SF 2050 (LSB 5041XS (2) 90)

SENATE FILE 2050

BY  TRONE GARRIOTT

A BILL FOR

An Act allowing area education agencies to charge user fees to nonpublic schools for materials and services provided.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 273.3, Code 2024, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  19A.  Pursuant to rules adopted by the state board of education, be authorized to charge an accredited nonpublic school a user fee for any materials and services provided to the accredited nonpublic school or its students, including services and programs as provided in sections 273.1, 273.2, this section, sections 273.4 through 273.8, and chapter 256B, in an amount not to exceed the actual cost of the materials and services provided.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   Area education agencies (AEAs) were created in order to provide effective, efficient, and economical means of identifying and serving children who require special education by providing media services and other programs to K-12 pupils. Services and materials required of AEAs by statute or rule are funded by payments from school districts through the state school foundation aid the school district receives for its children requiring special education. AEAs are allowed to charge a fee for services and materials a public or nonpublic school requests the AEA to provide, but which AEAs are not required to provide by statute or rule.
   This bill allows AEAs to charge an accredited nonpublic school a user fee for materials and services provided to the accredited nonpublic school or its students in an amount not to exceed the actual cost of the materials and services provided for all services that the AEA provides.