House File 226 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY GRASSLEY and KAUFMANN Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to salary and tuition increases for individuals 2 at community colleges and institutions of higher education 3 governed by the state board of regents. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1603YH 83 6 kh/nh/5 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 260C.14, subsection 8, Code 2009, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 8. Set the salary of the area superintendent. In setting 1 4 the salary, the board shall consider the salaries of 1 5 administrators of educational institutions in the merged area 1 6 and the enrollment of the community college. However, for the 1 7 fiscal year for which the board approves a tuition increase 1 8 pursuant to subsection 2, the salary of the area 1 9 superintendent shall not be increased by the board. 1 10 Sec. 2. Section 262.9, subsection 2, Code 2009, is amended 1 11 to read as follows: 1 12 2. Elect a president of each of the institutions of higher 1 13 learning; a superintendent of each of the other institutions; 1 14 a treasurer and a secretarial officer for each institution 1 15 annually; professors, instructors, officers, and employees; 1 16 and fix their compensation. However, for the fiscal year for 1 17 which the board approves a tuition increase for an institution 1 18 of higher learning under its control pursuant to subsection 1 19 18, paragraph "a", the salary of the president of the 1 20 institution shall not be increased by the board. Sections 1 21 279.12 through 279.19 and section 279.27 apply to employees of 1 22 the Iowa braille and sight saving school and the state school 1 23 for the deaf, who are licensed pursuant to chapter 272. In 1 24 following those sections in chapter 279, the references to 1 25 boards of directors of school districts shall be interpreted 1 26 to apply to the board of regents. 1 27 EXPLANATION 1 28 This bill provides that if the board of directors of a 1 29 community college or the state board of regents approves an 1 30 increase in the tuition for a community college or regents 1 31 university, that board is prohibited from increasing the 1 32 salary of the merged area superintendent or the university's 1 33 president, as applicable, for the same fiscal year for which 1 34 the board approved the tuition increase. 1 35 LSB 1603YH 83 2 1 kh/nh/5.1