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House Journal: Page 1522: Wednesday, April 12, 1995

32   exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, the secretary
33   of agriculture shall reduce the per ton fee provided
34   for in section 198.9, subsection 1, for the next
35   fiscal year in such amount as will result in an ending
36   estimated balance of the fees deposited less costs
37   paid for from those fees for June 30 of the next
38   fiscal year of one hundred thousand dollars.
39     3.  The secretary shall publish a report not later
40   than September 1 of each year.  The report shall
41   provide a detailed accounting of all sources of
42   revenue deposited under and all dispositions of moneys
43   deposited in the fund.  The report shall detail full-
44   time equivalent positions used in fulfilling the
45   requirements of this chapter.  The report shall also
46   indicate to what extent any full-time equivalent
47   positions are shared with other programs.  Copies of
48   the report issued by the secretary pursuant to this
49   subsection shall be delivered each year to the members
50   of the standing committees on agriculture of the house

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 1   of representatives and the senate.
 2     Sec. ___.  Section 200.4, subsection 1, Code 1995,
 3   is amended to read as follows:
 4     1.  Any person who manufactures, mixes, blends,
 5   mixes to customers order, offers for sale, sells, or
 6   distributes any fertilizer or soil conditioner in Iowa
 7   must first obtain a license from the secretary of
 8   agriculture and shall pay a ten-dollar license fee for
 9   each place of manufacture or distribution from which
10   fertilizer or soil conditioner products are sold or
11   distributed in Iowa.  Such The license fee shall be
12   paid annually on July 1 of each year.  The license fee
13   shall be deposited in the fertilizer fund established
14   in section 200.9.
15     Sec. ___.  Section 200.8, subsection 3, Code 1995,
16   is amended by striking the subsection.
17     Sec. ___.  Section 200.9, Code 1995, is amended to
18   read as follows:
19     200.9  FERTILIZER FEES FUND.
20     1.  A fertilizer fund is established in the state
21   treasury under the control of the department of
22   agriculture and land stewardship.  The fund shall
23   consist of any moneys appropriated by the general
24   assembly and any other moneys available to and
25   obtained or accepted by the department from the
26   federal government or private sources for placement in
27   the fund.  Fees collected for licenses and inspection
28   fees under sections 200.4 and 200.8, with the
29   exception of those fees collected for deposit in the
30   agriculture management account of the groundwater
31   protection fund, shall be deposited in the general
32   fund of the state and shall be subject to the
33   requirements of section 8.60.  Fees collected
pursuant
34   to chapter 201 shall also be deposited in the fund.
35   Moneys deposited under this section to into the

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