Iowa S 2435 (Appropriations to the Education System), Division III, Section 6. ("GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS")

Proposed 2024-04-09 | Enacted 2024-05-09 | Official source

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Allocates $2.8 million to Iowa State University for expanding AI, cybersecurity, computer science, and related technology programs to address workforce needs and foster innovation in digital agriculture, manufacturing, and biosciences.

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DIVISIONIII FY2024-2025APPROPRIATIONS——STATE BOARD OF REGENTS. Sec.6. GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the state board of regents for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, the following amounts, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
1. OFFICE OF STATE BOARD OF REGENTS a. For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $764,642 FTEs: 2.48 For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, the state board of regents shall submit a quarterly financial report to the general assembly in a format agreed upon by the state board of regents office and the legislative services agency. The report submitted for the quarter ending December 31, 2024, shall include the five-year graduation rates for the regents universities. b. For distribution to the Western Iowa Regents Resource Center: Amount: $268,297 c. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, the state board of regents and the institutions of higher learning governed by the state board of regents shall not reduce moneys budgeted for the fiscal year for the institutions’ police departments. d. For allocation in equal parts by the state board of regents to the State University of Iowa, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, and the University of Northern Iowa to support the John Pappajohn Centers for Entrepreneurship: Amount: $125,000 The moneys appropriated in this lettered paragraph shall be used to supplement, not supplant, any other funding received by the John Pappajohn Centers for Entrepreneurship.
2. STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA a. General University For salaries, support, maintenance, equipment, financial aid, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $223,496,355 FTEs: 5,058.55 b. Oakdale Campus For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $2,103,819 FTEs: 38.25 c. State Hygienic Laboratory For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $4,822,610 FTEs: 102.51 d. Family Practice Program For allocation by the dean of the college of medicine, with approval of the advisory board, to qualified participants to carry out the provisions of chapter 148D for the family practice residency education program, including salaries and support, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $2,220,598 FTEs: 2.71 e. Child Health Care Services For specialized child health care services, including childhood cancer diagnostic and treatment network programs, rural comprehensive care for hemophilia patients, and the Iowa high-risk infant follow-up program, including salaries and support, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $634,502 FTEs: 4.16 f. Statewide Cancer Registry For the statewide cancer registry, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $143,410 FTEs: 2.10 g. Substance Abuse Consortium For distribution to the Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $53,427 FTEs: 0.99 h. Center for Biocatalysis For the Center for Biocatalysis, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $696,342 FTEs: 6.28 i. Primary Health Care Initiative For the primary health care initiative in the College of Medicine, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $624,374 FTEs: 6.22 From the moneys appropriated in this lettered paragraph, $254,889 shall be allocated to the Department of Family Practice at the State University of Iowa College of Medicine for family practice faculty and support staff. j. Birth Defects Registry For the birth defects registry, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $36,839 FTEs: 0.38 k. Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center For the Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $156,389 FTEs: 2.75 l. Iowa Online Advanced Placement Academy STEM Initiative For the Iowa Online Advanced Placement Academy Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Initiative established pursuant to section 263.8A: Amount: $463,616 m. Iowa Flood Center For the Iowa Flood Center for use by the university’s College of Engineering pursuant to section 466C.1: Amount: $1,205,593 n. College of Nursing For employing additional instructors in the College of Nursing to increase the number of students who graduate from the college: Amount: $2,800,000
3. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY a. General University For salaries, support, maintenance, equipment, financial aid, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Senate File 2435, p. 18 Amount: $178,445,037 FTEs: 3,647.42 b. Agricultural Experiment Station For the Agricultural Experiment Station salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $29,462,535 FTEs: 546.98 c. Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics For the Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $18,157,366 FTEs: 385.34 d. Preparing Iowa’s Future Ready Workforce and Fostering Innovation For purposes of addressing the state’s workforce needs in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by expanding degree and certificate programs in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, computer science, computer engineering, data science, software engineering, and other high-demand areas related to technology, and fostering innovation in digital agriculture, manufacturing, water quality, vaccine delivery technologies, and biosciences: Amount: $2,800,000
4. UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA a. General University For salaries, support, maintenance, equipment, financial aid, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Amount: $101,894,146 FTEs: 1,250.28 b. Real Estate Education Program For purposes of the Real Estate Education Program, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions: Senate File 2435, p. 19 Amount: $123,523 FTEs: 0.86 c. Educators for Iowa For purposes of recruiting additional students to participate in educational opportunities that lead to teacher licensure: Amount: $1,500,000