H-8279

   Amend House File 2575 as follows:
   1.  Page 33, after line 6 by inserting: 
<DIVISION ___
IOWA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

   Sec. ___.  Section 456.5A, subsection 2, Code 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Not later than January 10, 2022, and not later than January 10 of each subsequent five-year period, the state geologist shall publish a new long-range budget plan for the next planning period. The long-range budget plan shall describe how moneys appropriated, expected to the be appropriated, or otherwise available or expected to be available to the Iowa geological survey for each fiscal year of that planning period are to be expended in a manner that best allows the Iowa geological survey to exercise its powers and carry out its duties or functions. The long-range budget plan shall include any performance goals and measures required by law or established by the state geologist. The state geologist shall annually evaluate the Iowa geological survey’s progress in attaining those performance goals and shall revise the long-term budget plan as the state geologist determines necessary or desirable.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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KERR of Louisa