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Relating to the state school foundation program and the calculation of minimum state foundation aid for school districts and including applicability provisions
Sponsored by Sen. David D. Rowley (R)
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 16, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 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
1 provides that for a budget year, each school district in the state is entitled to receive foundation aid in an amount per pupil equal to the difference between the amount per pupil of foundation property tax in the district and the combined foundation base per pupil or the combined district cost per pupil, whichever is less, and subject to a $300 per pupil minimum unless the receipt of $300 per pupil plus the per pupil amount raised by the foundation property tax exceeds the combined district cost per pupil of the district for the budget year, in which case the district gets an amount per pupil equal to the difference.
Read the full explanation
The “combined foundation base” is defined as the sum of the regular program foundation base, the special education support services foundation base, the total teacher salary supplement district cost, the total professional development supplement district cost, the total early intervention supplement district cost, the total teacher leadership supplement district cost, and the total area education agency teacher salary supplement district cost. This bill modifies the calculation of foundation aid to be an amount equal to the difference between the amount of foundation property tax in the district and the combined foundation base for the district. However, if the amount of foundation aid to be received by a school district is less than the state foundation aid minimum for the district, the district is entitled to receive state foundation aid in an amount equal to the state foundation aid minimum. minimum” means the sum of the total teacher salary supplement district cost, the total professional development supplement district cost, the total early intervention supplement district cost, and the total teacher leadership supplement district cost.3 exceeds the combined foundation base, the department of management is required to reduce the district’s foundation property tax to be collected by the amount by which such sum exceeds the combined foundation base and adjust the district’s foundation property tax rate accordingly. The bill also strikes definitions made obsolete by the bill. The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 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 January 28, 2025. On February 6, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Iowa Code it changes
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Lobbying
1 for · 0 against · 7 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
91st General Assembly
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. None got through a chamber.
- HF 294 Relating to the state school foundation program and the calculation of minimum state found…90th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2001 Relating to the state school foundation program and the calculation of minimum state found…90th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same titleCleared committee
- SF 276 Relating to the state school foundation program and the calculation of minimum state found…90th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2136 Relating to the state school foundation program and the calculation of minimum state found…89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2248 Relating to the state school foundation program and the calculation of minimum state found…89th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · same titleCleared 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.