Senate File 54 - Introduced SENATE FILE 54 BY ZAUN A BILL FOR An Act providing for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at 1 regents universities for Iowa national guard members who are 2 residents of Iowa. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1806XS (1) 85 kh/sc
S.F. 54 Section 1. Section 262.9, subsection 17, Code 2013, is 1 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 2 NEW PARAGRAPH . c. (1) Direct each institution of higher 3 learning governed by the board to waive tuition and mandatory 4 fee charges to a member of the Iowa national guard who is a 5 resident of this state or who was a resident of this state 6 at the time of entry into the Iowa national guard. Tuition 7 and mandatory fees shall be waived for not more than one 8 hundred twenty-eight semester credit hours or eight semesters 9 of undergraduate study, or the equivalent. The limitation 10 on credit hours and semesters of study shall be applied 11 cumulatively within the regents university system. The waiver 12 shall apply only for the amount of tuition and mandatory fee 13 charges that exceeds the total amount of any state and federal 14 education benefits, grants, or scholarships the national guard 15 member is eligible for or receives, including but not limited 16 to the federal Pell grant, federal educational assistance 17 for the selected reserve, and the national guard educational 18 assistance program under section 261.86. 19 (2) The department of veterans affairs and the college 20 student aid commission shall provide information and assistance 21 to such an institution upon request. 22 EXPLANATION 23 This bill requires the state board of regents to direct each 24 of its universities to waive tuition and mandatory fee charges 25 to a member of the Iowa national guard who is a resident of this 26 state or who was a resident of this state at the time of entry 27 into the Iowa national guard. 28 Tuition and mandatory fees shall be waived for not more than 29 128 semester credit hours or eight semesters of undergraduate 30 study within the regents university system. The waiver 31 shall apply only for the amount of tuition and mandatory fee 32 charges that exceeds the total amount of any state and federal 33 education benefits, grants, or scholarships the national guard 34 member is eligible for or receives. 35 -1- LSB 1806XS (1) 85 kh/sc 1/ 2
S.F. 54 The department of veterans affairs and the college student 1 aid commission must provide information and assistance to a 2 regents university upon request. 3 -2- LSB 1806XS (1) 85 kh/sc 2/ 2