Bills › 91st General Assembly
Relating to prison infrastructure
Topics:State budget
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedApril 24, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeApril 24, 2025
- Done: House committeeMay 12, 2025
- Done: Passes the HouseApril 8, 202692–0
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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What’s in it
This bill creates a new prison construction account within the Iowa prison infrastructure (IPI) fund.177).8108A), which receives moneys each fiscal year from fines, fees, costs, and forfeited bail collected by the clerks of the district court in criminal cases. The bill provides that for FY 2025-2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, if infrastructure financing bonds pertaining to the Iowa state penitentiary (Fort Madison, Iowa) are paid off, an amount equal to the amounts paid on such bonds for FY 2024-2025 shall be deposited into the new prison construction account from the IPI fund and shall only be used pursuant to an appropriation made by the general assembly for the construction of new prisons or the replacement of infrastructure at existing prisons.
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Moneys in the account do not revert and are not deposited in the general fund of the state at the end of each fiscal year (unlike the other moneys in the IPI fund).79) and moves the infrastructure project reporting requirement for the department of corrections in that Code section to Code chapter 904 (department of corrections). The bill requests that the legislative council establish an interim study committee to explore and consider issues involving prison capacity and the feasibility of an additional prison or other prison housing options. The interim study committee is directed to consider factors set forth in the bill. The bill requires the interim study committee to, on or before December 18, 2025, submit a report to the general assembly and the governor.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Changed since by amendment H-8314; see Amendments. Full bill text
House subcommittee
Named April 24, 2025. On May 1, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Iowa Code it changes
Creates§904.115A
Amends§12.80§602.8108A
Repeals§12.79
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