House File 2359 - Reprinted



                                    HOUSE FILE       
                                    BY  COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

                                    (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2158)


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act concerning veterans, including expenditures from the
  2    veterans trust fund and authorization of lottery games for
  3    veterans.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 5941HV 82
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PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 35A.13, subsection 5, Code Supplement
  1  2 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    5.  The minimum balance of the trust fund required prior to
  1  4 expenditure of moneys from the trust fund is fifty million
  1  5 dollars.  However, for the fiscal period beginning July 1,
  1  6 2006, and ending June 30, 2009, the minimum balance of the
  1  7 trust fund required prior to expenditure of moneys from the
  1  8 trust fund is five million dollars.  Once the minimum balance
  1  9 is reached, the interest and earnings on the fund and any
  1 10 moneys received under subsection 3, paragraph "a", are
  1 11 appropriated to the commission to be used to achieve the
  1 12 purposes of this section.  It is the intent of the general
  1 13 assembly that the balance in the trust fund reach fifty
  1 14 million dollars.
  1 15    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  99G.9A  LIMITED SERIES OF LOTTERY
  1 16 GAMES PROVIDING AID FOR VETERANS.
  1 17    The chief executive officer, in consultation with the
  1 18 board, shall develop and conduct two additional instant
  1 19 scratch and two additional pull tab lottery games annually to
  1 20 provide moneys for the benefit of veterans and their spouses
  1 21 and dependents.  The moneys received from the sale of tickets
  1 22 for each lottery game shall be deposited in a special account
  1 23 in the lottery fund.  Notwithstanding section 99G.39, after
  1 24 payment of the prizes, the remaining moneys shall be
  1 25 transferred to the veterans trust fund established pursuant to
  1 26 section 35A.13.  However, if the balance of the veterans trust
  1 27 fund is fifty million dollars or more, the remaining moneys
  1 28 shall be appropriated to the department of revenue for
  1 29 distribution to county directors of veteran affairs, with
  1 30 fifty percent of the money to be distributed equally to each
  1 31 county and fifty percent of the money to be distributed to
  1 32 each county based upon the population of veterans in the
  1 33 county, so long as the money distributed to a county does not
  1 34 supplant money appropriated by that county for the county
  1 35 director of veteran affairs.
  2  1 HF 2359
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