Iowa / State / Iowa Administrative Bulletin, April 29, 2026

ARC 0248D, rescinding 801 Iowa Admin. Code ch 9 Rescinded the war orphans educational assistance rules with no replacement, leaving the statutory scholarship unadministered on paper

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Adopted 2026-04-01 · Takes effect 2026-06-03

The Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs rescinded and reserved 801 Iowa Administrative Code chapter 9, "War Orphans Educational Assistance Fund", filed April 2, 2026 and effective June 3, 2026. The filing’s own purpose statement reads: "The purpose of this rulemaking is to rescind Chapter 9 with no replacement." No public comments were received at either the January 5 or January 6, 2026 hearing. Iowa Code section 35A.13, subsection 9 was not repealed: the war orphans educational assistance account still exists, the pre-September 11, 2001 tier still caps assistance at $600 a year and $3,000 for a lifetime, the post-September 11 tier still reaches the highest Regents resident undergraduate tuition rate five times over, and the department still advertises the programme as the Children of the Fallen, or Branstad-Reynolds, Scholarship Fund. Tracked and flagged because a live statutory scholarship now has no published rule describing how to apply, what documents to file, how financial need is established, or what a reasonably necessary expense is, and because section 35A.13, subsection 9, paragraph "d" makes the commission’s eligibility decision final with no statutory appeal. Recorded also because the filing cites its legal authority as Iowa Code section 35A.14, the injured veterans grant programme, rather than section 35A.13, which creates the fund it rescinded the rules for. The same bulletin carried ARC 0249D and ARC 0250D rescinding the Vietnam conflict veterans bonus rules, which match statutes that had already repealed themselves.