HOUSE FILE 2069

BY  T. OLSON, ABDUL-SAMAD, BERRY, COHOON, GAINES, GASKILL, HALL, HANSON, HEDDENS, HUNTER, ISENHART, JACOBY, KAJTAZOVIC, KEARNS, KELLEY, KRESSIG, LENSING, LYKAM, MASCHER, McCARTHY, H. MILLER, MUHLBAUER, MURPHY, OLDSON, R. OLSON, PETERSEN, RUNNING-MARQUARDT, M. SMITH, STECKMAN, SWAIM, T. TAYLOR, THEDE, THOMAS, WENTHE, WESSEL-KROESCHELL, WILLEMS, WINCKLER, WITTNEBEN, and WOLFE

(COMPANION TO SF 2007)

A BILL FOR

An Act making an appropriation to the college student aid commission for purposes of the national guard educational assistance program and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  2011 Iowa Acts, chapter 132, section 2, subsection 4, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  NATIONAL GUARD EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
   For purposes of providing national guard educational assistance under the program established in section 261.86:
.................................................. $  3,186,233
4,486,233
    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
EXPLANATION
   This bill increases the FY 2011-2012 appropriation made to the college student aid commission under 2011 Iowa Acts, chapter 132 (House File 645), by $1.3 million. The program provides educational assistance for members of the Iowa national guard who are enrolled as undergraduate students in a community college, a regents university, or an accredited private institution.
   The bill takes effect upon enactment.