House File 704 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY FORD Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act making an appropriation for substance abuse treatment and 2 prevention and including effective date and retroactive 3 applicability provisions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 2686YH 82 6 jp/es/88 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. 2006 Iowa Acts, chapter 1185, section 4, 1 2 subsection 1, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. For substance abuse treatment and prevention under 1 4 section 123.53, subsection 3: 1 5 .................................................. $01 6 9,000,000 1 7 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE == RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. This 1 8 Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon 1 9 enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2006. 1 10 EXPLANATION 1 11 This bill provides an appropriation for substance abuse 1 12 treatment and prevention for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1 13 2006. 1 14 Under current law in Code section 123.53, 7 percent of the 1 15 gross receipts from the sale of liquor by the alcoholic 1 16 beverages division of the department of commerce and from 1 17 permit and license fees is set aside in a separate account. 1 18 The actual amount from that percentage set aside is required 1 19 to be at least $2 million but not more than $9 million and the 1 20 remainder is credited to the general fund of the state. The 1 21 separate account is designated for annual appropriation to the 1 22 department of public health for substance abuse treatment and 1 23 prevention in an amount to be determined by the general 1 24 assembly. 1 25 In 2006 Iowa Acts, chapter 1185, the amount designated for 1 26 appropriation by the general assembly for purposes of the 1 27 special account was zero. The bill changes the zero amount to 1 28 $9 million and this change is made retroactive to July 1, 1 29 2006. The bill takes effect upon enactment. 1 30 LSB 2686YH 82 1 31 jp:rj/es/88