H-1200

   Amend House File 754 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  IOWA EVICTION AND FORECLOSURE PREVENTION PROGRAM.
   1.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the Iowa finance authority for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
   For the Iowa eviction and foreclosure prevention program:
   ...................................................................... $ 50,000,000

   The Iowa eviction and foreclosure prevention program shall be extended through June 30, 2022.
   2.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.
   Sec. 2.  TEMPORARY HALT ON RESIDENTIAL EVICTIONS.  The temporary halt in residential evictions to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 as ordered by the centers for disease control of the United States department of health and human services on September 4, 2020, and as extended until January 31, 2021, by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Pub. L. No. 116-260, §502, shall continue to be applied to residential evictions in this state through January 31, 2022.
   Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 and 2 and inserting <An Act making an appropriation to the Iowa finance authority for the Iowa eviction and foreclosure prevention program, extending the temporary halt on residential evictions, and including effective date provisions.>

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HUNTER of Polk