Bill Text: IA HF408 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa House Bill 408 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act concerning allocations from the beer and liquor control fund for substance abuse programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-02 - Subcommittee, Rogers, Forbes, and Sexton. H.J. 444. [HF408 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF408-Introduced.html

House File 408 - Introduced




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                                 BY  ABDUL=SAMAD

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act concerning allocations from the beer and liquor control
  2    fund for substance abuse programs.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 123.53, subsection 5, Code 2015, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    5.  After any transfer provided for in subsection 3 is
  1  4 made, the department of commerce shall transfer into a special
  1  5 revenue account in the general fund of the state, a sum of
  1  6 money at least equal to seven nine percent of the gross amount
  1  7 of sales made by the division from the beer and liquor control
  1  8 fund on a monthly basis but not less than nine million dollars
  1  9 annually. Of the amounts transferred, two million dollars,
  1 10 plus an additional amount determined by the general assembly,
  1 11 shall be appropriated to the Iowa department of public health
  1 12 for use by the staff who administer the comprehensive substance
  1 13 abuse program under chapter 125 for substance abuse treatment
  1 14 and prevention programs. Any amounts received in excess of the
  1 15 amounts appropriated to the Iowa department of public health
  1 16 for use by the staff who administer the comprehensive substance
  1 17 abuse program under chapter 125 shall be considered part of the
  1 18 general fund balance.
  1 19                           EXPLANATION
  1 20 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 21 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 22    Code section 123.53(5), concerning transfers from the beer
  1 23 and liquor control fund to a special fund for substance abuse
  1 24 treatment and prevention programs, is amended.  This bill
  1 25 increases, from 7 percent to 9 percent, the percentage of the
  1 26 gross amount of sales made by the alcoholic beverages division
  1 27 that is transferred from the beer and liquor control fund to
  1 28 the special fund.
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