Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly
Iowa HF2568: A BILL FOR An Act establishing a temporary independent fiscal restructuring authority to provide oversight of institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents, providing penalties, and making appropriations
Status: In committee, February 17, 2026
An Act establishing a temporary independent fiscal restructuring authority to provide oversight of institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents, providing penalties, and making appropriations.
What the bill says
A bill FOR An Act establishing a temporary independent fiscal restructuring authority to provide oversight of institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents, providing penalties, and making appropriations.
From the introduced text, February 17, 2026:
A BILL FOR An Act establishing a temporary independent fiscal restructuring authority to provide oversight of institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents, providing penalties, and making appropriations. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 6150HH (2) je/ns H.F. 2568 Section 1. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT. The general assembly finds and declares all of the following: 1. Public purpose and long-term state interest. The institutions governed by the state board of regents exist to advance the long-term educational, economic, cultural, and civic vitality of the people of Iowa, including the preparation of Iowa's future leaders across every profession, industry, and community. The fiscal stability, operational integrity, and faithful alignment of those institutions with their founding purposes is therefore a matter of vital statewide concern and a proper subject of legislative action under the police power of this state. The general assembly has both the constitutional authority and the solemn duty to ensure that public resources entrusted to these institutions are deployed efficiently, transparently, and in furtherance of the purposes for which the people of Iowa created them. 2. Regents as creatures of statute ---- no tolerance for insubordination. The state board of regents is a creature of statute, established by legislative enactment and exercising only such authority as has been …
Sponsors
- Charley Thomson (R, 58) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Introduced, referred to Appropriations. H.J. 316 .
Subjects: boards, commissions, and councils, colleges and universities, regents board
Common questions
- What is HF2568?
- HF2568 is a bill in the Iowa Legislature (91st General Assembly): A BILL FOR An Act establishing a temporary independent fiscal restructuring authority to provide oversight of institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents, providing penalties, and making appropriations.
- What does HF2568 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR An Act establishing a temporary independent fiscal restructuring authority to provide oversight of institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents, providing penalties, and making appropriations.
- What is the status of HF2568?
- In committee as of February 17, 2026. Latest action: Introduced, referred to Appropriations. H.J. 316 . (February 17, 2026).
- Who sponsored HF2568?
- Charley Thomson (R, 58).
- Where is the official record for HF2568?
- On the Iowa Legislature website: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=HF+2568&ga=91
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