House File 729 H-1355 Amend House File 729 as follows: 1 1. Page 2, after line 35 by inserting: 2 < Sec. ___. Section 257.11B, subsection 5, unnumbered 3 paragraph 1, as enacted by 2023 Iowa Acts, House File 68, 4 section 7, is amended to read as follows: 5 An education savings account fund is created in the state 6 treasury under the control of the department of education 7 consisting of moneys appropriated to the department of 8 education for the purpose of providing education savings 9 account payments under this section. For the fiscal year 10 commencing July 1, 2023, and each succeeding fiscal year, 11 there is appropriated from the general fund of the state 12 to the department of education to be credited to the fund 13 the amount necessary to pay all education savings account 14 payments approved for that fiscal year. The director of the 15 department of education has all powers necessary to carry 16 out and effectuate the purposes, objectives, and provisions 17 of this section pertaining to the fund, subject to funding 18 availability, including the power to do all of the following: > 19 2. By renumbering as necessary. 20 ______________________________ BUCK of Polk -1- HF 729.2195 (4) 90 ns/jh 1/ 1 #1. #2.