Bill Text: IA SF130 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act making changes to certain limitations within the national guard educational assistance program. (Formerly SSB 1045.) Effective 7-1-15.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2015-03-31 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 756. [SF130 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF130-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 130 - Enrolled




                              SENATE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

                              (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                  1045)
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                                   A BILL FOR
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                                        Senate File 130

                             AN ACT
 MAKING CHANGES TO CERTAIN LIMITATIONS WITHIN THE NATIONAL GUARD
    EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 261.86, subsection 3, Code 2015, is
 amended to read as follows:
    3.  a.  An eligible member of the national guard, attending
 an institution as provided in subsection 1, paragraph "d", as
 a full=time student, shall not receive educational assistance
 under this section for more than eight semesters, or if
 attending as a part=time student for not more than sixteen
 semesters, one hundred twenty credit hours of undergraduate
 study, or the trimester or quarter equivalent. A national
 guard member who has met the educational requirements for a
 baccalaureate degree is ineligible for educational assistance
 under this section.
    b.  A member of the national guard who received educational
 assistance under this section prior to July 1, 2015, shall
 be deemed to have received educational assistance for the
 following number of credit hours for educational assistance
 received before that date:
    (1)  For each semester that the member received educational
 assistance while attending an institution as a full=time
 student, twelve credit hours.
    (2)  For each semester that the member received educational
 assistance while attending an institution as a part=time
 student, six credit hours.
    (3)  For each trimester or quarter that the member received
 educational assistance while attending an institution as a
 full=time or part=time student, the number of credit hours that
 are determined to be the semester equivalent by the college
 student aid commission.


                                                             
                               PAM JOCHUM
                               President of the Senate


                                                             
                               KRAIG PAULSEN
                               Speaker of the House
    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
 is known as Senate File 130, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.


                                                             
                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
                               Secretary of the Senate
 Approved                , 2015


                                                             
                               TERRY E. BRANSTAD
                               Governor

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