SSB 1262

This bill relates to state and local finances by making appropriations, providing for legal and regulatory responsibilities, and providing for other properly related matters. STANDING APPROPRIATIONS AND RELATED MATTERS. The bill limits standing appropriations for payment of claims for nonpublic school transportation, instructional support state aid, and state aid for area education agencies. MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATIONS. The bill makes an appropriation from the general fund to the flood mitigation fund for FY 2018-2019 for projects located in any county that has been declared a major disaster by the president of the United States on or after March 12, 2019, and that is also a county in which individuals are eligible for federal individual assistance. This provision of the bill is effective upon enactment. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. The bill strikes a requirement that the compensation of the chaplains, officers, and employees of the general assembly shall be fixed by joint action of the house and senate by resolution at the opening of each session, or as soon thereafter as conveniently can be done. The bill requires the ombudsman to submit a report to the general assembly and to the governor concerning the exercise of the ombudsman’s functions during the preceding calendar year by December instead of April 1. _____ or retain attorneys or counselors as necessary in the board’s discretion or in the discretion of the institutions governed by the board, to carry out the duties of the board or its institutions. In addition, the board or its institutions may be represented in any court or tribunal by an attorney or counselor on the board’s staff or on the staff of an institution governed by the board, by the office of the attorney general, or, if authorized by the executive council, by other attorneys retained by the board or by the institutions the board governs. CORRECTIVE PROVISIONS.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.2(2), as amended by 2019 Iowa Acts, House File 679, section 185, 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. 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. 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. _____ 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. The treasurer of state must then credit monthly from the statutory allocations fund to each county’s county mental health and disabilities services fund the amount of the special blackout fees collected in the previous month for the blackout plates issued to vehicles registered in that county. 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.