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Sustainable Funding Legislation
Last week, the Iowa Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment Committee unanimously passed an amended Bill SJR 2002. It will be given a new Senate File number, but until the bill is introduced refer to it as the Natural Resources Sustainable Funding Constitutional Amendment.
The language amends the constitution of the State by creating a Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Fund within the treasury for the purpose of protecting and enhancing water quality and natural areas in this state including parks, trails, and fish and wildlife habitat, and conserving agricultural soils in this State. Money in the fund shall be exclusively appropriated by law for these purposes.
The fund shall be annually credited with an amount equal to the amount generated by a tax rate of three-eighths of one percent of revenue collected by this State from a sales tax imposed upon the retail sales of tangible personal property and the furnishing of enumerated services sold in the State. No revenue shall be credited to the fund until the tax rate for the sales tax imposed upon the retail sales …..has been increased.
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Last week, the Iowa Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment Committee unanimously passed an amended Bill SJR 2002. It will be given a new Senate File number, but until the bill is introduced refer to it as the Natural Resources Sustainable Funding Constitutional Amendment.
The language amends the constitution of the State by creating a Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Fund within the treasury for the purpose of protecting and enhancing water quality and natural areas in this state including parks, trails, and fish and wildlife habitat, and conserving agricultural soils in this State. Money in the fund shall be exclusively appropriated by law for these purposes.
The fund shall be annually credited with an amount equal to the amount generated by a tax rate of three-eighths of one percent of revenue collected by this State from a sales tax imposed upon the retail sales of tangible personal property and the furnishing of enumerated services sold in the State. No revenue shall be credited to the fund until the tax rate for the sales tax imposed upon the retail sales …..has been increased.
Read more here