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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