Bill Text: IA SF2047 | 2021-2022 | 89th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 2047 (Prior Session Legislation)

IA State Legislature page for SF2047

Introduced

Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-24 - Subcommittee: Goodwin, Sinclair, and J. Smith. S.J. 136. [SF2047 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2021-SF2047-Introduced.html

Senate File 2047 - Introduced SENATE FILE 2047 BY DICKEY A BILL FOR An Act prohibiting the expenditure of certain public moneys 1 for dues or membership fees to high school organizations 2 that do not meet certain requirements concerning school 3 classifications for extracurricular interscholastic 4 activities. 5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 6 TLSB 5537XS (4) 89 dg/jh

S.F. 2047 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 280.13D Limitation on expenditure 1 of certain public moneys for high school organizations —— school 2 classifications. 3 1. For the purposes of this section: 4 a. “Extracurricular interscholastic activity” means a contest 5 or competition for academics, arts, music, speech, or sports 6 between different schools and outside the regular scope of a 7 school’s curriculum. 8 b. “Organization” means a corporation, association, 9 or organization which has as one of its primary purposes 10 the sponsoring or administration of an extracurricular 11 interscholastic activity, but does not include an agency of 12 this state, a public or private school or school board, or an 13 athletic conference or other association whose interscholastic 14 contests or competitions do not include more than twenty-four 15 schools. 16 2. a. On or after January 1, 2023, a school district 17 shall not expend any moneys to pay dues or membership fees 18 to an organization unless the organization classifies, for 19 the purposes of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, 20 each nonpublic school one classification higher than the 21 classification the nonpublic school would have been assigned 22 based on enrollment. 23 b. This subsection shall not apply when a nonpublic school 24 is already in the classification with the largest schools 25 based on enrollment or if the extracurricular interscholastic 26 activity is not divided into classifications. 27 c. This subsection shall be applied on a per extracurricular 28 interscholastic activity basis. 29 3. a. On or after January 1, 2023, an accredited or 30 unaccredited nonpublic school shall not expend any moneys 31 originating from the state to pay dues or membership fees 32 to an organization unless the organization classifies, for 33 the purposes of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, 34 each nonpublic school one classification higher than the 35 -1- LSB 5537XS (4) 89 dg/jh 1/ 3

S.F. 2047 classification the nonpublic school would have been assigned 1 based on enrollment. 2 b. This subsection shall not apply when a nonpublic school 3 is already in the classification with the largest schools 4 based on enrollment or if the extracurricular interscholastic 5 activity is not divided into classifications. 6 c. This subsection shall be applied on a per extracurricular 7 interscholastic activity basis. 8 EXPLANATION 9 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 10 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 11 This bill relates to the expenditure of public moneys for 12 dues or membership fees to high school organizations that do 13 not meet certain requirements concerning school classifications 14 for extracurricular interscholastic activities. 15 The bill defines “extracurricular interscholastic activity” 16 as a contest or competition for academics, arts, music, speech, 17 or sports between different schools and outside the regular 18 scope of a school’s curriculum. 19 The bill defines “organization” as a corporation, 20 association, or organization which has as one of its primary 21 purposes the sponsoring or administration of an extracurricular 22 interscholastic activity, but does not include an agency of 23 this state, a public or private school or school board, or an 24 athletic conference or other association whose interscholastic 25 contests or competitions do not include more than 24 schools. 26 The bill prohibits a school district from expending 27 any moneys to pay dues or membership fees to a high school 28 organization after January 1, 2023, unless the organization 29 classifies, for the purposes of extracurricular interscholastic 30 activities, each nonpublic school one classification higher 31 than the classification the nonpublic school would have been 32 assigned based on enrollment. The bill does not apply when 33 a nonpublic school is already in the classification with the 34 largest schools based on enrollment or if the activity is not 35 -2- LSB 5537XS (4) 89 dg/jh 2/ 3

S.F. 2047 divided into classifications. The requirements of the bill 1 apply on a per activity basis. The bill contains a similar 2 requirement for the expenditure of any moneys originating from 3 the state by an accredited or unaccredited nonpublic school. 4 -3- LSB 5537XS (4) 89 dg/jh 3/ 3