HF68 • 2026

A bill for an act modifying provisions related to open enrollment policies and English-language learners.(See HF 900 .)

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: BOSSMAN
Last action: 2025-03-10
Official status: Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 900 .
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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A bill for an act modifying provisions related to open enrollment policies and English-language learners.(See HF 900 .)

What This Bill Does

A bill for an act modifying provisions related to open enrollment policies and English-language learners.(See HF 900 .)

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Bill History

2025-03-10 Iowa Legislature
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 900 .
2025-03-05 Iowa Legislature
Committee vote: Yeas, 16. Nays, 7. H.J. 526 .
2025-03-05 Iowa Legislature
Committee report, recommending passage. H.J. 526 .
2025-03-05 Iowa Legislature
Subcommittee recommends passage.
2025-02-27 Iowa Legislature
Subcommittee Meeting: 03/05/2025 12:00PM RM 304.
2025-02-25 Iowa Legislature
Subcommittee: Hora, Stone and Wessel-Kroeschell. H.J. 427 .
2025-01-16 Iowa Legislature
Introduced, referred to Education. H.J. 85 .

Official Summary Text

A bill for an act modifying provisions related to open enrollment policies and English-language learners.(See HF 900 .)

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

House

File

68

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Introduced

HOUSE

FILE

68

BY

BOSSMAN

A

BILL

FOR

An

Act

modifying

provisions

related

to

open

enrollment

policies

1

and

English-language

learners.

2

BE

IT

ENACTED

BY

THE

GENERAL

ASSEMBLY

OF

THE

STATE

OF

IOWA:

3

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Section

1.

Section

282.18,

subsection

2,

paragraph

c,

Code

1

2025,

is

amended

to

read

as

follows:

2

c.

Every

school

district

shall

adopt

a

policy

which

defines

3

the

term

“insufficient

classroom

space”

for

that

district.

4

The

definition

shall

include

standards

related

to

the

school

5

district’s

capacity

to

provide

instruction

to

English

learners,

6

as

defined

in

section

280.4.

7

EXPLANATION

8

The

inclusion

of

this

explanation

does

not

constitute

agreement

with

9

the

explanation’s

substance

by

the

members

of

the

general

assembly.

10

This

bill

modifies

provisions

related

to

open

enrollment

11

policies

and

English-language

learners.

Current

law

requires

12

receiving

school

districts

to

approve

applications

for

open

13

enrollment

that

are

submitted

in

a

timely

manner

unless

the

14

receiving

school

district

has

insufficient

classroom

space.

15

Current

law

also

requires

each

school

district

to

adopt

a

16

policy

that

defines

insufficient

classroom

space

for

purposes

17

of

open

enrollment.

The

bill

requires

the

definition

of

18

insufficient

classroom

space

adopted

by

the

school

district

to

19

include

standards

related

to

the

school

district’s

capacity

to

20

provide

instruction

to

English

learners.

Under

current

law,

21

“English

learner”

means

a

student

whose

language

background

is

22

in

a

language

other

than

English,

and

the

student’s

proficiency

23

in

English

is

such

that

the

probability

of

the

student’s

24

academic

success

in

an

English-only

classroom

is

below

that

25

of

an

academically

successful

peer

with

an

English

language

26

background.

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