S-3106

   Amend Senate File 619 as follows:
   1.  By striking page 89, line 6, through page 90, line 1, and inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 8.55, subsection 3, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  f.  (1)  It is the intent of the general assembly for this paragraph to enable the executive branch to react to disasters impacting this state, including the ability to protect citizens, safeguard property, ensure safety, and provide for economic stability during disaster emergencies.
   (2)  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, there is appropriated from the Iowa economic emergency fund to the department of management ten percent of the maximum balance of the Iowa economic emergency fund as calculated for the immediately preceding fiscal year, to be used for disaster response, disaster recovery activities, or disaster aid to citizens. For purposes of this subparagraph, “disaster response, disaster recovery activities, or disaster aid to citizens” includes any of the following:
   (a)  Disaster aid provided to businesses engaged in disaster recovery as described in chapter 15, subchapter II, part 13, and housing businesses engaged in disaster recovery housing projects as defined in section 15.354, subsection 6.
   (b)  Disaster recovery housing assistance provided under chapter 16, subchapter VII, part 6.
   (c)  Support for programs under chapter 29C, including support for the director of the department of homeland security and emergency management in executing the director’s powers and duties under section 29C.8.
   (d)  Support for any other program through which disaster response, recovery activities, or aid is effected, provided the program is not inconsistent with the intent set forth in this paragraph. 
   (3)  The department of management’s disbursements of moneys appropriated to the department under this paragraph are contingent upon all of the following:
   (a)  The issuance of a proclamation of disaster emergency by the governor under section 29C.6, which proclamation covers the disaster for which the moneys will be used.
   (b)  The disbursement occurs at the direction of the governor, with the approval of the executive council, pursuant to section 29C.6, subsection 18.
   (4)  Subject to the approval of the governor, the department of management may provide for an interdepartmental transfer of moneys appropriated in this paragraph to another department or establishment for the purposes specified in this paragraph, subject to the notification and reporting requirements set forth in section 8.39, subsections 4 and 5, but notwithstanding the other limitations and requirements of section 8.39. Disbursements by the department of management under this paragraph to another department or establishment shall not be counted in calculating the aggregate amount of intradepartmental and interdepartmental transfers under section 8.39, subsection 3. 
   (5)  Moneys appropriated in this paragraph shall not supplant other appropriated moneys.
   (6)  (a)  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys disbursed by the department of management under this paragraph to another department or establishment shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of the succeeding fiscal year, at which time the moneys shall revert to the Iowa economic emergency fund.
   (b)  Moneys not disbursed as described in subparagraph division (a) shall revert to the Iowa economic emergency fund at the close of the fiscal year for which the moneys were appropriated, as required under section 8.33.
   Sec. ___.  Section 29C.6, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  18.  Direct the disbursement of moneys by the department of management under section 8.55, subsection 3, paragraph “f”, with the approval of the executive council.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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MIKE BOUSSELOT