H-1346

   Amend House File 725 as follows:
   1.  Page 2, line 16, by striking <111.35> and inserting <112.50>
   2.  Page 10, after line 12 by inserting: 
   <4.  WORKPLACE INJURY AND SAFETY SURVEYS
   For the operation of workplace safety surveys and workplace data collection and analysis, including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the following full-time equivalent positions:
   ...................................................................... $    125,555

   ............................................................... FTEs            3.00>
   3.  Page 10, line 13, by striking <4.> and inserting <5.>
   4.  Page 10, line 20, by striking <5.> and inserting <6.>
   5.  Page 11, line 12, by striking <6.> and inserting <7.>
   6.  Page 11, line 24, by striking <7.> and inserting <8.>
   7.  Page 21, by striking lines 14 through 27 and inserting: 
<DIVISION ___
HOUSING RENEWAL PILOT PROGRAM

   Sec. ___.  2022 Iowa Acts, chapter 1148, section 20, is amended to read as follows:
   SEC. 20.  HOUSING RENEWAL PILOT PROGRAM.
   1.  For purposes of this section, “nonprofit Iowa affiliate” means a nonprofit Iowa affiliate of a nonprofit international organization whose primary activity is the promotion of the construction, remodeling, or rehabilitation of one-family or two-family dwellings for use by low-income families.
   2.  a.  A housing renewal program fund is created in the state treasury under the control of the Iowa finance authority. The fund shall consist of moneys appropriated to or deposited in the fund. Moneys in the fund are appropriated to the Iowa finance authority to establish and administer a housing renewal pilot program.
   b.  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023, there is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the Iowa finance authority five hundred thousand dollars for deposit in the housing renewal program fund.
   c.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the fund 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.
   c.  d.  Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys in the housing renewal program fund shall be credited to the fund. Payment of interest, recaptures of grant financial assistance awards, and other repayments under the housing renewal pilot program shall be deposited in the fund.
   3.  a.  The Iowa finance authority shall provide moneys from the housing renewal program fund to a nonprofit Iowa affiliate that shall use the moneys to award grants financial assistance under the housing renewal pilot program to eligible participants. 
   b.  Eligible participants under paragraph “a” shall use a grant financial assistance awarded under the housing renewal pilot program only for purposes of the acquisition, rehabilitation, and resale of ownership units; the acquisition and demolition of blighted structures; and the redevelopment of ownership units.
   4.  Twenty-five percent of moneys appropriated to the housing renewal program fund shall be allocated to rural communities financial assistance awards for eligible participants located in the eighty-eight least populated counties in the state.
   5.  a.  The nonprofit Iowa affiliate may partner with a city, a county, a consortium of local governments, or an organization exempt from taxation pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; however, the shall select the eligible participants to be awarded financial assistance. Eligible participants include cities, counties, consortiums of local governments, or organizations exempt from taxation pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The nonprofit Iowa affiliate shall determine the geographic location of all projects for which a grant financial assistance is awarded.
   b.  The nonprofit Iowa affiliate shall not award a grantee an eligible participant more than one hundred thousand dollars per ownership unit. A grantee The nonprofit Iowa affiliate may use up to five percent of a grant the moneys appropriated in subsection 2, paragraph “b”, for administration expenses related to the grantee’s project housing renewal pilot program.
   c.  (1)  A grantee An eligible participant shall have a maximum of thirty-six months from the date a contract is executed between the nonprofit Iowa affiliate and the grantee eligible participant for the grantee’s eligible participant to complete the eligible participant’s project. The grantee’s eligible participant’s project shall be considered complete when all grant funds financial assistance awarded to the grantee have eligible participant has been expended, and all ownership units that are covered by the contract are finished and available for sale.
   (2)  If a grantee Unless the nonprofit Iowa affiliate authorizes additional time for good cause shown, if an eligible participant has no project activity within thirty-six twelve months from the date a contract is executed between the nonprofit Iowa affiliate and the grantee eligible participant, the grant financial assistance award shall be returned to the Iowa finance authority for deposit in the housing renewal program fund nonprofit Iowa affiliate for the purpose of awarding financial assistance to other eligible participants selected by the nonprofit Iowa affiliate.
   d.  A grantee An eligible participant shall sell each completed ownership unit to a homebuyer whose income is under the one hundred twenty percent area median income and who must occupy the ownership unit as the homebuyer’s primary residence. The deed to the ownership unit must contain a restrictive resale requirement that prohibits the homebuyer or a subsequent owner from selling the ownership unit to a person with an income above the one hundred twenty percent area median income for five calendar years from the date the grantee eligible participant sold the ownership unit to the first homebuyer whose income is under the one hundred twenty percent area median income.
   6.  A grantee may use income generated from the sale of an ownership unit The net profit received by an eligible participant from the sale of a completed ownership unit to a homebuyer under subsection 5, paragraph “d”, shall be remitted to the nonprofit Iowa affiliate. The nonprofit Iowa affiliate shall use the net profit received only for the purpose of additional eligible expenses awarding financial assistance to eligible participants under the housing renewal pilot program.
   7.  The Iowa finance authority shall not use more than five percent of moneys allocated appropriated to the housing renewal program fund for administration and oversight of the housing renewal pilot program.
   8.  The Iowa finance authority shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to administer this division.
   9.  8.  The Iowa finance authority, in coordination with the nonprofit Iowa affiliate, shall submit a report to the general assembly on or before December 31, 2023 2024, describing the community, economic, and financial impact of the housing renewal pilot program.
   9.  This section is repealed July 1, 2025.
DIVISION ___
REGIONAL INDUSTRY SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS —— RULES

   Sec. ___.  Section 260H.7B, Code 2023, as amended by 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 514, section 2195, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  3.  The department of workforce development shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to implement this section.>
   8.  Title page, by striking lines 6 through 9 and inserting <certain regents institutions, and by modifying the housing renewal pilot program and provisions related to regional industry sector partnerships, the apprenticeship training program, and new jobs training agreements.>
   9.  By renumbering as necessary.

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GRABER of Lee