Senate File 2410 - Introduced
SENATE FILE 2410
BY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
(SUCCESSOR TO SF 2209)
(SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3052)
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to agriculture, by providing for the
2 administration of programs and regulations, making
3 appropriations, and including effective date provisions.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 DIVISION I
2 IOWA-FOALED HORSES
3 Section 1. Section 99D.22, subsection 2, paragraph b,
4 subparagraph (3), Code 2024, is amended to read as follows:
5 (3) (a) Continuous For a thoroughbred foal, continuous
6 residency from December 31 15 until the foal is inspected if
7 the mare was bred by other than an Iowa registered stallion and
8 is not bred back to an Iowa registered stallion.
9 (b) For a standardbred foal or quarter horse foal,
10 continuous residency from January 31 until the foal is
11 inspected if the mare was bred by other than an Iowa registered
12 stallion and is not bred back to an Iowa registered stallion.
13 DIVISION II
14 AGRICULTURAL MARKETING
15 Sec. 2. Section 15E.370, Code 2024, is amended to read as
16 follows:
17 15E.370 Butchery innovation and revitalization fund and
18 program.
19 1. As used in this section unless the context otherwise
20 requires:
21 a. “Department” means the department of agriculture and land
22 stewardship.
23 b. “Financial assistance” means assistance provided only
24 from the funds and assets legally available to the authority
25 pursuant to this section and includes assistance in the form of
26 grants, low-interest loans, and forgivable loans.
27 c. “Fund” means the butchery innovation and revitalization
28 fund.
29 d. “Located in” means the place or places at which
30 a business’s operations are located and where at least
31 ninety-eight percent of the business’s employees work, or where
32 employees that are paid at least ninety-eight percent of the
33 business’s payroll work.
34 e. “Program” means the butchery innovation and
35 revitalization program.
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1 2. a. The fund is created in the state treasury under
2 the control of the authority and consists of any moneys
3 appropriated to the fund by the general assembly and any other
4 moneys available and obtained or accepted by the authority
5 for placement in the fund. The fund shall be used to award
6 financial assistance as provided under the program. The
7 authority shall use any moneys specifically appropriated for
8 purposes of this section only for the purposes of the program.
9 b. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the fund
10 that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the
11 fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for
12 expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of the
13 succeeding fiscal year.
14 c. The authority may use not more than five percent of
15 the moneys in the fund at the beginning of each fiscal year
16 for purposes of administrative costs, marketing, technical
17 assistance, and other program support.
18 1. A butchery innovation and revitalization program is
19 established within the department. The purpose of the program
20 is to promote the development, modernization, and expansion of
21 this state’s small-scale butchery industry.
22 3. 2. The authority, in consultation with In administering
23 the program, the department, shall establish and administer the
24 program for the purpose of awarding award financial assistance
25 to eligible businesses for to support projects that do one or
26 more of the following projects:
27 a. To expand Expand or refurbish an existing, or to
28 establish a new, state-inspected small-scale meat processing
29 business.
30 b. To expand Expand or refurbish an existing, or to
31 establish a new, federally inspected small-scale meat
32 processing business.
33 c. To expand Expand or refurbish an existing, or to
34 establish a new, licensed custom locker.
35 d. To expand Expand or refurbish an existing, or to
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1 establish a new, mobile slaughter unit that operates in
2 compliance with the most current mobile slaughter unit
3 compliance guide issued by the United States department of
4 agriculture food safety and inspection service.
5 e. To rent Rent buildings, refrigeration facilities, or
6 freezer facilities, or acquire equipment if necessary, to
7 expand processing capacity, including mobile slaughter or
8 refrigeration units used exclusively for meat or poultry
9 processing.
10 4. 3. The authority, in consultation with the department,
11 shall establish eligibility criteria for the program by rule.
12 The eligibility criteria must include all of the following:
13 a. The business must be located in this state.
14 b. The business must not have been subject to any regulatory
15 enforcement action related to federal, state, or local
16 environmental, worker safety, food processing, or food safety
17 laws, rules, or regulations within the last five years.
18 c. The business must only employ individuals legally
19 authorized to work in the state.
20 d. The business must not currently be in bankruptcy.
21 e. The business must employ less than seventy-five
22 full-time, nonseasonal individuals.
23 5. 4. A An eligible business seeking financial assistance
24 under this section shall make application to the authority
25 department in the manner and on forms prescribed by the
26 authority by rule department.
27 6. 5. Applications for financial assistance under this
28 section shall be accepted during one or more annual application
29 periods to be determined by the authority by rule established
30 by the department. Upon reviewing and scoring all applications
31 that are received during an application period, and subject to
32 funding the availability of moneys, the authority department
33 may, in consultation with the department, award financial
34 assistance to eligible businesses. A financial assistance
35 award shall not exceed the amount of eligible project costs
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1 included in the eligible business’s application. Priority
2 shall be given to an eligible businesses whose business
3 describing a proposed projects project under subsection 3 will
4 2 that is most likely to do any one or more of the following:
5 a. Create new jobs.
6 b. Create or expand opportunities for local small-scale
7 farmers to market processed meat under private labels.
8 c. Provide greater flexibility or convenience for local
9 small-scale farmers to have animals processed.
10 7. 6. A An eligible business that is awarded financial
11 assistance under this section may apply for financial
12 assistance under other programs administered by the authority
13 department.
14 8. The authority shall, in consultation with the
15 department, adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to administer
16 this section.
17 Sec. 3. Section 159.20, subsection 2, Code 2024, is amended
18 to read as follows:
19 2. The department shall establish and administer a
20 choose Iowa promotional program as provided in part 2 of
21 this subchapter, in order to provide consumers a choice in
22 programs that advance the purchasing food items of agricultural
23 commodities produced on Iowa farms and Iowa products that
24 originate as an agricultural commodity commodities produced on
25 Iowa farms under this title, including chapter 187.
26 Sec. 4. Section 159.20, subsection 3, unnumbered paragraph
27 1, Code 2024, is amended to read as follows:
28 As used in this subchapter section:
29 Sec. 5. Section 159.28, Code 2024, is amended to read as
30 follows:
31 159.28 Choose Iowa promotional program.
32 1. The department shall establish and administer a choose
33 Iowa promotional program to advertise for retail sale on a
34 retail basis a food item that originates as an agricultural
35 commodity produced on an Iowa farm, and an Iowa product that
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1 may include any of the following:
2 a. An agricultural commodity produced on an Iowa farm,
3 except that it may be prepared for sale by washing or packaging
4 in this state.
5 b. A product, if it is An agricultural commodity processed
6 in this state and any of its ingredients, if its components
7 originate as an agricultural commodity produced on an Iowa
8 farm.
9 2. a. The department may adopt rules further defining an
10 Iowa farm, Iowa agricultural commodity, and Iowa product; and
11 describing how an Iowa agricultural commodity originates on an
12 Iowa farm.
13 b. The department may adopt rules providing for the
14 acceptable use of ingredients originating a component that
15 originates from an agricultural commodities commodity not
16 produced on an Iowa farms farm. In adopting the rules, the
17 department may consider whether the ingredient component is
18 an incidental additive or other component that the department
19 determines is or insignificant part of an Iowa product.
20 Sec. 6. Section 159.29, subsections 1 and 5, Code 2024, are
21 amended to read as follows:
22 1. As part of the choose Iowa promotional program, the
23 department may establish a choose Iowa logo to identify a food
24 item originating as an agricultural commodity produced on an
25 Iowa farm an Iowa product.
26 5. The use of a choose Iowa logo does not do any of the
27 following:
28 a. Provide an express or implied guarantee or warranty
29 concerning the safety, fitness, merchantability, or use of a
30 food item product.
31 b. Supersede, revise, or replace a state or federal labeling
32 requirement, including but not limited to a provision in the
33 federal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, 15 U.S.C. §1451 et
34 seq.
35 c. Indicate the grade, specification, standard, or value of
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1 any food item agricultural commodity, component, or product.
2 Sec. 7. Section 159.31, subsections 1, 2, and 3, Code 2024,
3 are amended to read as follows:
4 1. A choose Iowa fund is established created in the state
5 treasury under the management and control of the department.
6 2. The fund shall include moneys collected as fees by
7 the department as provided in section 159.30 187.303, moneys
8 appropriated by the general assembly, and other moneys
9 available to and obtained or accepted by the department,
10 including moneys from public or private sources.
11 3. Moneys in the fund are appropriated to the department
12 and shall be used exclusively to carry out the provisions of
13 this part administer the programs created in this subchapter
14 as determined and directed by the department, and shall not
15 require further special authorization by the general assembly.
16 Sec. 8. Section 159.31A, Code 2024, is amended to read as
17 follows:
18 159.31A Dairy innovation fund and revitalization program.
19 1. As used in this section unless the context otherwise
20 requires:
21 a. “Financial assistance” means assistance provided only
22 from the moneys and assets legally available to the department
23 pursuant to this section and includes assistance in the form of
24 grants, low-interest loans, and forgivable loans.
25 b. “Fund” means the dairy innovation fund.
26 c. “Located in” means the place or places at which
27 a business’s operations are located and where at least
28 ninety-eight percent of the business’s employees work, or where
29 employees that are paid at least ninety-eight percent of the
30 business’s payroll work.
31 d. “Program” means the dairy innovation program.
32 2. a. The fund is created in the state treasury under
33 the control of the department and consists of any moneys
34 appropriated to the fund by the general assembly and any other
35 moneys available to or obtained or accepted by the department
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1 for placement in the fund. Moneys in the fund are appropriated
2 to the department to award financial assistance as provided
3 under the program. The department shall use any moneys
4 specifically appropriated for purposes of this section only for
5 the purposes of the program.
6 b. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the fund
7 that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the
8 fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for
9 expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of the
10 succeeding fiscal year.
11 1. A dairy innovation and revitalization program is created
12 within the department. The purpose of the program is to
13 promote the development, modernization, and expansion of this
14 state’s dairy industry.
15 3. 2. The In administering the program, the department
16 shall establish and administer the program for the purpose of
17 awarding award financial assistance to eligible businesses
18 engaged in to support projects that do one or more of the
19 following:
20 a. Expand or refurbish existing milk plants or establish a
21 new milk plant, operating pursuant to a permit issued pursuant
22 to section 192.111 or 194.3A.
23 b. Expand or refurbish existing mobile dairy processing
24 units, or establish new mobile dairy processing units.
25 c. Rent buildings, refrigeration facilities, or freezer
26 facilities, or equipment necessary to expand dairy processing
27 capacity, including mobile dairy or refrigeration units used
28 exclusively for dairy processing.
29 d. Incorporate methods and technologies that reduce farm
30 labor associated with milk production and storage, including
31 but not limited to the use of robotics and processes or systems
32 that operate using computerized equipment or machinery.
33 4. 3. The department shall establish eligibility criteria
34 for the program by rule. The eligibility criteria must include
35 all of the following:
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1 a. The business must be located in this state.
2 b. The business must not have been subject to any regulatory
3 enforcement action related to federal, state, or local
4 environmental, worker safety, food processing, or food safety
5 laws, rules, or regulations within the last five years.
6 c. The business must only employ individuals legally
7 authorized to work in this state.
8 d. The business must not currently be in bankruptcy.
9 e. The business must employ less than fifty individuals.
10 5. 4. A An eligible business seeking financial assistance
11 under this section shall make application to the department in
12 the manner and on forms prescribed by the department by rule.
13 6. 5. Applications for financial assistance under this
14 section shall be accepted during one or more annual application
15 periods to be determined established by the department by
16 rule. Upon reviewing and scoring all applications that are
17 received during an application period, and subject to funding
18 the availability of moneys, the department may award financial
19 assistance to eligible businesses. A financial assistance
20 award shall not exceed the amount of eligible project costs
21 included in the eligible business’s application. Priority
22 shall be given to eligible businesses whose proposed project
23 or projects under subsection 3 will 2 are most likely to do any
24 one or more of the following:
25 a. Create new jobs.
26 b. Create or expand opportunities for local small-scale milk
27 producers to market pasteurized milk and milk products under
28 private labels.
29 c. Provide greater flexibility or convenience for local
30 small-scale farmers to have milk processed.
31 d. Reduce labor associated with the on-farm production and
32 storage of milk.
33 7. 6. A An eligible business that is awarded financial
34 assistance under this section may apply for financial
35 assistance under other programs administered by the authority
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