HF 560 (LSB 2103YH (2) 90)

HOUSE FILE 560

BY  SIEGRIST

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the department of education, including the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program and the postsecondary summer classes for high school students program, and making appropriations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION —— NONPUBLIC SCHOOL CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT PAYMENTS TO COMMUNITY COLLEGES.
   1.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
   For payments to community colleges for the concurrent enrollment of accredited nonpublic school students under section 261E.8, subsection 2, paragraph “b”:
   ...................................................................... $  2,000,000

   2.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure until the close of the succeeding fiscal year for support costs associated with the creation of a program to provide additional moneys for resident high school pupils enrolled in grades nine through twelve to attend a community college for college-level classes or attend a class taught by a community college-employed instructor during the summer and outside of the regular school year through a contractual agreement between a community college and a school district under the future ready Iowa initiative.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to the department of education, including the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program and the postsecondary summer classes for high school students program. The bill appropriates $2 million from the general fund of the state to the department in FY 2023-2024 for purposes of providing payments to community colleges for the concurrent enrollment of accredited nonpublic school students under the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program. The bill provides that if these moneys remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year the moneys shall not revert to the general fund of the state but shall remain available for expenditure until the close of the succeeding fiscal year for the postsecondary summer classes for high school students program, which allows resident high school pupils enrolled in grades 9 through 12 to attend a community college for college-level classes or attend a class taught by a community college-employed instructor during the summer and outside of the regular school year through a contractual agreement between a community college and a school district under the future ready Iowa initiative.