SSB 3192

The bill increases the standing limited appropriation for Iowa tuition grants to qualified students enrolled in accredited private institutions and to qualified students attending an eligible institution. The bill amends 2019 Iowa Acts, chapter 154, section 17, to provide for the transfer of $600,000 from the future ready Iowa skilled workforce grant fund to the future ready Iowa skilled workforce last-dollar scholarship fund. _____ effect upon enactment. 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 statewide education data warehouse, the Iowa communications network, children’s mental health school-based training and support, for school districts for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, adult education and literacy programs, distribution to the midwestern higher education compact to pay Iowa’s member state annual obligation, and community colleges.2. Statute is enacted to reduce state aid for area education agencies by $15 million for FY 2020-2021.11. The bill appropriates moneys to the state board of regents for the board office, universities’ general operating budgets; the western Iowa regents resource 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 2020-2021. The bill appropriates moneys from the Iowa skilled worker and job creation fund to the department of education and the college student aid commission.