Bill Text: IA SF374 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to school district elections to authorize the issuance of certain indebtedness and including effective date and applicability provisions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-05 - Subcommittee, Schoenjahn, Dvorsky, and Kraayenbrink. S.J. 457. [SF374 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-SF374-Introduced.html
Senate File 374 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY KRAAYENBRINK A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to school district elections to authorize the 2 issuance of certain indebtedness and including effective 3 date and applicability provisions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 2087XS (5) 86 md/sc PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 296.3, Code 2015, is amended to read as 1 2 follows: 1 3 296.3 Election called. 1 4 1. Within ten days of receipt of a petition filed under 1 5 section 296.2, the president of the board of directors shall 1 6 call a meeting of the board. The meeting shall be held within 1 7 thirty days after the petition was received. At the meeting, 1 8 the board shall call the election, fixing the time of the 1 9 election, which may, subject to the limitation in subsection 2, 1 10 beat the time and place of holding the regular school election 1 11on a date specified in section 39.2, subsection 4, paragraph 1 12 "c". However, if the board determines by unanimous vote that 1 13 the proposition or propositions requested by a petition to be 1 14 submitted at an election are grossly unrealistic or contrary 1 15 to the needs of the school district, no election shall be 1 16 called. If more than one petition has been received by the 1 17 time the board meets to consider the petition triggering the 1 18 meeting, the board shall act upon the petitions in the order 1 19 they were received at the meeting called to consider the 1 20 initial petition. The decision of the board may be appealed to 1 21 the state board of education as provided in chapter 290. The 1 22 president shall notify the county commissioner of elections of 1 23 the time of the election. 1 24 2. The date of an election fixed by the board of directors 1 25 under subsection 1 shall be a date that is not less than one 1 26 year after the date of the last election held on a proposition 1 27 under this chapter. 1 28 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT. This Act, being deemed of 1 29 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 1 30 Sec. 3. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to propositions 1 31 submitted to voters at an election held on or after the 1 32 effective date of this Act. 1 33 EXPLANATION 1 34 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 35 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 2 1 This bill relates to school district elections to authorize 2 2 the issuance of indebtedness and general obligation bonds under 2 3 Code chapter 296. 2 4 Code chapter 296 authorizes the issuance of such 2 5 indebtedness and bonds to defray the cost of purchasing, 2 6 building, furnishing, reconstructing, repairing, improving or 2 7 remodeling a schoolhouse or schoolhouses and additions thereto, 2 8 gymnasium, stadium, field house, school bus garage, teachers' 2 9 or superintendent's home or homes, and procuring a site or 2 10 sites therefor, or purchasing land to add to a site already 2 11 owned, or procuring and improving a site for an athletic field, 2 12 or improving a site already owned for an athletic field, and 2 13 for any one or more of such purposes. 2 14 Current Code section 296.3 specifies the procedure and 2 15 requirements used by a school board in fixing the time for an 2 16 election after receiving a petition calling for an election on 2 17 the issuance of indebtedness or bonds in excess of 1.25 percent 2 18 of the assessed value of the taxable property in the school 2 19 district. The bill provides that the date of the election 2 20 may be held on a special election date specified in Code 2 21 section 39.2(4)(c). The bill also provides that the date of an 2 22 election fixed by the school board must be a date that is not 2 23 less than one year after the date of the last election held on a 2 24 proposition under Code chapter 296. 2 25 The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to 2 26 propositions submitted to voters at an election held on or 2 27 after the effective date of the bill. LSB 2087XS (5) 86 md/sc