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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 8, as amended, passed, and 1 2 reprinted by the House, as follows: 1 3 #1. By striking everything after the enacting 1 4 clause and inserting the following: 1 5 "Section 1. Section 8.59, Code 1997, is amended to 1 6 read as follows: 1 7 8.59 APPROPRIATIONS FREEZE. 1 8 Notwithstanding contrary provisions of the Code, 1 9 the amounts appropriated under the applicable sections 1 10 of the Code for fiscal years commencing on or after 1 11 July 1, 1993, are limited to those amounts expended 1 12 under those sections for the fiscal year commencing 1 13 July 1, 1992. If an applicable section appropriates 1 14 moneys to be distributed to different recipients and 1 15 the operation of this section reduces the total amount 1 16 to be distributed under the applicable section, the 1 17 moneys shall be prorated among the recipients. As 1 18 used in this section, "applicable sections" means the 1 19 following sections: 53.50, 229.35, 230.8, 230.11, 1 20 405A.8, 411.20,425.1,425.39, 426A.1, 663.44, and 1 21 822.5. 1 22 Sec. 2. Section 25B.2, subsection 3, Code 1997, is 1 23 amended by striking the subsection. 1 24 Sec. 3. Section 25B.3, subsection 1, Code 1997, is 1 25 amended to read as follows: 1 26 1. "Political subdivision" means a city, county, 1 27 township, community college, area education agency, or 1 28 school district. 1 29 Sec. 4. NEW SECTION. 25B.5A UNFUNDED STATE 1 30 MANDATES – EFFECT. 1 31 1. If, on or after July 1, 1997, a state mandate 1 32 is enacted by the general assembly, or otherwise 1 33 imposed, on a political subdivision and the state 1 34 mandate requires a political subdivision to engage in 1 35 any new activity, to provide a new service, or to 1 36 provide any service beyond that required by any law 1 37 enacted prior to July 1, 1997, and the state does not 1 38 appropriate moneys to fully fund the cost of the state 1 39 mandate, the political subdivision is not required to 1 40 perform the activity or provide the service and the 1 41 political subdivision shall not be subject to any 1 42 liabilities or the imposition of any fines or 1 43 penalties for the failure to comply with the state 1 44 mandate. However, this subsection does not apply to 1 45 any requirement imposed on a political subdivision 1 46 relating to public employee retirement systems under 1 47 chapters 97B, 410, and 411. 1 48 2. For the purposes of subsection 1, any 1 49 requirement originating from the federal government 1 50 and administered, implemented, or enacted by the 2 1 state, or any allocation of federal moneys conditioned 2 2 upon the enactment of state law or rule, is not a 2 3 state mandate. 2 4 3. For the purposes of subsection 1, a political 2 5 subdivision or political subdivisions may appeal to 2 6 the advisory commission on intergovernmental 2 7 relations, created in chapter 28J, to determine 2 8 whether or not any new activity, new service, or 2 9 increase in service required to be engaged in by the 2 10 political subdivisions of the state constitutes a 2 11 state mandate and if it is a state mandate, to what 2 12 extent the state has fully funded such mandate. 2 13 4. For purposes of subsection 1, beginning with 2 14 property taxes due and payable in the fiscal year 2 15 beginning July 1, 1997, the cost of providing the 2 16 homestead property tax credit on or after January 1, 2 17 1997, shall be fully funded by the state. If on or 2 18 after January 1, 1997, a state appropriation made to 2 19 fund the homestead property tax credit is not 2 20 sufficient to fully fund the credit, the political 2 21 subdivision shall be required to extend to the 2 22 taxpayer only that portion of the credit funded by the 2 23 state appropriation. The department of revenue and 2 24 finance shall determine the portion of the credit 2 25 which will be funded by the state appropriation. 2 26 Sec. 5. Section 425.1, subsection 1, unnumbered 2 27 paragraph 1, Code 1997, is amended to read as follows: 2 28 A homestead credit fund is created. There is 2 29 appropriated annually from the general fund of the 2 30 state to the department of revenue and finance to be 2 31 credited to the homestead credit fund, an amount2 32sufficient to implement this chapterthe sum of one 2 33 hundred fourteen million dollars. 2 34 Sec. 6. Section 5 of this Act applies to homestead 2 35 property tax credit claims filed for taxes due and 2 36 payable in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997." 2 37 2 38 2 39 2 40 COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT 2 41 JIM LIND, Chairperson 2 42 HF 8.203 77 2 43 sc/jj/28
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