Notwithstanding rule 281-34.6 (218), any institution that would receive less funding in its proposed budget pursuant to these rules for the instructional program for the 2003-2004 school year than it had received in funding for the instructional program for the 2002-2003 school year shall be held harmless. The institution shall receive an amount equal to the amount it was funded in 2002-2003. This provision shall continue until the first year in which the proposed budget pursuant to these rules would equal or exceed the amount it had received for the instructional program for the 2002-2003 school year. The hold-harmless provision shall cease beginning with the first year in which the proposed budget pursuant to these rules equals or exceeds the 2002-2003 funding amount.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 281-34.13