SSB 3148

This bill appropriates moneys for fiscal year 2022-2023 from the general fund of the state and other funds to the college student aid commission, the department for the blind, the department of education, and the state board of regents and its institutions. The bill is organized by divisions. DIVISION I —— FY 2022-2023. The bill appropriates moneys to the department for the blind for its administration. The bill includes appropriations to the college student aid commission for general administrative purposes, the health care professional recruitment program, the national guard service scholarship program, the all Iowa opportunity scholarship program, the teach Iowa scholar program, the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment program, the health care loan repayment program, the rural veterinarian loan repayment program, and the future ready Iowa skilled workforce last-dollar scholarship program. _____ 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, children’s mental health school-based training and support, for school districts for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, adult education and literacy programs, development of guidelines related to behavior in the classroom, the therapeutic classroom incentive fund, therapeutic classroom transportation claims reimbursement, distribution to the midwestern higher education compact to pay Iowa’s member state annual obligation, and community colleges.2. _____ 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 —— AREA EDUCATION AGENCY PAYMENTS —— APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE COLLEGE STUDENT AID COMMISSION AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHER QUALITY PROGRAM.35, subsection 2, the state aid for area education agencies and the portion of the combined district cost calculated for these agencies for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023, shall be reduced by $15 million. The bill requires the reduction for each area education agency to be prorated based on the reduction that the agency received in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003. The bill appropriates $50,118,451 for each fiscal year from the general fund of the state to the college student aid commission for tuition grants to qualified students who are enrolled in accredited private institutions. The bill also appropriates $67,626 for each fiscal year from the general fund of the state to the commission for tuition grants for qualified students who are enrolled in eligible institutions. The bill adds an additional year to certain allocations for the student achievement and teacher quality program. DIVISION III —— WORKFORCE TRAINING PROGRAMS —— APPROPRIATIONS FY 2022-2023. The bill appropriates moneys from the Iowa skilled worker and job creation fund to the college student aid commission and the department of education.