Senate Study Bill 3106 - Introduced SENATE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS BILL BY CHAIRPERSON DVORSKY) A BILL FOR An Act creating a statewide land mobile radio communications 1 system fund, making an appropriation, and including 2 effective date provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5528XC (14) 86 rn/rj
S.F. _____ Section 1. NEW SECTION . 29C.24 Statewide land mobile radio 1 communications system fund created. 2 1. A statewide land mobile radio communications system 3 fund is created in the state treasury under the control of 4 the department. Moneys in the fund are appropriated to the 5 department for operation of a statewide land mobile radio 6 communications system to be administered by the department 7 in coordination with the department of public safety and the 8 department of transportation. 9 2. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest 10 or earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the 11 fund and shall be used for costs associated with construction 12 of the statewide land mobile radio communications system. 13 Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys credited to the fund that 14 remain unexpended or unobligated at the end of a fiscal year 15 through the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 16 30, 2022, shall not revert to any other fund. 17 Sec. 2. STATEWIDE LAND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM 18 APPROPRIATION. There is appropriated from the general fund 19 of the state for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and 20 ending June 30, 2016, the following amount, or so much thereof 21 as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated: 22 For deposit in the statewide land mobile radio 23 communications system fund created in section 29C.24: 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 20,371,298 25 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT. This Act, being deemed of 26 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 27 EXPLANATION 28 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 29 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 30 This bill creates a statewide land mobile radio 31 communications system fund in the state treasury under the 32 control of the department of homeland security and emergency 33 management. The bill specifies that moneys in the fund are 34 appropriated to the department for operation of a statewide 35 -1- LSB 5528XC (14) 86 rn/rj 1/ 2
S.F. _____ land mobile radio communications system to be administered by 1 the department in coordination with the departments of public 2 safety and transportation. The bill provides that interest or 3 earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund, 4 and used for costs associated with construction of the system. 5 The bill provides that moneys credited to the fund that remain 6 unexpended or unobligated at the end of a fiscal year through 7 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 8 2022, shall not revert to any other fund. 9 The bill appropriates $20,371,298 from the general fund 10 of the state for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and 11 ending June 30, 2016, for deposit in the statewide land mobile 12 radio communications system fund. 13 The bill takes effect upon enactment. 14 -2- LSB 5528XC (14) 86 rn/rj 2/ 2