House File 2362 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2362 BY COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 549) A BILL FOR An Act relating to tuition charged to resident undergraduate 1 students enrolled at regents institutions. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5835HV (2) 91 je/ns
H.F. 2362 Section 1. Section 262.9, Code 2026, is amended by adding 1 the following new subsection: 2 NEW SUBSECTION . 43. a. Direct each institution of higher 3 education governed by the board to establish a policy whereby 4 the tuition amount charged to students classified as residents 5 that is charged to an undergraduate student in the student’s 6 first academic year of enrollment, commencing with a first 7 academic year of enrollment beginning in or after 2027, will 8 not increase in the student’s subsequent academic years of 9 undergraduate enrollment. 10 b. For a student who begins the student’s first academic 11 year of undergraduate enrollment with sufficient academic 12 transfer credits that the student can complete a baccalaureate 13 degree program in less than four academic years, this 14 subsection only applies for the number of academic years 15 necessary for the student to complete a degree program with the 16 student’s academic transfer credits, rounded up. 17 c. If an undergraduate student transfers to another 18 institution of higher education governed by the board after the 19 student’s first academic year of enrollment, and the tuition 20 amount that would have been charged to the student during that 21 first academic year by the institution to which the student 22 transfers is greater than the amount charged to the student 23 by the institution from which the student transferred, the 24 institution to which the student transfers may charge the 25 student the greater tuition amount. 26 d. This subsection does not apply to any academic years 27 beyond three consecutive academic years of undergraduate 28 enrollment after a student’s first academic year of enrollment. 29 EXPLANATION 30 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 31 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 32 This bill requires the state board of regents to direct each 33 regents institution to establish a policy whereby the tuition 34 amount charged to students classified as residents that is 35 -1- LSB 5835HV (2) 91 je/ns 1/ 2
H.F. 2362 charged to an undergraduate student in the student’s first 1 academic year of enrollment will not increase in the student’s 2 subsequent academic years of undergraduate enrollment. This 3 requirement applies to a student’s first academic year of 4 enrollment that begins in or after 2027. The bill provides 5 limitations on this requirement. 6 -2- LSB 5835HV (2) 91 je/ns 2/ 2