Bills Sponsored By Committee

Education (S)

Bill Bill Title
SF 138 A bill for an act relating to incentives for whole grade sharing and school district reorganization or dissolution. (Formerly SSB 1032; See SF 602.)
SF 139 A bill for an act relating to a financial literacy requirement under the state’s educational standards. (Formerly SSB 1029.) Effective 7-1-19.
SF 140 A bill for an act relating to special minor’s driver’s licenses for students attending accredited nonpublic schools. (Formerly SSB 1033.) Effective 7-1-19.
SF 159 A bill for an act relating to assessment scores set by the department of education for successful completion of a practitioner preparation program and for initial teacher licensure and providing for related matters. (Formerly SSB 1031.) Effective 7-1-19.
SF 160 A bill for an act relating to recommendations regarding school building emergency operations plans. (Formerly SSB 1042.)
SF 167 A bill for an act relating to eligibility for the health care loan repayment program. (Formerly SSB 1030.)
SF 188 A bill for an act prohibiting a governing board of a public college or university from adopting or enforcing any policy or rule that prohibits a person from carrying, transporting, or possessing a dangerous weapon producing a nonprojectile high-voltage pulse designed to immobilize a person in the buildings or on the grounds of such a college or university. (Formerly SF 120.) Effective 7-1-19.
SF 199 A bill for an act relating to voluntary diversity plans under the state’s open enrollment law. (Formerly SSB 1034.)
SF 209 A bill for an act to require school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to offer high school students an opportunity to take the United States citizenship and immigration services naturalization civics test, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1043.)
SF 245 A bill for an act relating to eligibility and reporting requirements for the skilled workforce shortage tuition grant program. (Formerly SSB 1051.) Effective 7-1-19.
SF 246 A bill for an act relating to requirements for eligibility under the all Iowa opportunity scholarship program. (Formerly SSB 1052.) Effective 7-1-19.
SF 274 A bill for an act relating to speech and expression at public institutions of higher education, providing for remedies, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1099.) Effective 3-27-19.
SF 316 A bill for an act requesting the establishment of a special education interim study committee. (Formerly SF 206.)
SF 319 A bill for an act relating to peace officers and retired peace officers who provide street or highway driving instruction. (Formerly SF 207.) Effective 7-1-19.
SF 376 A bill for an act relating to the health education requirement for grades nine through twelve under the education standards. (Formerly SF 270.)
SF 394 A bill for an act relating to requirements school districts and accredited nonpublic schools must meet to provide distance learning classes that meet the requirements of Iowa’s education program. (Formerly SSB 1165.) Effective 7-1-19.
SF 437 A bill for an act relating to academic eligibility standards for public school students participating in school-approved activities. (Formerly SF 287.)
SF 438 A bill for an act relating to the responsibilities and authority of school districts or school corporations, accredited nonpublic schools, area education agencies, community colleges, and board of regents institutions, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1190.)
SF 439 A bill for an act relating to the burden of proof in certain judicial proceedings involving school boards and rules adopted by the department of education. (Formerly SF 298.)
SF 445 A bill for an act relating to additional weighting for limited English proficient students and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 29.)
SF 480 A bill for an act requesting the establishment of an interim committee to study the feasibility of allowing a day of virtual instruction to count as a minimum school day when inclement weather causes schools to close. (Formerly SF 353.)
SF 481 A bill for an act relating to the individual income tax by creating a tax credit for community college students pursuing a credential leading to a high-demand occupation and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 297.)
SF 488 A bill for an act authorizing use of concurrent enrollment programs for teaching certain subjects required under the educational standards and making an appropriation to fund enrollment of pupils under concurrent enrollment program agreements between certain accredited nonpublic schools and community colleges. (Formerly SSB 1163; See SF 603.)
SF 539 A bill for an act establishing the office of student loan ombudsman within the college student aid commission. (Formerly SF 318.)
SF 547 A bill for an act relating to education savings grants for certain pupils attending an accredited nonpublic school or specified public schools, establishing an education savings grant fund, providing an income tax exemption, making appropriations, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 372.)
SF 2081 A bill for an act relating to the inclusion of the telephone and text numbers for the your life Iowa program on public school student identification cards and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3020.)
SF 2082 A bill for an act relating to matters involving the state board of education and the department of education to reflect current practices, technology, and titles, to delete redundancies, and to resolve inconsistencies. (Formerly SSB 3018.) Effective date: 07/01/2020.
SF 2118 A bill for an act relating to loan repayment for refinanced student loans under the rural physician loan repayment program, the health care professional recruitment program, and the health care loan repayment program, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 2011.) Effective date: 03/12/2020. Applicability date: 01/01/2019.
SF 2142 A bill for an act relating to public school funding by establishing a state percent of growth and the categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2020, modifying provisions and references relating to the property tax replacement payment, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3096.) Effective date: 03/12/2020.
SF 2143 A bill for an act relating to public school funding by modifying provisions relating to the regular program state cost per pupil and to appropriations to the transportation equity fund and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3097; See SF 2164.)
SF 2153 A bill for an act relating to the administration of physical examinations and student health screenings by school districts. (Formerly SSB 3067.)
SF 2154 A bill for an act relating to qualifications for community college career and technical education instructors. (Formerly SSB 3019.)
SF 2155 A bill for an act establishing authority for school districts to impose additional property taxes and income surtaxes for certain school resource officer expenses under the instructional support program. (Formerly SF 2065.)
SF 2190 A bill for an act relating to classroom management and related practitioner preparation procedures for reporting alleged classroom violence and assaults, to corporal punishment, establishing a grant program and fund for creation of therapeutic classrooms, providing claims reimbursement to schools for the transportation of certain students to therapeutic classrooms, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3080; See SF 2360.)
SF 2251 A bill for an act relating to specialty areas, service commitment area distance requirements, and practice-related requirements under the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment program. (Formerly SSB 3079.)
SF 2253 A bill for an act relating to physical education and physical activities requirements under the educational standards. (Formerly SF 2041.)
SF 2258 A bill for an act relating to documentation necessary to enroll certain minor children in school districts. (Formerly SSB 3053.)
SF 2261 A bill for an act relating to the provision of behavioral health services including via telehealth in a school setting. (Formerly SF 2100.) Effective date: 07/01/2020.
SF 2284 A bill for an act relating to matters involving the state board of regents and the institutions the state board of regents governs, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3132.) Effective date: 07/01/2020. Applicability date: 07/01/2019.
SF 2285 A bill for an act requiring school districts and nonpublic schools to display a portion of the preamble of the Declaration of Independence in their schools. (Formerly SF 2101.)
SF 2310 A bill for an act relating to educational instructional requirements and funding flexibility and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 2004.) Effective date: 07/01/2020.
SF 2329 A bill for an act relating to licensed health care providers for purposes of state law regarding concussion and brain injury policies for extracurricular interscholastic activities. (Formerly SF 2066.)
SF 2330 A bill for an act relating to compensation of college athletes and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 2058.)
SF 2331 A bill for an act concerning the employment rights of public school employees and officials relating to student exercise of free expression in public schools. (Formerly SF 2138.)
SF 2356 A bill for an act relating to the education of students with characteristics of dyslexia and to the preparation and licensure of practitioners for such instruction, and establishing an Iowa dyslexia board. (Formerly SF 2235.) Effective date: 07/01/2020.