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House Journal: Page 2054: Tuesday, April 30, 1996

 funding source to provide infrastructure assistance to local
governments.  Consideration shall be given to providing for the
participation of the department of general services, the
department of management, and the Iowa state university of
science and technology's department of construction engineering
in the study.  Results of the study shall be provided to the
legislative council by January 31, 1997.
Sec.    .  LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE, BONDING AND STATE FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE NEEDS INTERIM STUDY.  The legislative council is
requested to establish an interim committee to study the issue
of local infrastructure and associated bonding and state
financial assistance needs.  The committee shall assess the
state of local infrastructure and the resources which local
governments have available to assist in providing for long-term
infrastructure needs including a study of the approval
requirements for local bond referendums.
Sec.    .  STATE GOVERNMENT - SPACE ALLOCATION STUDY.  The
department of general services, in consultation with the
department of management, and the legislative council shall
study and make an assessment of the space allocation needs for
all state agencies and entities in all areas of state
government.  The study shall make a determination of the
feasibility of eliminating or reducing leased office space and
of relocating various areas of state government outside of the
Des Moines metropolitan area.  The goal of this relocation
effort shall be to provide at least fifty percent of the
projected off-complex space needs in areas located outside of
the Des Moines metropolitan area.  The relocation shall only be
considered in areas that would provide connections with the Iowa
communications network.  The fifty-percent relocation
calculation shall not include the state department of
transportation complex located in Ames.
Sec.    .  REBUILD IOWA INFRASTRUCTURE FUND - CONTINGENCY
APPROPRIATION.  If the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund does not
receive an appropriation from the operation of section 8.57,
subsection 5, paragraph "e", in an amount equivalent to at least
$48,400,000, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and
ending June 30, 1997, moneys in an amount equivalent to the
difference shall be appropriated from the moneys transferred to
the general fund of the state pursuant to section 8.55,
subsection 2, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996.
Sec.    .  LEGISLATIVE FISCAL BUREAU ESTIMATES.  The
legislative fiscal bureau shall provide yearly estimates of the
annual operating costs for operation of proposed buildings to be
constructed from funds provided from the rebuild Iowa
infrastructure fund.  The estimates shall be presented to the
legislative fiscal committee and to the joint appropriations
subcommittee on transportation, infrastructure, and capitals.
Sec.    .  ACCESS IOWA HIGHWAYS - INTENT - REPORT.
1.  INTENT.  It is the intent of the general assembly to
formulate an access Iowa plan which shall designate portions of
the commercial and industrial network of highways as access Iowa
highways.  The goal of the access Iowa plan shall be to enhance
the existing Iowa economy and ensure its continuing development
and growth in the national and global competitive marketplace by
providing for early completion of the construction of the most
important portions of the Iowa highway system.  These portions
of the system shall be those that are essential for support of
intrastate transportation and commerce and essential for
ensuring Iowans direct access to the nation's system of
interstate highways and transportation services.
The general assembly's past actions are consistent with the
access Iowa plan.  The general assembly has set general policy
guidelines for the state transportation commission's planning
and programming development, directed that road service

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Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 2)

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