House File 203 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  PETTENGILL


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for the allocation of moneys appropriated to the
  2    Iowa resources enhancement and protection fund.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2069HH 83
  5 da/nh/24

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 455A.19, subsection 1, paragraph a,
  1  2 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2009, is amended to read as
  1  3 follows:
  1  4    Twenty=eight Twenty percent shall be allocated to the open
  1  5 spaces account.  At least ten percent of the allocations to
  1  6 the account shall be made available to match private funds for
  1  7 open space projects on the cost=share basis of not less than
  1  8 twenty=five percent private funds pursuant to the rules
  1  9 adopted by the natural resource commission.  Five percent of
  1 10 the funds allocated to the open spaces account shall be used
  1 11 to fund the protected waters program.  This account shall be
  1 12 used by the department to implement the statewide open space
  1 13 acquisition, protection, and development programs.
  1 14    Sec. 2.  Section 455A.19, subsection 1, paragraph e, Code
  1 15 2009, is amended to read as follows:
  1 16    e.  Nine Seventeen percent shall be allocated to the state
  1 17 land management account.  The department shall use the moneys
  1 18 allocated to this account for maintenance and expansion of
  1 19 state lands and related facilities under its jurisdiction.
  1 20 The authority to expand state lands and facilities under this
  1 21 paragraph is limited to expansion of the state lands and
  1 22 facilities already owned by the state.  There is appropriated
  1 23 from the state land management account to the department the
  1 24 moneys in that account, or so much thereof as is necessary, to
  1 25 implement a maintenance and expansion program for state lands
  1 26 and related facilities under the jurisdiction of the
  1 27 department.
  1 28                           EXPLANATION
  1 29    This bill changes the annual allocation of moneys
  1 30 appropriated from the Iowa resources enhancement and
  1 31 protection fund to various accounts and other funds.  The fund
  1 32 is appropriated $20 million per year from the general fund
  1 33 until the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021.  The bill
  1 34 decreases the amount allocated to the open spaces account from
  1 35 28 to 20 percent and increases the amount allocated to the
  2  1 state land management account from 9 to 17 percent.  The open
  2  2 spaces account is used by the department of natural resources
  2  3 to implement statewide open space acquisition, protection, and
  2  4 development programs.  The state land management account is
  2  5 used by the department for the maintenance and expansion of
  2  6 state lands and related facilities.
  2  7    Currently the Iowa resources enhancement and protection
  2  8 fund allocates 28 percent to the open spaces account, 20
  2  9 percent to the county conservation account, 20 percent to the
  2 10 soil and water enhancement account, 15 percent to the cities'
  2 11 parks and open space account, 9 percent to the state land
  2 12 management account, 5 percent to the historical resource grant
  2 13 and loan fund, and 3 percent to the living roadway account for
  2 14 distribution to the living roadway trust fund.
  2 15 LSB 2069HH 83
  2 16 da/nh/24