Iowa Education Legislative Watch
StateAEAs and special education

SF 2181

Creates pilot attendance centers for special education and behavior students

Requires one rural and one urban Iowa school district to set up attendance centers serving students with special needs or serious behavioral issues. Districts would spend at least 48 percent of certain special education funds on the pilot, which ends in 2031.

Official title

A bill for an act requiring the department of education to develop and administer a pilot program that requires certain specified school districts to establish attendance centers for students requiring special education and students with behavioral issues.(See SF 2404.)

Introduced1 of 5

Where it stands

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. Senate
  4. House
  5. Governor

Last action, Feb 19: Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2404. S.J. 333.

On these agendas

  • Education CommitteeFeb 18

    ns SJR2008 - Evans SF2119 - Evans SSB3164 - Evans SSB3163 - Evans SF2092- Evans SF2181 - Gruenhagen SF2044 - Gruenhagen/w amendment SF2174 - Salmon SF2095 - Salmon w/

History

  • Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2404. S.J. 333.Senate · Feb 19
  • Subcommittee recommends passage.Senate · Feb 18
  • Subcommittee Meeting: 02/17/2026 12:00PM Room 217 Conference Room.Senate · Feb 12
  • Subcommittee: Gruenhagen, Donahue, and Evans. S.J. 243.Senate · Feb 10
  • Introduced, referred to Education. S.J. 187.Senate · Feb 3