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Relating to food banks, making an appropriation, and including effective and applicability dates
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 25, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 27, 2021
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa will provide money to the Department of Human Services to help feed people across the state. This money will be given to Feeding America food banks based on how many people live in the areas they serve. Each food bank must use at least a portion of its funds to help other community partners in its area.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to food banks in the state and provides an appropriation from the surplus in the general fund of the state at the conclusion of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, to the department of human services for fiscal year 2020-2021. The funds appropriated are to be distributed to the feeding America member food banks located throughout the state based on the percentage of the state population of the service area served by the specific food bank. At least percent of the funds received by each food bank shall be used to assist community partners in the service area of the food bank. The moneys appropriated shall not revert to the general fund at the end of the fiscal year but are to remain available for the purposes designated. The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2020.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 27, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Lobbying
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