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Appropriations – week of May 11, 2015

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SF 510 – Standings FY16 & FY17 Budget                          

HF 650 – Infrastructure Budget

 

FLOOR ACTION:

HF 650 is the House’s version of the Infrastructure Budget. The Senate has a strike after amendment, which appropriates $178.7 million from the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund (RIIF); $17.7 million from the Technology Reinvestment Fund; $4.6 million from the Revenue Bonds Capitals II Fund; and $20.7 million from the State Bond Repayment Fund. These amounts include appropriations previously enacted.

Highlights include:

RIIF Fund – $181,772,549

Iowa Department of Ag & Land Stewardship

  • $100,000 Rural Health & Safety Clinics

Corrections

  • $500,000 FY16 & $250,800 FY17 – Newton Prison Infrastructure

Cultural Affairs

  • $1 million – Great Places
  • $500,000 – Rural YMCAs
  • $7 million – CAT
  • $500,000 – Regional Sport Authorities
  • $200,000 – World Food Prize

Human Services

  • $2 million – Broadlawns Mental Health Facilities

Iowa Finance Authority

  • $3 million – State Housing Trust Fund

Environment First Fund – $42 million

Natural Resources

  • $5 million State Park Infrastructure
  • $9.6 million – Lake Restoration
  • $2 million – Water Trails and Low Head Dam Grants

Public Defense – $4.5 million for various projects

Regents

  • $30.2 million – Tuition Replacement
  • $11 million – ISU Biosciences Building – multi year commitment
  • $2 million – ISU Innovation Center ($40 million over 4 years matched by $40 million other funds)
  • $13 million – U of I Pharmacy Building – multi year commitment
  • $15 million – UNI Schindler Ed Center Renovation – multi year commitment

State Fair – $2.325 million – Youth Inn Remodel

Transportation

  • $2 million – Railroad Revolving Loan & Grant Fund
  • $6 million – Recreational Trails
  • $1.5 million – Public Transit Vertical Infrastructure Grants
  • $1.5 million – Commercial Aviation Infrastructure Grants
  • $750,000 – General Aviation Infrastructure Grants
  • County Fairs Infrastructure – $1, 060,000

Technology Reinvestment Fund – $17,736,162

Chief Information Officer

  • $2.1 million IT Consolidation Projects
  • $684,000 – Voting Equip/Voter Registration Systems for Secretary of State

Department of Education

  • $2.7 million ICN Part II, Maintenance & Leases
  • $600,000 – Statewide Ed Data Warehouse
  • $1.25 – IPTV Equipment Replacement

Department of Human Rights

  • $2.16 million – Criminal Justice Info System Integration
  • $159,474 – Justice Data Warehouse

ICN Equipment Replacement – $2.2 million

Department of Management

  • $45,000 Searchable Online Budget & Tax Database
  • $50,000 – Electronic Grants Management System (GEMS)

Department of Public Health

  • $500,000 – IDPH Database Integration Review
  • $500,000 Database Integration
  • $36,000 – Sleep Professionals Software
  • $300,000 Congenital Inherited Disorders Registry

Department of Public Safety – $2.5 million – Radio purchases

Department of Homeland Security – $400,000 – Mass Notification & Emergency Messaging System

Board of Regents

  • $500,000 in FY16 & $500,000 in FY17 – U of IA Flood Center Statewide Soil Moisture Network
  • $330,000 – Vet Lab Cancer Equipment
  • $450,000 – ISU Nutrient Research Center Technology
  • $100,000 – IPR Radio Transmitter

Treasurer of State – $50,000 Iowa ABLE Savings Plan Trust Technology

Revenue Bonds Capitals II Fund – $4,648,817

  • Department of Administrative Services – $4.6 million – Major MaintenanceDepartment of Ag & Land Stewardship
  • State Bond Repayment Fund – $20,795,055
  • $3.1 million – Water Quality Initiative
  • $1.92 million – Ag Drainage Wells

Corrections

  • $200,000 – CBC Dist. 5 Study
  • $760,270 – CBC Dist. 5 Infrastructure

Department of Cultural Affairs

  • $150,000 – Civil War Memorial
  • $12,000 – Veterans Memorial

Economic Development Authority – $1 million – Historic Places Grant

Department of Human Services

  • $728,818 – Nursing Home Facility Improvements
  • $700,000 Vocational Services Facility
  • $500,000 – Brain Injury Rehab Facility Infrastructure
  • $323,967 – Intellectual Disabilities Facility Infrastructure
  • $500,000 Youth Emergency Shelter Facility Infrastructure

Department of Public Safety – $100,000 – Fire Training Mobile Units & Equipment

Department of Veterans Affairs

  • $1.8 million – Emergency Fuel Tanks for Boilers & Generators
  • $3 million – Malloy Hall Laundry Facilities
  • $6 million – Replace Air Handler Units

Airports – Requires the DOT to adopt a process to allow a political subdivision to close an airport if the cost of operating an airport far exceeds the benefits received from the airport. If the future use of the facility results in a project that creates jobs and expands the economy, the DOT is required to forgive any required repayment of financial assistance that may be owed to the state because of the closure of the airport. The private investment in the project for the future use of the airport must equal at least two times the amount estimated to be repaid to the state. [5/1: 26-22 (party-line; Feenstra, Kraayenbrink excused)]

 

COMMITTEE ACTION:

SF 510 is the FY16/FY17 Standings Budget. The bill appropriates $3.54 billion from the General Fund for FY16.

DIVISION I – STANDING APPROPRIATIONS & RELATED MATTERS

  • Establishes budget process.
  • Appropriations that are at a “status quo” from FY15:
    • Department of Cultural Affairs – Comm. Cultural Grants : $416,702 (1/2 in FY17)
    • Department of Education – nonpublic transportation – $8,560,931 (Fully Fund in FY17)
    • Tobacco enforcement ($18,416) (1/2 in FY17)
  • Additional Instructional Support Aid – $0 (this has been $0 for a number of years)
  • General Assembly – Reduction of $4.223 million – status quo from FY15. This amount may be adjusted to reflect the unexpended budgeted amounts from FY15.

 

DIVISION II – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS & APPROPRIATIONS

FY15 Ending Balance Appropriations:

  • $1 million to Department of Corrections for operations, including training costs and operational costs associated with the new prison in Ft. Madison.

 

    • $2.8 million – Substance Abuse Electronic Records (was approved in 2014 but vetoed by the Governor)
    • $1.5 million for Heart Attack Treatment to Iowa Department of Public Health to be used to enhance critical elements of an optimal ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) system of care, including the provision of 12-lead electrocardiogram (EKG) machines. Funding supplements private funds received. Funds revert at the end of FY18.

Debt Collection – Requires the Judicial Branch to study and issue a report on ways to increase the efficiencies of collection of court debt.

Iowa New Jobs Training Agreements – Allows an Iowa community college that entered into a new jobs training agreement (260E), which was effective in April 2012, to enter a new agreement with an employer. The new agreement is to be effective September 2014, and may use the base employment determined in April 2012 as the base employment for determining the new jobs eligible under the new agreement if the base employment determined in 2012 was 2,125 employees. The new agreement is limited to seven years from the effective date. This affects the Eastern Iowa Community College in Davenport.

Salary Ranges – Corrective – strikes reference to salary range 9, which does not exist.

From SF 415 – Elections Administration – Technical correction regarding digital images on ballots.

From SF 375 – Adoptions – Requires that an employer treat an employee who chooses to adopt in the same manner as an employee who is the biological parent of a newborn child for purposes of employment policies, benefits and protections for the first year of adoption.

Police Officer’s Retirement – A worker’s compensation payment would no longer offset the person’s retirement disability payment. This provision was included in the original Senate version of SF 366.

From SF 456 – Sale & Off-Premises Transportation of Certain Containers of Beer (Growlers) – Corrective language to ensure compliance with federal law. Additional language adds “and the contents of the container have not been partially removed.”

From SF 205, as amended – Mammogram reporting requirements Requires facilities providing mammography services to include information on breast density in mammography reports sent to patients pursuant to federal law beginning January 1, 2016, if the patient is categorized as having heterogeneously dense breasts or extremely dense breasts, according to national guidelines. The bill includes language that must be included in the patient’s notice. Nothing in this bill impacts existing mammography facility liabilities beyond the notice requirement.

Teach Iowa Scholarship – Clarifies that an eligible applicant includes any current Iowa teacher who meets all of the other criteria and has graduated an approved preparation program in any year (beginning in 2013) is eligible for the program.

Flood Mitigation – A technical correction to the process for remitting sales tax revenues to approved flood mitigation districts. Because of the timing of how sales tax revenues are collected and remitted, there is a concern that the last remittance from the state to the district would fall outside the 20-year period for the project. The change would allow additional time for the Department of Revenue to remit the last payment so the district would receive the full amount of money collected for the project.

Qualified Health Plans – Adds language to create more uniformity with qualified health plans filed in the exchange and to existing Iowa law as it relates to rate review, and to help ensure a fair competitive market by setting a different notice period for qualified health plans and lining up with the federal rate review standards. All qualified health plans will be reviewed by the Iowa Insurance Division and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This was part of SF 346.

Enhanced Court Collection Fund – Increases the cap for the amounts deposited in the Enhanced Court Collection Fund, which is currently $4 million annually. The cap is raised to $7 million in FY16-FY18. The cap is raised to $5 million in FY19. Beginning in FY20, the cap is set at $4.5 million.

From SF 178Restricting Felons Receipt of Certain Life Insurance Proceeds – Relates to receipt of life insurance proceeds by felons who have committed a violent crime against the insured. A beneficiary of a life insurance policy, or other similar contract, who is convicted of a felonious assault, felonious sex abuse, attempted murder or kidnapping against the insured within the six months prior to the death of the insured is not entitled to the proceeds of the life insurance policy. The felony is not required to be related to the death of the insured. The insured may affirm in a notarized writing that the beneficiary should receive any benefit under the life insurance policy despite the felony conviction.

From SF 300 – Dating Relationship Assaults and Domestic Abuse – Includes assaults between people in a dating relationship in the definition of criminal domestic abuse assault. Dating relationship assaults are currently considered domestic abuse for purposes of a civil protective order but not for purposes of a criminal domestic abuse charge. Domestic abuse criminal penalties require mandatory confinement and batterer’s education upon conviction. In addition, there are enhancements in the law when a person is convicted of a second or subsequent offense.

From SF 416 – Unauthorized Placement of a GPS Device – Prohibits a person who, without legitimate purpose, places a global positioning device on another person or object that is intended to track their movements without authorization. A person who commits this violation is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.

  • Supplemental Appropriations are effective upon enactment.

 

DIVISION III – SALARIES, COMPENSATION, & RELATED MATTERS

  • Allows special funds to be used for salary adjustments, as long as they do not exceed the operating budget established by the Legislature.
  • Salary Model Administrator – works with LSA to maintain the state’s salary model.

 

DIVISION IV – CORRECTIVE – These are provisions deemed by LSA to be corrective in nature relating to legislation passed in 2015.

 

DIVISION V – REIMBURSEMENT OF DEFENSE COSTS

From SF 378 Indemnification of Peace Officers – Adds a new Code section, 80F.2, relating to “Rights of Peace Officers and Public Safety and Emergency Personnel.” If a peace officer or corrections officer is charged with a crime based on acts or omissions within the scope of the officer’s lawful duty or authority and the charge is dismissed or the officer is acquitted of the charge, the officer will be reimbursed for any costs incurred in defending against the charge if the court finds that the charge was without probable cause; the charge was filed for malicious purposes; or the charge was unwarranted in consideration of all the circumstances and matters of law. The officer can apply for review of an adverse decision relating to the grounds for awarding the costs incurred during the defense.

 

DIVISION VI – RENEWABLE FUELS INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM

From HF 574Renewable Fuel Infrastructure Program (E15) – Expands the renewable fuel infrastructure program for retail motor fuel sites by providing that state money may be used to finance infrastructure associated with storing and dispensing ethanol blended gasoline classified as E-15. The infrastructure so financed must always be used to store and dispense E-15 and during non-summer months (from September 16 to May 31), it must be designated as a registered fuel recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to operate 2001 and newer model year passenger vehicles.

 

DIVISION VII – STATE EMPLOYEE EARLY RETIREMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM

  • Estimated to save the General Fund $16.1 million over 10 months; $19.3 million annually.
  • Based on 2010 Program – Applies to executive branch IPERS employees.
  • An individual who was employed at the MHI at Clarinda or Mt. Pleasant and was terminated after April 1, 2015, is eligible to participate in the program.
  • Elected officials and SPOC employees are excluded from participating in the program. The program is administered by the Department of Administrative Services.
  • Years of service incentive benefit is an amount equal to the entire value of an eligible employee’s accumulated but unused vacation, plus for eligible employees with at least 10 years of state employment, $1,000 for each year of state employment up to a maximum of 25 years of state employment. State employment service means service as a state employee under IPERS.
  • To receive the incentive benefit, an eligible employee must:
      • Submit an application to participate in the program by July 31, 2015.
      • Acknowledge the employee’s agreement to voluntarily terminate employment with the state in exchange for the retirement incentives.
      • Waive any right to file suit against the state.
      • Acknowledge the employee’s ineligibility to return to employment with the state.

  • Separate from state employment by August 27, 2015.
  • Program Benefits. Upon acceptance and separation from employment no later than August 27, 2015, a participant must receive:
    • An amount equal to the entire value of the eligible employee’s accumulated but unused vacation plus, if the employee has at least 10 years of state employment, $1,000 for each year of state employment up to 25 years.
    • The bill provides that this amount must be payable in five equal installments each year during November beginning in November 2015.
    • A health insurance contribution benefit to pay the cost for eligible state group health insurance for five years following the participant’s (or surviving spouse) termination from state employment.
    • However, a participant must receive the health insurance contribution benefit only when the participant is no longer eligible for or exhausts the participant’s available remaining value of sick leave used to pay the state share for the participant’s continuation of state group health insurance coverage.
  • An employer must not offer permanent part-time employment, permanent full-time employment, temporary employment or retention as an independent contractor to a participant.
  • This section does not preclude a participant from membership on a board or commission.
  • DAS and the Department of Management may adopt emergency rules to implement this program.
  • Legislative & Judicial Branch Employees
    • The Legislative Council may provide a retirement incentive program for legislative employees consistent with the program for executive branch employees. If the Legislative Council does participate, they must collaborate with DAS to establish the program as nearly identical as possible to the executive branch employees’ program. The program must establish the same time guidelines and benefit calculations as provided under the executive branch program.
    • The Supreme Court may provide a retirement incentive program for judicial branch employees consistent with the program for executive branch employees. If the Supreme Court does participate, they must collaborate with DAS to establish the program as nearly identical as possible to the executive branch employees program. The program must establish the same time guidelines and benefit calculations as provided under the executive branch program.
  • Directs DOM to apply reductions totaling $16.3 million to the General Fund operating appropriations of Executive Branch agencies for FY16, excluding the Board of Regents. This is to reflect SERIP savings and is similar to language used in 2010.
  • Appropriates $16.13 million from the FY15 ending balance to pay for the SERIP program (effective upon enactment). It is the intent of the Legislature to annually appropriate the cost of the program (five years).
  • The provision takes effect upon enactment.DIVISION VIII – SCHOOL AID – PERCENT OF GROWTH
  • Sets FY16 School Aid at 2.625 percent (including categorical) — $155.5 million increase over FY15.
  • Sets FY17 School Aid at 4 percent (including categorical) — $213.2 million increase over FY16.
  • The 30-day requirement on setting school aid does not apply to this division.
  • This division is effective upon enactment.

 

 

DIVISION IX – APPORTIONMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FUNDS – APPROPRIATION

City of Avoca – Corrects 2010 census count, which will result in an increased payment of $67,800 from the Road Use Tax Fund. This is similar to language previously enacted for Rockwell City. This is retroactive to March 2011 and is effective upon enactment.

 

DIVISION X – DRUG OVERDOSE PREVENTION

From SF 410, as amended – Opioid overdose prevention – Provides immunity from prosecution for the possession, sharing or use of a controlled substance or possession of drug paraphernalia for persons suffering from an opioid overdose, or assisting another person suffering an opioid overdose under these conditions: 1) the reporter calls for medical assistance; 2) the reporter provides his or her name and contact information; 3) the reporter remains on the scene until assistance arrives; and 4) the reporter cooperates with law enforcement and medical personnel.

The bill authorizes the possession of an opioid antagonist if prescribed, dispensed, furnished or otherwise provided by a licensed physician, physician assistant or Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, and the person in possession is a family member or friend of, or other person in a position to assist, a person at risk of experiencing an opioid-related overdose. Healthcare professionals are not subject to prosecution or disciplinary action for prescribing antagonists in this context. Emergency medical care providers and law enforcement officers trained in opioid antagonist use and acting in good faith are protected from prosecution or disciplinary action for administering an antagonist.

Those not licensed to prescribe, dispense or administer antagonists may, in an emergency, administer an antagonist if they believe, in good faith, that the other person is suffering an opioid overdose, and are protected from prosecution or disciplinary action. The Department of Public Health will develop standards for recordkeeping and reporting of opioid antagonist use by first responders and will submit an annual report to the Legislature with recommendations. Additionally, the Department will develop protocols and instructions for the administration of opioid antagonists by those who are not health care professionals or first responders. The cost of a prescription opioid antagonist must be covered for employees provided care under workers’ compensation. The Department of Human Services will include an opioid antagonist on the Medicaid preferred drug list, which cannot be subject to prior authorization or utilization management if deemed medically necessary by the prescriber.

 

DIVISION XI – COUNTY COURTHOUSES

Jury Pools – Repeals 1884 session law, which required two jury pools in Pottawattamie County. Now, the county will be required to have only one jury pool.

 

DIVISION XII – REFUGEE FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES

Appropriates $750,000 from the FY15 ending balance for a three-year refugee family support services pilot program. Up to $40,000 per year may be used for administrative costs. Effective upon enactment.

 

DIVISION XIII – DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT – DUTIES

Deletes DOM’s responsibility for Targeted Small Businesses and State Programs for Equal Opportunity. These functions are currently administered by the Department of Administrative Services.

 

DIVISION XIV – CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE AND BY THE STATE

Appeals Board Claims – budgeted for $3 million. Moved to be funded by the Economic Emergency Fund. This line item varies greatly from year to year and is hard to predict. This provision was approved but item vetoed by the Governor in 2014 (FY15).

 

DIVISION XV – STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

The duties of the State Geological Survey are currently being administered by the University of Iowa through an annual $1 million contract with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and University of Iowa. This division transfers the authority for the duties of the State Geological Survey from the DNR to the Regents. In addition, the $1 million is transferred from the DNR’s appropriation to the University of Iowa. For FY17, appropriates half of the funding $500,000 to the university and reduces funding by $500,000 for DNR.

 

DIVISION XVI – REVIVAL OF USE RESTRICTIONS

Allows parcel owners in a common interest community to revive use restrictions in a declaration that have become unenforceable if certain requirements have been met. Procedures are established. These provisions apply to common interest communities created prior to and still in existence on July 1, 2015, and created on or after July 1, 2015.

 

DIVISION XVII – INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATIONS

Increases the Statewide Interoperable Communications System Board from 15 to 17 members, adding representatives of local emergency management coordinators and an emergency medical service providers. From SSB 1153.

 

DIVISION XVIII – HUMAN TRAFFICKING

From SF 450 – Human Trafficking – Requires four hours of in-service training for certified law enforcement officers every five years related to human trafficking, sexual assault, domestic abuse, stalking and harassment. The training will be developed by the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy in conjunction with the Coalition Against Sexual Assault and the Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The Division of Criminal & Juvenile Justice Planning will research and collect data on human trafficking and related crimes. This should help justice system partners evaluate anti-human trafficking needs in Iowa. Human trafficking becomes a forcible felony, which means if a person is convicted of or pleads guilty to human trafficking, they will go to prison. This also means it will be a non-bailable offense after plea or conviction. There will be no deferred judgments, no deferred sentences and no suspended sentences. The Crime Victim Assistance Division of the Attorney General Office is required to develop and conduct outreach, public awareness and training programs relating to human trafficking, and may use money out of the Victim Compensation Fund to do so.

 

DIVISION XIX – SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING & MATHEMATICS INTERNSHIP

Makes changes to Iowa Economic Development Authority’s STEM and Targeted Industry Internship programs to clarify the manner in which matching funds will be determined. The state share of both programs is half of the total wages paid to a student. Those dollars are provided on a reimbursement basis.

 

DIVISION XX – SAFE SCHOOLS / ANTI-HARASSMENT & ANTI-BULLYING 

  • Makes all operations requiring funding contingent upon an appropriation in the Education Budget.
  • Adds a work group of key education and research groups to make recommendations on best practices for prevention of bullying.
  • Requires school districts to have adequate training on conducting investigations of complaints of incidents of harassment or bullying.
  • Requires the Department of Education, subject to an appropriation, to establish a student mentoring pilot program to explore how student leadership can help prevent bullying and violence in schools.
  • Modifies the definition of “electronic” by adding any other electronic communication site, device or means to the definition and by including social networking sites as part of the term “Internet-based communications.”
  • Modifies the definition of “harassment” and “bullying” to be construed broadly to achieve the purposes of the law.
  • Requires school anti-harassment and anti-bullying policies to include a procedure for notification of the parents of students involved in an incident of harassment or bullying. The procedure must include an exception to the notification requirement if a school official or a student reasonably believes notification would subject the targeted student to rejection, abuse or neglect.
  • Grants school officials the authority to investigate alleged incidents of harassment or bullying that occur outside of school and to impose school discipline.
  • Current law provides that a high school student who participates in open enrollment is ineligible to participate in varsity interscholastic athletic contests and athletic competitions during the student’s first 90 school days of enrollment in the district. The bill adds an exception: if a student was previously subject to a founded incident of harassment or bullying, he or she may participate immediately in a varsity interscholastic sport.

DIVISION XXI – SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPERTY TAX

School Aid – Property Tax Replacement Payments – Ensures state payment of the FY17 additional growth for property tax replacement dollars. This is based on setting school aid in FY17 at 4 percent.

 

DIVISION XXII – CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES   

When the Board of Pharmacy designates a substance as a controlled substance on a temporary basis because the federal government has designated it as a controlled substance, the Legislature has two years to place those substances on the schedules of controlled substances.  Thus, the Board of Pharmacy’s temporary designation will be effective for two years. The provision also adds the Board of Pharmacy’s current temporarily listed substances to the list of controlled substances; included in that list are new synthetic drugs. In addition, hydrocodone combination products are removed from the schedule III list. Hydrocodone is currently classified as a schedule II controlled substance and thus all hydrocodone products will be subject to the schedule II controls. This language comes from Board of Pharmacy.

 

DIVISION XXIII – GREYHOUND RACING

Clarifies that funds from the Greyhound Escrow Fund must be used to assist live Greyhound Racing in Dubuque. Escrow funds will be used for operating expenses and purses. This is effective upon enactment.

 

DIVISION XXIV – INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT    

From SF 273 – Interstate Physician Licensure Compact – Enacts an interstate physician licensure compact, allowing residents of other states to secure an expedited Iowa medical license. The compact has not yet been passed into law in other states but would become operational once at least seven states have enacted the legislation. The bill recognizes the creation of an interstate medical licensure compact commission to administer the compact and outlines membership and voting rights for each participating state. A physician that is disciplined by the medical board of any member state will be similarly disciplined in all member states. The commission’s officers and employees are immune from liability for claims of damage that occur within the scope of their duties. The compact’s provisions do not override the member states’ existing authority to regulate the practice of medicine.

 

DIVISION XXV – ENTREPRENEUR INVESTMENT AWARDS PROGRAM     

The language modifies the Entrepreneur Investment Awards Program. This Program is funded by the Entrepreneur Investment Awards Program Fund under Iowa Economic Development Authority. While the Program is modified, the amount available to award is not. This does not have a fiscal impact. IEDA funds the program with moneys from their business incentives out of the Economic Development Budget. This program was created in 2012 and provides grants to programs that provide technical and financial assistance to entrepreneurs seeking to create, locate or expand a business in the state. Changes broaden the eligibility of the program, make it more competitive and align better with IEDA’s existing programs.

 

ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS – these don’t appear in the bill language because they are “standing” appropriations. They only appear if changes are made. Unless noted they are funded at a status quo level:

  • Department of Administrative Services: federal cash management – $356,587; unemployment compensation: $440,371
  • Department of Corrections – state cases court costs: $59,733
  • Iowa Economic Development Authority – tourism marketing: $1,124,000
  • Department of Education – child development: $12,606,196; Sac Fox Settlement education: $100,000
  • Executive Council – court costs/public improvements/drainage districts: $119,847
  • Governor’s Office – interstate extradition: $3,032
  • Iowa Department of Public Health – congenital & inherited disorders: $232,500
  • Department Human Services – nonresident transfers/nonresident commitment mental illness/child abuse prevention: $376,833
  • Department of Management – Special Olympics: $100,000
  • Department of Public Defense – compensation and expense: $344,644
  • Department Public Safety – Police Officers’ Retirement unfunded liabilities: $5 million
  • Department of Revenue – all fully funded based on current estimates for FY16
  • Ag land Tax Credit: $39.1 million (status quo)
  • Homestead Tax Credit: $131.36 million (Estimate is a decrease of $3.46 million)
  • Elderly & Disabled Tax Credit: $24 million (Estimate is a decrease of $2 million)
  • Printing cigarette stamps/tobacco reporting: 143,068 (Status quo)
  • Military Service Tax Refunds: $2.1 million (Decrease of $75,000)
  • Commercial/Industrial Property Tax Replacement: $162,056,468 (Estimate is an increase of $83.7 million)
  • Business Property Tax Credit: $100 million (Estimate is an increase of $50 million)

[5/12: 12-7 (party-line; Kraayenbrink, Schoenjahn excused)]


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