SF 2021 (LSB 5056XS (4) 86)

SENATE FILE 2021

BY  CHELGREN and COSTELLO

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to licensing fees collected by the board of educational examiners and credited to the general fund of the state.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 272.10, subsection 2, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Licensing fees are payable to the treasurer of state and shall be deposited with the executive director of the board. The executive director shall deposit twenty-five ten percent of the fees collected annually with the treasurer of state and the fees shall be credited to the general fund of the state. The remaining licensing fees collected during the fiscal year shall be retained by and are appropriated to the board for the purposes related to the board’s duties. Notwithstanding section 8.33, licensing fees retained by and appropriated to the board pursuant to this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the activities of the board as provided in this chapter until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill reduces, from 25 percent to 10 percent, the amount of the licensing fees which the executive director of the board of educational examiners is required to deposit with the treasurer of state to be credited to the general fund of the state.