HOUSE FILE 2128

BY  J. TAYLOR, KLEIN, SCHULTZ, DE BOEF, PEARSON, FRY, MASSIE, PETTENGILL, BAUDLER, KAUFMANN, and BYRNES

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to salary increases for the presidents of the institutions of higher learning governed by the state board of regents and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 262.9, subsection 2, Code Supplement 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Elect a president of each of the institutions of higher learning; a superintendent of each of the other institutions; a treasurer and a secretarial officer for each institution annually; professors, instructors, officers, and employees; and fix their compensation.
   a.  The board shall not increase the compensation or benefits paid or provided to any president of an institution of higher learning for the fiscal year following a fiscal year during which the board approved a tuition increase for any of the institutions of higher learning.
   b.  Sections 279.12 through 279.19 and section 279.27 apply to employees of the Iowa braille and sight saving school and the state school for the deaf, who are licensed pursuant to chapter 272. In following those sections in chapter 279, the references to boards of directors of school districts shall be interpreted to apply to the board of regents.
    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
EXPLANATION
   This bill prohibits the state board of regents from increasing the compensation or benefits paid or provided to any president of a regents university in the fiscal year following a fiscal year during which the board increased the tuition at any regents university.
   The bill takes effect upon enactment.