Bills › 91st General Assembly
Relating to incentives for whole grade sharing and school district reorganization or dissolution
Topics:K–12 education
Same legislation: SF 444
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 30, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 25, 2025
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 444 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 444 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill extends certain incentives for whole grade sharing by school districts and for school district reorganization or dissolution from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2030. The bill provides for a reduced uniform levy as an incentive for school districts that reorganize on or before July 1, 2030. School districts that execute a whole grade sharing agreement and adopt a resolution to study the effect of undergoing a reorganization or dissolution to take effect on or before July 1, 2030, are allowed to receive a weighting of one-tenth of the percentage of a student’s school day during which the student attends classes in another district, is taught by a teacher jointly employed, or attends classes taught by a teacher employed by another district.
Read the full explanation
This supplementary weighting is available for not more than three years. However, a school district that reorganizes before July 1, 2030, is eligible, for up to three years following reorganization, to continue to receive supplementary weighting in an amount that is equal to the funding that the district received in the year preceding the effective date of its reorganization. The bill does not affect the combined maximum total six-year limitation on a school district’s eligibility for supplementary weighting.
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 12, 2025. On February 17, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Fiscal note
The estimated fiscal impact of all provisions in the Bill is currently unknown and will depend on the number of districts eligible to receive supplementary weighting for whole grade sharing and joint employment, as well as the number of districts that start or continue to make progress toward reorganization.
- School District Reorganization Incentives · March 4, 2025
Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note
Iowa Code it changes
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Lobbying
7 for · 0 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.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 138 Relating to incentives for whole grade sharing and school district reorganization or disso…88th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 602 · same titleCleared committee
- SF 602 Relating to incentives for whole grade sharing and school district reorganization or disso…88th General Assembly · Withdrawn · same titleDidn’t advance
Similar bills this General Assembly
- SF 2403 Relating to incentives for whole grade sharing and school district reorganization or disso…91st General Assembly · Approved by committeeNearly identical
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.