House Journal: Page 1760: Tuesday, April 27, 1999

	Houser of Pottawattamie offered the following amendment H?1827 

filed by him and Foege of Linn and moved its adoption:
H-1827
 1     Amend House File 730 as follows:
 2     1.  Page 3, by striking lines 22 through 30 and
 3   inserting the following:
 4     "The Iowa board shall designate a community
 5   empowerment assistance team or teams of state agency
 6   staff to provide technical assistance and other
 7   support to community empowerment areas. A technical
 8   assistance system shall be developed using local staff
 9   of the state agencies represented on the Iowa board
10   and other state agencies and individuals involved with
11   local community empowerment areas.  The technical
12   assistance shall be available in at least three levels
13   of support as follows:"
14     2.  Page 4, line 15, by striking the word
15   "regional".
16     3.  Page 5, by striking lines 15 through 35 and
17   inserting the following:
18     "d.  The Iowa empowerment board shall regularly
19   make information available identifying community
20   empowerment funding and funding distributed through
21   the funding streams listed under this paragraph "d" to
22   communities.  It is the intent of the general assembly
23   that the community empowerment area boards and the
24   administrators of the programs located within the
25   community empowerment areas that are supported by the
26   listed funding streams shall fully cooperate with one
27   another on or before the indicated fiscal years, in
28   order to avoid duplication, enhance efforts, combine
29   planning, and take other steps to best utilize the
30   funding to meet the needs of the families in the
31   areas.  The community empowerment area boards and the
32   administrators shall annually report to the governor
33   and the general assembly concerning such efforts.  The
34   funding streams shall include all of the following:
35     (1)  Moneys for the healthy families Iowa program
36   under section 135.106 by the fiscal year beginning
37   July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001.
38     (2)  Moneys for parent education appropriated in
39   section 279.51 and distributed through the child
40   development coordinating council, by the fiscal year
41   beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001.
42     (3)  Moneys for the preschool children at-risk
43   program appropriated in section 279.51 and distributed
44   through the child development coordinating council, by
45   the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001, and ending
46   June 30, 2002.

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