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Read. Follow. Verify.Iowa establishes college scholarship program for students with intellectual or learning disabilities
Last action · February 18, 2025: Subcommittee: Green, Sires, and Winckler. S.J. 302 .
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What This Bill Would Do
Senate File 283 establishes a scholarship program and dedicated state fund to help individuals with intellectual, developmental, or learning disabilities offset tuition and fees at approved postsecondary programs. The College Student Aid Commission administers the program in consultation with the division of vocational rehabilitation services, providing up to $5,000 per academic year for eligible students if the General Assembly appropriates funds.
Eligible college students can receive up to $5,000 annually to help cover tuition and fees at approved higher education programs, with priority given to Iowa residents.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
individuals with intellectual, developmental, or learning disabilities
Eligible individuals can apply for annual scholarship awards of up to $5,000 to offset tuition and fees at approved postsecondary transition programs.
College Student Aid Commission
The commission is tasked with developing, administering, and adopting rules for the scholarship program and managing the state treasury fund.
Key Facts
- Establishes the comprehensive transition and postsecondary program scholarship program for individuals with intellectual, developmental, or learning disabilities who are at least 18 years old.
- Limits scholarship awards to a maximum of $5,000 per academic year per individual.
- Requires recipients to file a new application and submit required information annually for eligibility renewal.
- Gives application priority to residents of Iowa.
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- Establishes a dedicated scholarship program fund in the state treasury that does not revert to the general fund at the close of the fiscal year.
- Directs the College Student Aid Commission to administer the program and fund in consultation with the division of vocational rehabilitation services of the department of workforce development.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
9 actions- Feb 18, 2025SenateSubcommittee: Green, Sires, and Winckler. S.J. 302 .
- Feb 17, 2025SenateCommitteeReferred to Appropriations. S.J. 275 .
- Feb 12, 2025SenateCommittee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 283 . S.J. 257 .
- Feb 12, 2025SenateCommittee report, approving bill. S.J. 257 .
- Feb 12, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, placed on calendar. S.J. 252 .
- Feb 6, 2025Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee recommends passage.
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- Feb 4, 2025Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee Meeting: 02/06/2025 10:30AM Room 217 Conference Room.
- Jan 28, 2025SenateSubcommittee: Taylor, Gruenhagen, and Quirmbach. S.J. 151 .
- Jan 13, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced, referred to Education. S.J. 37 .
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Successor Bill Tracking
This bill (SF 283) is noted as a successor to SF 14.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance60How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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