House Study Bill 255 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS BILL BY CHAIRPERSON GRASSLEY) A BILL FOR An Act expanding the national guard educational assistance 1 program to provide educational assistance to national guard 2 members who are enrolled in a curriculum leading to a doctor 3 of medicine degree or a doctor of osteopathic medicine 4 degree. 5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 6 TLSB 2801YC (2) 88 kh/jh

H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 261.86, subsection 1, unnumbered 1 paragraph 1, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows: 2 A national guard educational assistance program is 3 established to be administered by the college student aid 4 commission for members of the Iowa national guard who are 5 either enrolled as undergraduate students in a community 6 college, an institution of higher learning under the state 7 board of regents, or an accredited private institution , or 8 enrolled as postgraduate students in accredited medical or 9 osteopathic schools . The college student aid commission shall 10 adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to administer this section . 11 An individual is eligible for the national guard educational 12 assistance program if the individual meets all of the following 13 conditions: 14 Sec. 2. Section 261.86, subsection 1, paragraph d, Code 15 2019, is amended to read as follows: 16 d. Is enrolled in and is maintaining satisfactory academic 17 progress as an either of the following: 18 (1) An undergraduate student in a community college as 19 defined in section 260C.2 , an institution of higher learning 20 under the control of the board of regents, or an accredited 21 private institution as defined in section 261.9 , and is 22 maintaining satisfactory academic progress . 23 (2) A postgraduate student enrolled in a school of medicine 24 accredited by the liaison committee on medical education or 25 an osteopathic medical school accredited by the commission on 26 osteopathic college accreditation of the American osteopathic 27 association in a curriculum leading to a doctor of medicine 28 degree or a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree. 29 Sec. 3. Section 261.86, subsection 3, Code 2019, is amended 30 by adding the following new paragraph: 31 NEW PARAGRAPH . c. Notwithstanding paragraph “a” , up to 32 five eligible members of the national guard annually, as 33 determined by the adjutant general, who meet the requirements 34 of subsection 1, paragraphs “a” through “c” , “e” through “g” , 35 -1- LSB 2801YC (2) 88 kh/jh 1/ 2

H.F. _____ and paragraph “d” , subparagraph (2), shall receive educational 1 assistance under this section in an amount not to exceed 2 twenty thousand dollars annually for not more than four years. 3 Educational assistance under this paragraph is conditional on 4 the eligible member completing a residency program and serving 5 five years in the Iowa national guard as a medical corps 6 officer while practicing medicine in Iowa. If an eligible 7 member fails to fulfill the conditions of this paragraph, the 8 eligible member shall be subject to repayment to the commission 9 of the amount of educational assistance received under this 10 section plus interest as specified by rule. 11 EXPLANATION 12 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 13 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 14 This bill provides that up to five eligible members of the 15 national guard annually, as determined by the adjutant general, 16 who meet the requirements of the national guard educational 17 assistance program but who are enrolled in a postgraduate 18 course of study at an accredited school of medicine or at an 19 accredited osteopathic medical school leading to a doctor of 20 medicine degree or a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree 21 shall receive educational assistance in an amount not to exceed 22 $20,000 annually for not more than four years. 23 The eligible member must then complete a residency program 24 and serve five years in the Iowa national guard as a medical 25 corps officer while practicing medicine in Iowa. A guard 26 member who fails to fulfill these conditions must repay to the 27 commission the amount of educational assistance received plus 28 interest. 29 -2- LSB 2801YC (2) 88 kh/jh 2/ 2