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HF 2561Died when the session ended · February 19, 2024

Providing for the establishment of an American legion auxiliary girls state grant program, and making appropriations

Topics:State budgetVeterans & military

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 19, 2024
  2. Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
  3. Next: House committee
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 create a new grant program to help young women pay to attend American Legion Auxiliary Girls State. The Department of Veterans Affairs will manage the money and decide how people apply for these grants. To start this program, the state will provide $150,000 for the 2024-2025 fiscal year.1

Read the official explanation

This bill establishes an American legion auxiliary girls state grant program and associated grant fund under the administration of the department of veterans affairs for the purpose of awarding grants to enable young women to attend the American legion auxiliary girls state. The bill requires the department to adopt application procedures, forms, administrative guidelines, and other rules for implementing and administering the program and to submit an annual report to the general assembly and the governor that includes information on the amount of moneys distributed from the fund and the number of people who were awarded grants. The bill also appropriates $150,000 for FY 2024-2025 from the general fund to the grant fund.

Full bill text2

Iowa Code it changes

Creates§35A.19

How the Code works3

Lobbying

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