Senate Study Bill 1149 



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            VETERANS AFFAIRS BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON BEALL)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act making appropriations to the department of veterans
  2    affairs for the Iowa veterans home and providing an effective
  3    date.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1266SC 83
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  1  1    Section 1.  DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.  After applying
  1  2 the reduction made pursuant to executive order number 10
  1  3 issued December 22, 2008, and any appropriation reduction
  1  4 required by law to the appropriations made for the following
  1  5 designated purposes, there is appropriated from the general
  1  6 fund of the state to the department of veterans affairs for
  1  7 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2008, and ending June 30,
  1  8 2009, the following amount, or so much thereof as is
  1  9 necessary, to supplement the appropriation made for the
  1 10 following designated purpose:
  1 11    For the Iowa veterans home in 2008 Iowa Acts, chapter 1187,
  1 12 section 4, subsection 2:
  1 13 .................................................. $    556,862
  1 14    Sec. 2.  IOWA VETERANS HOME CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
  1 15 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.  There is appropriated from the rebuild
  1 16 Iowa infrastructure fund to the department of veterans affairs
  1 17 for the designated fiscal years, the following amounts, or so
  1 18 much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
  1 19 designated:
  1 20    For matching funds for the construction of resident living
  1 21 areas at the Iowa veterans home and related improvements
  1 22 associated with the Iowa veterans home comprehensive plan:
  1 23    1.  Phase II == 2008=2009:
  1 24 .................................................. $  5,107,515
  1 25    2.  Phase III == 2009=2010:
  1 26 .................................................. $  6,802,621
  1 27    3.  Phase IV == 2010=2011:
  1 28 .................................................. $  8,645,193
  1 29    In accordance with section 8.33, moneys appropriated for
  1 30 capital expenditures in this section that remain unencumbered
  1 31 or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not
  1 32 revert until the projects for which the moneys are
  1 33 appropriated are completed.  Unencumbered or unobligated
  1 34 moneys shall revert at the close of the fiscal year in which
  1 35 the projects for which the moneys are appropriated are
  2  1 completed.
  2  2    Sec. 3.  2008 Iowa Acts, chapter 1179, section 18,
  2  3 subsection 9, paragraph a, is amended by striking the
  2  4 paragraph.
  2  5    Sec. 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  2  6 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  2  7                           EXPLANATION
  2  8    This bill makes appropriations to the department of
  2  9 veterans affairs for the Iowa veterans home.
  2 10    The bill makes a supplemental appropriation from the
  2 11 general fund of the state to restore the FY 2008=2009 Iowa
  2 12 veterans home appropriation reduction made pursuant to the
  2 13 governor's executive order number 10 issued on December 22,
  2 14 2008, and any other appropriation reduction required by law.
  2 15    The bill makes appropriations for three fiscal years from
  2 16 the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund for matching funds for
  2 17 phases II, III, and IV of the construction of resident living
  2 18 areas at the Iowa veterans home and related improvements
  2 19 associated with the Iowa veterans home comprehensive plan.
  2 20 These appropriations total an equal amount and replace the
  2 21 infrastructure appropriation in 2008 legislation stricken by
  2 22 the bill.
  2 23    A provision of 2008 Iowa Acts, chapter 1179, section 18,
  2 24 subsection 9, paragraph "a", is stricken.  The funding source
  2 25 for the stricken provision was the FY 2009 tax=exempt bond
  2 26 proceeds restricted capital funds account of the tobacco
  2 27 settlement trust fund.
  2 28    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
  2 29 LSB 1266SC 83
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