House Amendment 8586


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 2759, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  By striking page 1, line 22, through page 2,
     1  4 line 13, and inserting the following:  <July 1, 2006,
     1  5 and ending June 30, 2009, there is appropriated for
     1  6 each fiscal year from the grow Iowa values fund
     1  7 created in section 15G.108 two million dollars for
     1  8 deposit in the renewable fuel infrastructure fund as
     1  9 provided in section 15G.119.
     1 10    b.  This subsection is repealed on July 1, 2009.
     1 11    Sec.    .  Section 15G.114, as enacted by 2006 Iowa
     1 12 Acts, House File 2754, section 28, is amended by
     1 13 adding the following new subsection:
     1 14    NEW SUBSECTION.  3A.  "Infrastructure fund" means
     1 15 the renewable fuel infrastructure fund created in
     1 16 section 15G.119.
     1 17    Sec.    .  Section 15G.116, subsection 3, as
     1 18 enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2754, section
     1 19 30, is amended by striking the subsection.
     1 20    Sec.    .  Section 15G.117, subsection 2, as
     1 21 enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2754, section
     1 22 31, is amended by striking the subsection.
     1 23    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  15G.119  RENEWABLE FUEL
     1 24 INFRASTRUCTURE FUND.
     1 25    1.  A renewable fuel infrastructure fund is created
     1 26 in the state treasury under the control of the
     1 27 department.  The infrastructure fund is separate from
     1 28 the general fund of the state.
     1 29    2.  The renewable fuel infrastructure fund is
     1 30 composed of moneys appropriated by the general
     1 31 assembly and moneys available to and obtained or
     1 32 accepted by the department from the United States
     1 33 government or private sources for placement in the
     1 34 infrastructure fund.
     1 35    3.  Moneys in the renewable fuel infrastructure
     1 36 fund are appropriated to the department exclusively to
     1 37 support the renewable fuel infrastructure programs as
     1 38 provided in sections 15G.116 and 15G.117, as enacted
     1 39 by 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2754, sections 30 and
     1 40 31, as allocated in financial incentives by the
     1 41 renewable fuel infrastructure board as created in
     1 42 section 15G.115, as enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts, House
     1 43 File 2754, section 29.  Up to fifty thousand dollars
     1 44 shall be allocated each fiscal year to the department
     1 45 to support the administration of the programs.
     1 46 Otherwise the moneys shall not be transferred, used,
     1 47 obligated, appropriated, or otherwise encumbered
     1 48 except to allocate as financial incentives under the
     1 49 programs.
     1 50    4.  a.  The recapture of awards or penalties, or
     2  1 other repayments of moneys originating from the
     2  2 renewable fuel infrastructure fund shall be deposited
     2  3 into the infrastructure fund.
     2  4    b.  Notwithstanding section 12C.7, interest or
     2  5 earnings on moneys in the infrastructure fund shall be
     2  6 credited to the infrastructure fund.
     2  7    c.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, unencumbered and
     2  8 unobligated moneys remaining in the infrastructure
     2  9 fund at the close of each fiscal year shall not revert
     2 10 but shall remain available in the infrastructure fund
     2 11 for expenditure for the same purposes in the
     2 12 succeeding fiscal year.
     2 13    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  214A.1A  MOTOR FUEL
     2 14 QUALITY ASSURANCE SCHEDULE.
     2 15    1.  The department shall adopt a schedule which
     2 16 provides a schedule of departmental improvements
     2 17 required for each fiscal year necessary to assure that
     2 18 motor fuel sold and dispensed from motor fuel pumps in
     2 19 this state meets all applicable standards as provided
     2 20 in section 214A.2.  On or before June 1 of each year,
     2 21 and based on the schedule of improvements, the
     2 22 secretary of agriculture shall certify the amount
     2 23 required to implement the improvements required for
     2 24 the next fiscal year to the director of the department
     2 25 of management and the fiscal services division of the
     2 26 legislative services agency.  The department of
     2 27 management shall conduct a review of the scheduled
     2 28 improvements for that fiscal year and may reduce the
     2 29 amount certified by the secretary if the department of
     2 30 management determines that a lesser amount is
     2 31 adequate.  The director of the department of
     2 32 management and the secretary shall report their
     2 33 findings to the legislative government oversight
     2 34 committees as required by the committees'
     2 35 chairpersons.
     2 36    2.  For each fiscal year, of the moneys
     2 37 appropriated to each state agency to support the
     2 38 production or use of ethanol, ethanol blended
     2 39 gasoline, biodiesel, or biodiesel blended fuel as
     2 40 defined in section 214A.1, the department of
     2 41 management shall transfer a prorated share of the
     2 42 state agency's appropriation as is necessary to
     2 43 satisfy the amount required to comply with the
     2 44 schedule of improvements for that fiscal year as
     2 45 directed by the department of management.  The
     2 46 department of management shall identify each affected
     2 47 appropriation and notify each head of a department of
     2 48 the transfer of the prorated share on or before June
     2 49 15 of each year.
     2 50    Sec.    .  Section 214A.2, subsection 2A, paragraph
     3  1 b, subparagraph (4), as enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts,
     3  2 House File 2754, section 7, is amended by striking the
     3  3 subparagraph.
     3  4    Sec.    .  Section 214A.7, as amended by 2006 Iowa
     3  5 Acts, House File 2754, section 12, is amended to read
     3  6 as follows:
     3  7    214A.7  DEPARTMENT INSPECTION == SAMPLES TESTED.
     3  8    The department shall, from time to time, make or
     3  9 cause to be made tests of any motor vehicle fuel or
     3 10 oxygenate octane enhancer biofuel which is being sold,
     3 11 or held or offered for sale within this state.  An A
     3 12 departmental inspector may enter upon the premises of
     3 13 any wholesale dealer or retail a dealer, and take from
     3 14 any container a sample of the motor vehicle fuel or
     3 15 oxygenate octane enhancer biofuel, not to exceed
     3 16 sixteen fluid ounces.  The sample shall be sealed and
     3 17 appropriately marked or labeled by the inspector and
     3 18 delivered to the department.  The department shall
     3 19 make, or cause to be made, complete analyses or tests
     3 20 of the motor vehicle fuel or oxygenate octane enhancer
     3 21 biofuel by the methods specified in section 214A.2.
     3 22    Sec.    .  Section 422.11N, subsection 4, paragraph
     3 23 b, subparagraph (1), subparagraph subdivision (k), as
     3 24 enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2754, section
     3 25 39, is amended to read as follows:
     3 26    (k)  Twenty=five percent for each determination
     3 27 period in the period beginning on and after January 1,
     3 28 2019, and ending on December 31, 2020.
     3 29    Sec.    .  Section 422.11N, subsection 4, paragraph
     3 30 b, subparagraph (2), subparagraph subdivisions (l) and
     3 31 (m), as enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2754,
     3 32 section 39, are amended to read as follows:
     3 33    (l)  Twenty=three Twenty=five percent for the
     3 34 determination period beginning on January 1, 2020, and
     3 35 ending December 31, 2020.
     3 36    (m)  Twenty=five percent for each determination
     3 37 period beginning on and after January 1, 2021.
     3 38    Sec.    .  Section 422.11N, subsection 4, paragraph
     3 39 c, as enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2754,
     3 40 section 39, is amended to read as follows:
     3 41    c.  The retail dealer's biofuel threshold
     3 42 percentage disparity which is a positive percentage
     3 43 difference obtained by taking the minuend which is the
     3 44 retail dealer's biofuel distribution threshold
     3 45 percentage and subtracting from it the subtrahend
     3 46 which is the retail dealer's biofuel threshold
     3 47 distribution percentage, in the retail dealer's
     3 48 applicable determination period.
     3 49    Sec.    .  Section 422.11N, subsection 5, paragraph
     3 50 b, subparagraphs (1) and (2), as enacted by 2006 Iowa
     4  1 Acts, House File 2754, section 39, are amended to read
     4  2 as follows:
     4  3    (1)  If a retail dealer has not claimed a tax
     4  4 credit in the retail dealer's previous tax year, the
     4  5 retail dealer may claim the tax credit in the retail
     4  6 dealer's current tax year for that period beginning on
     4  7 January 1 of the retail dealer's previous tax year to
     4  8 the last day of the retail dealer's previous tax year.
     4  9 For that period the retail dealer shall calculate the
     4 10 tax credit in the same manner as a retail dealer who
     4 11 will calculate the tax credit on December 31 of that
     4 12 calendar year as provided in paragraph "a".
     4 13    (2)  (a)  For the period beginning on the first day
     4 14 of the retail dealer's tax year until December 31, the
     4 15 retail dealer shall calculate the tax credit in the
     4 16 same manner as a retail dealer who calculates the tax
     4 17 credit on that same December 31 as provided in
     4 18 paragraph "a".
     4 19    (2)  (b)  For the period beginning on January 1 to
     4 20 the end of the retail dealer's tax year, the retail
     4 21 dealer shall calculate the tax credit in the same
     4 22 manner as a retail dealer who will calculate the tax
     4 23 credit on the following December 31 as provided in
     4 24 paragraph "a".
     4 25    Sec.    .  Section 422.11N, subsection 9, as
     4 26 enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2754, section
     4 27 39, is amended to read as follows:
     4 28    9.  This section is repealed on January 1, 2026
     4 29 2021.
     4 30    Sec.    .  Section 422.11O, subsection 4,
     4 31 paragraphs a and b, as enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts,
     4 32 House File 2754, section 40, are amended to read as
     4 33 follows:
     4 34    a.  If a retail dealer has not claimed a tax credit
     4 35 in the retail dealer's previous tax year, the retail
     4 36 dealer may claim the tax credit in the retail dealer's
     4 37 current tax year for that period beginning on January
     4 38 1 of the retail dealer's previous tax year to the last
     4 39 day of the retail dealer's previous tax year.  For
     4 40 that period the retail dealer shall calculate the tax
     4 41 credit in the same manner as a retail dealer who will
     4 42 calculate the tax credit on December 31 of that
     4 43 calendar year as provided in subsection 3.
     4 44    b.  (1)  For the period beginning on the first day
     4 45 of the retail dealer's tax year until December 31, the
     4 46 retail dealer shall calculate the tax credit in the
     4 47 same manner as a retail dealer who calculates the tax
     4 48 credit on that same December 31 as provided in
     4 49 subsection 3.
     4 50    b.  (2)  For the period beginning on January 1 to
     5  1 the end of the retail dealer's tax year, the retail
     5  2 dealer shall calculate the tax credit in the same
     5  3 manner as a retail dealer who will calculate the tax
     5  4 credit on the following December 31 as provided in
     5  5 subsection 3.
     5  6    Sec.    .  Section 422.33, subsection 11A,
     5  7 paragraph c, as enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts, House File
     5  8 2754, section 46, is amended to read as follows:
     5  9    c.  This subsection is repealed on January 1, 2026
     5 10 2021.
     5 11    Sec.    .  2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2754, section
     5 12 49, subsection 2, is amended to read as follows:
     5 13    2.  For a retail dealer who may claim an ethanol
     5 14 promotion tax credit under section 422.11N or 422.33,
     5 15 subsection 11A, as enacted in this Act, in calendar
     5 16 year 2025 2020 and whose tax year ends prior to
     5 17 December 31, 2025 2020, the retail dealer may continue
     5 18 to claim the tax credit in the retail dealer's
     5 19 following tax year.  In that case, the tax credit
     5 20 shall be calculated in the same manner as provided in
     5 21 section 422.11N or 422.33, subsection 11A, as enacted
     5 22 in this Act, for the remaining period beginning on the
     5 23 first day of the retail dealer's new tax year until
     5 24 December 31, 2025 2020.  For that remaining period,
     5 25 the tax credit shall be calculated in the same manner
     5 26 as a retail dealer whose tax year began on the
     5 27 previous January 1 and who is calculating the tax
     5 28 credit on December 31, 2025 2020.
     5 29    Sec.    .  2006 Iowa Acts, House File 2754, section
     5 30 83, subsection 4, is amended to read as follows:
     5 31    4.  Sections 214A.1, 214A.4, 214A.5, 214A.7,
     5 32 214A.8, and 214A.10, Code 2005, are amended by
     5 33 striking from the provisions the words "oxygenate
     5 34 octane enhancer" and inserting the following:
     5 35 "oxygenate".
     5 36    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  455G.3A  SPECIAL
     5 37 APPROPRIATION == RENEWABLE FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE FUND.
     5 38    1.  Notwithstanding section 455G.3, for the fiscal
     5 39 period beginning July 1, 2006, and ending June 30,
     5 40 2008, there is appropriated each fiscal year from the
     5 41 Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank
     5 42 fund created in section 455G.3, to the renewable fuel
     5 43 infrastructure fund, created in section 15G.119, three
     5 44 million five hundred thousand dollars.
     5 45    2.  This section is repealed on July 1, 2008.
     5 46    Sec.    .  Section 15.401, Code Supplement 2005, is
     5 47 repealed.
     5 48    Sec.    .  TRANSFER OF MONEYS.  Moneys appropriated
     5 49 to the Iowa department of economic development for the
     5 50 purposes provided in section 15.401 shall be
     6  1 transferred to the renewable fuel infrastructure fund
     6  2 created in section 15G.119, as enacted by this Act, to
     6  3 be expended as provided in sections 15G.116 and
     6  4 15G.117, as enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts, House File
     6  5 2754, sections 30 and 31.
     6  6    Sec.    .  MOTOR FUEL INSPECTION.  There is
     6  7 appropriated from the renewable fuel infrastructure
     6  8 fund as created in section 15G.119, as enacted in this
     6  9 Act, to the department of agriculture and land
     6 10 stewardship for each fiscal year of the fiscal period
     6 11 beginning July 1, 2006, and ending June 30, 2008, the
     6 12 following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary,
     6 13 to be used for the purposes designated:
     6 14    For purposes of the inspection of motor fuel,
     6 15 including salaries, support, maintenance,
     6 16 miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the
     6 17 following full=time equivalent positions:
     6 18 .................................................. $    300,000
     6 19 ............................................... FTEs       3.00
     6 20    The department shall establish and administer
     6 21 programs for the auditing of motor fuel including
     6 22 biofuel processing and production plants, for
     6 23 screening and testing motor fuel, including renewable
     6 24 fuel, and for the inspection of motor fuel sold by
     6 25 dealers including retail dealers who sell and dispense
     6 26 motor fuel from motor fuel pumps.>
     6 27 #2.  Page 2, line 14, by striking the words <This
     6 28 Act is> and inserting the following:  <The sections of
     6 29 this Act, other than the section of this Act enacting
     6 30 section 214A.1A, are>.
     6 31 #3.  Page 2, by inserting after line 15 the
     6 32 following:
     6 33    <Sec.    .  SPECIAL EFFECTIVE DATE.  The section of
     6 34 this Act enacting section 214A.1A, being deemed of
     6 35 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.>
     6 36 #4.  Title page, line 1, by inserting before the
     6 37 word <providing> the following:  <relating to
     6 38 renewable fuel, by>.
     6 39 #5.  Title page, line 2, by inserting after the
     6 40 word <infrastructure,> the following:  <providing for
     6 41 tax credits,>.
     6 42 #6.  Title page, lines 2 and 3, by striking the
     6 43 words <a contingent effective date> and inserting the
     6 44 following:  <contingent and other effective dates>.
     6 45 #7.  By renumbering as necessary.
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