House File 636 S-3166 Amend House File 636, as amended, passed, and reprinted by 1 the House, as follows: 2 1. Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 3 < DIVISION I 4 POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION SUBSIDY 5 Section 1. Section 598.1, subsection 8, Code 2023, is 6 amended to read as follows: 7 8. “Postsecondary education subsidy” means an amount which 8 either of the parties may be required to pay under a temporary 9 order or final judgment or decree for educational expenses of 10 a child who is between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two 11 years if the child is regularly attending a course of career 12 and technical training either as a part of a regular school 13 program or under special arrangements adapted to the individual 14 person’s needs; or is, in good faith, a full-time student in a 15 college, university, or community college; or has been accepted 16 for admission to a college, university, or community college 17 and the next regular term has not yet begun. 18 Sec. ___. Section 598.21F, Code 2023, is amended by striking 19 the section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 20 598.21F Postsecondary education subsidy. 21 The court shall not order either of the parties to pay a 22 postsecondary education subsidy under a temporary order or 23 final judgment or decree. 24 Sec. ___. Section 600.11, subsection 2, paragraph a, 25 subparagraph (6), Code 2023, is amended to read as follows: 26 (6) A person who is ordered to pay support or a 27 postsecondary education subsidy pursuant to section 598.21F , or 28 chapter 234 , 252A , 252C , 252F , 598 , 600B , or any other chapter 29 of the Code, for a person eighteen years of age or older who is 30 being adopted by a stepparent, and the support order or order 31 requires payment of support or postsecondary education subsidy 32 for any period of time after the child reaches eighteen years 33 of age. 34 Sec. ___. APPLICABILITY. This division of this Act applies 35 -1- HF 636.1829 (2) 90 pf/rh 1/ 2 #1.
to a support order, decree, or judgment entered or pending on 1 or after July 1, 2023. This division of this Act shall not be 2 the basis for modification of an order, decree, or judgment 3 entered before July 1, 2023, that provides for a postsecondary 4 education subsidy. 5 DIVISION ___ 6 EDUCATIONAL SETTING OF A MINOR CHILD > 7 2. Title page, line 1, after < relating to > by inserting 8 < provisions involving children in family law matters including 9 prohibiting a court from ordering payment of a postsecondary 10 education subsidy for a child under a dissolution of marriage 11 temporary order or final judgment or decree and providing for 12 application to existing orders, judgments, and decrees; and > 13 3. By renumbering as necessary. 14 ______________________________ JESSE GREEN -2- HF 636.1829 (2) 90 pf/rh 2/ 2 #2. #3.