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Creating a food bank donation matching fund and making appropriations
Sponsored by Rep. Timi M. Brown-Powers (D), Rep. Ken Croken (D), Rep. Tracy A. Ehlert (D), Rep. Monica Kurth (D), Rep. Mary Lee Madison (D), Rep. Rick L. Olson (D), Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (D), Rep. Ross Wilburn (D)
Topics:State budgetHealth care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2026
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by February 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill creates the Iowa food bank donation matching fund (fund). Under the bill, the fund is under the control of the department of health and human services (HHS). The general assembly is to appropriate $1 million, or so much as is necessary to match the aggregate amount of private donations to nonprofit food banks over the immediately preceding fiscal year, to the department of health and human services. The moneys shall be appropriated by the general assembly each fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2026, and deposited into the fund by the department.
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HHS is to annually distribute the moneys to nonprofit food banks and must promulgate rules governing the distribution of moneys from the fund.33, moneys in the fund that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of a fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes designated.7(2), interest or earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Iowa Code it changes
Creates§135.16E
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