House File 729 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY UPMEYER, PAULSEN, TOMENGA,
DE BOEF, S. OLSON, L. MILLER,
RAYHONS, KAUFMANN, FORRISTALL,
SODERBERG, and STRUYK
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act providing appropriations for general state financial aid
2 to merged areas.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 1 Section 1. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION == COMMUNITY COLLEGE
1 2 SUPPLEMENT FOR FY 2007=2008. There is appropriated from the
1 3 general fund of the state to the department of education for
1 4 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2007, and ending June 30,
1 5 2008, the following amount, or so much thereof as is
1 6 necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
1 7 For general state financial aid to merged areas as defined
1 8 in section 260C.2 in accordance with chapters 258 and 260C:
1 9 .................................................. $ 87,613,190
1 10 Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall
1 11 supplement, not supplant, any other moneys appropriated to the
1 12 department of education for general state financial aid to
1 13 merged areas as defined in section 260C.2 in accordance with
1 14 chapters 258 and 260C.
1 15 Sec. 2. Section 260C.24, Code 2007, is amended to read as
1 16 follows:
1 17 260C.24 PAYMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS == PAYMENT.
1 18 1. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008, and each
1 19 succeeding fiscal year, there is appropriated from the general
1 20 fund of the state to the department of education for each
1 21 fiscal year for general state financial aid to merged areas as
1 22 defined in section 260C.2 in accordance with chapter 258 and
1 23 this chapter, an amount which, divided on a per student basis,
1 24 exceeds the per student amount appropriated under section
1 25 261.25, subsections 1 and 2, for the previous fiscal year by
1 26 one dollar.
1 27 2. Payment of appropriations the appropriation made
1 28 pursuant to subsection 1 for distribution under this chapter,
1 29 or of appropriations made in lieu of such appropriations
1 30 appropriation, shall be made by the department of
1 31 administrative services in monthly installments due on or
1 32 about the fifteenth of each month of a budget year, and
1 33 installments shall be as nearly equal as possible, as
1 34 determined by the department of administrative services,
1 35 taking into consideration the relative budget and cash
2 1 position of the state resources.
2 2 EXPLANATION
2 3 This bill appropriates $87.6 million from the general fund
2 4 of the state for FY 2007=2008 to the department of education
2 5 for general state financial aid to community colleges. The
2 6 amount appropriated is in addition to any other moneys
2 7 appropriated by the general assembly for FY 2007=2008 for that
2 8 purpose. The amount is determined by dividing the amounts
2 9 appropriated for the Iowa tuition grant by the number of
2 10 students receiving the tuition grant, adding $1 to that
2 11 figure, and multiplying the resulting figure by the number of
2 12 students enrolled in community colleges statewide and
2 13 subtracting from that amount the moneys appropriated for
2 14 community colleges in FY 2006=2007.
2 15 The bill provides for a permanent standing appropriation to
2 16 the department of education for FY 2008=2009 and each
2 17 succeeding fiscal year, for general state financial aid for
2 18 community colleges based on the same formula used to determine
2 19 the amount of the FY 2007=2008 supplemental appropriation in
2 20 the bill.
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