House File 2100 HOUSE FILE BY HUTTER Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to the allocation of motor vehicle use tax 2 revenues and creating an Iowa state patrol fund. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5793HH 80 5 dea/gg/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 80.41 IOWA STATE PATROL FUND. 1 2 1. An Iowa state patrol fund is created as a separate fund 1 3 in the state treasury under the control of the department of 1 4 revenue. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, 1 5 interest and other moneys earned by the fund shall be 1 6 deposited in the fund. The fund shall include moneys credited 1 7 from the use tax as allocated under section 423.43, subsection 1 8 2. 1 9 2. Moneys credited to the fund shall be expended, pursuant 1 10 to appropriations made from the fund by the general assembly, 1 11 by the division of the Iowa state patrol of the department of 1 12 public safety for salaries, including salary adjustment 1 13 moneys, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, 1 14 including workers' compensation expenses and the state's 1 15 contribution to the peace officers' retirement, accident, and 1 16 disability system provided in chapter 97A. 1 17 3. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys credited to the 1 18 fund which remain unobligated or unexpended at the close of a 1 19 fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund of the state 1 20 but shall be credited to the Iowa state patrol fund. 1 21 Sec. 2. Section 423.43, subsection 2, as enacted by 2003 1 22 Iowa Acts, First Extraordinary Session, chapter 2, section 1 23 136, is amended to read as follows: 1 24 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section 1 25 that provides that all revenue derived from the use tax on 1 26 motor vehicles, trailers, and motor vehicle accessories and 1 27 equipment as collected pursuant to section 423.26 shall be 1 28 deposited and credited to the road use tax fund, twenty 1 29 percent of the revenues shall be credited and deposited as 1 30 follows: one=half to the road use tax fund and one=half to 1 31 the primary road fund to be used for the commercial and 1 32 industrial highway network, except to the extent that the 1 33 department directs that moneys are deposited in the Iowa state 1 34 patrol fund created in section 80.41 to fund the 1 35 appropriations made from the Iowa state patrol fund in 2 1 accordance with section 80.41. The department shall determine 2 2 the amount of moneys to be credited under this subsection to 2 3 the Iowa state patrol fund and shall deposit that amount into 2 4 the Iowa state patrol fund. 2 5 EXPLANATION 2 6 This bill creates an Iowa state patrol fund in the state 2 7 treasury under the control of the department of revenue. 2 8 Moneys in the fund are to be spent by the Iowa state patrol 2 9 division of the department of public safety for salaries, 2 10 workers' compensation expenses, and the state's contribution 2 11 to the peace officers' retirement, accident, and disability 2 12 system, subject to appropriation by the general assembly. 2 13 The bill provides that in order to fund appropriations from 2 14 the Iowa state patrol fund, the department of revenue may 2 15 direct that moneys from the portion of use taxes collected on 2 16 motor vehicles, trailers, and motor vehicle accessories and 2 17 allocated for the commercial and industrial highway network be 2 18 deposited into the Iowa state patrol fund. 2 19 LSB 5793HH 80 2 20 dea/gg/14