Senate Amendment 5040
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 2088 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 32, after line 22 by inserting:
1 3 <Sec. ___. Section 8.54, Code 2009, is amended by
1 4 adding the following new subsection:
1 5 NEW SUBSECTION. 6A. If a bill or joint resolution
1 6 provides for new revenue or appropriations bonding
1 7 authority, or an expansion of existing revenue or
1 8 appropriations bonding authority, which bonds are
1 9 funded in whole or in part from moneys from the general
1 10 fund or from another portion of the state treasury,
1 11 the bill or joint resolution shall not become law
1 12 unless approved by the affirmative votes of at least
1 13 two=thirds of the whole membership of each house of the
1 14 general assembly.>
1 15 #2. Page 33, after line 8 by inserting:
1 16 <Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 8A.440 Group health
1 17 insurance premium costs.
1 18 1. A state employee excluded from collective
1 19 bargaining as provided in chapter 20 who is a member of
1 20 a state group health insurance plan for employees of
1 21 the state established under chapter 509A shall pay at
1 22 least forty dollars per month of the total premium for
1 23 such insurance.
1 24 2. Collective bargaining agreements entered into
1 25 pursuant to chapter 20 for state employees shall
1 26 provide that a state employee covered by that agreement
1 27 who is a member of a state group health insurance plan
1 28 for employees of the state established under chapter
1 29 509A shall pay at least forty dollars per month of the
1 30 total premium for such insurance.
1 31 Sec. ___. Section 68B.8, Code 2009, is amended by
1 32 adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
1 33 NEW unnumbered PARAGRAPH A state agency of the
1 34 executive branch of state government shall not employ
1 35 a person through the use of its public funds whose
1 36 position with the agency is primarily representing the
1 37 agency relative to the passage, defeat, approval, or
1 38 modification of bills that are being considered by the
1 39 general assembly.
1 40 Sec. ___. APPLICABILITY. The provision of
1 41 this division of this Act enacting section 8A.440,
1 42 subsection 2, applies to collective bargaining
1 43 agreements entered into on or after the effective date
1 44 of this division of this Act.>
1 45 #3. Page 34, after line 30 by inserting:
1 46 <Sec. ___. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT ==
1 47 RENEGOTIATION == COMPENSATION TERMS.
1 48 1. The general assembly finds that in order to
1 49 avoid layoffs, reductions in salary costs must be
1 50 achieved. As a result, the governor, the state court
2 1 administrator, and the state board of regents shall
2 2 renegotiate with state labor unions the collective
2 3 bargaining agreements effective during the fiscal year
2 4 beginning July 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2011.
2 5 2. The governor, the state court administrator,
2 6 and the state board of regents shall apply all of
2 7 the following terms in the renegotiated collective
2 8 bargaining agreements effective during the fiscal year
2 9 beginning July 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2011:
2 10 a. A cost of living increase shall not be granted.
2 11 The pay plans as they exist for the fiscal year ending
2 12 June 30, 2010, shall be the pay plans used for the
2 13 fiscal year ending June 30, 2011.
2 14 b. A five percent salary decrease shall be
2 15 implemented. The salary decrease shall be calculated
2 16 using the pay plans as they exist for the fiscal year
2 17 ending June 30, 2010.
2 18 c. Employees shall not receive a step increase or
2 19 the equivalent of a step increase.
2 20 3. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, and
2 21 ending June 30, 2011, the provisions of subsection 2
2 22 shall apply to all pay plans provided for in section
2 23 8A.413, subsection 3, and shall apply to all employees
2 24 not covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
2 25 4. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, and
2 26 ending June 30, 2011, the provisions of subsection 2
2 27 shall apply to all state board of regents employees not
2 28 covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
2 29 5. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, and
2 30 ending June 30, 2011, the provisions of subsection 2
2 31 shall apply to all legislative and judicial branch
2 32 employees not covered by a collective bargaining
2 33 agreement.
2 34 6. Any moneys appropriated from the general fund of
2 35 the state to a department, commission, board, agency,
2 36 the state board of regents, the judicial branch, or
2 37 the legislative branch for purposes of salaries that
2 38 are not expended as a result of the provisions of
2 39 subsection 2 shall remain in the general fund and shall
2 40 not be expended for any other purpose.
2 41 Sec. ___. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT. The section
2 42 of this division of this Act concerning collective
2 43 bargaining agreement renegotiation, being deemed of
2 44 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.>
2 45 #4. Page 243, after line 9 by inserting:
2 46 <DIVISION ____
2 47 ONGOING PROGRAM REVIEW
2 48 Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 8.71 Ongoing program review ==
2 49 repeal dates.
2 50 1. The general assembly finds that a regular review
3 1 of the programs and projects administered by state
3 2 government is necessary to determine whether each
3 3 program and project is effectively and efficiently
3 4 meeting the needs for which created and whether the
3 5 needs remain in place. The general assembly further
3 6 finds that a regular, systematic review process can
3 7 identify the programs and projects that are no longer
3 8 relevant or functioning at a desirable level and can
3 9 eliminate or reorganize those programs and projects so
3 10 that state resources can be used most effectively or
3 11 diverted to other priorities.
3 12 2. The committees on state government of the
3 13 senate and house of representatives shall propose
3 14 legislation for consideration by the Eighty=fourth
3 15 General Assembly, 2011 Session, providing a staggered
3 16 schedule for establishing an automatic repeal date for
3 17 each program or project administered by a department of
3 18 state government over the succeeding four=year period.
3 19 The committees on state government shall consult with
3 20 the office of the governor and the department of
3 21 management in formulating the staggered schedule and
3 22 the office and department shall cooperate in providing
3 23 necessary information requested by either committee.
3 24 The repeal date provisions shall be implemented
3 25 in a manner so that any program or project that is
3 26 reauthorized by law is again subject to automatic
3 27 repeal four years after reauthorization.>
3 28 #5. Page 243, before line 30 by inserting:
3 29 <DIVISION ___
3 30 EXPENDITURE LIMITATION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
3 31 Sec. ___. BUDGETING PRACTICES == LEGISLATIVE
3 32 INTENT. The general assembly finds that the state
3 33 general fund expenditure limitation law has been an
3 34 effective and useful tool for prudent state budgeting
3 35 when the law has been properly applied to limit
3 36 expenditures to not more than ninety=nine percent of
3 37 available state revenues. Maintaining the law's proper
3 38 application will result in Iowa maintaining a balanced
3 39 budget and healthy reserve fund balances. Much as the
3 40 families of Iowa have found the need to apply difficult
3 41 measures in order to live within their means with
3 42 reduced economic resources, the general assembly finds
3 43 that making the expenditure limitation law part of the
3 44 state constitution would assure that the state will
3 45 also maintain discipline over public resources into the
3 46 future. Therefore, the general assembly intends to
3 47 move forward to allow consideration by the people of
3 48 Iowa of an amendment to add Iowa's state general fund
3 49 expenditure limitation law to the Constitution of the
3 50 State of Iowa.>
4 1 #6. By renumbering as necessary.
RANDY FEENSTRA
SF2088.409 (3) 83
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