Senate Study Bill 3191 - Introduced
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BY (PROPOSED GOVERNOR BUDGET
BILL)
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to and making appropriations to the justice
2 system.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 DIVISION I
2 FY 2024-2025 APPROPRIATIONS
3 Section 1. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
4 1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
5 to the department of justice for the fiscal year beginning July
6 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, the following amounts, or
7 so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
8 designated:
9 a. For the general office of attorney general for
10 salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes,
11 including the prosecuting attorneys training program, matching
12 funds for federal violence against women grant programs,
13 victim assistance grants, the office of drug control policy
14 prosecuting attorney program, and odometer fraud enforcement:
15 .................................................. $ 9,042,483
16 As a condition of receiving the appropriation provided
17 in this lettered paragraph, the department of justice shall
18 maintain a record of the estimated time incurred representing
19 each agency or department.
20 The general office of attorney general may temporarily
21 exceed and draw more than the amount appropriated in this
22 lettered paragraph and incur a negative cash balance as long
23 as there are receivables equal to or greater than the negative
24 balances and the amount appropriated in this lettered paragraph
25 is not exceeded at the close of the fiscal year.
26 b. For victim assistance grants:
27 .................................................. $ 5,016,708
28 The moneys appropriated in this lettered paragraph shall be
29 used to provide grants to care providers providing services to
30 crime victims of domestic abuse or to crime victims of rape and
31 sexual assault.
32 The balance of the victim compensation fund established in
33 section 915.94 may be used to provide salary and support of not
34 more than 24.00 full-time equivalent positions and to provide
35 maintenance for the victim compensation functions of the
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1 department of justice. In addition to the full-time equivalent
2 positions authorized pursuant to this paragraph, 7.00 full-time
3 equivalent positions are authorized and shall be used by the
4 department of justice to employ one accountant and four program
5 planners. The department of justice may employ the additional
6 7.00 full-time equivalent positions authorized pursuant to
7 this paragraph that are in excess of the number of full-time
8 equivalent positions authorized only if the department
9 of justice receives sufficient federal moneys to maintain
10 employment for the additional full-time equivalent positions
11 during the current fiscal year. The department of justice
12 shall only employ the additional 7.00 full-time equivalent
13 positions in succeeding fiscal years if sufficient federal
14 moneys are received during each of those succeeding years.
15 The department of justice shall transfer at least $150,000
16 from the victim compensation fund established in section 915.94
17 to the victim assistance grant program established in section
18 13.31.
19 Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this
20 lettered paragraph that remain unencumbered or unobligated at
21 the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain
22 available for expenditure for the purposes designated until the
23 close of the succeeding fiscal year.
24 c. For legal services for persons in poverty grants as
25 provided in section 13.34:
26 .................................................. $ 2,634,601
27 d. To improve the department of justice’s cybersecurity and
28 technology infrastructure:
29 .................................................. $ 202,060
30 2. a. The department of justice, in submitting budget
31 estimates for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, pursuant
32 to section 8.23, shall include a report of funding from sources
33 other than amounts appropriated directly from the general fund
34 of the state to the department of justice or to the office of
35 consumer advocate. These funding sources shall include but
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1 are not limited to reimbursements from other state agencies,
2 commissions, boards, or similar entities, and reimbursements
3 from special funds or internal accounts within the department
4 of justice. The department of justice shall also report actual
5 reimbursements for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023,
6 and actual and expected reimbursements for the fiscal year
7 beginning July 1, 2024.
8 b. The department of justice shall include the report
9 required under paragraph “a”, as well as information regarding
10 any revisions occurring as a result of reimbursements actually
11 received or expected at a later date, in a report to the
12 general assembly. The department of justice shall submit the
13 report on or before January 15, 2025.
14 3. a. The department of justice shall fully reimburse
15 the costs and necessary related expenses incurred by the Iowa
16 law enforcement academy to continue to employ one additional
17 instructor position who shall provide training for human
18 trafficking-related issues throughout the state.
19 b. The department of justice shall obtain the moneys
20 necessary to reimburse the Iowa law enforcement academy to
21 employ such an instructor from unrestricted moneys from either
22 the victim compensation fund established in section 915.94 or
23 the human trafficking victim fund established in section 915.95
24 or the human trafficking enforcement fund established in 2015
25 Iowa Acts, chapter 138, section 141.
26 Sec. 2. OFFICE OF CONSUMER ADVOCATE. There is appropriated
27 from the commerce revolving fund created in section 546.12 to
28 the office of consumer advocate of the department of justice
29 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30,
30 2025, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary,
31 to be used for the purposes designated:
32 For salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
33 purposes:
34 .................................................. $ 3,450,713
35 The office of consumer advocate shall include in its charges
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1 assessed or revenues generated an amount sufficient to cover
2 the amount stated in its appropriation and any state-assessed
3 indirect costs determined by the department of administrative
4 services.
5 Sec. 3. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS —— FACILITIES.
6 1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
7 to the department of corrections for the fiscal year beginning
8 July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, the following amounts,
9 or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
10 designated:
11 a. For the operation of the Fort Madison correctional
12 facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
13 miscellaneous purposes:
14 .................................................. $ 45,522,762
15 b. For the operation of the Anamosa correctional facility,
16 including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
17 purposes:
18 .................................................. $ 38,887,065
19 c. For the operation of the Oakdale correctional facility,
20 including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
21 purposes:
22 .................................................. $ 57,703,792
23 d. For the Oakdale correctional facility for
24 department-wide institutional pharmaceuticals and miscellaneous
25 purposes:
26 .................................................. $ 9,925,417
27 e. For the operation of the Newton correctional facility,
28 including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
29 purposes:
30 .................................................. $ 31,522,181
31 f. For the operation of the Mount Pleasant correctional
32 facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
33 miscellaneous purposes:
34 .................................................. $ 29,729,489
35 g. For the operation of the Rockwell City correctional
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1 facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
2 miscellaneous purposes:
3 .................................................. $ 11,364,524
4 h. For the operation of the Clarinda correctional facility,
5 including salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous
6 purposes:
7 .................................................. $ 28,625,610
8 Moneys received by the department of corrections as
9 reimbursement for services provided to the Clarinda youth
10 corporation are appropriated to the department and shall be
11 used for the purpose of operating the Clarinda correctional
12 facility.
13 i. For the operation of the Mitchellville correctional
14 facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
15 miscellaneous purposes:
16 .................................................. $ 25,512,183
17 j. For the operation of the Fort Dodge correctional
18 facility, including salaries, support, maintenance, and
19 miscellaneous purposes:
20 .................................................. $ 33,279,423
21 k. For reimbursement of counties for temporary confinement
22 of prisoners, as provided in sections 901.7, 904.908, and
23 906.17, and for offenders confined pursuant to section 904.513:
24 .................................................. $ 1,345,319
25 l. For federal prison reimbursement, reimbursements for
26 out-of-state placements, and miscellaneous contracts:
27 .................................................. $ 234,411
28 2. The department of corrections shall use moneys
29 appropriated in subsection 1 to continue to contract for the
30 services of a Muslim imam and a Native American spiritual
31 leader.
32 Sec. 4. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS —— ADMINISTRATION.
33 There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the
34 department of corrections for the fiscal year beginning July
35 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, the following amounts, or
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1 so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
2 designated:
3 1. For general administration, including salaries and the
4 adjustment of salaries throughout the department, support,
5 maintenance, employment of an education director to administer
6 a centralized education program for the correctional system,
7 and miscellaneous purposes:
8 .................................................. $ 7,662,297
9 a. It is the intent of the general assembly that each
10 lease negotiated by the department of corrections with a
11 private corporation for the purpose of providing private
12 industry employment of inmates in a correctional institution
13 shall prohibit the private corporation from utilizing inmate
14 labor for partisan political purposes for any person seeking
15 election to public office in this state and that a violation
16 of this requirement shall result in a termination of the lease
17 agreement.
18 b. It is the intent of the general assembly that as a
19 condition of receiving the appropriation provided in this
20 subsection the department of corrections shall not enter into
21 a lease or contractual agreement pursuant to section 904.809
22 with a private corporation for the use of building space for
23 the purpose of providing inmate employment without providing
24 that the terms of the lease or contract establish safeguards to
25 restrict, to the greatest extent feasible, access by inmates
26 working for the private corporation to personal identifying
27 information of citizens.
28 2. For educational programs for inmates at state penal
29 institutions:
30 .................................................. $ 2,608,109
31 a. To maximize the funding for educational programs,
32 the department shall establish guidelines and procedures to
33 prioritize the availability of educational and vocational
34 training for inmates based upon the goal of facilitating an
35 inmate’s successful release from the correctional institution.
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1 b. The director of the department of corrections may
2 transfer moneys from Iowa prison industries and the canteen
3 operating funds established pursuant to section 904.310, for
4 use in educational programs for inmates.
5 c. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in
6 this subsection that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the
7 close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain
8 available to be used only for the purposes designated in this
9 subsection until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.
10 3. For the development and operation of the Iowa corrections
11 offender network (ICON) data system:
12 .................................................. $ 2,000,000
13 4. For offender mental health and substance abuse
14 treatment:
15 .................................................. $ 28,065
16 5. For department-wide duties, including operations, costs,
17 and miscellaneous purposes:
18 .................................................. $ 8,654,633
19 Sec. 5. JUDICIAL DISTRICT DEPARTMENTS OF CORRECTIONAL
20 SERVICES.
21 1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
22 to the department of corrections for the fiscal year beginning
23 July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, for salaries, support,
24 maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes, the following amounts,
25 or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
26 designated:
27 a. For the first judicial district department of
28 correctional services:
29 .................................................. $ 16,826,981
30 It is the intent of the general assembly that the first
31 judicial district department of correctional services maintains
32 the drug courts operated by the district department.
33 b. For the second judicial district department of
34 correctional services:
35 .................................................. $ 13,637,109
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1 It is the intent of the general assembly that the second
2 judicial district department of correctional services maintains
3 two drug courts to be operated by the district department.
4 c. For the third judicial district department of
5 correctional services:
6 .................................................. $ 8,615,128
7 d. For the fourth judicial district department of
8 correctional services:
9 .................................................. $ 6,465,898
10 e. For the fifth judicial district department of
11 correctional services, including funding for electronic
12 monitoring devices for use on a statewide basis:
13 .................................................. $ 24,328,291
14 It is the intent of the general assembly that the fifth
15 judicial district department of correctional services maintains
16 the drug court operated by the district department.
17 f. For the sixth judicial district department of
18 correctional services:
19 .................................................. $ 17,128,661
20 It is the intent of the general assembly that the sixth
21 judicial district department of correctional services maintains
22 the drug court operated by the district department.
23 g. For the seventh judicial district department of
24 correctional services:
25 .................................................. $ 10,671,655
26 It is the intent of the general assembly that the seventh
27 judicial district department of correctional services maintains
28 the drug court operated by the district department.
29 h. For the eighth judicial district department of
30 correctional services:
31 .................................................. $ 10,001,148
32 2. Each judicial district department of correctional
33 services, within the moneys available, shall continue programs
34 and plans established within that di