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39 bills in the 91st General Assembly, newest first.

New bills and every step they take, in your daily digest.

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HF 2591 · Relating to open enrollment, student transfers, and interscholastic athletic eligibility requirements, and including effective date provisionsSigned by GovernorJune 2, 2026
HF 2737 · Relating to the education savings account program, including modifying eligibility provisions, providing a future repeal date, and including effective date and applicability provisionsDied when the session endedMarch 9, 2026
HF 2736 · Modifying provisions related to area education agency funding, and including effective date and applicability provisionsDied when the session endedMarch 9, 2026
SF 2201 · Relating to school funding by establishing the state percent of growth and the categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2026, modifying provisions relating to property tax replacement payments, transportation equity aid funding, funding for school district budget adjustments, and school district enrollment, establishing an education support personnel salary supplement, making appropriations, and including effective date and applicability provisionsSigned by GovernorFebruary 26, 2026
HF 2393 · Permitting school districts to use certain categorical funds generated from pupils participating in the education savings account program for any school general fund purposeRenumbered as HF 2684February 23, 2026
SSB 3163 · Relating to education programs and systems, including career and technical education expenditures and definitions, statewide lower division general education framework and common course numbering systems, and the implementation of a statewide corequisite model in Iowa community collegesRenumbered as SF 2391February 18, 2026
HSB 718 · Relating to practitioner preparation programs, including by modifying the preparation required to be included in practitioner preparation programs and the duties of the state board of education and the director of the department of education, and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 17, 2026
HF 2512 · Relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to revocation or denial of educator licenses and certificates for publicly celebrating assassinations or acts of politically motivated violence, student protests, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 16, 2026
SF 2120 · Relating to bona fide retirement and subsequent employment as school district support staff or a coach under the Iowa public employees’ retirement systemDied when the session endedFebruary 11, 2026
HF 2029 · Relating to health care coverage of public school district personnel under the state health insurance plan, providing fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 10, 2026
HF 2091 · Relating to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials and providing penaltiesRenumbered as HF 2337February 6, 2026
SF 2229 · Relating to education funding, including the amounts for the statewide preschool program and eligibility for payments under the education savings account program, and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 5, 2026
SSB 3100 · Relating to school funding by establishing the state percent of growth and the categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2026, modifying provisions relating to property tax replacement payments, the regular program state cost per pupil, funding for school district budget adjustments, and school district enrollment, and including effective date and applicability provisionsRenumbered as SF 2201February 4, 2026
SSB 3042 · Relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the Iowa statewide assessment of student progress and programs for gifted and talented children, and by requiring school districts to develop an advanced mathematics pathway and implement procedures for subject acceleration and whole-grade accelerationRenumbered as SF 2220February 4, 2026
SSB 3049 · Relating to career education, including by modifying provisions related to career academies, the collective statewide articulation agreement between community colleges and the state board of regents, the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program, and individual career and academic plansRenumbered as SF 2223February 4, 2026
HF 2079 · Relating to forms of payment for entry into an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competitionRenumbered as HF 2247January 30, 2026
HSB 606 · Requiring reports to the general assembly regarding establishment of certain postsecondary student athletic programs and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 22, 2026
HF 884 · Authorizing school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to employ chaplains, or engage volunteer chaplains, to provide services to studentsDied when the session endedMarch 26, 2025
HF 845 · Relating to elective social studies courses emphasizing religious scripture that school districts may offer and teachMarch 7, 2025
SSB 1211 · Modifying supplemental aid and modified supplemental amounts for certain school districts relating to open enrollment, and including effective date and applicability provisionsMarch 6, 2025
HF 785 · Modifying provisions related to charter school board member requirementsMarch 5, 2025
SF 516 · Directing the department of education to convene a working group to study the impact of technology on the cognitive function and academic performance of studentsMarch 5, 2025
HSB 282 · Relating to cooperation by public and private schools with federal immigration and customs enforcement officersMarch 4, 2025
HR 8 · To recognize Archie and Nancy Martin and the contributions of the Martin family to the education of Black students in IowaMarch 3, 2025
SF 485 · Establishing requirements related to nonpublic schools that receive tuition payments from parents or guardians whose students are participating in the education savings account programMarch 3, 2025
SF 448 · Relating to department of education school bus driver authorization and approved courses of instructionFebruary 26, 2025
SF 332 · Relating to the transportation to and from school of pupils participating in open enrollmentFebruary 17, 2025
SF 194 · Relating to the amount of compensation paid to school district employees, including by establishing an educator supplement for all fund to be administered by the department of education, and modifying the amount of compensation paid to teachers, certain employees with a license, endorsement, certification, authorization, or statement of recognition issued by the board of educational examiners, and teaching assistants, and making appropriationsFebruary 4, 2025
SF 168 · Modifying provisions related to shared operational functions and school district supplementary weightingJanuary 30, 2025
SF 171 · Modifying provisions related to the effective date of school district enlargements, reorganizations, changes in boundaries, and dissolutions, and including retroactive applicability provisionsJanuary 30, 2025
HF 168 · Relating to notices that nonpublic schools receiving tuition payments from the education savings account program must provide to parents and guardiansJanuary 30, 2025
HSB 108 · Relating to payments to charter schools by a school district of residence for students enrolled in a charter school, and including effective date provisionsJanuary 30, 2025
SSB 1067 · Requiring the director of the department of education to develop and administer a purple star school initiativeJanuary 28, 2025
SF 115 · Relating to human growth and development course enrollment at school districts and to pupil attendance at educational conferences or seminars in which human growth and development information is providedJanuary 23, 2025
SSB 1030 · Requiring students to pass the United States citizenship and immigration services naturalization civics test as a condition of high school graduation and high school equivalency diplomasJanuary 22, 2025
HSB 62 · Requiring that a portion of funds for the Iowa tuition grant be awarded to students pursuing majors leading to high-wage and high-demand jobs and including effective date provisionsJanuary 22, 2025
SF 61 · Relating to robotics extracurricular activities, including requiring the department of education to provide technical assistance to school districts related to chartering career and technical student organizations related to robotics and authorizing high school athletic organizations to sponsor interscholastic contests related to roboticsJanuary 16, 2025
HF 67 · Modifying the earliest possible start date of the school calendar for school districts and accredited nonpublic schoolsJanuary 15, 2025
HSB 5 · Prohibiting school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools from serving meals to students that contain certain ingredientsJanuary 14, 2025