Relating to and making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund and technology reinvestment fund, providing for related matters including renewable fuel infrastructure incentives, and including effective date provisions

This bill relates to and makes appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund (RIIF) and the technology reinvestment fund (TRF) and provides for related matters. The bill is organized by divisions. REBUILD IOWA INFRASTRUCTURE FUND. This division appropriates project funding for multiple fiscal years from RIIF for projects for the departments of administrative services, agriculture and land stewardship, the blind, health and human services, homeland security and emergency management, natural resources, public defense, public safety, transportation, and veterans affairs, and for the economic development authority, treasurer of state, board of regents, racing and gaming commission, judicial branch, and legislative branch. TECHNOLOGY REINVESTMENT FUND. This division appropriates project funding for FY 2024-2025 from TRF for projects for the departments of justice, corrections, education, health and human services, homeland security and emergency management, management, and revenue, and for the secretary of state and treasurer of state. CHANGES TO PRIOR APPROPRIATIONS. This division delays the reversion of all of the following: an FY 2019-2020 appropriation from TRF to the department of health and human services for the upgrade of the Medicaid management information system, an FY 2021-2022 appropriation from RIIF to the department of corrections for the remodel and expansion of the kitchen and visitation areas at the Clarinda treatment complex, an FY 2021-2022 appropriation from RIIF to the legislative branch for repair and renovation of the state capitol domes, an FY 2021-2022 appropriation from TRF to the department of inspections and appeals (currently the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing) for a registry of children receiving foster care, and an FY 2022-2023 appropriation from RIIF to the department of corrections for kitchen equipment at the Clarinda treatment complex and various infrastructure projects at correctional facilities. The bill also amends the FY 2021-2022 appropriation from RIIF to the legislative branch by authorizing the moneys to be used for costs associated with other state capitol maintenance projects, in addition to repairing and renovating the state capitol domes. These provisions take effect upon enactment. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.57C (TRF) is amended to provide that the standing appropriation to TRF from the general fund for fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2024, is changed to fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2025, and to provide for an appropriation to TRF from RIIF for FY 2024-2025. The bill increases the maximum amount of financial incentives that may be awarded to a person to improve a retail motor fuel site by installing, replacing, or converting ethanol infrastructure at designated tier “I”, “II”, and “III” sites, and increases the total amount available each year to be allocated for the installation, replacement, or conversion of biodiesel infrastructure.