Bill Text: IA HF95 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to emergency food assistance and making appropriations.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 43-8)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-04 - Subcommittee, Soderberg, Running-Marquardt, and Worthan. H.J. 255. [HF95 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-HF95-Introduced.html
House File 95 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY STAED, HUNTER, KEARNS, McCONKEY, STUTSMAN, FORBES, KELLEY, RUNNING=MARQUARDT, ANDERSON, GASKILL, MEYER, BEARINGER, WOLFE, SHEETS, KAUFMANN, BYRNES, WINCKLER, LENSING, BROWN=POWERS, THEDE, H. MILLER, BERRY, OURTH, HANSON, STECKMAN, PRICHARD, ABDUL=SAMAD, SMITH, RUFF, GAINES, KRESSIG, WESSEL=KROESCHELL, DAWSON, DUNKEL, T. TAYLOR, MASCHER, COHOON, ISENHART, LYKAM, KOESTER, JACOBY, OLDSON, HALL, HEDDENS, OLSON, FINKENAUER, HIGHFILL, BENNETT, STANERSON, LANDON, and R. TAYLOR A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to emergency food assistance and making 2 appropriations. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 1410YH (6) 86 rh/tm PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 217.41B Emergency food assistance 1 2 == appropriation. 1 3 1. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and for 1 4 each fiscal year thereafter through the fiscal year beginning 1 5 July 1, 2019, there is appropriated from the general fund of 1 6 the state to the department of human services one million 1 7 dollars for the support of an Iowa food bank association 1 8 selected by the department of human services for the purchase 1 9 of food on behalf of an Iowa emergency feeding organization or 1 10 for the distribution of moneys to the Iowa emergency feeding 1 11 organizations for the purchase of food. 1 12 2. The moneys appropriated in this section shall be 1 13 allocated only to the extent that such moneys are matched on a 1 14 dollar=for=dollar basis. 1 15 3. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in 1 16 this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the 1 17 close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain 1 18 available for expenditure for the purposes designated until the 1 19 close of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019. 1 20 4. This section is repealed July 1, 2020. 1 21 EXPLANATION 1 22 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 23 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 24 This bill creates a standing appropriation of $1 million 1 25 from the general fund of the state for the fiscal year 1 26 beginning July 1, 2015, through the fiscal year beginning July 1 27 1, 2019, to the department of human services for support of an 1 28 Iowa food bank association to buy food on behalf of an Iowa 1 29 emergency feeding organization or distribute the moneys to such 1 30 organizations for the purchase of food. 1 31 The moneys appropriated shall only be allocated if it is 1 32 matched dollar=for=dollar. Any moneys unused during a fiscal 1 33 year shall remain available for the same purpose until the end 1 34 of the following fiscal year. 1 35 The new Code section created in the bill is repealed July 1, 2 1 2020. LSB 1410YH (6) 86 rh/tm
