Bill > SSB3201

Introduced Session

This bill relates to and makes appropriations to the education system. The bill appropriates moneys for FY 2024-2025 from the general fund of the state and other funds to the department for the blind, the department of education, and the state board of regents and its institutions. The bill is organized by divisions. DEPARTMENT FOR THE BLIND. The bill appropriates moneys to the department for the blind for its administration. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. The bill appropriates moneys to the department of education for purposes of the department’s general administration; career and technical education administration; public broadcasting division; career and technical education reimbursement; school food service; expansion of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act birth through age three services; early head start projects; the student achievement and teacher quality program; statewide student assessment; statewide clearinghouse to expand work-based learning; postsecondary summer classes for high school students program; jobs for America’s graduates specialists; attendance center performance/general internet site and data system support; successful progression for early readers; an early warning system for literacy; the Iowa reading research center; computer science professional development incentive fund; children’s mental health school-based training and support; for school districts for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities; distribution to the midwestern higher education compact to pay Iowa’s member state annual obligation; community colleges; the Iowa school for the deaf and Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program; the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics collaborative S.F. _____ initiative; the therapeutic classroom incentive fund; the payment of claims for reimbursement submitted for therapeutic classroom transportation; the LEAD-K program; division of special education; professional development; and the administration and various programs of the college student aid commission. The bill also appropriates moneys from the Iowa skilled worker and job creation fund to the department of education for various purposes. STATE BOARD OF REGENTS. The bill appropriates moneys to the state board of regents for the board office, universities’ general operating budgets, the western Iowa regents resource center, the state university of Iowa, the Iowa state university of science and technology, and the university of northern Iowa. STANDING APPROPRIATIONS. For FY 2024-2025, the bill limits the appropriations associated with programs for at-risk children under Code section 279.51 and the work-study program under Code section 256.209. The bill increases the standing appropriation for tuition grants for qualified students enrolled in accredited private institutions under Code section 256.194(1) or eligible institutions under Code section 256.194(2). STATE PROGRAM ALLOCATION. Code section 284.13 establishes how moneys appropriated for purposes of the student achievement and teacher quality program are to be allocated. The bill extends such allocations to FY 2024-2025. The bill provides that beginning in FY 2025-2026 rather than FY 2024-2025, of the moneys appropriated for purposes of the student achievement and teacher quality program, the final priority for the allocation is $10 million for purposes of implementing the supplemental assistance for high-need schools provisions of Code section 284.11. THERAPEUTIC CLASSROOM TRANSPORTATION CLAIMS REIMBURSEMENT. For FY 2023-2024, the general assembly appropriated $500,000 to the department of education for payment of school district S.F. _____ claims for transportation reimbursement submitted in connection with therapeutic classroom services. The bill authorizes the deposit of moneys that remain unencumbered or unobligated after the completion of such payments into the therapeutic classroom incentive fund created in Code section 256.25, as determined by the department. That fund is used to distribute grants to school districts under the therapeutic classroom incentive grant program. These provisions take effect upon enactment.

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2435. (on 04/08/2024)

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