Bill Text: IA HF255 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act modifying the membership of the college student aid commission. (See HF 514.)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - Committee report, recommending amendment and passage. H.J. 483. [HF255 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF255-Introduced.html

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House File 255 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  GASSMAN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act modifying the membership of the college student aid
  2    commission.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 261.1, subsection 2, paragraphs a and d,
  1  2 Code 2017, are amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  A member of the state board of regents to be named by the
  1  4 board, or the executive director of the board if so appointed
  1  5 by the board, who shall serve for a four=year term or until the
  1  6 expiration of the member's term of office. Such member shall
  1  7 convene the organizational meeting of the commission.
  1  8    d.  Eight Nine additional members to be appointed by the
  1  9 governor. as follows:
  1 10    (1)  One of the members member shall be selected to represent
  1 11 private colleges and universities located in the state of Iowa.
  1 12 When appointing this member, the governor shall give careful
  1 13 consideration to any person or persons nominated or recommended
  1 14 by any organization or association of some or all private
  1 15 colleges and universities located in the state of Iowa.
  1 16    (2)  One of the members member shall be selected to represent
  1 17 Iowa's community colleges located in the state of Iowa.
  1 18 When appointing this member, the governor shall give careful
  1 19 consideration to any person or persons nominated or recommended
  1 20 by any organization or association of Iowa community colleges.
  1 21    (3)  One member shall be enrolled as a student at a an
  1 22 institution of higher learning governed by the board of regents
  1 23 institution, a community college, or an accredited private
  1 24 institution.
  1 25    (4)  One member shall be a representative of a lending
  1 26 institution located in this state. One member shall be
  1 27 an individual who is repaying or has repaid a student loan
  1 28 guaranteed by the commission parent of a student enrolled
  1 29 at an institution of higher learning governed by the board
  1 30 of regents, a community college, or an accredited private
  1 31 institution.
  1 32    (5)  One member shall represent practitioners licensed
  1 33 under chapter 272.  When appointing this member, the governor
  1 34 shall give careful consideration to any person nominated by
  1 35 an Iowa teacher association or other education stakeholder
  2  1 organization.
  2  2    (6)  The other three Four members shall represent the
  2  3 general public, none of whom shall be official board members
  2  4 or trustees of an institution of higher learning or of an
  2  5 association of institutions of higher learning, shall be
  2  6 selected to represent the general public.
  2  7    Sec. 2.  Section 261.1, subsection 3, Code 2017, is amended
  2  8 to read as follows:
  2  9    3.  The members of the commission appointed by the governor
  2 10 shall serve for a term of four years.  The voting members of
  2 11 the commission shall elect a chairperson and vice chairperson.
  2 12 Meetings may be called by the chairperson or a majority of the
  2 13 voting members.
  2 14    Sec. 3.  Section 261.1, subsection 4, paragraph b, Code 2017,
  2 15 is amended to read as follows:
  2 16    b.  A vacancy shall exist on the commission when a
  2 17 legislative member of the commission ceases to be a member of
  2 18 the general assembly, when a parent member no longer has a
  2 19 child enrolled in postsecondary education, or when a student
  2 20 member ceases to be enrolled as a student. Such vacancy shall
  2 21 be filled within thirty days.
  2 22                           EXPLANATION
  2 23 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  2 24 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2 25    This bill makes changes to the membership of the college
  2 26 student aid commission.
  2 27    Currently, one of the members of the commission is also
  2 28 a member of the board of regents or the executive director
  2 29 of the board of regents.  The bill strikes a provision that
  2 30 directs this member to convene the organizational meeting of
  2 31 the commission.
  2 32    The bill strikes provisions requiring that one member
  2 33 represent a lending institution and one member be an individual
  2 34 who is repaying or has repaid a student loan guaranteed by the
  2 35 commission, and adds provisions requiring that one member be
  3  1 a parent of a student enrolled in an accredited postsecondary
  3  2 institution in the state, and that one member represent
  3  3 practitioners licensed by the board of educational examiners.
  3  4 The bill increases the number of members who represent the
  3  5 general public from three to four members.
  3  6    Under the bill, a vacancy occurs when the parent member no
  3  7 longer has a child enrolled in postsecondary education; the
  3  8 voting members of the commission shall elect a chairperson and
  3  9 vice chairperson; and meetings may be called by the chairperson
  3 10 or a majority of the voting members.
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