House File 602 - Enrolled
House File 602
AN ACT
RELATING TO AUTHORIZED TRANSFERS OF SCHOOL DISTRICT GENERAL
FUND MONEYS TO THE STUDENT ACTIVITY FUND AND INCLUDING
EFFECTIVE DATE PROVISIONS.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 Section 1. Section 298A.8, subsection 1, Code 2021, is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 1. The student activity fund is a special revenue fund.
4 A student activity fund must be established in any school
5 corporation receiving money from student-related activities
6 such as admissions, activity fees, student dues, student
7 fund-raising events, or other student-related cocurricular or
8 extracurricular activities. Moneys in this fund shall be used
9 to support only the cocurricular or extracurricular program
10 defined in department of education administrative rules.
11 Sec. 2. Section 298A.8, Code 2021, is amended by adding the
12 following new subsection:
13 NEW SUBSECTION. 3. For the school budget year beginning
14 July 1, 2020, the school budget year beginning July 1, 2021,
15 and the school budget year beginning July 1, 2022, the board
16 of directors may, by board resolution and notwithstanding any
17 provision of law to the contrary, transfer from the school
18 corporation’s general fund to the student activity fund an
19 amount necessary, as recommended by the superintendent, to fund
20 cocurricular or extracurricular activities for which moneys
21 from student-related activities such as admissions, activity
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22 fees, student dues, student fund-raising events, or other
23 student-related cocurricular or extracurricular activities fail
24 to meet the financial needs of the activity as the result of
25 restrictions placed on the activity related to the COVID-19
26 pandemic. This subsection is repealed July 1, 2023.
27 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate
28 importance, takes effect upon enactment.
______________________________ ______________________________
PAT GRASSLEY JAKE CHAPMAN
Speaker of the House President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 602, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.
______________________________
MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2021 ______________________________
KIM REYNOLDS
Governor


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 298A.8
Enrolled: 298A.8