S-3142

   Amend  the amendment, S-3136, to Senate File 608 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, after line 7 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 8.39, subsection 2, Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  If the appropriation of a department, institution, or agency is insufficient to properly meet the legitimate expenses of the department, institution, or agency, the director, with the approval of the governor, may make an interdepartmental transfer from any other department, institution, or agency of the state having an appropriation in excess of its needs, of sufficient funds to meet that deficiency. Such transfer shall be to an appropriation made from the same funding source and within the same fiscal year. The amount of a transfer made from an appropriation under this subsection shall be limited to not more than one-tenth of one percent of the total of all appropriations made from the funding source of the transferred appropriation for the fiscal year in which the transfer is made. An interdepartmental transfer to an appropriation which is not an entitlement appropriation is not authorized when the general assembly is in regular session and, in addition, the sum of interdepartmental transfers in a fiscal year to an appropriation which is not an entitlement appropriation shall not exceed fifty percent of the amount of the appropriation as enacted by the general assembly. For the purposes of this subsection, an entitlement appropriation is a line item appropriation to the state public defender for indigent defense or to the department of human services for foster care, state supplementary assistance, or medical assistance, or for the family investment program.  The economic development authority shall not make an interdepartmental transfer of an appropriation, any part of an appropriation, or any other moneys, to the Iowa finance authority. The Iowa finance authority shall not make an interdepartmental transfer of an appropriation, any part of an appropriation, or any other moneys, to the economic development authority.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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JANET PETERSEN