Requiring Iowa’s public and private postsecondary institutions to provide all newly admitted students with a seminar relating to certain resources available to students

This bill requires the boards of directors of community colleges and the state board of regents to direct their community colleges and universities, and requires accredited private institutions, to develop and provide to all newly admitted students a noncredit seminar on resources offered by the institution, including but not limited to mental health assistance, suicide prevention, dating violence and information relating to the effects of dating violence, and binge drinking and information relating to the effects of binge drinking. 3. The bill provides that the state cost of requiring compliance of community colleges with any state mandate included in the bill shall be moneys appropriated for general state financial aid to merged areas and any other state and federal moneys received for administration or student support.2. The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state mandates included in the bill.