Senate File 92 - Introduced





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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act expanding institutional eligibility for the Iowa tuition
  2    grant program.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2074XS 83
  5 kh/nh/14

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 261.9, subsection 1, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 1, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    "Accredited private institution" means an institution of
  1  4 higher learning located in Iowa which is operated that is
  1  5 operating privately and in Iowa, is not controlled or
  1  6 administered by any state agency or any subdivision of the
  1  7 state and which meets the criteria in paragraphs "a" and "b"
  1  8 and all of the criteria in paragraphs "d" through "g", except
  1  9 that institutions defined in paragraph "c" of this subsection
  1 10 are exempt from the requirements of paragraphs "a" and "b":
  1 11                           EXPLANATION
  1 12    This bill changes the definition of "accredited private
  1 13 institution" in order to expand eligibility under the Iowa
  1 14 tuition grant program to accredited private institutions whose
  1 15 home office is not located in the state.
  1 16    The definition is referenced for purposes of membership in
  1 17 the institute for tomorrow's workforce; the approval of
  1 18 para=educator preparation programs by the state board of
  1 19 education; membership on the advisory committee on
  1 20 postsecondary registration, the college student aid
  1 21 commission's authority to grant temporary relief to
  1 22 postsecondary institutions from requirements during national
  1 23 emergencies; a recommendation by the general assembly related
  1 24 to textbook notices; a definition for "eligible school" under
  1 25 the barber and cosmetology arts and sciences tuition grant
  1 26 program; the definition of "for=profit accredited private
  1 27 institutions" for purposes of the tuition grant program; the
  1 28 definition of graduate students for purposes of the
  1 29 chiropractic graduate student forgivable loans; institutional
  1 30 eligibility for the Iowa college work=study program, the
  1 31 national guard educational assistance program, the minority
  1 32 academic grants for success program, and the teacher shortage
  1 33 forgivable loan program; institutional eligibility under the
  1 34 senior year plus program; and institutional eligibility for
  1 35 the membership on the Iowa studies committee.
  2  1 LSB 2074XS 83
  2  2 kh/nh/14