Creating a restore the outdoors program to support vertical infrastructure projects by the department of natural resources, and making appropriations

PROGRAM. This bill creates a restore the outdoors program (program) under the management of the department of natural resources (DNR). The program is to finance certain projects at existing state parks and other existing public facilities managed by DNR. The projects must be for major repairs or major renovations of existing infrastructure unless new construction is justified on the basis of either an increase in demand or that the major repair or renovation would not be cost effective. DNR must submit an annual report to the governor and general assembly detailing past expenditures used to finance completed or ongoing projects and planned expenditures to finance future projects. The program is eliminated on July 1, 2027. INFRASTRUCTURE FUND —— APPROPRIATIONS.57(5)) to DNR each fiscal year for a five-year period beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2027, to support the program.57(5)(c)). BACKGROUND.3A). The Act appropriated $3 million from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund for each fiscal year of a four-year period beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, 2001, to support the program. In 2000, a provision to extend the annual appropriation until June 30, 2004, was vetoed (2000 Iowa Acts, chapter 1225, section 24). For three years, beginning in 2001, the program was supported by moneys appropriated from the tobacco settlement trust fund (2001 Iowa Acts, chapter 185, section 25; 2002 Iowa Acts, chapter 1173, section 1; and 2003 Iowa Acts, chapter 177, section 22).3A (2013 Iowa Acts, chapter 132, section 56).