Bill Text: IA SF2190 | 2023-2024 | 90th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to school district enrollment calculations for the purposes of the secure an advanced vision for education fund. (Formerly SF 2006.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-01 - Committee report, approving bill. S.J. 202. [SF2190 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2023-SF2190-Introduced.html
Senate File 2190 - Introduced SENATE FILE 2190 BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO SF 2006) A BILL FOR An Act relating to school district enrollment calculations for 1 the purposes of the secure an advanced vision for education 2 fund. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5592SV (1) 90 dg/jh
S.F. 2190 Section 1. Section 423F.3, subsection 5, unnumbered 1 paragraph 1, Code 2024, is amended to read as follows: 2 A school district with a certified enrollment plus the 3 number of students who open enroll into the district of 4 fewer than two hundred fifty pupils in the entire district 5 or certified enrollment plus the number of students who open 6 enroll into a high school in the district of fewer than one 7 hundred pupils in high school shall not expend the amount 8 received for new construction without prior application to the 9 department of education and receipt of a certificate of need 10 pursuant to this subsection . A certificate of need is not 11 required for repairing schoolhouses or buildings, equipment, 12 technology, or transportation equipment for transporting 13 students as provided in section 298.3 , or for construction 14 necessary for compliance with the federal Americans With 15 Disabilities Act pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §12101 12117. In 16 determining whether a certificate of need shall be issued or 17 denied, the department shall consider all of the following: 18 EXPLANATION 19 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 20 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 21 This bill relates to school district enrollment calculations 22 for the purposes of the secure an advanced vision for education 23 (SAVE) fund. 24 On July 1, 2008, the state’s local sales and use taxes 25 increased from 5 to 6 percent. The increase is used solely to 26 fund the SAVE fund, and the SAVE fund is used solely to provide 27 revenues to local school districts for school infrastructure 28 purposes or school district property tax relief. 29 One requirement of the SAVE fund is that a school with a 30 certified enrollment of fewer than 250 pupils in the entire 31 district or certified enrollment of fewer than 100 pupils 32 in high school may not expend amounts received for new 33 construction without prior application to the department of 34 education and receipt of a certificate of need. The bill 35 -1- LSB 5592SV (1) 90 dg/jh 1/ 2
S.F. 2190 changes this requirement to a certified enrollment plus the 1 number of students who open enroll into the district of fewer 2 than 250 or certified enrollment of district high schools plus 3 the number of students who open enroll into a high school in 4 the district of fewer than 100 pupils. 5 -2- LSB 5592SV (1) 90 dg/jh 2/ 2
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