House File 2359 - Enrolled

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AN ACT

HOUSE FILE 2359

1	4 CONCERNING VETERANS, INCLUDING EXPENDITURES FROM THE VETERANS
1	5	TRUST FUND AND AUTHORIZATION OF LOTTERY GAMES FOR VETERANS.
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1	7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1	9	Section 1.	Section 35A.13, subsection 5, Code Supplement
1 10 2007, is amended to read as follows:
1 11	5.	The minimum balance of the trust fund required prior to
1 12 expenditure of moneys from the trust fund is fifty million
  1 13 dollars.  However, for the fiscal period beginning July 1,
  1 14 2006, and ending June 30, 2009, the minimum balance of the
  1 15 trust fund required prior to expenditure of moneys from the
  1 16 trust fund is five million dollars.	Once the minimum balance
1 17 is reached, the interest and earnings on the fund and any
1 18 moneys received under subsection 3, paragraph "a", are
1 19 appropriated to the commission to be used to achieve the
1 20 purposes of this section.	It is the intent of the general
  1 21 assembly that the balance in the trust fund reach fifty
  1 22 million dollars.
1 23	Sec. 2.	NEW SECTION.	99G.9A	LIMITED SERIES OF LOTTERY
1 24 GAMES PROVIDING AID FOR VETERANS.
1 25	The chief executive officer, in consultation with the
1 26 board, shall develop and conduct two additional instant
1 27 scratch and two additional pull tab lottery games annually to
1 28 provide moneys for the benefit of veterans and their spouses
1 29 and dependents.	The moneys received from the sale of tickets
1 30 for each lottery game shall be deposited in a special account
1 31 in the lottery fund.	Notwithstanding section 99G.39, after
1 32 payment of the prizes, the remaining moneys shall be
1 33 transferred to the veterans trust fund established pursuant to
1 34 section 35A.13.	However, if the balance of the veterans trust
35 fund is fifty million dollars or more, the remaining moneys
1 shall be appropriated to the department of revenue for
2	2 distribution to county directors of veteran affairs, with
2	3 fifty percent of the money to be distributed equally to each
2	4 county and fifty percent of the money to be distributed to
2	5 each county based upon the population of veterans in the
2	6 county, so long as the money distributed to a county does not
2	7 supplant money appropriated by that county for the county
2	8 director of veteran affairs.
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2 12	PATRICK J. MURPHY
2 13	Speaker of the House
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2 17	JOHN P. KIBBIE
2 18	President of the Senate
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2 20	I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
2 21 is known as House File 2359, Eighty=second General Assembly. 2 22
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2 25	MARK BRANDSGARD
2 26	Chief Clerk of the House
2 27 Approved	, 2008
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2 31 CHESTER J. CULVER
2 32 Governor