Senate Study Bill 1075 - Introduced SENATE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION BILL BY CHAIRPERSON EVANS) A BILL FOR An Act relating to education, including by modifying provisions 1 related to community college and department of education 2 reporting requirements and employees of the Iowa educational 3 services for the blind and visually impaired program or the 4 Iowa school for the deaf. 5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 6 TLSB 2409XC (2) 91 jda/jh

S.F. _____ DIVISION I 1 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS 2 Section 1. Section 256.7, subsection 23, Code 2025, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 23. Adopt rules directing the community colleges to 5 annually and uniformly submit data , including individual-level 6 data, from the most recent fiscal year to the community 7 colleges bureau department , using criteria determined and 8 prescribed by the bureau department via the management 9 information system. 10 a. Financial data submitted to the division department by a 11 community college shall be broken down by fund. 12 b. Community colleges shall provide data to the community 13 colleges bureau department by a deadline set by the bureau 14 department . The deadline shall be set for a date that permits 15 the bureau department to include the data in a report submitted 16 for to the state board approval and the general assembly for 17 review by December March 15 of each year by the house and 18 senate standing education committees and the joint subcommittee 19 on education appropriations . 20 c. The department shall include a statewide summary of the 21 financial data submitted in accordance with paragraph “a” in 22 the submit an annual condition of community colleges report , 23 which upon approval of to the state board , shall be submitted 24 to and the general assembly on or before February 1 for review 25 by March 15 of each year. The report must include community 26 college program level educational and employment outcomes 27 reports upon availability of all underlying data. 28 Sec. 2. Section 260C.14, subsection 21, paragraph c, Code 29 2025, is amended to read as follows: 30 c. The department shall submit a report to the general 31 assembly summarizing incorporate the data submitted in 32 paragraph “a” by January 15 annually into the annual condition 33 of community colleges report described in section 256.7, 34 subsection 23, paragraph “c” . 35 -1- LSB 2409XC (2) 91 jda/jh 1/ 4

S.F. _____ Sec. 3. Section 261E.3, subsection 3, paragraph j, Code 1 2025, is amended to read as follows: 2 j. All eligible postsecondary institutions providing 3 programming under this chapter shall include the unique student 4 identifier assigned to students while in the kindergarten 5 through grade twelve system as a part of the institution’s 6 student data management system. Eligible postsecondary 7 institutions providing programming under this chapter shall 8 cooperate with the department on data requests related to 9 the programming. All eligible postsecondary institutions 10 providing programming under this chapter shall collect data 11 and report to the department on the proportion of females and 12 minorities enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and 13 mathematics-oriented educational opportunities provided in 14 accordance with this chapter . The department shall submit 15 incorporate the programming data and the department’s findings 16 and recommendations in a report to the general assembly 17 annually by January 15 into the annual condition of community 18 colleges report described in section 256.7, subsection 23, 19 paragraph “c” . 20 DIVISION II 21 IOWA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED 22 PROGRAM AND THE IOWA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF 23 Sec. 4. Section 256.103, Code 2025, is amended to read as 24 follows: 25 256.103 Employees —— contracts —— termination and discharge 26 procedures. 27 1. Sections 279.12 through 279.19B and section 279.27 28 apply to employees of the Iowa educational services for the 29 blind and visually impaired program and employees of the Iowa 30 school for the deaf, who are licensed pursuant to subchapter 31 VII, part 3 . Section 279.27 applies to employees of the Iowa 32 educational services for the blind and visually impaired 33 program and employees of the Iowa school for the deaf, whether 34 or not licensed pursuant to subchapter VII, part 3, who are 35 -2- LSB 2409XC (2) 91 jda/jh 2/ 4

S.F. _____ responsible for the care, instruction, or supervision of 1 children. In following those sections in chapter 279 , the 2 references to boards of directors of school districts shall be 3 interpreted to apply to the department. 4 2. Notwithstanding chapter 8A, subchapter IV, the 5 department of administrative services shall, in consultation 6 with the department of education, establish an annual 7 compensation schedule applicable to all employees of the Iowa 8 educational services for the blind and visually impaired 9 program and all employees of the Iowa school for the deaf and 10 shall set the employee benefits for such employees. 11 EXPLANATION 12 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 13 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 14 This bill relates to education, including by modifying 15 provisions related to community college and department of 16 education (DE) reporting requirements and employees of the 17 Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired 18 program or the Iowa school for the deaf. 19 DIVISION I —— REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. Current law requires 20 the state board of education to adopt rules directing the 21 community colleges to submit certain specified data from the 22 most recent fiscal year to the community colleges bureau using 23 criteria determined by the community colleges bureau. The 24 bill modifies these provisions to instead require the data to 25 be submitted directly to DE. The bill makes several other 26 modifications related to data submitted by the community 27 colleges to DE, and related to data submitted by DE to the 28 state board and the general assembly, including modifications 29 related to the information to be included in the annual 30 condition of community colleges report. 31 DIVISION II —— IOWA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND 32 VISUALLY IMPAIRED PROGRAM AND THE IOWA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. 33 The bill provides that Code section 279.27 (discharge of a 34 teacher) applies to employees of the Iowa educational services 35 -3- LSB 2409XC (2) 91 jda/jh 3/ 4

S.F. _____ for the blind and visually impaired program and employees of 1 the Iowa school for the deaf, whether or not licensed by the 2 board of educational examiners, who are responsible for the 3 care, instruction, or supervision of children. 4 The bill requires the department of administrative services, 5 in consultation with DE, to establish an annual compensation 6 schedule applicable to all employees of the Iowa educational 7 services for the blind and visually impaired program and all 8 employees of the Iowa school for the deaf and to set the 9 employee benefits for such employees. 10 -4- LSB 2409XC (2) 91 jda/jh 4/ 4