SF 2231 (LSB 5136SV (1) 86)

SENATE FILE 2231

BY  COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

(SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3039)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to disaster aid payment authorization requirements under specified circumstances.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 7D.29, subsection 2, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  a.  At least two weeks prior to the executive council’s approval of a payment authorization under this section, the secretary of the executive council shall notify the legislative services agency that the authorization request will be considered by the executive council and shall provide background information justifying the request.
   b.  The notification requirement specified in paragraph “a” is not applicable to a request for the expenditure of disaster aid individual assistance grant funds pursuant to section 29C.20A.
    Sec. 2.  Section 29C.20, subsection 1, paragraph a, subparagraph (5), Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   (5)  Paying the expenses incurred by and claims of a homeland security and emergency response team when acting under the authority of section 29C.8, and public health response teams when acting under the provisions of section 135.143, and a party state rendering assistance under the provisions of section 29C.21.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to requirements applicable to authorizing the payment of specified forms of disaster aid.
   Code section 7D.29 requires the secretary of the executive council to notify the legislative services agency of a payment authorization request at least two weeks prior to the executive council’s approval of the request. The bill creates an exception to this notification requirement for requests for the expenditure of disaster aid individual assistance grant funds pursuant to Code section 29C.20A.
   The bill also provides that disaster aid moneys contained in the contingent fund established in Code section 29C.20 may be expended for an additional purpose of reimbursing a party state for rendering disaster-related assistance according to the provisions of the emergency management assistance compact established in Code section 29C.21.