Iowa-2015-SF374-Introduced
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:
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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 be at the time and place of holding the regular school election
1 11 on 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.
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