House File 820 - Reprinted
HOUSE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
(SUCCESSOR TO HF 731)
(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 187)
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act concerning state liquor activities, including liquor
2 prices set by the alcoholic beverages division, moneys
3 appropriated from liquor sale revenues for substance abuse
4 treatment, and state liquor warehouse and trucking operations
5 and providing an effective date.
6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 1 Section 1. Section 123.24, subsection 1, Code 2005, is
1 2 amended to read as follows:
1 3 1. The division shall sell alcoholic liquor at wholesale
1 4 only. The division shall sell alcoholic liquor to class "E"
1 5 liquor control licensees only. The division shall offer the
1 6 same price on alcoholic liquor to all class "E" liquor control
1 7 licensees without regard for the quantity of purchase or the
1 8 distance for delivery. However, the division may assess a
1 9 split=case charge when liquor is sold in quantities which
1 10 require a case to be split. A class "E" liquor control
1 11 licensee may purchase alcoholic liquor from the division and
1 12 pickup or contract for the pickup of the liquor purchased.
1 13 Sec. 2. Section 123.53, subsection 3, Code 2005, is
1 14 amended to read as follows:
1 15 3. The treasurer of state shall transfer into a special
1 16 revenue account in the general fund of the state, a sum of
1 17 money at least equal to seven percent of the gross amount of
1 18 sales made by the division from the beer and liquor control
1 19 fund on a monthly basis but not less than nine million dollars
1 20 annually, and any amounts so. Of the amounts transferred, two
1 21 million dollars, plus an additional amount determined by the
1 22 general assembly, shall be used by appropriated to the
1 23 substance abuse division of the Iowa department of public
1 24 health to be used for substance abuse treatment and prevention
1 25 programs in an amount determined by the general assembly and
1 26 any. Any amounts received in excess of the amounts
1 27 appropriated to the substance abuse division of the Iowa
1 28 department of public health shall be considered part of the
1 29 general fund balance.
1 30 Sec. 3. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DIVISION == STATE LIQUOR
1 31 WAREHOUSE AND TRUCKING FUNCTIONS. Notwithstanding sections
1 32 7J.1 and 123.20, subsection 4, and any other applicable
1 33 provision of law, the alcoholic beverages division of the
1 34 department of commerce shall not employ or add full=time
1 35 equivalent positions for purposes of the state assuming the
2 1 state liquor warehouse and trucking functions performed by a
2 2 private contractor as of April 1, 2004. The department of
2 3 administrative services shall issue a request for proposals or
2 4 otherwise utilize a competitive process to select a successor
2 5 contractor to perform the state liquor warehouse and trucking
2 6 functions. The request for proposals or competitive process
2 7 shall be issued or commenced as soon as is reasonably possible
2 8 and a replacement for the private contractor which was in
2 9 place April 1, 2004, shall be selected no later than December
2 10 31, 2005. The request for proposals to perform state liquor
2 11 warehouse functions shall require bidders to include in their
2 12 bid the manner in which the bidder will maximize the
2 13 utilization of current state liquor warehouse infrastructure.
2 14 The division may submit a bid in response to a request for
2 15 proposals issued pursuant to this section. If the division
2 16 submits a bid, the division shall include in the bid the cost
2 17 of labor to perform the contract which shall be calculated by
2 18 using the cost of hiring full=time equivalent positions to
2 19 perform the contract pursuant to state pay grade
2 20 classifications and benefits as outlined in the most recent
2 21 collective bargaining agreement applicable to other employees
2 22 of the division.
2 23 Sec. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. The section of this Act amending
2 24 section 123.53 takes effect July 1, 2006.
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