Bill Text: IA SF2366 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act concerning the department of veterans affairs relating to membership on the commission of veterans affairs and expenditures from the veterans trust fund. (Formerly SSB 3021.) Effective 7-1-18.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-04-02 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 860. [SF2366 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2366-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 2366 - Enrolled




                              SENATE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON VETERANS
                                  AFFAIRS

                              (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                  3021)

                              (COMPANION TO HF 2346
                                  BY COMMITTEE ON
                                  VETERANS AFFAIRS)
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                                   A BILL FOR
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                                       Senate File 2366

                             AN ACT
 CONCERNING THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS RELATING
    TO MEMBERSHIP ON THE COMMISSION OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND
    EXPENDITURES FROM THE VETERANS TRUST FUND.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 35A.2, subsections 1 and 2, Code 2018,
 are amended to read as follows:
    1.  A commission of veterans affairs is created consisting
 of nine eleven persons who shall be appointed by the governor,
 subject to confirmation by the senate. Members shall be
 appointed to staggered terms of four years beginning and
 ending as provided in section 69.19. The governor shall fill
 a vacancy for the unexpired portion of the term. In addition
 to the members appointed by the governor, the director of the
 department and the commandant of the Iowa veterans home shall
 serve as nonvoting, ex officio members of the commission.
    2.  Eight Ten commissioners shall be honorably discharged
 members of the armed forces of the United States. The American
 legion of Iowa, disabled American veterans department of Iowa,
 veterans of foreign wars department of Iowa, American veterans
 of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, the Vietnam veterans
 of America, and the military order of the purple heart,
 the paralyzed veterans of America, and the Iowa association
 of county commissioners and veteran service officers,
  through their department commanders, shall submit two names
 respectively from their organizations to the governor. The
 adjutant general and the Iowa affiliate of the reserve officers
 association shall submit names to the governor of persons to
 represent the Iowa national guard and the association. The
 governor shall appoint from the group of names submitted by
 the adjutant general and reserve officers association two
 representatives and from each of the other organizations
 one representative to serve as a member of the commission,
 unless the appointments would conflict with the bipartisan and
 gender balance provisions of sections 69.16 and 69.16A.  In
 addition, the governor shall appoint one member of the public,
 knowledgeable in the general field of veterans affairs, to
 serve on the commission.
    Sec. 2.  Section 35A.13, subsection 3, Code 2018, is amended
 to read as follows:
    3.  Moneys credited to the trust fund shall not be
 transferred, used, obligated, appropriated, or otherwise
 encumbered, except as provided in this section. Moneys in the
 trust fund may be used for cash flow purposes during a fiscal
 year provided that any moneys so allocated are returned to the
 trust fund by the end of that fiscal year. Moneys in the trust
 fund may also be used for cemetery grant development purposes
 provided that any moneys so allocated, except for moneys used
 for department of administrative services expenditures related
 to the grant, are returned to the trust fund upon receipt of
 federal funds received for such purposes.
    Sec. 3.  Section 35A.13, subsection 4, paragraph a, Code
 2018, is amended to read as follows:
    a.  The minimum balance of the trust fund required prior
 to expenditure of moneys from the trust fund is five million
 dollars. Once the minimum balance is reached, the interest and
 earnings on the fund and the first three five hundred thousand
 dollars transferred each fiscal year pursuant to section 99G.39
 from the lottery fund to the trust fund are appropriated to the
 commission to be used to achieve the purposes of subsection 6
 of this section. Moneys appropriated to the commission that
 remain unobligated or unexpended at the end of each fiscal year
 shall revert to the trust fund. It is the intent of the general
 assembly that the balance in the trust fund reach fifty million
 dollars.
    Sec. 4.  Section 35A.13, subsection 6, paragraph l, Code
 2018, is amended by striking the paragraph.
    Sec. 5.  Section 35A.13, subsection 6, Code 2018, is amended
 by adding the following new paragraphs:
    NEW PARAGRAPH.  o.  Rental housing assistance for veterans
 who meet the definition of homeless, as set out in 42 U.S.C.
 {11302, for payment of rental application fees needed for
 obtaining rental housing.
    NEW PARAGRAPH.  p.  Monetary assistance on a one=time basis
 per recipient to be used to prevent homelessness in an amount
 not to exceed one thousand dollars per recipient.


                                                                                            CHARLES SCHNEIDE


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            W. CHARLES SMITH


                                                                                            KIM REYNOLDS

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