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2018 Legislative Session‐in‐Review: Iowa College Aid January 8, 2018 First day of 2018 legislative session. February 13, 2018 House File 2322 was introduced in the Iowa House to eliminate the College Student Aid Commission and transfer the duties and responsibilities of the agency to the Office of the State Treasurer of Iowa. The bill did not make progress before the first funnel (February 16). March 22, 2018: Purdue University, a public university located in Indiana, officially acquires Kaplan University, a for‐profit university located in Iowa. Iowa residents attending Kaplan University lose eligibility for state‐appropriated scholarship and grant programs on the date of acquisition. Senate File 2415 subsequently provides access to National Guard Educational Assistance Program funds to individuals who received those funds in FY18, if they enroll and continue to meet the eligibility requirements in FY19 at Purdue University Global. March 28, 2018 Governor Reynolds signs Senate File 2117, the FY18 de‐appropriations bill. The bill reduces current year appropriations under Iowa College Aid by $94,172. The reduction is applied to the Teacher Shortage Loan Forgiveness Program, which could sustain the reduction without impact to current recipients. April 3, 2018 The Future Ready Iowa Act is signed by Governor Reynolds. The Act creates two new programs under the administration of Iowa College Aid – the Future Ready Iowa Skilled Workforce Shortage Last‐Dollar Scholarship and the Future Ready Iowa Skilled Workforce Grant. Both programs are set to become effective July 1, 2019. The Teach Iowa Scholar Program was the last new program enacted to be administered by Iowa College Aid, during the 2014 legislative session. May 3, 2018 Senate File 2415, which provides FY19 appropriations to the programs administered by Iowa College Aid, is passed by the legislature. The bill results in a $476,220 increase over FY18 appropriations. The last legislative session in which total appropriations for programs administered by Iowa College Aid increased was 2014. Important policy/funding provisions include: The Rural Iowa Advanced Registered Nurse and Physician Assistant Loan Repayment Program and the Registered Nurse and Nurse Educator Loan Forgiveness Program are combined to form the Health Care Profession Loan Repayment Program. The Health Care Profession Loan Repayment Program could form the catalyst for the legislature to identify high‐demand health care occupations in rural Iowa and provide loan repayment benefits in one program (not creating separate programs for each occupational category). Moves the salary range for the Executive Director of Iowa College Aid from level 4 to level 5. Session law limits the salary of executive directors of state agencies. The Commission Board has been interested in increasing that range for the Executive Director of Iowa College Aid for a few years. With the potential of the current Executive Director’s retirement in the coming years, the Board wanted the position to have an adequate salary in order to recruit new leadership to the position. Provides $4.7 million appropriation to the Iowa National Guard Educational Assistance Program (NGEAP), and increase of $1.6 million from the FY18 appropriation. Requires applicants of the NGEAP to complete the FAFSA. Reduces the for‐profit Iowa Tuition Grant appropriation to $376,220, and specifies that not more than $80,000 shall be used to award students at eligible barber and cosmetology schools. Students attending the former Kaplan University campuses, who received approximately have of the FY18 appropriation, will not be eligible for funds in FY19. May 5, 2018 House File 2502, the standings bill, is passed by the legislature. The bill inserts ‘eligible surviving‐ child students’ as the second priority group in the All Iowa Opportunity Scholarship. An ‘eligible surviving‐child student’, generally, is a student under the age 26 who is the child of a police officer, fire fighter, sheriff or deputy sheriff, or peace officer who was killed in the line of duty. 1 IOWA COLLEGE STUDENT AID COMMISSION Funding Requests for Fiscal Year 2019 2018 Appropriation 2019 Difference Final Code (after mid‐year Governor 2019 FY18 Appropriation Percentage Citation State Appropriated Programs reductions) Recommendation SF2415 and SF2415 Change 261.6 All Iowa Opportunity Foster Care Grant Program $ ‐ $ ‐ $ ‐ ‐ ‐ 261.87 All Iowa Opportunity Scholarship Program 2,840,854 2,840,854 2,840,854 ‐ ‐ 261.61 Barber & Cosmetology Arts & Sciences Tuition Grant Program ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 261.71 Chiropractic Loan Forgiveness Program ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 261.115 Health Care Professional Recruitment Program (DMU) 400,973 400,973 400,973 ‐ ‐ 261.81 Iowa College Work‐Study Program ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 261.86 Iowa National Guard Educational Assistance Program 3,100,000 4,879,600 4,700,000 1,600,000 51.61% 261.112 Iowa Teacher Shortage Loan Forgiveness Program 105,828 105,828 105,828 ‐ ‐ 261.9 Iowa Tuition Grant Program ‐‐ For‐Profit Institutions 1,500,000 1,522,500 376,220 (1,123,780) ‐74.92% 261.9 Iowa Tuition Grant Program ‐‐ Not‐for‐Profit Institutions 46,630,951 47,330,415 46,630,951 ‐ ‐ 261.17 Iowa Vocational‐Technical Tuition Grant Program 1,750,185 1,750,185 1,750,185 ‐ ‐ 261B/714 Postsecondary Registration / Consumer Protection ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 261.116 Health Care Loan Repayment Program (formerly the Registered Nurs 200,000 200,000 200,000 ‐ ‐ 261.113 Rural Iowa Primary Care Loan Repayment Program 1,124,502 1,124,502 1,124,502 ‐ ‐ 261.114 Rural Nurse / Physician Assistant Loan Repayment Program ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ 261.130 Skilled Workforce Shortage Grant (Kibbie Grant)** 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000 ‐ ‐ 261.110 Teach Iowa Scholar Program 400,000 400,000 400,000 ‐ ‐ Administration ‐‐ General 429,279 429,279 429,279 ‐ ‐ Total Iowa College Student Aid Commission State Funding $ 63,482,572 $ 65,984,136 $ 63,958,792 $ 476,220 0.75% **Funding is provided under the Iowa Skilled Worker and Job Creation Fund. 2 Iowa College Student Aid Commission 2018 Legislative Session Prior Related Commission Fiscal Current Bill Number Bills Declaration on Bill Note Synopsis Status Subcommittee Members Sponsor(s) Notes An Act relating to state and local finances by making appropriations, Introducted; Subcommittee Recommends Passage; providing for legal and regulatory responsibilities, providing for other Committee Report Recommends Amendment and Passage; properly related matters, and providing for effective date, applicability, and Amended and Passed House Debate (54‐33); Senate Proposed Committee on Appropriations Bill by House Standings Bill ‐ Amends HF2502 HSB690 SF2419 Undecided retroactive applicability provisions. Substituted for SF2419; Passed Senate (30‐17) Hinson, Grassley, Hall Chairperson Grassley name of Commission in SF2117 Introduced ‐ Referred to Ways and Means; Subcommittee An Act increasing the amount of the tuition tax credit and including Recommends Passage; Committee Report, Recommending Vander Linden, Jacoby, HF2160 retroactive applicability provisions. Passage Windschitl Brown‐Powers Ways and Means Bill An Act exempting from the sales tax the sale of instructional materials Introduced ‐ Placed on Ways and Means calendar; required for use in a course of instruction at a postsecondary institution in Amended and Passed House Debate (93‐0); Senate HF2486 Y this state. Subcommittee Recommends Passage Feenstra, Behn, Quirmbach Committee on Ways and Means Inserted into SF2417. An Act providing education savings grants for pupils attending a nonpublic school or receiving competent private instruction, establishing an education savings grant fund, providing an income tax exemption, making SF2091 appropriations, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions. Introduced ‐ Referred to Ways and Means Feenstra, Quirmbach, Smith Chelgren Ways and Means Bill Introduced ‐ Referred to Education; Senate Subcommittee An Act relating to the individual income tax by creating a tax credit for Recommends Amendment and Passage; Senate Committee Grants tax credits for community college students pursuing a credential leading to a high‐demand Report Approves Bill; Referred to Ways and Means; Senate community college tuition paid; SF2348 SF2046 Undecided Y occupation and including applicability provisions. Subcommittee Recommends Amendment and Passage Feenstra, Behn, Quirmbach Chelgren Ways and Means An Act relating to state and local revenue and finance by modifying the individual and corporate income taxes, the franchise tax, tax credits, the moneys and credits tax, the sales and use taxes and local option sales tax, the hotel and motel tax, the automobile rental excise tax, the Iowa educational savings plan trust, and the disabilities expenses savings plan Introduced ‐ Referred to Ways and Means; Committee trust, making penalties applicable, and including immediate effective date Report Recommends Passage; Passed Senate Debate (29‐ Feenstra, Dawson, Breitbach, Proposed Committee on Ways and Means Bill by SF2383 SSB3197 Y and retroactive and other applicability provisions. 21); Messaged to House; Referred to Ways and Means Jochum, Bolkcom Chairperson Feenstra Ways and Means Bill An Act relating to the funding of, the operation of, and appropriation of Introduced ‐ Referred to Appropriations; Senate Committee moneys to the college student aid commission, department for the blind, Report Approves Bill; Amended and Passed Senate (26‐21); the department of education, and the state board of regents, providing for Messaged to House; Substituted for HF2496;