Amendment H-8280 to HF 2643
Relating to state and local finances by making appropriations, providing for legal and regulatory responsibilities, providing for other properly related matters, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions
Withdrawn · June 12, 2020
Filed June 11, 2020 in the House by
What it changes
- Page 11, after line 19 by inserting: “DIVISION ___ LOCAL FOOD AND FARM PROGRAM Sec. ___. LOCAL FOOD AND FARM PROGRAM.
- There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of agriculture and land stewardship for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated: For purposes of supporting the local food and farm program pursuant to chapter 267A : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 100,000
- Of the moneys appropriated in subsection 1, the department shall use not more than $25,000 to develop an incentive program for the purchase of food products by government entities from farmers for distribution at the local level. The department shall submit a report regarding the initiative to the chairperson and ranking members of the joint appropriations subcommittee on agriculture and natural resources not later than December 1,
- The report shall include findings and recommendations to improve the program.
- The department shall enter into a cost-sharing agreement with the Iowa state university of science and technology to support the local food and farm program coordinator position as part of the university’s cooperative extension service in agriculture and home economics pursuant to chapter 267A .
- Notwithstanding section 8.33 , moneys appropriated in this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available to be used for the purposes designated until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.”
- By renumbering as necessary.