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Providing for an annual authorization fee to be collected by the college student aid commission from certain postsecondary educational institutions not subject to registration with the commission
Sponsored by the House Ways and Means (successor To Hsb 48) Committee
Proposed by the Department of Education · all agency proposals
Topics:Higher educationTaxes
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedMarch 5, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeMarch 18, 2025
- Done: House committeeApril 9, 2025
- Done: Passes the HouseApril 23, 202593–0
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 18, 2026
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The college student aid commission will start charging a yearly fee to certain groups that provide educational courses in Iowa. This fee applies to organizations that are currently exempt from registration or those that sell courses through classrooms or mail. The commission can raise this fee by up to 3 percent each year.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires the college student aid commission to collect a single, nonrefundable annual authorization fee, in an amount specified in the bill, from certain entities that do not pay a registration fee to the commission under current law. Such entities include an entity exempt from registration with the commission under Code chapter 261B or an entity maintaining or conducting in Iowa any educational course by classroom instruction or by correspondence or by other delivery method, or soliciting in Iowa the sale of such course under Code section 714.18, other than certain entities providing driver education. The commission may increase the fee annually by an amount not to exceed 3 percent.
Why it matters. Certain educational entities that do not currently pay a registration fee to the college student aid commission, such as those offering classroom or correspondence courses, would be required to pay a single nonrefundable annual authorization fee. The commission would also have the authority to increase this fee each year by a specific percentage.2
Senate subcommittee
Named February 24, 2026. On March 11, 2026 it recommended passage.
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