Bill Text: IA SF2117 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

Iowa Senate Bill 2117 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to public funding and regulatory matters and making, reducing, transferring, and supplementing appropriations for expenditures in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3089.) Effective 3-28-18.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-03-29 - NOBA: Final [SF2117 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2117-Enrolled.html

Senate File 2117 - Enrolled

SENATE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON
APPROPRIATIONS

(SUCCESSOR TO SSB
3089)
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A BILL FOR
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Senate File 2117

AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC FUNDING AND REGULATORY MATTERS
AND MAKING, REDUCING, TRANSFERRING, AND SUPPLEMENTING
APPROPRIATIONS FOR EXPENDITURES IN THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING
JULY 1, 2017, AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE DATE PROVISIONS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
DIVISION I
APPROPRIATION REDUCTIONS
Section 1. EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATION REDUCTIONS.
1. For the period beginning on the effective date of this
section and ending on June 30, 2018, the following departments
and agencies and the judicial branch are subject to a reduction
in expenditures made from appropriations from the general fund
in the following amounts:
a. Department of administrative services
.................................................. $ 62,560
b. Auditor of state
.................................................. $ 8,062
c. Department of commerce
.................................................. $ 12,433
d. Executive council
.................................................. $ 777
e. Governor's office
.................................................. $ 20,888
f. Governor's office of drug control policy
.................................................. $ 2,058
g. Department of human rights
.................................................. $ 21,228
h. Department of inspections and appeals
.................................................. $ 102,374
In identifying and implementing the reduction pursuant
to this paragraph, the director of the department shall be
authorized to make allocations between department divisions
in the manner and to the extent as the director determines
appropriate, in consultation with the department of management.
i. State public defender
.................................................. $ 236,041
j. Department of management
.................................................. $ 22,629
k. Department of revenue
.................................................. $ 528,271
l. Secretary of state
.................................................. $ 31,525
m. Treasurer of state
.................................................. $ 9,256
n. Department of agriculture and land stewardship
.................................................. $ 188,688
o. Department of natural resources
.................................................. $ 123,373
p. Department of economic development
.................................................. $ 157,960
q. Iowa workforce development
.................................................. $ 166,960
r. Department for the blind
.................................................. $ 19,720
s. College aid commission
.................................................. $ 94,172
t. Department of education
.................................................. $ 784,830
In identifying and implementing the reduction pursuant to
this paragraph, the department shall not reduce the standing
appropriation under section 285.2, subsection 1, paragraph "b",
for purposes of nonpublic school transportation.
u. Community colleges
.................................................. $ 500,000
v. Vocational rehabilitation
.................................................. $ 54,472
w. Iowa public television
.................................................. $ 68,421
x. Board of regents
.................................................. $ 10,933,070
In identifying and implementing the reduction pursuant to
this paragraph, the board shall not reduce expenditures made
from appropriations for the university of northern Iowa, the
state school for the deaf, and the Iowa braille and sight
saving school.
y. Department on aging
.................................................. $ 110,012
z. Department of public health
.................................................. $ 662,871
aa. Department of human services
.................................................. $ 4,316,042
In identifying and implementing the reduction pursuant
to this paragraph, the department shall not reduce benefits
available under the Medicaid state plan and approved waivers.
ab. Department of veterans affairs
.................................................. $ 36,877
ac. Iowa veterans home
.................................................. $ 65,164
ad. Department of justice
.................................................. $ 378,471
In identifying and implementing the reduction pursuant to
this paragraph, the department shall not reduce expenditures
made from appropriations for victim assistance grants.
ae. Iowa civil rights commission
.................................................. $ 10,431
af. Department of corrections
.................................................. $ 3,405,688
ag. Law enforcement academy
.................................................. $ 8,607
ah. Department of public defense
.................................................. $ 59,193
ai. Department of homeland security and emergency
management
.................................................. $ 19,130
aj. Department of public safety
.................................................. $ 200,000
The department shall not apply any reduction to expenditures
made from appropriations to the division of the state patrol.
ak. Judicial branch
.................................................. $ 1,611,815
2. The department of management, in consultation with
the departments and agencies and the judicial branch listed
in subsection 1, shall identify and implement the reductions
in subsection 1 with respect to the appropriate general fund
appropriations. Within fifteen days of the effective date of
this section, the department of management shall transmit a
report to the general assembly and legislative services agency
listing the appropriation reductions applied.
3. In order to implement the reductions in subsection 1,
the departments and agencies and the judicial branch may adjust
allocations made from appropriations that are being reduced.
4. In order to implement the reductions in subsection 1, the
department of management may reduce a standing appropriation to
a department or agency required to reduce expenditures pursuant
to subsection 1.
Sec. 2. TRANSFER ==== IOWA SKILLED WORKER AND JOB CREATION
FUND. There is transferred from the Iowa skilled worker and
job creation fund created in section 8.75 to the general fund
of the state for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and
ending June 30, 2018, the following amount:
.................................................. $ 10,000,000
Sec. 3. 2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 169, section 17, subsection
1, paragraph a, subparagraph (1), is amended to read as
follows:
(1) For the purposes of providing assistance under the high
quality jobs program as described in section 15.335B:
.................................................. $ 15,900,000
5,900,000
Sec. 4. 2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 170, section 5, subsection
1, is amended to read as follows:
1. The appropriations made pursuant to section 2.12 for the
expenses of the general assembly and legislative agencies for
the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30,
2018, are reduced by the following amount:
.................................................. $ 400,000
687,318
Sec. 5. 2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 174, section 31, subsection
1, paragraph c, subparagraph (3), is amended to read as
follows:
(3) (a) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, the
graduate medical education and disproportionate share hospital
fund shall remain at the amount in effect on June 30, 2017,
except that the portion of the fund attributable to graduate
medical education shall be reduced in an amount that reflects
the elimination of graduate medical education payments made to
out=of=state hospitals.
(b) Effective May 1, 2018, a hospital that is located in
Iowa, is classified as state government=owned or nonstate
government=owned, and qualifies for graduate medical education
or disproportionate share hospital payments shall transfer
to the medical assistance program an amount equal to provide
the nonfederal share for a graduate medical education and
disproportionate share hospital payment. Distribution of the
payments shall be made on a monthly basis. A hospital that
meets the specified conditions shall receive and retain one
hundred percent of the total graduate medical education and
disproportionate share hospital payments.
Sec. 6. REPEAL. 2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 170, section 18,
is repealed.
DIVISION II
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 7. INDIGENT DEFENSE. There is appropriated from the
general fund of the state to the office of the state public
defender of the department of inspections and appeals for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018,
the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary to
supplement appropriations made for the following designated
purpose:
For payments on behalf of eligible adults and juveniles from
the indigent defense fund in accordance with section 815.11:
.................................................. $ 1,700,000
Sec. 8. UTILITY COSTS. There is appropriated from the
general fund of the state to the department of administrative
services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending
June 30, 2018, the following amount, or so much thereof as is
necessary to supplement appropriations made for the following
designated purpose:
For payment of utility costs:
.................................................. $ 451,871
Sec. 9. 2017 Iowa Acts, chapter 174, section 36, is amended
to read as follows:
SEC. 36. PHARMACEUTICAL SETTLEMENT ACCOUNT. There is
appropriated from the pharmaceutical settlement account created
in section 249A.33 to the department of human services for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018,
the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
used for the purpose designated:
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, to
supplement the appropriations made in this Act for medical
contracts under the medical assistance program for the fiscal
year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018:
.................................................. $ 800,000
864,257
DIVISION III
IOWA ECONOMIC EMERGENCY FUND
Sec. 10. Section 8.55, subsection 3, paragraph c, Code 2018,
is amended by striking the paragraph and inserting in lieu
thereof the following:
c. There is appropriated from the Iowa economic emergency
fund to the general fund of the state for the fiscal year in
which moneys in the fund were used for cash flow purposes,
for the purposes of reducing or preventing any overdraft on
or deficit in the general fund of the state, the amount from
the Iowa economic emergency fund that was used for cash flow
purposes pursuant to paragraph "b" and that was not returned
to the Iowa economic emergency fund by June 30 of the fiscal
year. The appropriation in this paragraph shall not exceed one
percent of the adjusted revenue estimate for the fiscal year
for which the appropriation is made and is contingent upon all
of the following having occurred:
(1) Prior to an appropriation being made pursuant to this
paragraph, the balance of the general fund of the state at the
end of the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made is
negative.
(2) The governor issues an official proclamation and
notifies the legislative fiscal committee and the legislative
services agency that the balance of the general fund is
negative and that an appropriation made pursuant to this
paragraph brings the general fund of the state into balance.
Sec. 11. APPROPRIATION IN LIEU OF STANDING APPROPRIATION.
1. There is appropriated from the Iowa economic emergency
fund created in section 8.55 to the general fund of the state
for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30,
2018, the following amount:
.................................................. $ 13,000,000
2. The appropriation made pursuant to this section is in
lieu of the standing appropriation implemented under section
8.55 by the department of management pursuant to the official
proclamation issued by the governor on September 28, 2017.
Sec. 12. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. The following
provision or provisions of this division of this Act apply
retroactively to September 28, 2017:
The section of this division of this Act appropriating
moneys from the Iowa economic emergency fund to the general
fund in lieu of a prior standing appropriation.
DIVISION IV
EFFECTIVE DATE
Sec. 13. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of
immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.

CHARLES SCHNEIDE

LINDA UPMEYER

W. CHARLES SMITH

KIM REYNOLDS

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