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Relating to transitional housing for specified homeless veterans, and making an appropriation
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 21, 2023
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- 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 provide $4.3 million to help veteran-led nonprofit organizations build or furnish housing for homeless veterans. These funds are specifically for veterans who are struggling with mental illness, life disruptions, or substance abuse. To receive the money, these nonprofits must also provide health and social services to the veterans living in the housing.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to transitional housing for specified homeless veterans.3 million from the opioid settlement fund to the Iowa finance authority (IFA) for FY 2023-2024 to provide grants, low-interest loans, and loan guarantees to veteran-led nonprofit organizations (VNO). The bill makes the distribution of such moneys appropriated to the IFA contingent on a VNO using the funds to purchase land, construct housing, or furnish housing for the purpose of providing transitional housing to homeless veterans; ensuring the veterans receiving such transitional housing benefits are suffering from or are at risk of opioid or other substance abuse disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, or another mental illness or life disruption as the IFA, in consultation with the department of health and human services and the department of veterans affairs, deems appropriate; and that the funds are used as a part of a wraparound health and social services program provided by or through the VNO. The bill states that all moneys appropriated pursuant to the bill that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.
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