House File 602 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 602 BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO HF 265) A BILL FOR An Act relating to authorized transfers of school district 1 general fund moneys to the student activity fund and 2 including effective date provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2213HV (2) 89 md/jh

H.F. 602 Section 1. Section 298A.8, subsection 1, Code 2021, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 1. The student activity fund is a special revenue fund. 3 A student activity fund must be established in any school 4 corporation receiving money from student-related activities 5 such as admissions, activity fees, student dues, student 6 fund-raising events, or other student-related cocurricular or 7 extracurricular activities. Moneys in this fund shall be used 8 to support only the cocurricular or extracurricular program 9 defined in department of education administrative rules. 10 Sec. 2. Section 298A.8, Code 2021, is amended by adding the 11 following new subsection: 12 NEW SUBSECTION . 3. For the school budget year beginning 13 July 1, 2020, the school budget year beginning July 1, 2021, 14 and the school budget year beginning July 1, 2022, the board 15 of directors may, by board resolution and notwithstanding any 16 provision of law to the contrary, transfer from the school 17 corporation’s general fund to the student activity fund an 18 amount necessary, as recommended by the superintendent, to fund 19 cocurricular or extracurricular activities for which moneys 20 from student-related activities such as admissions, activity 21 fees, student dues, student fund-raising events, or other 22 student-related cocurricular or extracurricular activities fail 23 to meet the financial needs of the activity as the result of 24 restrictions placed on the activity related to the COVID-19 25 pandemic. This subsection is repealed July 1, 2023. 26 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate 27 importance, takes effect upon enactment. 28 EXPLANATION 29 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 30 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 31 This bill provides that for the school budget year beginning 32 July 1, 2020, the school budget year beginning July 1, 33 2021, and the school budget year beginning July 1, 2022, the 34 school board may, by resolution, transfer from the school 35 -1- LSB 2213HV (2) 89 md/jh 1/ 2

H.F. 602 corporation’s general fund to the student activity fund an 1 amount necessary, as recommended by the superintendent, to 2 fund cocurricular or extracurricular activities for which 3 moneys from admissions, activity fees, student dues, student 4 fund-raising events, or other student-related cocurricular or 5 extracurricular activities fail to meet the financial needs 6 of the activity as the result of restrictions placed on the 7 activity related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The provision 8 authorizing the transfers to the student activity fund is 9 repealed July 1, 2023. 10 The bill also modifies language regarding use of moneys in 11 the student activity fund to reflect current rules adopted by 12 the department of education. 13 The bill takes effect upon enactment. 14 -2- LSB 2213HV (2) 89 md/jh 2/ 2