SENATE FILE _____

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS BILL BY CHAIRPERSON DVORSKY)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the administration of the Iowa finance authority and making appropriations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  IOWA FINANCE AUTHORITY.
   1.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the Iowa finance authority for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2012, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used to provide reimbursement for rent expenses to eligible persons under the rent subsidy program:
.................................................. $    658,000
   2.  Participation in the rent subsidy program shall be limited to only those persons who meet the requirements for the nursing facility level of care for home and community-based services waiver services as in effect on July 1, 2011, and to those individuals who are eligible for the federal money follows the person grant program under the medical assistance program. Of the moneys appropriated in this section, not more than $35,000 may be used for administrative costs.
   Sec. 2.  IOWA FINANCE AUTHORITY AUDIT.  The auditor of state is requested to review the audit of the Iowa finance authority performed by the auditor hired by the authority.
   Sec. 3.  Section 16.41, subsection 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A shelter assistance fund is created as a revolving fund in the state treasury under the control of the authority consisting of any moneys appropriated by the general assembly and received under section 428A.8 for purposes of the rehabilitation, expansion, or costs of operations of group home shelters for the homeless and domestic violence shelters, evaluation of services for the homeless, and match moneys for federal funds for the homeless management information system. Each fiscal year, moneys in the fund, in an amount equal to not more than two percent of the total moneys distributed as grants from the fund during the fiscal year, may be used for purposes of administering the fund.
EXPLANATION
   This bill appropriates $658,000 to the Iowa finance authority for purposes of providing reimbursement for rent expenses under the rent subsidy program.
   The bill requests the auditor of state to review the audit of the Iowa finance authority performed by the auditor hired by the authority.
   The bill allows the Iowa finance authority to use up to 2 percent of the moneys distributed from the shelter assistance fund each fiscal year for purposes of administering the fund.