Bill Text: IA HF2241 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act appropriating moneys to the department of agriculture and land stewardship for deposit in the local food and farm program fund for purposes of supporting the Leopold center for sustainable agriculture.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-07 - Sponsors added, Forbes, Winckler, Lensing, Kurth, McConkey, Mascher, Hunter, Kacena, Abdul-Samad, R. Smith, Brown-Powers, Kearns, Anderson, Wolfe, Breckenridge, Prichard, Bearinger, Steckman, Staed, T. Taylor, Ourth, Cohoon, Gaskill, Bennett, H. Miller, Kressig, Olson, Heddens, Oldson and M. Smith. H.J. 228. [HF2241 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF2241-Introduced.html

House File 2241 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  ISENHART and
                                     WESSEL=KROESCHELL

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act appropriating moneys to the department of agriculture
  2    and land stewardship for deposit in the local food and farm
  3    program fund for purposes of supporting the Leopold center
  4    for sustainable agriculture.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  LEOPOLD CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE
  1  2 AGRICULTURE.  There is appropriated from the general fund of
  1  3 the state to the department of agriculture and land stewardship
  1  4 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018, and ending June 30,
  1  5 2019, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary,
  1  6 to be used for the purposes designated:
  1  7    1.  For deposit in the local food and farm program fund
  1  8 created in section 267A.5:
  1  9 .................................................. $  1,000,000
  1 10    2.  The department shall allocate moneys appropriated to
  1 11 the fund in subsection 1 to the Leopold center for sustainable
  1 12 agriculture only to the extent that the allocated moneys are
  1 13 matched on a dollar=for=dollar basis with moneys that are
  1 14 contributed from a source or sources other than the state as
  1 15 certified by the president of Iowa state university of science
  1 16 and technology.  The moneys appropriated in this section shall
  1 17 not be expended for any other use.
  1 18                           EXPLANATION
  1 19 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 20 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 21    This bill appropriates moneys from the general fund of the
  1 22 state to the department of agriculture and land stewardship
  1 23 for FY 2018=2019 to be deposited in the local food and farm
  1 24 program fund.  The department is to allocate the moneys to the
  1 25 Leopold center for sustainable agriculture only if matched on a
  1 26 dollar=for=dollar basis with moneys that are contributed from a
  1 27 source other than the state as certified by the president of
  1 28 Iowa state university of science and technology.
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