Iowa 2025-2026 Regular Session

Iowa House Bill HF577 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 02/24/2025

                            House File 577 - Introduced   HOUSE FILE 577   BY COMMITTEE ON HIGHER   EDUCATION   (SUCCESSOR TO HF 154)   A BILL FOR   An Act providing for a waiver of undergraduate tuition and 1   mandatory fees and a stipend at regents institutions for 2   Iowa residents who receive the maximum score on certain 3   standardized tests. 4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5   TLSB 1864HV (2) 91   je/jh  

  H.F. 577   Section 1. Section 262.9, Code 2025, is amended by adding 1   the following new subsection: 2   NEW SUBSECTION   . 39. Direct the institutions of higher 3   learning governed by the board to waive undergraduate tuition 4   and mandatory fees for a resident of Iowa who receives the 5   maximum score possible on the college readiness assessment 6   administered by ACT, inc., the college readiness assessment 7   administered by the college board, or the classic learning test 8   developed by classic learning initiatives and to provide the 9   student with a stipend of five thousand dollars per semester. 10   The board may require that documentation of the score be 11   provided in order to qualify for such a waiver and stipend. 12   A student must make satisfactory academic progress toward 13   graduation in order to continue to receive such a waiver and 14   stipend. The board may establish standards for such progress. 15   EXPLANATION 16   The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 17   the explanations substance by the members of the general assembly. 18   This bill requires regents institutions to waive 19   undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees for a resident of 20   Iowa who receives the maximum score possible on the college 21   readiness assessment administered by ACT, inc., the college 22   readiness assessment administered by the college board, or 23   the classical learning test developed by classic learning 24   initiatives and to provide the student with a stipend of $5,000 25   per semester. The board may require that documentation of the 26   score be provided in order to qualify for such a waiver and 27   stipend. A student must make satisfactory academic progress 28   toward graduation in order to continue to receive such a waiver 29   and stipend. 30   -1-   LSB 1864HV (2) 91   je/jh   1/ 1