SF 2097 (LSB 5719SS (4) 85)

SENATE FILE 2097

BY  PETERSEN

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the safe routes to school program, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM.
   1.  Notwithstanding section 321.145, subsection 2, paragraph “c”, there is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of transportation for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2014, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:

   For administration of the safe route to schools program in accordance with the federal Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy For Users, Pub. L. No. 109-59, including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes:
.................................................. $  1,000,000

   2.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available to be used for the purposes designated until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.
    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill appropriates $1 million from the general fund of the state to the department of transportation for the 2013-2014 fiscal year for administration of the safe routes to school program in accordance with the federal Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy For Users, Pub. L. No. 109-59.
   The bill takes effect upon enactment.