Bill Text: IA SF90 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act providing for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at regents universities for Iowa national guard members who are residents of Iowa.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-03 - Subcommittee, Dvorsky, Quirmbach, and Sinclair. S.J. 206. [SF90 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-SF90-Introduced.html
Senate File 90 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY ZAUN A BILL FOR 1 An Act providing for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at 2 regents universities for Iowa national guard members who are 3 residents of Iowa. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 1794XS (2) 86 kh/sc PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 262.9, subsection 17, Code 2015, is 1 2 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 1 3 NEW PARAGRAPH. c. (1) Direct each institution of higher 1 4 learning governed by the board to waive tuition and mandatory 1 5 fee charges to a member of the Iowa national guard who is a 1 6 resident of this state or who was a resident of this state 1 7 at the time of entry into the Iowa national guard. Tuition 1 8 and mandatory fees shall be waived for not more than one 1 9 hundred twenty=eight semester credit hours or eight semesters 1 10 of undergraduate study, or the equivalent. The limitation 1 11 on credit hours and semesters of study shall be applied 1 12 cumulatively within the regents university system. The waiver 1 13 shall apply only for the amount of tuition and mandatory fee 1 14 charges that exceeds the total amount of any state and federal 1 15 education benefits, grants, or scholarships the national guard 1 16 member is eligible for or receives, including but not limited 1 17 to the federal Pell grant, federal educational assistance 1 18 for the selected reserve, and the national guard educational 1 19 assistance program under section 261.86. 1 20 (2) The department of veterans affairs and the college 1 21 student aid commission shall provide information and assistance 1 22 to such an institution upon request. 1 23 EXPLANATION 1 24 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 25 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 26 This bill requires the state board of regents to direct each 1 27 of its universities to waive tuition and mandatory fee charges 1 28 to a member of the Iowa national guard who is a resident of this 1 29 state or who was a resident of this state at the time of entry 1 30 into the Iowa national guard. 1 31 Tuition and mandatory fees shall be waived for not more than 1 32 128 semester credit hours or eight semesters of undergraduate 1 33 study within the regents university system. The waiver 1 34 shall apply only for the amount of tuition and mandatory fee 1 35 charges that exceeds the total amount of any state and federal 2 1 education benefits, grants, or scholarships the national guard 2 2 member is eligible for or receives. 2 3 The department of veterans affairs and the college student 2 4 aid commission must provide information and assistance to a 2 5 regents university upon request. LSB 1794XS (2) 86 kh/sc
