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House Study Bill 634

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 8.33, unnumbered paragraph 2, Code
  1  2 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    No A payment of an obligation for goods and services shall
  1  4 not be charged to an appropriation subsequent to the last day
  1  5 of the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made unless
  1  6 the goods or services are received on or before the last day
  1  7 of the fiscal year, except that repair payments for the
  1  8 following obligations for goods and services, which were
  1  9 committed and in progress prior to the end of the fiscal year,
  1 10 are excluded from this provision:
  1 11    1.  Repair projects, purchase.
  1 12    2.  Purchase of specialized equipment and furnishings, and
  1 13 other including the purchase of goods and services from Iowa
  1 14 prison industries which are received or completed within
  1 15 ninety days of the commencement of the succeeding fiscal year.
  1 16    3.  Other contracts for services and capital expenditures
  1 17 for the purchase of land or the erection of buildings or new
  1 18 construction or remodeling, which were committed and in
  1 19 progress prior to the end of the fiscal year are excluded from
  1 20 this provision.
  1 21    Sec. 2.  Section 904.706, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
  1 22 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1 23    A revolving farm fund is created in the state treasury in
  1 24 which the department shall deposit receipts from agricultural
  1 25 products, nursery stock, agricultural land rentals, and the
  1 26 sale of livestock.  However, before any agricultural operation
  1 27 is phased out, the department which proposes to discontinue
  1 28 this operation shall notify the governor, chairpersons and
  1 29 ranking members of the house and senate appropriations
  1 30 committees, and cochairpersons and ranking members of the
  1 31 subcommittee in the senate and house of representatives which
  1 32 has handled the appropriation for this department in the past
  1 33 session of the general assembly.  Before the department sells
  1 34 farmland under the control of the department, the director
  1 35 shall notify the governor, chairpersons and ranking members of
  2  1 the house and senate appropriations committees, and
  2  2 cochairpersons and ranking members of the joint appropriations
  2  3 subcommittee that handled the appropriation for the department
  2  4 during the past session of the general assembly.  The
  2  5 department may pay from the fund for the operation,
  2  6 maintenance, and improvement of farms and agricultural or
  2  7 nursery property under the control of the department.  A
  2  8 purchase order for five thousand dollars or less payable from
  2  9 the fund is exempt from the general purchasing requirements of
  2 10 chapter 18.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, unencumbered or
  2 11 unobligated receipts in the revolving farm fund, as well as
  2 12 the proceeds earned from investment of the fund balance, which
  2 13 remain at the end of a the revolving farm fund's fiscal year
  2 14 shall not revert to the general fund of the state.  The
  2 15 revolving farm fund's fiscal year is the calendar year.
  2 16    Sec. 3.  Section 904.809, subsection 5, Code Supplement
  2 17 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  2 18    5.  An inmate of a correctional institution employed
  2 19 pursuant to this section shall surrender to the department of
  2 20 corrections the inmate's total earnings less deductions for
  2 21 federal, state, and local taxes, and any other payroll
  2 22 deductions required by law.  The department of corrections
  2 23 shall deduct twenty percent of the balance to be credited to
  2 24 the inmate's general account.  The department shall then
  2 25 deduct from the earnings remaining as follows:
  2 26    a.  The department shall first deduct the following amounts
  2 27 The inmate's employer shall collect all required tax
  2 28 deductions and shall deliver the remaining payroll to the
  2 29 department of corrections at the institution where the inmate
  2 30 is housed.  The inmate's employer shall provide each employed
  2 31 inmate with the withholdings statement required under section
  2 32 422.16, and any other employment information necessary for the
  2 33 filing of an income tax return by the employed inmate.  Upon
  2 34 receipt of the remainder of an inmate's payroll earnings,
  2 35 deductions, as applicable, shall be made in the following
  3  1 order of priority:
  3  2    (1) a.  Twenty percent, to be deposited in the inmate's
  3  3 general account.
  3  4    b.  An amount the inmate may be legally obligated to pay
  3  5 for the support of the inmate's dependents, the amount of
  3  6 which shall be paid to the dependents through the department
  3  7 of human services services' collection services center.
  3  8    (2) c.  Restitution as ordered by the court pursuant to
  3  9 chapter 910, not to exceed twenty percent, unless specifically
  3 10 ordered by a court with jurisdiction over the inmate.
  3 11    (3) d.  Five percent of the balance to the victim
  3 12 compensation fund created in section 912.14.
  3 13    (4) e.  An amount the inmate is legally obligated to pay
  3 14 for any other legal or department financial obligation.
  3 15    (5) f.  An amount determined to be the cost The balance of
  3 16 the payroll shall be deposited in a special account for
  3 17 reimbursement to the department of corrections for providing
  3 18 for the costs of the inmate's incarceration of the inmate.
  3 19    b.  Of the balance remaining after deductions and payments
  3 20 required pursuant to paragraph "a", the department shall
  3 21 deposit in the Iowa state industries revolving fund created in
  3 22 section 904.813, an amount equal to the costs incurred by the
  3 23 fund related to the inmate's employment pursuant to this
  3 24 section.  Any balance remaining after the deductions and
  3 25 payments required by this subsection shall be credited to the
  3 26 inmate's general account.  
  3 27                           EXPLANATION
  3 28    This bill makes changes relating to funds paid to or
  3 29 administered by the department of corrections.
  3 30    Code section 8.33 is amended to add the purchase of goods
  3 31 and services from Iowa prison industries to those activities
  3 32 which may be charged against an appropriation after the last
  3 33 day of a fiscal year if the funds are committed and the
  3 34 activity is in progress on or before the end of the fiscal
  3 35 year.
  4  1    Code section 904.706 is amended to prevent the reversion of
  4  2 proceeds earned from investment of the revolving farm fund
  4  3 balance.  Currently, the Code section only provides that any
  4  4 unencumbered or unobligated receipts in the fund do not
  4  5 revert.
  4  6    Code section 904.809 is amended to provide that private
  4  7 employers of inmates of correctional institutions are to
  4  8 collect all required tax deductions and then deliver the
  4  9 payroll balance to the department of corrections.  The
  4 10 employer is also to provide the employed inmate with
  4 11 withholdings statements and any other information necessary
  4 12 for the filing of the inmate's tax returns.  The deductions
  4 13 which are then to be made by the department of corrections
  4 14 from the balance of an inmate's earnings are modified to
  4 15 provide for the initial deduction of 20 percent of the balance
  4 16 for deposit in the inmate's general account, capping the
  4 17 amount of the deduction for restitution at 20 percent, and
  4 18 providing that any remaining balance is to be deposited in a
  4 19 special account for reimbursement to the department for the
  4 20 costs of the inmate's incarceration.  
  4 21 LSB 3550DP 77
  4 22 lh/cf/24.1
     

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