Relating to and making appropriations to state departments and agencies from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund, the technology reinvestment fund, and the sports wagering receipts fund, providing for related matters, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

This bill relates to and makes appropriations to state departments and agencies from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund and the technology reinvestment fund, and provides for related matters. The bill is organized by divisions. DIVISION I —— REBUILD IOWA INFRASTRUCTURE FUND. This division appropriates project funding for FY 2022-2023 from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund for projects for the departments of administrative services, agriculture and land stewardship, the blind, corrections, cultural affairs, human services, natural resources, public defense, public safety, and transportation, and for the economic development authority, board of regents, state fair authority, treasurer of state, and the judicial branch. DIVISION II —— TECHNOLOGY REINVESTMENT FUND. This division appropriates project funding for FY 2022-2023 from the technology reinvestment fund for the departments of corrections, education, homeland security and emergency management, human rights, human services, inspections and appeals, management, public defense, public safety, and revenue, and for the Iowa telecommunications and technology commission, and the judicial branch. DIVISION III —— CHANGES TO PRIOR APPROPRIATIONS. This division allows moneys appropriated from the technology reinvestment fund to the department of human services over multiple fiscal years beginning with FY 2018-2019 that would revert if unencumbered and unexpended three years after the close of the fiscal year in which the appropriation was made to not revert until four years after the close of the fiscal year in which the appropriation was made. The division also allows moneys appropriated to the Iowa veterans home for FY 2019-2020 that would revert if unencumbered and unexpended as of June 30, 2022, to not revert but remain available for expenditure until the close of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022. The division also allows moneys appropriated to the department of human services for FY 2019-2020 that would revert if unencumbered and unexpended as of June 30, 2022, to not revert but remain available for expenditure until the close of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023. The division also makes a change to moneys appropriated from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund to the department of public defense for a readiness center in West Des Moines, the department of homeland security for emergency services programs, and to the board of regents for projects at the Iowa state university of science and technology and the university of northern Iowa. This division of the bill takes effect upon enactment. DIVISION IV —— MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.5 million.11101, concerning responsibility for county courthouses and attendant costs, is amended to provide that, effective July 1, 2023, for a county that expends moneys for the renovation or construction of suitable courtrooms, offices, and other physical facilities that requires the purchase of furnishings, supplies, and equipment as a result of that renovation or construction, the state shall be responsible for only percent of the cost of the purchase. DIVISION V —— SPORTS TOURISM PROGRAM.401, concerning the sports tourism program. The bill limits financial assistance to an applicant under the program to no more than percent of the total cost of the project and limits the amount that can be awarded to an applicant in any fiscal year to no more than $10 million. The bill also provides that the financial assistance received shall be used only for infrastructure and not for marketing and promotions.