Iowa Legislature · HF 2800 · Chapter 1200Iowa omnibus appropriations and regulatory law · schools, learning, college costs and educational attainment
Jun 2, 2026 · Approved with six item vetoes · Chapter 1200
Rep. Taylor R. Collins · Floor manager
Reviewed omnibus provisions · approved and vetoed scope
For fiscal 2026–27, the law caps nonpublic-school pupil transportation reimbursements at $8,997,091 and requires proration if approved claims exceed that amount. Instructional-support state aid is zero; this does not abolish local instructional-support programs. It sets an annual $32.5 million proportional reduction in the relevant school district state aid from fiscal 2026–27 onward. From that reduction, $10 million is allocated to Department of Education special-education oversight beginning fiscal 2027–28, rather than as an additional $10 million first-year reduction. Unused appropriations under the two specified apprenticeship programs remain available to operate the Iowa Office of Apprenticeship or for other apprenticeship activities the department deems appropriate, without the former paragraph-a limitation. This changes permitted use of existing balances, rather than providing a new fixed appropriation or proving additional trainees, jobs or production. The HF 2754 preschool amendment moves the first fiscal year for directly participating community providers’ 5% administrative-use cap from July 2025 to July 2026. Outreach and rented facilities remain permitted administrative uses. The correction took effect June 2 and applies retroactively to HF 2754’s effective date, May 12, 2026; it is not a January 1 income-tax rule. The SF 2086 amendments correct the spelling of firefighter in the elective junior-firefighter program. The referenced act, approved June 1, 2026, authorizes optional student training and expressly creates no employer-employee relationship or employee, volunteer-firefighter or fire-department-member status. It prohibits students from emergency response, dispatch with a fire department and fire suppression or emergency medical services at an active scene. HF 2800 does not newly create the program or certification and does not demonstrate jobs gained. Full original-law and current administration review remains open. The approved HF 2757 amendment replaces digital projects with digital products twice in nuclear-facility purchase provisions. It takes effect July 1 under the general regular-session rule; section 32’s immediate exceptions do not include section 31. Nuclear incentive eligibility, university workforce funding and conditional repayment are reviewed under HF 2757 separately. This wording correction does not prove a reactor restart, tax claim or workforce contribution. The corrective division’s immediate-effect clause covers the preschool cap-year correction and the HF 2739 tax-wording amendment only. June 2 approval does not make every corrective section immediately effective. The law adds an enforcement limit to SF 579’s local civil-rights rule: a city or local government may neither enact nor enforce a law broader than, or with different categories of unfair or discriminatory practices from, Chapter 216. SF 579 already barred enactment from March 10, 2026; HF 2800 adds enforce. Chapter 216’s baseline covers employment and wages, housing and mortgage lending, education, credit, public accommodations and employee health benefits. The served 2026 Code PDF was compiled in December 2025 and does not include these 2026 amendments. This is civil-rights policy context; it does not erase every civil-rights remedy or prove a change in measured discrimination. The approved law appropriates $3 million from sports-wagering receipts for fiscal 2026–27 pediatric cancer research, clinical trials and therapy access, with no administrative, overhead or unrelated use. Its report deadline is October 1, 2027, rather than an annual October series. SF 2480 was signed May 26, satisfying the enactment condition. From January 1, 2027, the law also corrects SF 2480’s nicotine-tax-receipt allocation: the first $3 million from fiscal 2027–28 onward funds pediatric research and therapy access; physician-scientist leadership is removed as a separate purpose. SF 2480’s December 1, 2028 annual reporting requirement remains separate. The amendment adds knowingly to common-carrier shipment reporting and does not create SF 2480’s tax rates. Appropriations are not proof of payments, patients treated or research outcomes. The SF 2201 amendments advance the specified AEA quarterly-payment schedules from fiscal 2027–28 to fiscal 2026–27, with payments from July 15 to April 15; the corresponding monthly schedules end after fiscal 2025–26. The changes also cover the specified nonpublic-school service deductions. These are payment-timing rules, rather than verified payments or changes in total funding. For undergraduates beginning enrollment in Regents institutions in academic years starting July 1, 2028 or later, the law requires comprehensive introductory surveys in American history and American government, at least three credits each. They fulfill designated social-science or humanities requirements; substantially similar transfer coursework receives equivalent credit. Degree programs designated as three years or less are excluded. ISU and UNI civics centers designate courses annually; Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom is the sole academic unit offering its qualifying courses. The historical minimum $2.1 million annual fiscal-2029 cost estimate is a forecast, not an appropriation, actual spending or a requirement on all current students. The charter-school retirement amendments remove HF 2754’s subchapter-I restriction from the charter-employee and employer definitions, while retaining federal participation requirements. They took effect June 2 and apply retroactively to HF 2754’s May 12, 2026 effective date. This is retirement-eligibility policy; it does not prove enrollment, contributions or benefits paid. Extends the stated reorganization and dissolution incentive cutoff from July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2035. Conditions include the applicable 30% enrollment absorption test, certification by January 1, progress toward reorganization for later whole-grade-sharing years, and maximum three-year weighting periods. Post-reorganization weighting excludes pupils residing outside the reorganized district. This does not guarantee every district an award or enact HF 2783’s separate grant appropriation. The HF 2591 timing correction makes the eighth-grade athletic-eligibility rule and the transfer/open-enrollment provisions effective August 1, 2026. Emergency rulemaking remains immediately effective. HF 2591 was signed June 2, and HF 2800’s correction takes effect June 2 with retroactive applicability to the same enactment date. HF 2591’s varsity-transfer waiting period is 140 calendar days, subject to its exceptions; HF 2800 adjusts timing rather than newly creating the entire athletics policy. Statutory dates do not prove that a specific pupil became eligible or that a rule was filed. Effective June 2, a district meeting the fiscal-2025–26 single-property taxable-value correction threshold of at least $100 million may exceed the ordinary cash-reserve levy limit for fiscal 2026–27 only by reducing other district levies by at least the increase. Total district property-tax dollars cannot exceed the specified existing baseline, and Management must be notified and adjust the rates. This is a conditional redistribution among school levies, rather than permission for a general net property-tax increase or proof of a household tax bill. These are the reviewed provisions of HF 2800, approved June 2, 2026 with six item vetoes. Approval, statutory effectiveness, retroactive applicability and actual implementation are separate. The law does not establish a measured change in Iowa statistics. Current rules, spending, implementation and later amendments require separate evidence.
Approved June 2, 2026 with item vetoes in sections 4, 5, 55, 56, 76 and 77. Other provisions have distinct immediate, June 19, July 1, future and contingent dates; see the selected topic summary.
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For fiscal 2026–27, the law caps nonpublic-school pupil transportation reimbursements at $8,997,091 and requires proration if approved claims exceed that amount. Instructional-support state aid is zero; this does not abolish local instructional-support programs. It sets an annual $32.5 million proportional reduction in the relevant school district state aid from fiscal 2026–27 onward. From that reduction, $10 million is allocated to Department of Education special-education oversight beginning fiscal 2027–28, rather than as an additional $10 million first-year reduction. Unused appropriations under the two specified apprenticeship programs remain available to operate the Iowa Office of Apprenticeship or for other apprenticeship activities the department deems appropriate, without the former paragraph-a limitation. This changes permitted use of existing balances, rather than providing a new fixed appropriation or proving additional trainees, jobs or production. The HF 2754 preschool amendment moves the first fiscal year for directly participating community providers’ 5% administrative-use cap from July 2025 to July 2026. Outreach and rented facilities remain permitted administrative uses. The correction took effect June 2 and applies retroactively to HF 2754’s effective date, May 12, 2026; it is not a January 1 income-tax rule. The SF 2086 amendments correct the spelling of firefighter in the elective junior-firefighter program. The referenced act, approved June 1, 2026, authorizes optional student training and expressly creates no employer-employee relationship or employee, volunteer-firefighter or fire-department-member status. It prohibits students from emergency response, dispatch with a fire department and fire suppression or emergency medical services at an active scene. HF 2800 does not newly create the program or certification and does not demonstrate jobs gained. Full original-law and current administration review remains open. The approved HF 2757 amendment replaces digital projects with digital products twice in nuclear-facility purchase provisions. It takes effect July 1 under the general regular-session rule; section 32’s immediate exceptions do not include section 31. Nuclear incentive eligibility, university workforce funding and conditional repayment are reviewed under HF 2757 separately. This wording correction does not prove a reactor restart, tax claim or workforce contribution. The corrective division’s immediate-effect clause covers the preschool cap-year correction and the HF 2739 tax-wording amendment only. June 2 approval does not make every corrective section immediately effective. The law adds an enforcement limit to SF 579’s local civil-rights rule: a city or local government may neither enact nor enforce a law broader than, or with different categories of unfair or discriminatory practices from, Chapter 216. SF 579 already barred enactment from March 10, 2026; HF 2800 adds enforce. Chapter 216’s baseline covers employment and wages, housing and mortgage lending, education, credit, public accommodations and employee health benefits. The served 2026 Code PDF was compiled in December 2025 and does not include these 2026 amendments. This is civil-rights policy context; it does not erase every civil-rights remedy or prove a change in measured discrimination. The approved law appropriates $3 million from sports-wagering receipts for fiscal 2026–27 pediatric cancer research, clinical trials and therapy access, with no administrative, overhead or unrelated use. Its report deadline is October 1, 2027, rather than an annual October series. SF 2480 was signed May 26, satisfying the enactment condition. From January 1, 2027, the law also corrects SF 2480’s nicotine-tax-receipt allocation: the first $3 million from fiscal 2027–28 onward funds pediatric research and therapy access; physician-scientist leadership is removed as a separate purpose. SF 2480’s December 1, 2028 annual reporting requirement remains separate. The amendment adds knowingly to common-carrier shipment reporting and does not create SF 2480’s tax rates. Appropriations are not proof of payments, patients treated or research outcomes. The SF 2201 amendments advance the specified AEA quarterly-payment schedules from fiscal 2027–28 to fiscal 2026–27, with payments from July 15 to April 15; the corresponding monthly schedules end after fiscal 2025–26. The changes also cover the specified nonpublic-school service deductions. These are payment-timing rules, rather than verified payments or changes in total funding. For undergraduates beginning enrollment in Regents institutions in academic years starting July 1, 2028 or later, the law requires comprehensive introductory surveys in American history and American government, at least three credits each. They fulfill designated social-science or humanities requirements; substantially similar transfer coursework receives equivalent credit. Degree programs designated as three years or less are excluded. ISU and UNI civics centers designate courses annually; Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom is the sole academic unit offering its qualifying courses. The historical minimum $2.1 million annual fiscal-2029 cost estimate is a forecast, not an appropriation, actual spending or a requirement on all current students. The charter-school retirement amendments remove HF 2754’s subchapter-I restriction from the charter-employee and employer definitions, while retaining federal participation requirements. They took effect June 2 and apply retroactively to HF 2754’s May 12, 2026 effective date. This is retirement-eligibility policy; it does not prove enrollment, contributions or benefits paid. Extends the stated reorganization and dissolution incentive cutoff from July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2035. Conditions include the applicable 30% enrollment absorption test, certification by January 1, progress toward reorganization for later whole-grade-sharing years, and maximum three-year weighting periods. Post-reorganization weighting excludes pupils residing outside the reorganized district. This does not guarantee every district an award or enact HF 2783’s separate grant appropriation. The HF 2591 timing correction makes the eighth-grade athletic-eligibility rule and the transfer/open-enrollment provisions effective August 1, 2026. Emergency rulemaking remains immediately effective. HF 2591 was signed June 2, and HF 2800’s correction takes effect June 2 with retroactive applicability to the same enactment date. HF 2591’s varsity-transfer waiting period is 140 calendar days, subject to its exceptions; HF 2800 adjusts timing rather than newly creating the entire athletics policy. Statutory dates do not prove that a specific pupil became eligible or that a rule was filed. Effective June 2, a district meeting the fiscal-2025–26 single-property taxable-value correction threshold of at least $100 million may exceed the ordinary cash-reserve levy limit for fiscal 2026–27 only by reducing other district levies by at least the increase. Total district property-tax dollars cannot exceed the specified existing baseline, and Management must be notified and adjust the rates. This is a conditional redistribution among school levies, rather than permission for a general net property-tax increase or proof of a household tax bill. These are the reviewed provisions of HF 2800, approved June 2, 2026 with six item vetoes. Approval, statutory effectiveness, retroactive applicability and actual implementation are separate. The law does not establish a measured change in Iowa statistics. Current rules, spending, implementation and later amendments require separate evidence.
Retained Iowa evidence context: income-taxes · reviewed Iowa policy context · deficit-debt-interest · reviewed Iowa policy context · housing-borrowing · reviewed Iowa policy context · education · reviewed Iowa policy context · energy · reviewed Iowa policy context · unemployment-rate · reviewed Iowa policy context · real-gdp · reviewed Iowa policy context · crime · reviewed Iowa policy context · health coverage, healthcare costs, access to care and public health · reviewed Iowa policy context · inflation, consumer prices and the cost of living · reviewed Iowa policy context. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.
for the fiscal year is zero · operate and manage the Iowa office of apprenticeship · not more than five percent may be used · fire fighter firefighter I certification · House File 2757 · The section of this division of this Act amending section 256C.4 · shall not enact or enforce any ordinance · by October 1, 2027 · on a quarterly basis from July 15 to April 15 · academic years beginning on or after July 1, 2028 · the effective date of 2026 Iowa Acts, House File 2754 · July 1, 2024 2035 · House File 2591 · equal to or greater than the increase in the cash reserve levy
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