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Legislative session shifts to budgets; bill language would let DOC spend land‑sale proceeds on offender system and hold federal receipts
Summary
Legislative staff told the board April 11 that the session has moved from policy to budget work, and highlighted two bills that would allocate capital and technology funds to the Department of Corrections and add new authority to use land‑sale proceeds for ICON upgrades and to retain federal receipts.
Legislative staff briefed the Iowa Board of Corrections on April 11 about two governor‑backed bills that would allocate capital and technology funds to the Department of Corrections and about a general‑fund appropriations bill that carries corrections allotments.
"We just completed week 13 of the legislative session," Jen Roxy, legislative liaison, said. She told the board the session is shifting toward budget work and that the governor’s budget proposals important to the DOC had been introduced.
What’s in the bills
- Senate Study Bill 1224: Roxy described this as the general fund budget bill for the justice…
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