total enrollment of less than 2,000 students to send school vehicles into the district of residence of the pupil who open enrolls, for the purpose of transporting the pupil to and from school in the receiving district, if the pupil’s primary residence is closer to the attendance center the pupil attends in the receiving district than the residence is to the attendance center the pupil would be assigned in the sending district, without any restrictions related to mileage. Current law also provides that a receiving district with a total enrollment of at least 2,000 students may send school vehicles two miles or more into the district of residence of the pupil who open enrolls, regardless of the distance between the pupil’s primary residence and the attendance center the pupil attends in the receiving district or the attendance center the pupil would be assigned in the sending district, if certain specified requirements are satisfied. The bill strikes the two-mile provision. The bill modifies this provision to provide that a receiving district with a total enrollment of at least 2,000 students may send school vehicles into the district of residence of the pupil who open enrolls, regardless of the distance between the pupil’s primary residence and the attendance center the pupil attends in the receiving district or the attendance center the pupil would be assigned in the sending district, if certain specified requirements are satisfied, without any restrictions related to mileage.

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 February 19, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§282.18

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Lobbying

0 for · 4 against · 1 undecided · Who →

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.

Tried before

HF 72Cleared committee90th GA HF 41Renumbered90th GA HF 2278Became law90th GA HF 134Renumbered90th GA

91st General Assembly

SF 332Cleared committee

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. A version became law.

HF 134 Relating to the transportation to and from school of pupils participating in open enrollme…
90th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 2278 · same title
Cleared committee
HF 2278 Relating to the transportation to and from school of pupils participating in open enrollme…
90th General Assembly · Signed by Governor · same title
Became law
HF 41 Relating to the transportation to and from school of pupils participating in open enrollme…
90th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 134 · same title
Cleared committee
HF 72 Relating to the transportation to and from school of pupils participating in open enrollme…
90th General Assembly · In committee · same title
Cleared committee
SF 29 Relating to the transportation to and from school of pupils participating in open enrollme…
90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 485 · same title
Cleared committee
SF 485 Relating to the transportation to and from school of pupils participating in open enrollme…
90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same title
Cleared committee

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.