Senate File 92

                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  CONNOLLY and KIBBIE


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to utilization of the district management levy to
  2    pay the cost of employee health insurance benefits.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2171XS 80
  5 rn/cf/24

PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 296.7, subsection 3, Code 2003, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    3.  A Except as provided in section 298.4, a school
  1  4 district, providing an insurance program as described in
  1  5 subsection 2, shall not contract indebtedness and issue
  1  6 general obligation bonds or enter into insurance agreements
  1  7 obligating the school district to make payments beyond its
  1  8 current budget year for that employee benefit plan.  A school
  1  9 district may, however, apply to the school budget review
  1 10 committee for relief if necessitated by the expenses in the
  1 11 school district's insurance program as described in subsection
  1 12 2.
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 298.4, Code 2003, is amended by adding the
  1 14 following new subsection:
  1 15    NEW SUBSECTION.  6.  To pay the cost of employee health
  1 16 benefits.  For the purposes of this subsection, employee
  1 17 health benefits shall refer to costs for hospital and
  1 18 surgical, medical expense, major medical, dental, or
  1 19 prescription drug benefits.
  1 20                           EXPLANATION
  1 21    This bill provides that the district management levy
  1 22 authorized in Code section 298.4 may be utilized by a school
  1 23 district to pay the cost of school district employee health
  1 24 benefits.  The bill provides that employee health benefits
  1 25 include the costs for hospital and surgical, medical expense,
  1 26 major medical, dental, or prescription drug benefits.  These
  1 27 benefits were previously specifically excluded from the list
  1 28 of insurance benefits for which a school district is
  1 29 authorized to contract indebtedness and issue general
  1 30 obligation bonds pursuant to Code section 296.7.
  1 31 LSB 2171XS 80
  1 32 rn/cf/24
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