HSB 142 (LSB 2325YC (4) 91)

HOUSE FILE _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION BILL BY CHAIRPERSON WHEELER)

A BILL FOR

An Act prohibiting community colleges offering a curriculum in barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences if a licensed school of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences operates in the same merged area.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 260C.14, subsection 1, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  a.  Determine the curriculum to be offered in such school or college subject to approval of the director and ensure that all career and technical education offerings are competency-based, provide any minimum competencies required by the department of education, comply with any applicable requirements in chapter 256, subchapter VII, part 2, and are articulated with local school district career and technical education programs.
   b.  If an existing private educational institution or an existing vocational institution offering a career and technical education program within the merged area has facilities and curriculum of adequate size and quality which would duplicate the functions of the area school, the board of directors shall discuss with the institution the possibility of entering into contracts to have the existing institution offer facilities and curriculum to students of the merged area. The board of directors shall consider any proposals submitted by the private institution for providing such facilities and curriculum. The board of directors may enter into such contracts. In approving curriculum, the director shall ascertain that all courses and programs submitted for approval are needed and that the curriculum being offered by an area school does not duplicate programs provided by existing public or private facilities in the area. In determining whether duplication would actually exist, the director shall consider the needs of the area and consider whether the proposed programs are competitive as to size, quality, tuition, purposes, and area coverage with existing public and private educational or vocational institutions within the merged area. If the board of directors of the merged area chooses not to enter into contracts with private institutions under this subsection, the board shall submit a list of reasons why contracts to avoid duplication were not entered into and an economic impact statement relating to the board’s decision.
   c.  Notwithstanding paragraph “b”, an area school shall not offer, and the director shall not approve, any curriculum in barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, as defined in section 157.1, if a postsecondary educational institution licensed by the state of Iowa under chapter 157 to operate as a school of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences is operating in the merged area on the effective date of this Act, so long as the institution continues to operate in the merged area.
    Sec. 2.  CURRENT STUDENTS —— PROGRAMS CONTINUED.  If a community college would otherwise be required to discontinue a program under the provisions of this Act, the community college shall continue the program until all students enrolled in the program on or before the effective date of this Act have completed or left the program.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill prohibits a community college from offering a curriculum, and the director of the department of education from approving a community college curriculum, in barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences if a postsecondary educational institution licensed by the state to operate as a school of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences is operating in the merged area on the effective date of the bill, so long as the institution continues to operate in the merged area.
   The bill provides that if a community college would otherwise be required to discontinue a program under the bill, the community college shall continue the program until all students enrolled in the program on or before the effective date of the bill have completed or left the program.