House Study Bill 159 



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            EDUCATION BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON WENDT)


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to licensing fees retained by the board of
  2    educational examiners and providing an effective date.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2132HC 83
  5 kh/rj/8

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 272.10, subsection 2, Code 2009, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  Licensing fees are payable to the treasurer of state
  1  4 and shall be deposited with the executive director of the
  1  5 board.  The executive director shall deposit twenty=five
  1  6 percent of the fees collected annually with the treasurer of
  1  7 state and the fees shall be credited to the general fund of
  1  8 the state.  The remaining licensing fees collected during the
  1  9 fiscal year shall be retained by and are appropriated to the
  1 10 board for the purposes related to the board's duties.
  1 11 Notwithstanding section 8.33, up to five hundred thousand
  1 12 dollars of the licensing fees retained by and appropriated to
  1 13 the board pursuant to this section that remain unencumbered or
  1 14 unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert
  1 15 but shall remain available for expenditure for the activities
  1 16 of the board as provided in this chapter until the close of
  1 17 the succeeding fiscal year.
  1 18    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 19 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 20                           EXPLANATION
  1 21    This bill limits to $500,000 the amount of licensing fees
  1 22 collected and retained by, and appropriated to, the board of
  1 23 educational examiners that the board may carry over to the
  1 24 succeeding fiscal year for expenditure for the activities of
  1 25 the board.
  1 26    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
  1 27 LSB 2132HC 83
  1 28 kh/rj/8