Bill > HSB725

Introduced Session

This bill relates to education reporting. The bill requires the department of workforce development to provide unit-level wage data to the department of education upon request for the purpose of evaluating secondary and postsecondary program outcomes, including return on investment reporting. The bill defines “unit-level wage data” as individual-level employment records maintained by the department of workforce development, including but not limited to occupational title associated with a standard occupational classification code, hours worked, job-site location, wages, and employer industry classification. The bill permits the department of workforce development and the department of education to enter into data-sharing agreements. The bill establishes the annual condition of education report. The bill requires the annual condition of education report to be submitted to the governor and general assembly by April 1 of each year. The bill consolidates several existing reports into the annual condition report, including the online learning report, the compilation of financial information related to the secure an advanced vision for education (SAVE) report and school infrastructure local option (SILO) report, the achievement gap report, the incidents of violence report, and the kindergarten literacy assessment report. The bill incorporates the future ready Iowa last-dollar scholarship report into the college student aid commission’s annual reporting by requiring the information be included in the report submitted pursuant to Code section 256.177, subsection 7. The bill adds to the annual charter school report the information that charter schools and innovation zone schools are currently required to report under Code chapter 256F, and strikes the detailed reporting requirements from that chapter. The bill provides that the high-need schools report in Code section 284.11 is contingent upon an appropriation by S.F. _____ H.F. _____ retaining the requirement that findings and recommendations be submitted only if funding is appropriated for purposes of the Code section. The bill modifies Iowa workforce development’s ability to share unit-level data by permitting disclosure of individual and employer information if such reporting is required by federal or state law for purposes of accountability or evaluation. The bill adds a duty to the Iowa student aid commission to oversee a statewide program-level postsecondary return on investment reporting system for eligible public institutions. Such institutions include community colleges and regents institutions, and are required to submit data in a form and manner specified by the commission. The bill requires the data submitted to include tuition and fees, time to completion, retention and completion rates, post-completion employment, median earnings, and alignment to high-demand occupations. The bill requires the commission to compile and annually publish the data in a consumer-facing format. Institutions failing to comply with the data reporting requirement, as determined by the commission, are ineligible for state-administered student financial aid until substantial compliance is achieved. The bill strikes an obsolete reference in Code chapter 284.

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2725. (on 02/24/2026)

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