Bills › 91st General Assembly

Modifying provisions related to the effective date of school district enlargements, reorganizations, changes in boundaries, and dissolutions, and including retroactive applicability provisions

Sponsored by Sen. Amy Sinclair (R)

Topics:K–12 education

Same legislation: HF 10, HF 174, SF 171

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
  2. Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 27, 2025
  3. Done: Senate committeeJanuary 30, 2025
  4. Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 171
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Became SF 171 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 171 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary This law changes when school district changes, like merging or moving boundaries, actually start happening. If voters approve these changes on or after January 1, 2025, the changes will take effect the following July. This affects school districts and the communities within them.1

Read the official explanation

This bill modifies provisions related to the effective date of school district enlargements, reorganizations, changes in boundaries, and dissolutions. Current law provides that when a school district is enlarged, reorganized, or changes its boundary, the change shall take effect on July following the date of the reorganization election. The bill modifies this provision to provide that, if the proposition was approved prior to January 1, 2025, the change shall take effect on July following the date of the reorganization election, and if the proposition was approved on or after January 1, 2025, the change shall take effect on July in the calendar year immediately subsequent to the calendar year in which the reorganization election was held. Current law provides that the attachment of territory of a school district that is subject to an approved dissolution proposal is effective July following such approval. The bill modifies this provision to provide that, if the proposition was approved prior to January 1, 2025, the attachment is effective July following such approval, and if the proposition was approved on or after January 1, 2025, the attachment is effective July in the calendar year immediately subsequent to the calendar year in which the attachment was approved. The bill is retroactively applicable to January 1, 2025.

Full bill text · What changed before it passed2

Senate subcommittee

Named January 27, 2025. On January 28, 2025 it recommended passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§275.24§275.55

How the Code works3

Lobbying

5 for · 0 against · 7 undecided · Who →

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