House File 602 - Enrolled House File 602 AN ACT RELATING TO AUTHORIZED TRANSFERS OF SCHOOL DISTRICT GENERAL FUND MONEYS TO THE STUDENT ACTIVITY FUND AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE DATE PROVISIONS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. Section 298A.8, subsection 1, Code 2021, is amended to read as follows: 1. The student activity fund is a special revenue fund. A student activity fund must be established in any school corporation receiving money from student-related activities such as admissions, activity fees, student dues, student fund-raising events, or other student-related cocurricular or extracurricular activities. Moneys in this fund shall be used to support only the cocurricular or extracurricular program defined in department of education administrative rules. Sec. 2. Section 298A.8, Code 2021, is amended by adding the following new subsection: NEW SUBSECTION . 3. For the school budget year beginning July 1, 2020, the school budget year beginning July 1, 2021, and the school budget year beginning July 1, 2022, the board of directors may, by board resolution and notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, transfer from the school corporation’s general fund to the student activity fund an amount necessary, as recommended by the superintendent, to fund cocurricular or extracurricular activities for which moneys from student-related activities such as admissions, activity

House File 602, p. 2 fees, student dues, student fund-raising events, or other student-related cocurricular or extracurricular activities fail to meet the financial needs of the activity as the result of restrictions placed on the activity related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This subsection is repealed July 1, 2023. Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. ______________________________ PAT GRASSLEY Speaker of the House ______________________________ JAKE CHAPMAN President of the Senate I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 602, Eighty-ninth General Assembly. ______________________________ MEGHAN NELSON Chief Clerk of the House Approved _______________, 2021 ______________________________ KIM REYNOLDS Governor