261.25 - APPROPRIATIONS -- STANDING LIMITED -- MINORITY STUDENT AND FACULTY INFORMATION.
261.25 APPROPRIATIONS -- STANDING LIMITED -- MINORITY
STUDENT AND FACULTY INFORMATION.
1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to
the commission for each fiscal year the sum of forty-five million two
hundred thirteen thousand sixty-nine dollars for tuition grants.
2. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to
the commission for each fiscal year the sum of four million nine
hundred eighty-eight thousand five hundred sixty-one dollars for
tuition grants for students attending for-profit accredited private
institutions located in Iowa. A for-profit institution which,
effective March 9, 2005, purchased an accredited private institution
that was exempt from taxation under section 501(c) of the Internal
Revenue Code, shall be an eligible institution under the tuition
grant program. In the case of a qualified student who was enrolled
in such accredited private institution that was purchased by the
for-profit institution effective March 9, 2005, and who continues to
be enrolled in the eligible institution in succeeding years, the
amount the student qualifies for under this subsection shall be not
less than the amount the student qualified for in the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 2004. For purposes of the tuition grant program,
"for-profit accredited private institution" means an accredited
private institution which is not exempt from taxation under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code but which otherwise meets the
requirements of section 261.9, subsection 1, paragraph "b", and
whose students were eligible to receive tuition grants in the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2003.
3. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to
the commission for each fiscal year the sum of two million five
hundred twelve thousand nine hundred fifty-eight dollars for
vocational-technical tuition grants.
4. This section shall not be construed to be a limitation on any
of the amounts which may be appropriated by the general assembly for
any program enumerated in this section.
5. For each fiscal year, the institutions of higher education
that enroll recipients of Iowa tuition grants shall transmit to the
Iowa college student aid commission information about the numbers of
minority students enrolled and minority faculty members employed at
the institution, and existing or proposed plans for the recruitment
and retention of minority students and faculty as well as existing or
proposed plans to serve nontraditional students. The Iowa college
student aid commission shall compile and report the first fall
academic semester or quarter enrollment and employment information
and plans for the next fiscal year to the chairpersons and ranking
members of the house and senate education committees, members of the
joint education appropriations subcommittee, the governor, and the
legislative services agency by March 1 of each year. Section History: Early Form
[C77, 79, 81, § 261.25] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 197, § 15; 85 Acts, ch 263, § 17; 87 Acts, ch 233, §
458; 88 Acts, ch 1003, § 2; 88 Acts, ch 1284, § 13, 28; 89 Acts, ch
319, § 47, 48; 90 Acts, ch 1253, § 122; 90 Acts, ch 1272, § 54; 91
Acts, ch 180, §3; 91 Acts, ch 260, §908; 91 Acts, ch 267, §218; 92
Acts, ch 1246, §30; 93 Acts, ch 179, § 21; 94 Acts, ch 1193, §19, 20;
95 Acts, ch 218, § 22; 96 Acts, ch 1215, § 38; 97 Acts, ch 212, §27;
98 Acts, ch 1215, §37, 38; 99 Acts, ch 205, §31, 32; 2000 Acts, ch
1095, §14; 2000 Acts, ch 1223, §28; 2002 Acts, ch 1171, §85; 2002
Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1003, §93, 95; 2003 Acts, ch 35, §45, 49; 2003 Acts,
ch 182, §13; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §93; 2005 Acts, ch 169, §26, 27;
2006 Acts, ch 1180, §18, 19; 2006 Acts, ch 1182, §43; 2007 Acts, ch
214, §27; 2008 Acts, ch 1181, § 33; 2009 Acts, ch 177, §27
Referred to in § 261.9, 261.20