Relating to establishing the school security personnel grant program within the department of homeland security and emergency management and making appropriations

Where it is now

Done: IntroducedMarch 4, 2025
Done: SubcommitteeMarch 6, 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 establishes the school security personnel grant program within the department of homeland security and emergency management. Current law requires each school district with a total enrollment of at least 8,000 students to employ, or retain the services of, at least one private school security officer or school resource officer to guard each attendance center where students enrolled in grade 9, 10, 11, or regularly attend classes, unless a majority of the members of the board of directors of the school district vote to not employ or retain a private school security officer or a school resource officer.

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Current law also encourages each school district with a total enrollment of less than 8,000 students to employ, or retain the services of, at least one private school security officer or school resource officer to guard each attendance center where students enrolled in grade 9, 10, 11, or regularly attend classes. The bill requires the department of homeland security and emergency management to develop and administer a school security personnel grant program to provide annual grants to match moneys provided by school districts to allow the school districts to offset costs associated with employing, or retaining the services of, a private school security officer or school resource officer to guard an attendance center within the school district. The amount of an annual grant provided by the department of homeland security and emergency management to a school district that has provided matching moneys shall not exceed $30,000. The bill establishes a school security personnel grant program fund in the state treasury and appropriates $9,750,000 from the general fund of the state to the school security personnel grant program fund for FY 2025-2026.

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 March 6, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§279.84

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

Lobbying

6 for · 0 against · 4 undecided · Who →