What is the status of SF2116?

In committee as of February 17, 2026. Latest action: Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2351 . S.J. 306 . (February 17, 2026).

Where is the official record for SF2116?

On the Iowa Legislature website: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=SF+2116&ga=91

Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly

Iowa SF2116: A BILL FOR An Act relating to open enrollment, including by modifying provisions related to the open enrollment of pupils who are truant or chronically absent and children receiving educational instruction and course content delivered primarily over the internet, and including applicability provisions

Q: What is SF2116?

SF2116 is a bill in the Iowa Legislature (91st General Assembly): A BILL FOR An Act relating to open enrollment, including by modifying provisions related to the open enrollment of pupils who are truant or chronically absent and children receiving educational instruction and course content delivered primarily over the internet, and including applicability provisions.

Q: What does SF2116 do?

In its own words: A bill FOR An Act relating to open enrollment, including by modifying provisions related to the open enrollment of pupils who are truant or chronically absent and children receiving educational instruction and course content delivered primarily over the internet, and including applicability provisions.

Status: In committee, February 17, 2026

An Act relating to open enrollment, including by modifying provisions related to the open enrollment of pupils who are truant or chronically absent and children receiving educational instruction and course content delivered primarily over the internet, and including applicability provisions.

What the bill says

A bill FOR An Act relating to open enrollment, including by modifying provisions related to the open enrollment of pupils who are truant or chronically absent and children receiving educational instruction and course content delivered primarily over the internet, and including applicability provisions.

From the introduced text, January 27, 2026:

A BILL FOR An Act relating to open enrollment, including by modifying provisions related to the open enrollment of pupils who are truant or chronically absent and children receiving educational instruction and course content delivered primarily over the internet, and including applicability provisions. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 5869XS (4) jda/jh S.F. 2116 Section 1. Section 282.18, subsection 13, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows: 13. a. If a pupil, for whom a request to transfer has been filed with a district, has been suspended or expelled in the district, the pupil shall not be permitted to transfer until the pupil has been reinstated in the sending district. Once the pupil has been reinstated, however, the pupil shall be permitted to transfer in the same manner as if the pupil had not been suspended or expelled by the sending district. If a pupil, for whom a request to transfer has been filed with a district, is expelled in the district, the pupil shall be permitted to transfer to a receiving district under this section if the pupil applies for and is reinstated in the sending district. However, if the pupil applies for reinstatement but is not reinstated in the sending district, the receiving district may deny the request to transfer. …

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