Bill Text: IA SF2073 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the department of public defense by providing for the gold star military museum and modifying funding provisions for the national guard education assistance program, and including effective and applicability date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3041; see SF 2311.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-17 - Subcommittee, Dvorsky, Courtney, and Rozenboom. S.J. 257. [SF2073 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF2073-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2073 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON VETERANS
                                     AFFAIRS

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                     3041)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the department of public defense
  2    by providing for the gold star military museum and
  3    modifying funding provisions for the national guard
  4    education assistance program, and including effective and
  5    applicability date provisions.
  6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 29.1, Code 2016, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    29.1  Department of public defense.
  1  4    The department of public defense is composed of the office
  1  5 of the adjutant general and, the military forces of the state
  1  6 of Iowa, and the Iowa gold star military museum as established
  1  7 in section 29.4. The adjutant general is the director of the
  1  8 department of public defense and shall perform all functions,
  1  9 responsibilities, powers, and duties concerning the military
  1 10 forces of the state of Iowa and the Iowa gold star military
  1 11 museum as provided in the laws of the state.
  1 12    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  29.4  Iowa gold star military museum.
  1 13    1.  The department of public defense shall establish a
  1 14 military historical museum located at Camp Dodge which shall
  1 15 be known as the "Iowa gold star military museum". The museum
  1 16 shall be administered by the adjutant general.
  1 17    2.  The adjutant general may appoint a museum director and
  1 18 such other personnel from the full=time equivalent positions
  1 19 authorized the department for the purposes of maintaining and
  1 20 operating the Iowa gold star military museum.  The museum
  1 21 director shall have such responsibilities as may be assigned
  1 22 by the adjutant general.
  1 23    Sec. 3.  Section 261.86, subsection 6, Code 2016, is amended
  1 24 to read as follows:
  1 25    6.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, until one year after the
  1 26 date the president of the United States or the Congress of
  1 27 the United States declares a cessation of hostilities ending
  1 28 operation Iraqi freedom, operation new dawn, and operation
  1 29 enduring freedom, funds appropriated for purposes of this
  1 30 section which remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close
  1 31 of the fiscal year for which the funds were appropriated shall
  1 32 not revert but shall be available for expenditure for the
  1 33 following fiscal year for purposes of this section.
  1 34    Sec. 4.  Section 261.86, Code 2016, is amended by adding the
  1 35 following new subsection:
  2  1    NEW SUBSECTION.  7.  Not more than one percent of the moneys
  2  2 appropriated for purposes of this section may be used by the
  2  3 college student aid commission for purposes of administering
  2  4 this section.
  2  5    Sec. 5.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  The following provision
  2  6 of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect
  2  7 upon enactment:
  2  8    1.  The section of this Act amending section 261.86,
  2  9 subsection 6.
  2 10    Sec. 6.  RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.  The following provision
  2 11 of this Act applies retroactively to June 30, 2015:
  2 12    1.  The section of this Act amending section 261.86,
  2 13 subsection 6.
  2 14                           EXPLANATION
  2 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  2 16 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2 17    This bill concerns the department of public defense.
  2 18    Code section 29.1 is amended to provide that the department
  2 19 of public defense is also composed of the Iowa gold star
  2 20 military museum and that the adjutant general shall perform all
  2 21 functions, responsibilities, powers, and duties concerning the
  2 22 museum.
  2 23    New Code section 29.4 provides that the department of public
  2 24 defense shall establish a military museum located at Camp Dodge
  2 25 which shall be known as the Iowa gold star military museum.
  2 26 The bill provides that the adjutant general shall administer
  2 27 the museum and may appoint a museum director and such other
  2 28 personnel for the purposes of maintaining and operating the
  2 29 museum.
  2 30    Code section 261.86, concerning the national guard education
  2 31 assistance program, is amended.  The bill eliminates the
  2 32 provision that moneys appropriated for purposes of this program
  2 33 shall not revert for the following fiscal year only until one
  2 34 year after operation Iraqi freedom, operation new dawn, and
  2 35 operation enduring freedom are concluded.  This provision takes
  3  1 effect upon enactment and applies retroactively to June 30,
  3  2 2015.  The Code section is further amended to provide that the
  3  3 college student aid commission may use no more than 1 percent
  3  4 of the moneys appropriated for the program for costs associated
  3  5 with administering the program.
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