Bill Text: IA SF2443 | 2023-2024 | 90th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to state government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds, providing for properly related matters including the state government efficiency review committee and teacher salary supplement district cost per pupil calculations, making corrections, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3208.) Effective date: Enactment, 05/09/2024, 07/01/2024, 01/01/2025. Conditional applicability date.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2024-05-20 - NOBA: Final [SF2443 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2023-SF2443-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 2443 - Enrolled
Senate File 2443
AN ACT
RELATING TO STATE GOVERNMENT AND FINANCES, INCLUDING BY
MAKING, MODIFYING, LIMITING, OR REDUCING APPROPRIATIONS,
DISTRIBUTIONS, OR TRANSFERS, AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURE OF
UNAPPROPRIATED MONEYS IN SPECIAL FUNDS, PROVIDING FOR
PROPERLY RELATED MATTERS INCLUDING THE STATE GOVERNMENT
EFFICIENCY REVIEW COMMITTEE AND TEACHER SALARY SUPPLEMENT
DISTRICT COST PER PUPIL CALCULATIONS, MAKING CORRECTIONS,
AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE DATE, APPLICABILITY, AND RETROACTIVE
APPLICABILITY PROVISIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

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DIVISION I
APPROPRIATIONS, DISTRIBUTIONS, TRANSFERS, AND EXPENDITURE
AUTHORITY
Section 1. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION —— EDUCATION SUPPORT
PERSONNEL SALARY SUPPLEMENT —— FY 2024-2025. There is
appropriated from the general fund of the state to the
department of education for the fiscal year beginning July
1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, the following amount, or
so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
designated:
To supplement education support personnel compensation, as
described in 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 2612, section 52:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 14,000,000
Moneys appropriated in this section are miscellaneous income
as defined in section 257.2 and shall not be included in any
computation of district cost under chapter 257 for any budget
year.
Sec. 2. LIMITATIONS OF STANDING APPROPRIATIONS —— FY
2024-2025. Notwithstanding the standing appropriation in the
following designated section for the fiscal year beginning July
1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, the amount appropriated from
the general fund of the state pursuant to that section for the
following designated purpose shall not exceed the following
amount:
For payment of claims for nonpublic school pupil
transportation under section 285.2 :
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 8,997,091
If total approved claims for reimbursement for nonpublic
school pupil transportation exceed the amount appropriated in
accordance with this section, the department of education shall
prorate the amount of each approved claim.
Sec. 3. INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT STATE AID —— FY 2024-2025. In
lieu of the appropriation provided in section 257.20,
subsection 2, the appropriation for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, for paying
instructional support state aid under section 257.20 for the
fiscal year is zero.
Sec. 4. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. There is appropriated
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safety for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, and ending
June 30, 2025, the following amount, or so much thereof as is
necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
For providing personnel to conduct coordination, oversight,
technical assistance, and investigatory assistance to current
or new task forces to address the rise in illegal immigration
and related criminal conduct such as drug trafficking and
human trafficking, or as assigned by the commissioner of
public safety, and for not more than the following full-time
equivalent positions:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,000,000
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FTEs 12.00
Sec. 5. SPECIAL FUNDS —— SALARY ADJUSTMENTS —— FY
2024-2025. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, and
ending June 30, 2025, salary adjustments otherwise provided
may be funded as determined by the department of management,
subject to any applicable constitutional limitation, using
unappropriated moneys remaining in the commerce revolving
fund, the gaming enforcement revolving fund, the gaming
regulatory revolving fund, the primary road fund, the road
use tax fund, the fish and game protection fund, and the Iowa
public employees’ retirement fund, and in other departmental
revolving, trust, or special funds for which the general
assembly has not made an operating budget appropriation.
Sec. 6. DISTRIBUTIONS OF IOWA ECONOMIC EMERGENCY FUND
EXCESS —— FY 2023-2024. Notwithstanding section 8.55,
subsection 2, paragraphs “a” and “b”, for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, moneys in
excess of the maximum balance of the Iowa economic emergency
fund created in section 8.55 shall be distributed as follows:
1. a. Based on the application of assessment limitations
calculated under section 441.21 due to the enactment of 2023
Iowa Acts, chapter 5, of the amount that is the difference
between the actual net revenue for the general fund of the
state for the fiscal year and the adjusted revenue estimate for
the fiscal year, up to $8,000,000 is transferred to the general
fund of the state to be used in lieu of a like amount of other
general fund moneys to pay foundation aid under chapter 257 as
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1, 2024. The remaining amount, if any, is transferred to the
taxpayer relief fund created in section 8.57E.
b. If the amount transferred to the general fund of the
state under paragraph “a” is less than $8,000,000, an amount
equal to the difference is transferred from the taxpayer relief
fund created in section 8.57E to the general fund of the state
for the purposes specified in paragraph “a”.
2. The remaining moneys in excess of the maximum balance of
the Iowa economic emergency fund, if any, are transferred to
the general fund of the state.
Sec. 7. TAXPAYER RELIEF FUND —— TRANSFER.
1. There is transferred from the taxpayer relief fund
created in section 8.57E to the general fund of the state, the
following amount:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 13,881,303
2. The transfer made in this section is based on the
application of assessment limitations calculated under section
441.21 due to the enactment of 2023 Iowa Acts, chapter 5. The
transferred moneys shall be used in lieu of a like amount
of other general fund moneys to pay foundation aid under
chapter 257 as described in section 257.16 for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2024.
Sec. 8. Section 257.35, subsection 2, Code 2024, as amended
by 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 2612, section 30, is amended to
read as follows:
2. Notwithstanding the deduction and payment under
subsection 1 , the amounts specified for school districts and
area education agencies in subsection 1, paragraph “a” , for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, and each succeeding fiscal
year, shall be reduced by the department of management by seven
million five hundred thousand dollars. The department of
management shall calculate a reduction such that such amounts
shall be reduced proportionally to the amount that the district
or agency would otherwise have received under this section
if the reduction imposed pursuant to this subsection did not
apply.
Sec. 9. Section 257.35, Code 2024, is amended by adding the
following new subsection:
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addition to the reduction applicable pursuant to subsection 2,
the amounts specified for school districts and area education
agencies in subsection 1, paragraph “a” , for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, shall be
reduced by the department of management by fifteen million
dollars and, in addition, as a result of appropriations made
pursuant to 2024 Iowa Acts, Senate File 2435, if enacted, shall
be reduced by the department of management by ten million
dollars. The reductions for each district or agency shall be
prorated based on the proportional reduction that the district
or agency receives under subsection 2.
Sec. 10. EFFECTIVE DATE. The following, being deemed of
immediate importance, take effect upon enactment:
1. The section of this division of this Act providing for
distributions of moneys in excess of the maximum balance of the
Iowa economic emergency fund.
2. The section of this division of this Act amending section
257.35, subsection 2.
Sec. 11. APPLICABILITY. The following applies July 1, 2024,
for school budget years beginning on or after that date:
The section of this division of this Act amending section
257.35, subsection 2.
DIVISION II
CORRECTIVE PROVISIONS
Sec. 12. Section 135.194, subsection 3, paragraph h, if
enacted by 2024 Iowa Acts, Senate File 477, section 4, is
amended to read as follows:
h. “Legal guardian” means a person appointed by a court as
the guardian of a minor pursuant to chapter 633 232D , or the
parent or other person responsible for the care of the minor.
Sec. 13. Section 148J.2, subsection 1, paragraph a, if
enacted by 2024 Iowa Acts, Senate File 477, section 2, is
amended to read as follows:
a. The board shall grant a provisional license to practice
medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in
this state to an international physician with an offer for
employment as a physician at a health care facility in this
state. However, the board shall not grant a license pursuant
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possess a federal immigration status allowing the international
medical graduate physician to practice as a physician in the
United States, or to an international physician who fails to
obtain a passing score on the United States medical licensing
examination.
Sec. 14. Section 204.7, subsection 8, paragraph a,
subparagraph (3), Code 2024, as amended by 2024 Iowa Acts,
House File 2605, section 4, if enacted, is amended to read as
follows:
(3) The consumable hemp product complies with packaging
and labeling requirements, which shall be established by rules
adopted by the department of health and human services. Each
container storing a consumable hemp product shall be affixed
with a notice advising consumers regarding the risks associated
with its use. The department of health and human services
shall adopt rules regarding the language of the notice and its
display on the container.
Sec. 15. Section 204.14A, subsection 1B, if enacted by 2024
Iowa Acts, House File 2605, section 8, is amended to read as
follows:
1B. A person required to be registered to manufacture or
sell a consumable hemp product under section 204.7 shall not
manufacture, produce, distribute, market, or sell a synthetic
consumable hemp product, as defined by rules adopted by the
department of health and human services.
Sec. 16. Section 514C.3C, subsection 5, as enacted by 2024
Iowa Acts, House File 2400, section 1, is amended to read as
follows:
5. Rules. The commissioner may adopt rules pursuant to
chapter 17A to administer this chapter section .
Sec. 17. Section 521A.14, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
2024, as amended by 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 2490, section 6,
if enacted, is amended to read as follows:
a. For purposes of this section, “domestic mutual insurance
company” includes a company qualified and licensed in this
state pursuant to chapters chapter 518 and or 518A. A domestic
mutual insurance company, upon approval of the commissioner,
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of the reorganizing insurance company as a stock insurance
company. The commissioner, after a public hearing as provided
in section 521A.3, subsection 4 , paragraph “b” , if satisfied
that the interests of the policyholders are properly protected
and that the plan of reorganization is fair and equitable
to the policyholders, may approve the proposed plan of
reorganization and may require as a condition of approval
such modifications of the proposed plan of reorganization
as the commissioner finds necessary for the protection of
the policyholders’ interests. The commissioner may retain
consultants as provided in section 521A.3, subsection 4 ,
paragraph “d” . A reorganization pursuant to this section
is subject to section 521A.3, subsections 1, 2, and 3 . The
commissioner shall retain jurisdiction over a mutual insurance
holding company organized pursuant to this section to assure
that policyholder interests are protected.
Sec. 18. Section 554H.4, subsections 4, 5, and 6, if enacted
by 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 2464, section 4, are amended to
read as follows:
4. Upon receipt of notice under subsection 2 3 , the person
shall have sixty calendar days to cease the violation.
5. If the violation persists after the expiration of the
sixty-day period under subsection 3
4 , the attorney general
shall bring civil action in district court to enjoin further
violations by a person found to be in violation of this
chapter.
6. If a person knowingly or willfully fails to comply with
an injunction issued under subsection 4 5 , after sixty calendar
days of the date the person is served with the injunction, the
attorney general shall petition the district court to impose
civil penalties in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars
per violation of the injunction, taking into consideration the
financial resources of the violator and the harm or risk of
harm to the violator’s rights under the second amendment to the
Constitution of the United States and Article I, section 1A, of
the Constitution of the State of Iowa.
Sec. 19. 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 2421, section 1, if
enacted, is amended by striking the section and inserting in
lieu thereof the following:

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SECTION 1. Section 683.1, subsection 1, Code 2024, is
amended by adding the following new paragraphs:
NEW PARAGRAPH . 0b. “Federal firearms licensee” means any
person engaged in the business of importing, manufacturing, or
dealing in firearms as defined by the federal National Firearms
Act, 26 U.S.C. §5841, and who currently holds a valid license
according to provisions of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968,
18 U.S.C. §921.
NEW PARAGRAPH . c. “Firearm hold agreement” means a
private transaction between a federal firearms licensee and an
individual owner where the licensee takes possession of the
owner’s lawfully possessed firearm at the owner’s request,
holds the firearm for an agreed period of time, and returns the
firearm according to the terms of the transaction.
Sec. 20. Section 714.2B, subsection 4, as enacted by 2024
Iowa Acts, House File 2594, section 1, is amended to read as
follows:
4. The value of the retail merchandise received by the
defendant in violation of this section within any six-month
period may be aggregated and the defendant charged accordingly
in applying the provisions of this subdivision section ,
provided that when two or more offenses are committed by
the same person in two or more counties, the accused may
be prosecuted in any county in which one of the offenses
was committed for all of the offenses aggregated under this
subdivision section .
Sec. 21. Section 715D.3, subsection 1, paragraph b, if
enacted by 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 572, section 3, is
amended to read as follows:
b. Controls the flight of remotely piloted aircraft over
a secure farmstead area, if the secure farm farmstead area is
not owned or leased by the person, and the remotely piloted
aircraft remains over the secure farmstead area.
Sec. 22. Section 715D.4, subsection 1, paragraph b, if
enacted by 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 572, section 4, is
amended to read as follows:
b. Controls the flight of a remotely piloted aircraft
equipped with a surveillance device over a secure farmstead
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by the person, and the remotely piloted aircraft remains over
the secure farmstead area.
Sec. 23. Section 718C.4, subsection 6, as enacted by 2024
Iowa Acts, Senate File 2340, section 4, is amended to read as
follows:
6. An order issued under this article section must be filed
with the county clerk of the county in which the person was
arrested for an order described by subsection 1, or with the
clerk of the court exercising jurisdiction in the case for an
order described by subsection 2 or 4.
Sec. 24. Section 805.8C, subsection 3, paragraph d,
subparagraph (4), if enacted by 2024 Iowa Acts, House File
2605, section 16, is amended to read as follows:
(4) Notwithstanding section 805.12, any civil penalty paid
under this subsection paragraph shall be retained by the city
or county enforcing the violation.
Sec. 25. Section 811.1, subsection 3, Code 2024, as amended
by 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 2661, section 5, if enacted, is
amended to read as follows:
d. Notwithstanding paragraphs “b” and “c” , a defendant
awaiting judgment of conviction and sentencing following either
a plea or verdict of guilty of, or appealing a conviction of,
any felony offense included in section 708.11, subsection
3 , or a felony offense under chapter 124 not provided for
in subsection 1 or 2 paragraph “b” or “c” , is presumed to be
ineligible to be admitted to bail unless the court determines
that such release reasonably will not result in the person
failing to appear as required and will not jeopardize the
personal safety of another person or persons.
Sec. 26. 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 2326, section 4, if
enacted, is amended to read as follows:
SEC. 4. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. This division of this
Act applies to proceedings before the real estate commission
created in section 543B.8, other administrative proceedings
before a state agency or department, and judicial proceedings
before a court, that are not finally adjudicated or are
otherwise pending on the effective date of this division of
this Act, except to the extent such application would affect a
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Sec. 27. EFFECTIVE DATE. The following, being deemed of
immediate importance, take effect upon enactment:
1. The section of this division of this Act amending section
714.2B.
2. The section of this division of this Act amending 2024
Iowa Acts, House File 2326, section 4.
Sec. 28. EFFECTIVE DATE. The following takes effect January
1, 2025:
The section of this division of this Act amending section
148J.2.
Sec. 29. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. The following applies
retroactively to April 10, 2024:
The section of this division of this Act amending section
714.2B.
Sec. 30. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. The following applies
retroactively to the effective date of 2024 Iowa Acts, House
File 2326, section 4, if enacted:
The section of this division of this Act amending 2024 Iowa
Acts, House File 2326, section 4.
DIVISION III
SEARCH WARRANTS —— CODE HARMONIZATION
Sec. 31. Section 808.4, Code 2024, as amended by 2024 Iowa
Acts, House File 2190, section 1, if enacted, is amended to
read as follows:
808.4 Issuance.
Upon a finding of probable cause for grounds to issue a
search warrant, the magistrate shall issue a warrant, signed by
the magistrate with the magistrate’s name of office, directed
to any peace officer, commanding that peace officer forthwith
to search the named person, place, or thing within the state
for the property specified, and to bring a list of any property
seized before file with the magistrate or clerk of the district
court, a written inventory itemizing all seized property .
DIVISION IV
STATE GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY REVIEW COMMITTEE
Sec. 32. Section 4A.1, subsections 3, 4, 5, and 6, if
enacted by 2024 Iowa Acts, Senate File 2385, section 43, are
amended by striking the subsections.
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by 2024 Iowa Acts, Senate File 2385, section 48, is amended to
read as follows:
c. The committee shall elect a chairperson and vice
chairperson from the legislative members of the committee .
Sec. 34. REPEAL. Sections 4A.7, 4A.8, 4A.9, and 4A.10, if
enacted by 2024 Iowa Acts, Senate File 2385, sections 49, 50,
51, and 52, are repealed.
DIVISION V
TEACHER SALARY SUPPLEMENT DISTRICT COST PER PUPIL
Sec. 35. Section 257.10, subsection 9, paragraph a,
subparagraph (2), subparagraph division (c), subparagraph
subdivision (i), as enacted by 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 2612,
section 46, is amended to read as follows:
(i) To support school districts with meeting the minimum
teacher starting salary requirement of forty-seven thousand
five hundred dollars and the minimum teacher salary requirement
for full-time teachers with , as of July 1, 2024, at least
twelve years of experience of sixty thousand dollars under
chapter 284 and other costs associated with such salary
requirements, as identified in subparagraph subdivision (ii),
the department of management shall calculate and assign to
all school districts in a tier established under subparagraph
division (b), a teacher salary supplement district cost per
pupil in an amount based in part on the average cost to school
districts within the tier to meet the requirements.
Sec. 36. Section 257.10, subsection 9, paragraph a,
subparagraph (3), subparagraph division (c), subparagraph
subdivision (i), as enacted by 2024 Iowa Acts, House File 2612,
section 46, is amended to read as follows:
(i) To support school districts with meeting the minimum
teacher starting salary requirement of fifty thousand dollars
and the minimum teacher salary requirement for full-time
teachers with , as of July 1, 2025, at least twelve years of
experience of sixty-two thousand dollars under chapter 284
and other costs associated with such salary requirements, as
identified in subparagraph subdivision (ii), the department of
management shall calculate and assign to all school districts
in a tier established under subparagraph division (b), a
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based in part on the average cost to school districts within
the tier to meet the requirements.
______________________________ ______________________________
AMY SINCLAIR PAT GRASSLEY
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 2443, Ninetieth General Assembly.
______________________________
W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Secretary of the Senate
Approved _______________, 2024 ______________________________
KIM REYNOLDS
Governor