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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.
Relating to education programs and systems, including career and technical education expenditures and definitions, statewide lower division general education framework and common course numbering systems, and the implementation of a statewide corequisite model in Iowa community colleges.
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Modifies provisions related to summative testing in schools and the educational program provided to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade twelve.
Relating to entities supported in whole or in part by taxation, modifying provisions related to the duties and responsibilities of the directors and officers of school boards, school improvement advisory committees, the sale of public bonds, statewide school infrastructure funding, open enrollment, and the membership and voting units of county and city conference boards.
Relating to state policies, programs, and licenses with race, gender, or citizenship requirements.
Relates to chatbots, including deployer requirements and interactions with minors.
Requiring the board of educational examiners to establish additional endorsements for instruction related to fine arts, mathematics, science, and agriculture.
Relating to education reporting, including the sharing of unit-level wage data for secondary and postsecondary program evaluation, the establishment of the condition of education report, consolidating certain required reports, modifying IWD data-sharing provisions, and creating ROI reporting systems to be overseen by Iowa student aid commission.
Relates to local government taxes, budgets, and authority.
Concerns information regarding certain state and federal student loan programs and provides duties of the bureau of Iowa college aid of the department of education, the Iowa student loan liquidity corporation, and certain institutions of higher education in Iowa.
Relates to state and local government taxes, budgets, and authority, by modifying provisions relating to the assessment and taxation of property, funding from the secure an advanced vision education fund, the election of certain county officers, urban renewal areas and urban revitalization areas, and establishing a program for certain first-time homebuyers.
A bill for an act relating to the application for and acceptance of certain federal grants by state agencies.
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and codifying the housing renewal program.
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, DE, state board of regents, and department of workforce development.
Bill provides that career and technical education instructors are eligible for shared operational functions for purposes of supplementary weighting.
The bill repeals the summer youth intern pilot program. This division takes effect June 30, 2026.
Relates to apprenticeships, adding intermediary sponsors; a class of entities that provide apprenticeship training under Code chapter 84D and that are subject to registration with the Iowa office of apprenticeships. Including implementation provisions. Provides for licensed journey and master plumbers to employ apprentices.
Relating to the ownership of artificial intelligence output and trained artificial intelligence.
Relating to school funding by establishing the state percent of growth and the categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2026, modifying provisions relating to property tax replacement payments, the regular program state cost per pupil, funding for school district budget adjustments, and school district enrollment.
This bill relates to tuition charged to resident undergraduate students enrolled at regent institutions.
Relates to the carrying, transportation, and possession of weapons.
