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Community Colleges for Iowa provides this bill tracker tool to help the public keep an eye on important legislative measures in Iowa that pertain to higher education like the community colleges we support.
This bill expands the definition of “qualified military person” to mean a “veteran”, which generally includes veterans of armed conflicts and other service members who were discharged under honorable conditions. The bill also provides that surviving spouses and children of qualified veterans are considered residents of Iowa for purposes of undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees at community colleges.
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Relating to bond elections requirements and limitations applicable to the school districts.
Creates a new graduate nonresident tuition tax credit available against the individual income tax.
Relates to teacher education and licensing, including modifying provisions related to practitioner preparation programs and licenses issued by the board of education examiners.
Creates a tax on college endowment over $500 million to be used for workforce grants, at the top rate of 7.1%.
Relating to social studies instruction, including instruction in United States government, provided to students enrolled in grades nine through twelve.
Relates to selection committees for presidents of regents institutions.
Modifies provisions related to the protected speech and expression rights of students enrolled in schools districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools and the duties of the DE.
Relates to general education requirements, core curricula, and other functions of regents institutes
Requires the Regents to adopt a policy that freezes the undergraduate tuition paid by residents to the rate charged in their first year.
Relating to apprenticeships and other workforce career training programs and making appropriations.
Prohibits courses and content relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory in general education requirements and core curricula at regents institutions.
Relates to public notice requirements for meetings of a governmental body.
Provides for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at regents institutions for certain veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Provides that Career and Technical Education instructors are eligible for shared operational functions for purposes of supplementary weighting.
Prohibits the Regent schools from hiring or employing a person with an H1-B visa who is a Chinese citizen.
Requiring annual reports on antisemitism in community colleges, regents institutions, and public school districts.
This bill relates to career education, including by modifying provisions related to career academies, the collective statewide articulation agreement between community colleges and the state board of regents, the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program, and individual career and academic plans.
Establishes a temporary independent fiscal restructuring authority to provide oversight of institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents.
Relates to human trafficking prevention training for persons applying for certain commercial driver's licenses.
