Bills › 88th General Assembly
Appropriating moneys to the Iowa resources enhancement and protection fund
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2020
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
GENERAL.18) which receives $20 million from the general fund of the state per fiscal year until 2021-2022. The bill increases the amount of the appropriation to $25 million, and makes the appropriation period indefinite. The bill also provides that if the constitutional amendment ratified in 2010 establishing a natural resources and outdoor recreation trust fund is implemented, the appropriation from the general fund of the state to the REAP fund is to be reduced for each fiscal year by the amount credited to the REAP fund from revenues generated by the constitutional amendment.
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BACKGROUND. The constitutional amendment, ratified on November 2, 2010, dedicates state revenue from an increase in the state’s sales tax for deposit into a natural resources and outdoor recreation trust fund. Moneys in the fund cannot be used for any purpose other than protecting and enhancing water quality and natural areas in this state, including parks, trails, and fish and wildlife habitat, and conserving agricultural soils in this state. No revenue is credited to the natural resources and outdoor recreation trust fund until the state’s sales tax is increased. Whenever the sales tax is increased, the amount generated by the increase, not to exceed three-eighths of percent of the increase, is to be credited to that trust fund.35).