Bill Text: IA HSB48 | 2025-2026 | 91st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act 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.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-28 - Committee vote: Yeas, 22. Nays, 0. Excused, 1. H.J. 145. [HSB48 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2025-HSB48-Introduced.html
House
Study
Bill
48
-
Introduced
SENATE/HOUSE
FILE
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BY
(PROPOSED
DEPARTMENT
OF
EDUCATION
BILL)
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
providing
for
an
annual
authorization
fee
to
be
1
collected
by
the
college
student
aid
commission
from
certain
2
postsecondary
educational
institutions
not
subject
to
3
registration
with
the
commission.
4
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
261B.8,
subsection
2,
Code
2025,
is
1
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
2.
Fees
provided
for
in
subsection
1
shall
be
set
by
rule
3
not
more
than
once
each
year
and
shall
be
based
upon
the
costs
4
of
administering
this
chapter
.
5
Sec.
2.
Section
261B.8,
Code
2025,
is
amended
by
adding
the
6
following
new
subsection:
7
NEW
SUBSECTION
.
2A.
The
commission
shall
collect
a
single,
8
nonrefundable
annual
authorization
fee
from
each
entity
9
authorized
by
the
commission
under
section
261B.11
or
714.18
10
that
does
not
pay
a
registration
fee
under
subsection
1
or
11
chapter
261G.
Commencing
with
the
fiscal
year
beginning
July
12
1,
2025,
the
fee
amounts
provided
in
this
subsection
shall
be
13
in
effect.
The
commission
may
increase
the
fee
annually
by
14
an
amount
not
to
exceed
three
percent.
For
the
purposes
of
15
this
subsection,
“primary
location”
means
the
physical
location
16
of
the
main
campus
of
an
entity,
or
the
physical
location
of
17
the
corporate
office
of
an
entity
if
there
is
not
a
physical
18
campus.
19
a.
For
an
entity
granted
an
exemption
under
section
261B.11
20
with
a
primary
location
in
Iowa,
two
thousand
dollars.
21
b.
For
an
entity
granted
an
exemption
under
section
261B.11
22
with
a
primary
location
outside
of
Iowa,
three
thousand
five
23
hundred
dollars.
24
c.
For
an
entity
subject
to
section
714.18
with
a
primary
25
location
in
Iowa,
two
thousand
dollars.
26
d.
For
an
entity
subject
to
section
714.18
with
a
primary
27
location
outside
of
Iowa,
three
thousand
five
hundred
dollars.
28
EXPLANATION
29
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
30
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
31
This
bill
requires
the
college
student
aid
commission
to
32
collect
a
single,
nonrefundable
annual
authorization
fee,
in
33
an
amount
specified
in
the
bill,
from
certain
entities
that
do
34
not
pay
a
registration
fee
to
the
commission
under
current
law.
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Such
entities
include
an
entity
exempt
from
registration
with
1
the
commission
under
Code
chapter
261B
or
an
entity
maintaining
2
or
conducting
in
Iowa
any
educational
course
by
classroom
3
instruction
or
by
correspondence
or
by
other
delivery
method,
4
or
soliciting
in
Iowa
the
sale
of
such
course
under
Code
5
section
714.18.
The
commission
may
increase
the
fee
annually
6
by
an
amount
not
to
exceed
3
percent.
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