Relating to transitional housing for specified homeless veterans, and making an appropriation

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.