Immigrants, preschoolers and college professors will lose funding under a budget plan that Iowa House Republicans say will save $500 million.

Soon to be the majority party in the House of Representatives, the caucus said in a news release that the Taxpayers First Act will be the first piece of legislation passed during the upcoming legislative session.

The bill would create a Taxpayer Relief Fund that would capture any budget surplus and direct it back to taxpayers, House Republicans said in a news release.

Here are some provisions of the proposed legislation:

• Charge all state employees a minimum $50 monthly fee for health insurance. Charge legislators and their staffs a health insurance premium.
• Prohibit new vehicle purchases for general use.
• Reduce office supplies, service contracts, equipment purchases by 50 percent.
• Combine all state information technology systems except Homeland Security.
• Direct the Department of Administrative Services to develop a request for proposal to sell or lease the Iowa Communications Network
• Reduce funding for library acquisitions at Regents universities by 50 percent.
• Reduce the Department of Natural Resources land acquisition for fiscal 2011 by 100 percent.
• Freeze out-of-state travel funded from the general fund.
• End all state benefits to adult illegal immigrants.
• Enforce residency requirements for all human services programs.
• Direct the Education Appropriations budget subcommittee to combine the administrative functions at the Regents universities to find efficiencies.
• Eliminate voluntary preschool and direct the Education committee to create a new voucher program.
• Eliminate the Power Fund, after current liabilities are funded.
• Eliminate the Office of Energy Independence.
• Eliminate core curriculum, with the Education Committee establishing new standards as of July 1.
• Cancel all Regents university sabbaticals for 18 months.
• Eliminate all smoking cessation programs.
• Eliminate the state family planning waiver.
• Eliminate the Rebuild Iowa Office and shift responsibility to Homeland Security.
• Eliminate $8.5 million for a passenger rail project.
• Eliminate $30 million for sustainable communities.
• Cut the Area Education Associations by $10 million; have them use reserves or make cuts to fund the difference.
• Eliminate the Grow Iowa Values Fund beginning July 1 and freeze remaining unencumbered appropriations for fiscal 2011.
• Eliminate the “Save our small business” fund and revert unencumbered funds.
• Repeal current mental health statute, mandate new system that includes $125 million in dollar-for-dollar property tax relief by July 1, 2013.

Republicans said savings from the cuts would be realized over three years.