YES:
MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Ways and Means , to which was referred House Bill 1230 ,
has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with
the recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
Delete the title and insert the following:
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
public libraries.
Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
program and fund is established for the purpose of providing
matching grants to public libraries to restore and repair Carnegie
library buildings. The state library shall:
(1) provide details for the matching grant program, including
eligibility and match requirements; and
(2) administer the fund.
(d) The fund consists of the following:
(1) Appropriations by the general assembly.
(2) Grants and gifts that the state library receives for the fund
under terms, obligations, and liabilities that the state library
considers appropriate.
(e) The expenses of administering the fund shall be paid from
money in the fund.
(f) The treasurer of state shall invest the money in the fund that
is not currently needed to meet the obligations of the fund in the
same manner as other public funds may be invested. The treasurer
of state shall deposit in the fund the interest that accrues from the
investment of the fund.
(g) Money in the fund at the end of a state fiscal year does not
revert to the state general fund.".
(Reference is to HB 1230 as introduced.)
and when so amended that said bill do pass.