Text: SSB01223                          Text: SSB01225
Text: SSB01200 - SSB01299               Text: SSB Index
Bills and Amendments: General Index     Bill History: General Index



Senate Study Bill 1224

Bill Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  15E.221  AIR TRANSPORTATION
  1  2 INFRASTRUCTURE.
  1  3    1.  There is appropriated from the Iowa comprehensive
  1  4 petroleum underground storage tank fund created in section
  1  5 455G.3 to the department of economic development for the
  1  6 fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2000,
  1  7 the sum of ten million dollars.  The department shall use the
  1  8 moneys for purposes of providing financial assistance in the
  1  9 form of loans to meet air transportation expansion and
  1 10 infrastructure needs in the state, notwithstanding section
  1 11 455G.3.  Under terms provided by the department, recipients of
  1 12 financial assistance under this section shall repay the total
  1 13 amount of any loan received under this section by June 30,
  1 14 2006, and all loan repayments shall be deposited in the Iowa
  1 15 comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund.  All
  1 16 loan repayments to be deposited in the Iowa comprehensive
  1 17 petroleum underground storage tank fund shall include loan
  1 18 principal and an interest rate on the loan principal
  1 19 equivalent to the rate earned on the state pooled money fund
  1 20 contained in chapter 12 during the period of the loan.  Any
  1 21 moneys received by the department from a recipient of the
  1 22 loans in excess of the moneys deposited in the Iowa
  1 23 comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund shall be
  1 24 retained by the department and are appropriated to the
  1 25 department for purposes of air transportation expansion needs
  1 26 of the state.  The department shall not draw down the
  1 27 appropriation for purposes of providing financial assistance
  1 28 unless all criteria provided in this section are met prior to
  1 29 a disbursement by the department.
  1 30    2.  An initial round of air transportation infrastructure
  1 31 financial assistance disbursements shall be made by the
  1 32 department in installments of three million dollars on or
  1 33 after July 1, 1999, and three million dollars on or after
  1 34 January 1, 2000, provided the following criteria are met:
  1 35    a.  The applicant is an Iowa-based airline company with
  2  1 immediate expansion and infrastructure needs.
  2  2    b.  The applicant provides a dollar-for-dollar private
  2  3 sector equity match for every state dollar expended.
  2  4    c.  The applicant demonstrates the expansion and
  2  5 infrastructure project has statewide economic impact.
  2  6    d.  The funds will be used for the costs associated with
  2  7 direct expansion and infrastructure needs.
  2  8    3.  A second round of air transportation infrastructure
  2  9 financial assistance disbursements totaling not more than four
  2 10 million dollars may be made in any number of installments at
  2 11 any time after January 1, 2000, by the department of economic
  2 12 development only after a determination of necessity has been
  2 13 made by the department of management and the legislative
  2 14 council, and the department of management has certified the
  2 15 determination to the department of economic development.  The
  2 16 department of economic development shall report quarterly to
  2 17 the department of management and the legislative council
  2 18 regarding the status of existing loans, the ongoing expansion
  2 19 and air transportation infrastructure needs of financial
  2 20 assistance recipients, the air transportation industry
  2 21 conditions, and any other information deemed necessary by the
  2 22 department of management or the legislative council for making
  2 23 a determination of necessity.
  2 24    4.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in
  2 25 this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the
  2 26 close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain
  2 27 available for expenditure for the purposes designated.  
  2 28                           EXPLANATION
  2 29    This bill appropriates to the department of economic
  2 30 development for the 1999-2000 fiscal year $10 million from the
  2 31 Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund for
  2 32 purposes of providing financial assistance in the form of
  2 33 loans to meet air transportation expansion and infrastructure
  2 34 needs in the state.  The bill provides that any loan shall be
  2 35 repaid by June 30, 2006, and all loan repayments shall be
  3  1 deposited in the Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground
  3  2 storage tank fund.  The bill provides that all loan repayments
  3  3 to be deposited in the Iowa comprehensive petroleum
  3  4 underground storage tank fund shall include loan principal and
  3  5 an interest rate on the loan principal equivalent to the rate
  3  6 earned on the state pooled money fund during the period of the
  3  7 loan.  The bill provides that any moneys received by the
  3  8 department from a recipient of the loans in excess of the
  3  9 moneys deposited in the Iowa comprehensive petroleum
  3 10 underground storage tank fund shall be retained by the
  3 11 department and are appropriated to the department for purposes
  3 12 of air transportation expansion needs of the state.
  3 13    The bill provides that an initial round of air
  3 14 transportation infrastructure financial assistance
  3 15 disbursements shall be made by the department in installments
  3 16 of $3 million on or after July 1, 1999, and $3 million on or
  3 17 after January 1, 2000, provided that certain criteria are met
  3 18 by an applicant.  The bill provides that a second round of air
  3 19 transportation infrastructure financial assistance
  3 20 disbursements totaling not more than $4 million may be made in
  3 21 any number of installments at any time after January 1, 2000,
  3 22 by the department of economic development only after a
  3 23 determination of necessity has been made by the department of
  3 24 management and the legislative council.  The bill provides
  3 25 that the department of economic development shall report to
  3 26 the department of management and the legislative council
  3 27 quarterly in an effort to provide the department of management
  3 28 and the legislative council with information necessary to make
  3 29 a determination of necessity.
  3 30    The bill provides that moneys appropriated from the Iowa
  3 31 comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund that
  3 32 remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal
  3 33 year shall not revert.  
  3 34 LSB 3441XC 78
  3 35 tm/jw/5
     

Text: SSB01223                          Text: SSB01225
Text: SSB01200 - SSB01299               Text: SSB Index
Bills and Amendments: General Index     Bill History: General Index

Return To Home index


© 1999 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa


Comments about this site or page? webmaster@legis.iowa.gov.
Please remember that the person listed above does not vote on bills. Direct all comments concerning legislation to State Legislators.

Last update: Wed Apr 21 03:45:38 CDT 1999
URL: /DOCS/GA/78GA/Legislation/SSB/01200/SSB01224/990420.html
jhf