House File 2278 - Reprinted HOUSE FILE 2278 BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO HF 134) (SUCCESSOR TO HF 41) (As Amended and Passed by the House February 28, 2024 ) A BILL FOR An Act relating to the transportation to and from school of 1 pupils participating in open enrollment. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 HF 2278 (3) 90 jda/jh/md
H.F. 2278 Section 1. Section 282.18, subsection 8, paragraph b, Code 1 2024, is amended to read as follows: 2 b. (1) A receiving district with a total enrollment of 3 less than two thousand students may send school vehicles not 4 more than two miles into the district of residence of the 5 pupil using the open enrollment option under this section , 6 for the purpose of transporting the pupil to and from school 7 in the receiving district, if the boards of both the sending 8 and receiving districts agree to this arrangement pupil’s 9 primary residence is closer to the attendance center the pupil 10 attends in the receiving district than the residence is to the 11 attendance center the pupil would be assigned in the sending 12 district . 13 (2) Notwithstanding subparagraph (1), a receiving district 14 with a total enrollment of greater than or equal to two 15 thousand students may send school vehicles two miles or more 16 into the district of residence of the pupil using the open 17 enrollment option under this section, for the purpose of 18 transporting the pupil to and from school in the receiving 19 district, regardless of the distance between the pupil’s 20 primary residence and the attendance center the pupil attends 21 in the receiving district or the attendance center the pupil 22 would be assigned in the sending district, if all of the 23 following apply: 24 (a) The total enrollment of the pupil’s district of 25 residence is less than two thousand students. 26 (b) The pupil’s district of residence is contiguous to the 27 receiving district. 28 (c) The pupil’s district of residence has sent school 29 vehicles into the receiving district pursuant to subparagraph 30 (1). 31 (3) Notwithstanding subparagraph (1) or (2), a receiving 32 district may send school vehicles into the district of 33 residence of the pupil using the open enrollment option under 34 this section, for the purpose of transporting the pupil to and 35 -1- HF 2278 (3) 90 jda/jh/md 1/ 2
H.F. 2278 from school in the receiving district, if the boards of both 1 the sending and receiving districts agree to this arrangement. 2 -2- HF 2278 (3) 90 jda/jh/md 2/ 2