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, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions

The bill alters the date by which the report must be submitted to December 31, and requires the report to cover the preceding fiscal year. CORRECTIVE PROVISIONS.133(3)(l), if enacted by 2019 Iowa Acts, House File 634, section 5, is amended to correct the term “board” to “department”.51(1)(a), if enacted by 2019 Iowa Acts, House File 690, section 8, is amended to use the complete terminology of a defined term in Code chapter 225C.51(3), if enacted by 2019 Iowa Acts, House File 690, section 8, is amended to use the complete terminology of a defined term in Code chapter 225C.3(1) and (2), as enacted by 2019 Iowa Acts, Senate File 274, section 3, are amended to include an erroneously omitted conjunction “or” and to correct a reference to the Constitution of the United States to be consistent with the reference throughout the Act. This provision takes effect upon enactment and applies retroactively to March 27, 2019.15(2)(b), if enacted by 2019 Iowa Acts, Senate File 435, section 12, is amended to identify the correct Code section subunit.2(2), as amended by 2019 Iowa Acts, House File 679, section 184, if enacted, is amended to correct a reference to the “commissioner of insurance”.4A(1)(c), as enacted by 2019 Iowa Acts, Senate File 558, section 4, is amended to correct a reference to the term “surplus lines business” to be consistent with the usage of the term throughout the Act.13(6), as amended by 2019 Iowa Acts, Senate File 559, section 6, is amended to include the complete cross reference citation related to notices and documents that are delivered by electronic means.648, as amended by 2019 Iowa Acts, House File 610, section 34, if enacted, is amended to correct a reference to the term “protected person” to be consistent with the usage of the term throughout the Act. This provision takes effect January 1, 2020, and applies to guardianships and guardianship proceedings for adults and conservatorships and conservatorship proceedings for adults and minors established or pending before, on, or after January 1, 2020. 2019 Iowa Acts, Senate File 333, section 104, subsection 6, the nonsubstantive Code editor’s bill, is amended to correctly identify a codified subunit included in the Code editor directives of the Act. FLOOD RECOVERY.16, the bill establishes a flood recovery fund in the state treasury under the control of the flood mitigation board. The board may award moneys from the fund to eligible political subdivisions of the state as provided in the bill. A political subdivision of the state is eligible to receive moneys from the fund if the political subdivision is located in a county designated under presidential disaster declaration DR-4421-IA and is also located in a county where the federal emergency management agency’s individual assistance program has been activated. The bill sets forth project application requirements and the criteria the board must consider when reviewing project applications. The bill makes an appropriation to the flood recovery fund for FY 2018-2019, and authorizes the department of homeland security and emergency management to adopt emergency rules. This division of the bill takes effect upon enactment. STATE BUDGET PROCESS. The bill codifies provisions relating to the salary model administrator that appeared annually in previous standings appropriations bills, with one exception. The provisions, in part, required the five institutions under the jurisdiction of the state board of regents to provide salary data to the department of management and the legislative services agency to operate the state’s salary model.7. These institutions include the state university of Iowa including the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics, the Iowa state university of science and technology including the agricultural experiment station, the university of northern Iowa, the Iowa braille and sight saving school, the state school for the deaf, the Oakdale campus, and the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics’ center for disabilities and development. The bill also codifies provisions relating to the state budget process that appeared biennially and applied annually in previous standings appropriations bills. The provisions specify the contents of the estimates of expenditure requirements required to be submitted by all departments and establishments of the government, including the judicial branch, each year to the director of the department of management. BLACKOUT SPECIAL REGISTRATION PLATES. The bill authorizes the department of transportation (DOT) to issue blackout special registration plates. The bill requires the plates’ background to be black and the plates’ letters and numbers to be white. The bill provides that the special blackout fee for letter-number designated blackout plates is $35. An applicant may obtain personalized blackout plates upon payment of the $25 fee for personalized plates set forth under current law, which is in addition to the special blackout fee. The bill requires the fees collected by the DOT for the plates to be paid monthly to the treasurer of state and deposited in the road use tax fund. Upon receipt of the special registration plates, the applicant must surrender the current registration plates to the county treasurer. The county treasurer must validate the special registration plates in the same manner as regular registration plates are validated. The annual special blackout fee for letter-number designated plates is $10, which is in addition to the regular annual registration fee. The annual fee for personalized blackout plates is $5, which is in addition to the annual special blackout fee and the regular annual registration fee. The bill requires the annual special blackout fee to be credited in the same way as the special blackout fee. The bill prohibits the DOT from conditioning the issuance of blackout plates on the receipt of any number of orders for blackout plates.