SSB 1251

The bill requires the departments to submit quarterly reports to the general assembly and department of management regarding the expenditure of appropriated moneys. The bill also provides moneys to support specific programs or projects administered by those departments. The bill appropriates moneys from a number of sources, including the general fund of the state (general fund), the state fish and game protection fund, the groundwater protection fund, and the environment first fund (EFF). Appropriations are made from a number of sources to support the water quality initiative (WQI). The bill is organized into divisions. DALS —— GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS. The bill appropriates moneys to DALS from the general fund in order to support its administrative divisions, including consumer protection and industry services, soil conservation, and food safety and animal health. Moneys are transferred to ISU to support its midwest grape and wine institute. Moneys are also transferred to ISU to support the college of veterinary medicine for the operation of the veterinary diagnostic laboratory, contingent upon the enactment of 2019 Iowa Acts, senate file 601. DALS —— MISCELLANEOUS FUNDS —— DESIGNATED APPROPRIATIONS. _____ to the renewable fuel infrastructure fund, for purposes of regulating motor fuel. DALS —— SPECIAL GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS. The bill also makes special appropriations from the general fund to DALS in order to support specific purposes including milk inspection, the local food and farm program, an agricultural education organization, assistance to farmers with disabilities, and for foreign animal disease preparedness. DALS —— GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS —— WATER QUALITY. The bill appropriates moneys from the general fund to DALS for deposit in the water quality initiative fund, to support the WQI including high-priority watershed projects. The bill appropriates moneys from the general fund to DALS for deposit in the agricultural drainage well water quality assistance fund for purposes of supporting the agricultural drainage well water quality assistance program. DNR —— GENERAL FUND AND OTHER MAJOR FUNDS APPROPRIATIONS. The bill makes appropriations from a number of funds to DNR in order to support its administrative divisions involving natural resources and environmental protection from the general fund, the state fish and game protection fund, and the groundwater protection fund. DNR —— MISCELLANEOUS FUNDS —— DESIGNATED APPROPRIATIONS. The bill appropriates moneys to DNR from a number of sources to support designated purposes, including moneys deposited in the special snowmobile fund to provide for administering and enforcing the state snowmobile programs; and moneys deposited in the unassigned revenue fund for purposes of paying for administration of DNR’s underground storage tanks section. DNR —— SPECIAL GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS. The bill also makes special appropriations from the general fund to DNR in order to support specific purposes including floodplain management and dam safety and forestry health management programs. ISU —— SPECIAL GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS. _____ appropriates moneys from the general fund to ISU to support the operation of its veterinary diagnostic laboratory. DALS, DNR, AND UI —— EFF —— GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS. The bill appropriates moneys from the EFF to support a number of programs administered by DALS, DNR, and UI. For DALS, the moneys are appropriated to support programs involving soil conservation, watershed protection and nutrient management, and the loess hills development and conservation fund. For DNR, moneys are appropriated to support programs involving state parks, geographic information systems, water quality monitoring, public water supplies, regulation of animal feeding operations, air quality, and floodplain management and dam safety. For UI, moneys are appropriated to support the Iowa geological survey. The bill includes provisions that delay the reversion of these moneys. EFF —— SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR WQI. The bill appropriates moneys from the EFF to the water quality initiative fund subject to the same conditions applicable to moneys appropriated to the fund from the general fund. IOWA RESOURCES ENHANCEMENT AND PROTECTION (REAP) FUND —— EFF APPROPRIATION IN LIEU OF GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATION. An amount of moneys is appropriated from the EFF to the REAP fund instead of the $20,0000 otherwise required to be appropriated to the fund from the general fund. RELATED CODE CHANGES —— IOWA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. The name of the geological survey of the state is changed to the Iowa geological survey to comply with current naming conventions. RELATED CODE CHANGES —— PROGRAMS TO AUDIT MOTOR FUEL. The provisions in the bill that authorize DALS to establish and administer programs for auditing motor fuel production and processing, motor fuel screening and testing, and inspection of motor fuel sold by dealers is codified. The provision has been included in previous appropriation bills since 2006. RELATED CODE CHANGES —— WAREHOUSE OPERATORS LIEN. _____ lien superior to other creditors. This provision takes effect upon enactment.