SF 2047 (LSB 5537XS (4) 89)

SENATE FILE 2047

BY  DICKEY

A BILL FOR

An Act prohibiting the expenditure of certain public moneys for dues or membership fees to high school organizations that do not meet certain requirements concerning school classifications for extracurricular interscholastic activities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  280.13D  Limitation on expenditure of certain public moneys for high school organizations —— school classifications.
   1.  For the purposes of this section:
   a.  “Extracurricular interscholastic activity” means a contest or competition for academics, arts, music, speech, or sports between different schools and outside the regular scope of a school’s curriculum.
   b.  “Organization” means a corporation, association, or organization which has as one of its primary purposes the sponsoring or administration of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, but does not include an agency of this state, a public or private school or school board, or an athletic conference or other association whose interscholastic contests or competitions do not include more than twenty-four schools.
   2.  a.  On or after January 1, 2023, a school district shall not expend any moneys to pay dues or membership fees to an organization unless the organization classifies, for the purposes of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, each nonpublic school one classification higher than the classification the nonpublic school would have been assigned based on enrollment.
   b.  This subsection shall not apply when a nonpublic school is already in the classification with the largest schools based on enrollment or if the extracurricular interscholastic activity is not divided into classifications.
   c.  This subsection shall be applied on a per extracurricular interscholastic activity basis.
   3.  a.  On or after January 1, 2023, an accredited or unaccredited nonpublic school shall not expend any moneys originating from the state to pay dues or membership fees to an organization unless the organization classifies, for the purposes of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, each nonpublic school one classification higher than the classification the nonpublic school would have been assigned based on enrollment.
   b.  This subsection shall not apply when a nonpublic school is already in the classification with the largest schools based on enrollment or if the extracurricular interscholastic activity is not divided into classifications.
   c.  This subsection shall be applied on a per extracurricular interscholastic activity basis.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to the expenditure of public moneys for dues or membership fees to high school organizations that do not meet certain requirements concerning school classifications for extracurricular interscholastic activities.
   The bill defines “extracurricular interscholastic activity” as a contest or competition for academics, arts, music, speech, or sports between different schools and outside the regular scope of a school’s curriculum.
   The bill defines “organization” as a corporation, association, or organization which has as one of its primary purposes the sponsoring or administration of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, but does not include an agency of this state, a public or private school or school board, or an athletic conference or other association whose interscholastic contests or competitions do not include more than 24 schools.
   The bill prohibits a school district from expending any moneys to pay dues or membership fees to a high school organization after January 1, 2023, unless the organization classifies, for the purposes of extracurricular interscholastic activities, each nonpublic school one classification higher than the classification the nonpublic school would have been assigned based on enrollment. The bill does not apply when a nonpublic school is already in the classification with the largest schools based on enrollment or if the activity is not divided into classifications. The requirements of the bill apply on a per activity basis. The bill contains a similar requirement for the expenditure of any moneys originating from the state by an accredited or unaccredited nonpublic school.