Relating to the funding of, the operation of, and appropriation of moneys to the college student aid commission, the department for the blind, the department of education, and the state board of regents, providing for related matters, and including effective date provisions. Effective 7-1-19, with exception of sections 7, 8 & 29 effective 5-13-19

The standing appropriations for Iowa tuition grants for students attending accredited private institutions are increased. §3320, can exceed the 120 semester hour limitation for scholarship awards. The bill appropriates moneys to the department of education for purposes of the department’s general administration, career and technical education (CTE) administration, division of vocational rehabilitation services including independent living programs, the entrepreneurs with disabilities program, and independent living centers, state library for general administration and the enrich Iowa program, public broadcasting division, career and technical education reimbursement for expenditures made by CTE regional planning partnerships, school food service, early childhood Iowa fund, expansion of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act birth through age three services, early head start projects, textbooks for nonpublic school pupils, the student achievement and teacher quality program, statewide student assessment, statewide clearinghouse to expand work-based learning, postsecondary summer classes for high school students program, jobs for America’s graduates specialists, attendance center performance/general internet site and data system support, the online state job posting system, successful progression for early readers, an early warning system for literacy, the Iowa reading research center, computer science professional development incentive fund, the Iowa learning online initiative, children’s mental health school-based training and support, distribution to the midwestern higher education compact to pay Iowa’s member state annual obligation, and community colleges. The division provides that moneys appropriated for the postsecondary summer classes for high school program for FY 2018-2019 and FY 2019-2020 shall carry over for expenditure for the same purpose in the following fiscal year. The bill also provides a supplemental appropriation to moneys appropriated for purposes of the public broadcasting division for FY 2018-2019. These provisions take effect upon enactment.51, for payment of claims for nonpublic school transportation, and for instructional support state aid. The bill also reduces state aid for area education agencies and the portion of the combined district costs calculated for these agencies by $15 million. The bill appropriates moneys to the state board of regents for the board office, universities’ general operating budgets; the western Iowa regents resource center and the quad-cities graduate studies center; Iowa public radio; the state university of Iowa; Iowa state university of science and technology; the university of northern Iowa; and for the Iowa school for the deaf and the Iowa braille and sight saving school. DIVISION II —— WORKFORCE TRAINING PROGRAMS —— APPROPRIATIONS FY 2019-2020. The bill appropriates moneys from the Iowa skilled worker and job creation fund to the department of education and the college student aid commission. The bill also modifies the definition of “new job” for purposes of the Iowa industrial new jobs training Act, to provide that, for FY 2018-2019, the term includes a new, existing, or recalled job in an industry which for purposes of the provision means an existing business located in a county with a population between 40,500 and 41,000, as determined by the 2010 federal decennial census, that was declared a disaster area by the governor following a weather-related natural disaster which impacted the county on or about July 19, 2018. The provision takes effect upon enactment. The gap tuition assistance Act, established under Code chapter 260I, is amended to provide that a criterion for assessing financial need shall be based on the applicant’s family income for the three months prior to the date of application or documentation of a life-changing event. Currently, the criterion is based on the applicant’s family income for the six months prior to the application date. Under the bill, the community college receiving the application may limit an applicant to one eligible certificate program or to eligible programs within one career pathway, based on the funding available to the community college for purposes of this program. However, a provision making a person ineligible to receive tuition assistance for more than one eligible certificate program is stricken. The requirement that an initial assessment include assessments for completion of a national career readiness certificate, including applied mathematics and locating information is stricken, though the bill requires that the assessment include areas of reading and mathematics. Currently, moneys in the gap tuition assistance fund must be allocated according to a formula established in Code, but under the bill the department of education, in coordination with the community colleges, may adjust the allocations to ensure efficient delivery of services. A requirement that the department adopt rules in consultation with the economic development authority and the community colleges is modified to eliminate consultation with the authority. The bill makes coordinating changes.