Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly
Iowa SF2329: A BILL FOR An Act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties and powers of area education agencies, the department of education, and area education agency funding, and including effective date and applicability provisions
Status: In committee, February 16, 2026
An Act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties and powers of area education agencies, the department of education, and area education agency funding, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
What the bill says
A bill FOR An Act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties and powers of area education agencies, the department of education, and area education agency funding, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
From the introduced text, February 12, 2026:
A BILL FOR An Act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties and powers of area education agencies, the department of education, and area education agency funding, and including effective date and applicability provisions. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 5602XS (3) jda/jh S.F. 2329 DIVISION I AREA EDUCATION AGENCIES ---- PROGRAMMATIC CHANGES Section 1. Section 256B.3, subsection 16, Code 2026, is amended by striking the subsection. Sec. 2. Section 273.2, subsections 1 and 3, Code 2026, are amended to read as follows: 1. There are established throughout the state nine area education agencies, each of which is under the general supervision of the director of the department of education, except as otherwise provided in this chapter governed by an area education agency board of directors. Each area education agency shall have an area education agency board of directors that shall serve in an advisory capacity. The boundaries of an area education agency shall not divide a school district. The director of the department of education shall change boundaries of area education agencies to take into account mergers of local school districts and changes in boundaries of local school districts, when necessary to maintain the policy of this chapter that a local school district shall not be a part …