SENATE FILE 2138

BY  COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

(SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3127)

A BILL FOR

An Act making appropriations to the commission of veterans affairs for the provision of veterans services, and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 35A.13, subsection 4, Code Supplement 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  The minimum balance of the trust fund required prior to expenditure of moneys from the trust fund is five million dollars. Once the minimum balance is reached, the interest and earnings on the fund and any moneys received under subsection 2, paragraph “a”,
 
the first three hundred thousand dollars transferred each fiscal year pursuant to section 99G.9A from the lottery fund to the trust fund are appropriated to the commission to be used to achieve the purposes of this section.

Moneys appropriated to the commission that remain unobligated or unexpended at the end of each fiscal year shall revert to the trust fund. It is the intent of the general assembly that the balance in the trust fund reach fifty million dollars.
    Sec. 2.  COMMISSION OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.  There is appropriated from the veterans trust fund, created in section 35A.13, to the commission of veterans affairs for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2012, to be used for the purposes stated in section 35A.13, subsection 6, the following amount:
.................................................. $    300,000
    Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  The following provision or provisions of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, take effect upon enactment:
   1.  The section of this Act making an appropriation to the commission of veterans affairs for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011.
EXPLANATION
   This bill makes appropriations from the veterans trust fund to the commission of veterans affairs to be used for the provision of veterans services.
   Current law provides for the appropriation of the interest and earnings from the veterans trust fund and certain other moneys received in the trust fund pursuant to Code section 35A.13(2)(a) to the commission. The bill removes the language appropriating moneys pursuant to Code section 35A.13(2)(a), but appropriates the first $300,000 that is transferred into the trust fund each fiscal year from the lottery fund pursuant to Code section 99G.9A, to the commission for the provision of such in veterans services. 
   The bill requires that moneys appropriated to the commission that remain unobligated or unexpended at the end of each fiscal year shall revert to the veterans trust fund.
   The bill also provides for a one-time appropriation of $300,000 from the trust fund to the commission for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2012, in order to provide certain veterans services pursuant to Code section 35A.13(6). The section of the bill appropriating moneys to the commission for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2012, is effective upon enactment.