Summary in Brief

76th Iowa General Assembly -- 1996 Session

Major '96 Issues: Crime, Public Safety, Taxes

Crime, public safety, and taxes were among the more frequently addressed issues in legislation passed by the 1996 Session of the 76th Iowa General Assembly, which adjourned May 1.

In all, this year's Legislature passed and sent to the Governor a total of 221 bills, as well as one joint resolution not requiring gubernatorial action. Bills must be approved by the Governor in order to become law.

Listed here are some of the more significant pieces of legislation passed this year, grouped by subject.

AGRICULTURE Go toLegislation in Detail
• Cooperative corporations for agricultural producers
• Chronic violators involved in confinement feeding operations
• Livestock production tax credit

APPROPRIATIONS Go toLegislation in Detail
• (See specific legislation.)

BUSINESS, BANKING & INSURANCE Go toLegislation in Detail
• Regulation of mortuary science, cremation, and funeral homes
• Regulation of credit unions
• Regulation of investment securities
• Credit card delinquency charges and due dates for payments

CIVIL LAW & COURTS Go toLegislation in Detail
• Abortion notification
• Mandatory course for divorcing parents
• Copyright enforcement
• Court-appointed attorneys for indigents

CRIME Go toLegislation in Detail
• Forged immigration papers and hiring of illegal aliens
• Economic penalties for crimes, including forfeiture and seizure of property
• Penalties for assisted suicide
• Minimum prison sentences for certain felonies
• Penalties for drug offenses involving methamphetamine
• Prohibiting assault of a health care provider
• Enhanced penalties for domestic abuse
• Nonconsensual termination of pregnancy
• Sex crimes, including sexually predatory offenses
• Public access to criminal history data
• Rights of crime victims

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Go toLegislation in Detail
• Job creation and job training programs
• Housing development
• Foreign ownership of farmland

EDUCATION Go toLegislation in Detail
• Funding for school improvement technology
• Registration requirements for postsecondary schools
• Penalties for presenting false academic credentials

ENERGY & PUBLIC UTILITIES Go toLegislation in Detail
• Energy efficiency and alternate energy

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Go toLegislation in Detail
• Management of waste tires

HEALTH & SAFETY Go toLegislation in Detail
• Assisted living for elders
• Licensure of respiratory care therapists
• Public awareness of organ donation
• Lead abatement and inspection
• Length of maternity stays for mothers and newborns

HUMAN SERVICES Go toLegislation in Detail
• Licensure of social workers
• Investigation of child abuse
• Dependent adult abuse penalties and services
• Mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disability services

LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT Go toLegislation in Detail
• (See specific legislation.)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT Go toLegislation in Detail
• Allow sheriff to charge prisoners for room and board
• Eligibility for county general assistance

NATURAL RESOURCES Go toLegislation in Detail
• Issuance of free deer and wild turkey hunting licenses
• Control and eradication of Eurasian water milfoil

STATE GOVERNMENT Go toLegislation in Detail
• Planned changes in public retirement systems
• Establishing a state workforce development department

TAXES Go toLegislation in Detail
• Sales tax exemption for agricultural packaging
• Tax credit and deduction for nonpublic school tuition and textbooks
• Tax reduction, including indexation, subchapter S, funding tax credits, reducing school property tax
• Motor vehicle leasing tax
• Sales and property tax on industrial machinery, computers, and equipment

TELECOMMUNICATIONS Go toLegislation in Detail
• (See specific legislation.)

TRANSPORTATION Go toLegislation in Detail
• Handicapped parking provisions
• Increasing the speed limit on certain highways
• Special motor vehicle license plates and distinguishing emblems
• Public access to motor vehicle records

Following is a complete list of all bills passed by the Legislature in 1996, grouped by subject, with Governor's actions and effective dates. (Not all bills had been acted on as of 5/28/96).

AGRICULTURE
• Farm machinery towed by a motor vehicle or farm tractor. SF 2072
  Signed: 3/4/96 Effective: 3/4/96
• Eliminating litigation requirement involving shipment of plants infested with gypsy moths. SF 2130
  Signed: 3/1/96 Effective: 3/1/96
• Providing for the organization of cooperative corporations which are eligible to hold agricultural land. SF 2135
  Signed: 3/21/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Selection and tenure of the executive director of the agricultural development authority. SF 2336
  Signed: 4/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Receiverships regarding the administration of the assets of grain dealers. SF 2337
  Signed: 4/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Agricultural limestone. SF 2348
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 1/1/97; see bill for other applicability provisions
• Nuisance defenses for chronic violators of confinement feeding operations provisions. SF 2375
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Exclusion of century farms from economic development areas for purposes of urban renewal. HF 2177
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Branding of livestock. HF 2390
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96

APPROPRIATIONS
• Human services appropriations. SF 2442
  Signed: 5/29/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Agriculture and natural resources appropriations. SF 2446
  Signed: 5/29/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Health and human rights appropriations. SF 2448
  Signed: 5/28/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Standing appropriations, lottery transfers, technical and statutory provisions (includes economic development appropriations). SF 2470
  Signed: 5/30/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1995. HF 2114
  Signed: 3/19/96 Effective: 3/19/96; ITEM VETO: Section 3, relating to indigent defense, in its entirety; Sections 10 and 11, relating to tax refunds for certain federal retirees, in their entirety.
• Administration and regulation appropriations. HF 2416
  Signed: 5/30/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Transportation and capitals appropriations. HF 2421
  Signed: 5/30/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Justice system appropriations. HF 2472
  Signed: 5/29/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Education appropriations. HF 2477
  Signed: 5/29/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Appropriating funds made available from federal block grants and other federal grants. HF 2486
  Signed: 5/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96

BUSINESS, BANKING & INSURANCE
• Practice of mortuary science, cremation, and licensing of funeral establishments. SF 259
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Regulation of credit unions. SF 376
  Signed: 3/25/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Disbursement of the remaining funds in a nonguaranteed irrevocable burial trust fund. SF 2101
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Payment of claims by an administrator acting on behalf of an insurer. SF 2123
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Amending the uniform commercial code relating to letters of credit. SF 2270
  Signed: 4/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Requirement for notifying a consumer of a change in the terms of an open-end credit agreement. SF 2282
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Voting, distribution of earnings, and bylaws of a cooperative association. SF 2283
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Purchase money mortgages. SF 2305
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: Applies retroactively to purchase money mortgages taken or retained on or after 7/1/95
• Requirements for satellite terminals of a financial institution with a principal place of business in another state. SF 2353
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Regulatory authority of the securities bureau of the insurance division. SF 2363
  Signed: 4/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Regulation of investment securities under Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code. SF 2368
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: 7/1/97
• Regulation of insurance companies for purposes of solvency and establishing a measure for the risk-based capital of an insurer. SF 2395
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Adding certain residential security deposits and prepaid rent to the list of exempt property for debtors. SF 2396
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Disclosure requirements for financial institutions receiving state public funds. SF 2408
  Signed: 3/29/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Removing the requirement that a corporation which has adopted a corporate seal affix the seal to all documents affecting real estate executed by the corporation. SF 2422
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Election of workers' compensation coverage by a limited liability company member. HF 308
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Open-end credit pursuant to a credit card, permissible over-limit or delinquency charges, offering of credit unemployment insurance, and time requirements for making certain payments. HF 511
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Exempting certain property management accounts from certification and auditing requirements. HF 2127
  Signed: 4/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Delay the repeal for the exemption of certain multiple employer welfare arrangements from regulation by the insurance division. HF 2152
  Signed: 4/1/96 Effective: 4/1/96
• Permissible acts by real estate licensees and their employees. HF 2202
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Percentage of the legal reserve of a life insurance company which may be invested in certain corporate obligations. HF 2211
  Signed: 3/25/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Components of the unemployment insurance system concerning the job service advisory council, voluntary income tax withholding from unemployment benefits and various other provisions relating to unemployment. HF 2229
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Permissible fees and commission paid to accountants and accounting practitioners. HF 2247
  Signed: 3/20/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Insurance regulation provisions, including setoff of premium, fraudulent submissions, availability of certain information, terms for board of directors of an insurer, notice of cancellation, and delivery of certain policies. HF 2310
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Reciprocal shipment of wines. HF 2315
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Regulation of mutual insurance companies. HF 2363
  Signed: 3/25/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Provisions relating to limited liability companies and corporations. HF 2370
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Regulation of linked investments. HF 2397
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 4/4/96
• Regulation of state banks and affiliates. HF 2409
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Regulation of industrial loan companies. HF 2453
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Insurance regulation provisions, including prearranged funeral contracts, cemeteries, residential service contracts, and business opportunities. HF 2498
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Disposition of unclaimed property. HF 2499
  Signed: 4/29/96 Effective: 7/1/96

COURTS, CIVIL LAW & JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
• Establishment of a decision-making assistance program for prospective minor parents. SF 13
  Signed: 3/22/96 Effective 1/1/97; the section establishing an advisory committee is effective 3/22/96; the advisory committee is directed to complete and distribute a video by 1/1/97)
• Providing that appeal of certain sentences be by writ of certiorari. SF 2087
  Signed: 3/29/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Jurisdictional amount for municipal infractions tried in district court. SF 2155
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Reimbursement of jurors and witnesses for transportation and mileage expenses. SF 2207
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Number and apportionment of district associate judges. SF 2252
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 4/8/96
• Required participation of parents in a mandatory course prior to the granting of a divorce decree. SF 2265
  Signed: 5/20/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Child support enforcement provisions. SF 2344
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Election of state judicial nominating commissioners. SF 2385
  Vetoed: 4/23/96
• Duties of the clerk of court concerning court records. SF 2405
  Signed: 3/29/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Juvenile justice provisions involving medically relevant drug tests, parent visitations, and administrative rules. SF 2410
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 4/15/96
• Judicial administration provisions, including, definition of a judicial officer, administrative authority, and retirement age for certain judges. SF 2413
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Requiring the juvenile court to provide certain information to a victim of a delinquent act. SF 2430
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Procedural requirements for the enforcement of certain copyrights. HF 230
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Appropriation to judicial department for long-range and strategic planning. HF 2065
  Signed: 2/12/96 Effective: 2/12/96
• Legalizing official acts performed by notaries public more than ten years earlier. HF 2081
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Grandparent visitation rights. HF 2150
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Investment authority of fiduciaries under the probate code. HF 2365
  Signed: 3/20/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Representation of indigents and other court appointments in criminal and juvenile proceedings. HF 2429
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 4/2/96; retroactively applicable to 7/1/95
• Eligibility of certain indigents for appointed counsel or public defender. HF 2458
  Signed: 5/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Modification or termination of certain testamentary trusts by the court. HF 2500
  Signed: 5/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96

CRIME
• Prohibiting the knowing possession of forged writings, including documents for entry into, stay, or employment in the U.S. SF 284
  Signed: 5/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Establishing economic and other penalties for certain criminal activities. SF 482
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Providing criminal penalties for assisted suicide. SF 2066
  Signed: 3/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Prohibiting abuse of a human corpse. SF 2088
  Signed: 3/11/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Amount of prison time served by persons convicted of certain forcible felonies. SF 2114
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Law enforcement officer certification by the Iowa law enforcement academy. SF 2153
  Signed: 5/30/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Drug offenses, including increasing penalties for certain offenses involving methamphetamine and creating new offenses involving ephedrine. SF 2154
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Prohibiting the assault of a health care provider. SF 2167
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Persons required to register with the sex offender registry. SF 2208
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Fingerprinting requirements for certain public offenses. SF 2211
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Domestic abuse provisions, including enhancing the penalties for a third or subsequent offense of domestic abuse assault. SF 2269
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Department of Corrections provisions, including OWI violator facilities, reimbursement by parole violators, tort claims protection for certain persons, and inmate accounts. SF 2289
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Reserve peace officers obtaining or renewing weapons permits. SF 2299
  Signed: 4/9/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Dependent adult abuse. SF 2381
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Juvenile justice provisions, including use of deadly force by criminal street gangs, dispositional alternatives for delinquents, sex offender registry, and associate juvenile judge jurisdiction. SF 2420
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Prohibiting soliciting another person to arrange a sex act with a child. SF 2423
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Authorizing a court to require a criminal offender as part of a restitution order to make financial contributions to a local anticrime organization. HF 210
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Nonconsensual termination of or serious injury to a pregnancy. HF 2109
  Signed: 4/10/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Sex offenses, including enticing away a child and sentences for persons convicted of sexually predatory offenses. HF 2316
  Signed: 4/10/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Access to criminal history data maintained by the Department of Public Safety. HF 2448
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Rights of victims of criminal acts. HF 2456
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• Department of Economic Development programs, including workforce development, new jobs training, rural microbusiness assistance, and value-added agricultural products and processes. SF 2351
  Signed: 4/30/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Housing development, including tax increment financing. SF 2464
  Signed: 5/30/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Exempting certain businesses from restrictions on foreign ownership of agricultural land. HF 2234
  Signed: 5/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Tax benefits to businesses under the new jobs and income program. HF 2481
  

EDUCATION
• Establishing a school improvement technology program to fund instructional technology for schools. SF 2063
  Signed: 4/10/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program. SF 2082
  Signed: 2/8/96 Effective: 1/1/97
• Minimum instructional time requirements for a school week. SF 2083
  Signed: 3/20/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Postsecondary education provisions, including duties of the college student aid commission in administering loan programs and registration requirements for postsecondary schools. SF 2157
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Definition of textbooks. SF 2158
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Evaluator licensing of educators. SF 2159
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Open enrollment application and implementation process and instructional support for reorganized school districts. SF 2201
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Operation of the vocational-rehabilitation division of the Department of Education. SF 2204
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Prohibiting false representations of academic degrees, grades or honors. SF 2331
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Providing for an increase in the amount certified for levy by a school district for bonded indebtedness repayment. SF 2357
  Signed: 4/30/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Taping and broadcasting of certain high school athletic events. HF 121
  Signed: 5/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Hearing and election provisions of the instructional support program of school districts. HF 334
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Filing of complaints with the board of educational examiners. HF 455
  Signed: 5/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Transfers of moneys from the interest for Iowa schools fund and renaming the center for gifted and talented education. HF 570
  Signed: 5/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96

ENERGY & PUBLIC UTILITIES
• Energy efficiency and alternate energy programs. SF 2370
  Signed: 5/20/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Permitting certain telephone companies to reorganize as cooperative associations. HF 2036
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• City sewer or water utility connections. HF 2259
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Energy conservation, including making appropriations of petroleum overcharge funds. HF 2444
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
• Regulation of timber sales and surety bonds paid by timber buyers. SF 2212
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 1/1/97
• Midwest interstate compact on low-level radioactive waste. SF 2219
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Limitations on the use of toxic materials in packaging. SF 2287
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Removal and encapsulation of asbestos. HF 2308
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Regulation of mining and reclamation of mine sites. HF 2408
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Various provisions relating to management of waste tires. HF 2433
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96

HEALTH & SAFETY
• Establishment of an assisted living program within the Department of Elder Affairs. SF 454
  Signed: 5/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Licensure of respiratory care therapists. SF 2013
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Dates on which city hospital or health care facility trustees take and depart from office. SF 2074
  Signed: 4/10/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Establishment of an anatomical gift public awareness and transplantation fund. SF 2110
  Signed: 4/9/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Public health administration, including primary care recruitment and retention, professional licensure, and health data. SF 2171
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Extending the implementation date for phase I of the community health management system. SF 2218
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Use of alternative licensing for nursing facilities. SF 2235
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: Contingent upon passage of federal legislation
• Lead abatement and inspection, training, and certification requirements.SF 2301
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: Contingent upon certification from the federal government
• Pharmacy technician designation. SF 2323
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Exempting from regulation certain homeowners' association swimming pools. HF 111
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Establishment of minimum standards for the training of telecommunicators. HF 523
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Immunity from civil liability for health care peer review committee members. HF 2061
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Requirements regarding HIV-related tests. HF 2107
  Signed: 4/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Payment by third parties of physician assistants and advanced registered nurse practitioners. HF 2144
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Defining the practice of dentistry. HF 2201
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Postdelivery care requirements for mothers and newborns. HF 2369
  Signed: 5/30/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Use of confidential information and authority of a medical examiner to release and permit the removal of a body part in certain instances for the purpose of making an anatomical gift. HF 2400
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96

HUMAN SERVICES
• Requiring licensure of certain social workers. SF 73
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96; sections creating a board of social work examiners are effective 7/1/98
• State and county mental health and developmental disability funding provisions. SF 2030
  Signed: 2/8/96 Effective: 2/8/96 (amendment to section 331.439, subsection 3, relating to an allowed growth factor adjustment, first applies to the budget process for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997)
• Continued existence of the prevention of disabilities policy council and technical assistance committee. SF 2213
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 4/8/96
• Creating multidisciplinary community services teams. SF 2294
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Medical assistance provisions, including liability of personal representatives of recipients, nursing facility fines, and transfer of assets. SF 2303
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Programs available to persons with disabilities through the DHS. SF 2307
  Signed: 4/10/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Public assistance and tax provisions involving the family investment program. SF 2324
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Child protection system provisions involving the child abuse assessment pilot projects administered by the DHS and certain multidisciplinary teams. SF 2399
  Signed: 4/30/96 Effective: 4/30/96
• Terminology used to describe persons with certain mental and physical conditions. SF 2438
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Selection criteria preferences in the placement of children for adoption by or through the Department of Human Services. HF 2050
  Signed: 4/29/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Mental health, mental retardation, developmental disabilities, and other services paid for in whole or in part by counties or the state. HF 2427
  Signed: 5/2/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT
• Establishing a workforce development department, and eliminating the Department of Employment Services. SF 2409
  Signed: 5/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Regulation and inspection of boilers and unfired steam pressure vessels. SF 2453
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Reinstatement to active service of members of the statewide fire and police retirement system and the peace officers retirement system upon denial of disability benefits. HF 2153
  Signed: 4/30/96 Effective: 7/1/96

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Continuing appropriation for city public improvements. SF 2131
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Providing that the sheriff may charge for room and board provided to county prisoners. SF 2352
  Signed: 4/10/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Payment of fee and expenses of a county medical examiner for investigating a death. SF 2359
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Termination of rental agreements, definition of notice, and notice provisions for actions to recover property. SF 2372
  Signed: 5/30/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Joint purchasing of equipment by political subdivisions. HF 400
  Signed: 5/20/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Filing of instruments by county recorders. HF 2299
  Signed: 3/25/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Eligibility of persons for county general assistance. HF 2399
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Certification requirements of a city or county urban renewal area. HF 2426
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Care and maintenance of pioneer cemeteries. HF 2491
  Signed: 5/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96

NATURAL RESOURCES
• Hunting seasons for ungulates on a hunting preserve. SF 2165
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 4/8/96
• Control and eradication of Eurasian milfoil. SF 2035
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Issuance of a certificate of title for a documented vessel. SF 2259
  Signed: 3/29/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Powers and duties of soil and water conservation district commissioners. SF 2260
  Signed: 4/10/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Repealing the prohibition on political activity by a member, officer, or employee of the natural resource commission. SF 2278
  Signed: 3/29/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Attachment of property to a rural water district. HF 2187
  Signed: 4/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Powers of a benefited recreational lake district to promote water quality. HF 2258
  Signed: 4/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Payment of warrants drawn on levee and drainage district funds. HF 2297
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Regulation of motorboats on certain artificial lakes. HF 2306
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 4/16/96
• Issuance of free deer and wild turkey hunting licenses to certain landowners and tenants. HF 2383
  Signed: 4/29/96 Effective: 7/1/96

STATE GOVERNMENT
• Conduct of raffles. SF 2012
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Statutory corrections. SF 2062
  Signed: 4/10/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Creating an advisory commission on intergovernmental relations. SF 2071
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: 7/1/96; repealed effective July 1, 2002
• Nonsubstantive Code corrections. SF 2080
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Providing for auditing practices by the Iowa State Fair. SF 2121
  Signed: 4/1/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Unclaimed property held by the state and fraudulent practices to obtain the property. SF 2122
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Confidentiality of unclaimed property owners' social security numbers. SF 2127
  Signed: 4/2/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Numerous provisions relating to public retirement systems, including IPERS, the teachers' pension and annuity retirement system, the public safety peace officers' retirement system, the statewide fire and police retirement system, and the judicial retirement system. SF 2245
  Signed: 5/10/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates
• Nonconfidentiality of information regarding the qualifications of interpreters for the deaf services division of the Department of Human Rights. SF 2321
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Lease-purchase agreements for the financing of real or personal property to be purchased by a state agency. SF 2366
  Signed: 4/30/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Payment of outdated invoices by state agencies. SF 2367
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 4/8/96
• Department of General Services provisions relating to sale or disposal of unwanted property and monument maintenance. SF 2387
  Signed: 4/10/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Amend Iowa Constitution to eliminate the limitation on fines for offenses which may be summarily tried without indictment. HJR 11
  Sent to Secretary of State 4/1/96
• Eliminating the appeal period for the awarding of contracts by the Department of General Services. HF 476
  Signed: 4/30/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Publication of certain notices, ordinances and amendments by the superintendent of printing. HF 2190
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Duties of the Department of Inspections and Appeals concerning liens on improper provider payments, administration of health care statutes, and audits. HF 2230
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Requirements for implementation of new or revised federal block grant provisions which affect local governments. HF 2256
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 4/16/96
• Licensure and practice of land surveying. HF 2318
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• State employee disclosures of information. HF 2324
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 4/16/96
• Legal publications and related products prepared and distributed under the authority of the General Assembly. HF 2407
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Special census certification. HF 2488
  Signed: 4/18/96 Effective: 4/18/96
• Compensation and benefits for state officials and employees. HF 2497
  Signed: 5/30/96 Effective: 7/1/96

TAXES
• Sales, services, and use tax exemption on certain packaging materials used in agricultural, livestock, or dairy production. SF 2097
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: Applies to sales occurring on or after 7/1/96
• Updating the Iowa Code references to the Internal Revenue Code. SF 2168
  Signed: 4/24/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Tax administration provisions, including electronic filing of tax returns and payments, penalty for filing a false claim for refund, tax credit filing and certification dates, computation of the real estate transfer tax, and repeal of obsolete property tax provisions. SF 2455
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Increasing the nonpublic school tax credit and eliminating the nonpublic school tax deduction for tuition and textbooks. SF 2467
  Signed: 4/25/96 Effective: 4/25/96; applies retroactively to tax years beginning on or after 1/1/96
• Various tax provisions, including indexation; subchapter S corporations; homestead, military service, low-income elderly and disabled credit and reimbursement claims; tax credits for livestock production; school property tax, and funding for certain property tax credits. SF 2449
  Signed: 5/29/96 ITEM VETO Effective: 1/1/96
• Definition of designated person for purposes of the family farm tax credit. HF 560
  Signed: Effective:
• Motor vehicle leasing tax. HF 569
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 1/1/97; applies to leases entered into after 1/1/97
• Motor vehicle fuel tax law. HF 2140
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 4/8/96; applies retroactively to 1/1/96
• Sales tax and property tax on industrial machinery, computers, and equipment. HF 2165
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 4/4/96; section striking provision on industrial machinery, computers, and equipment located in an urban renewal area is retroactively applicable to assessment years beginning on or after January 1, 1995
• Taxation of foreign corporations. HF 2166
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 4/17/96; applies retroactively to 1/1/96
• Sales and services tax exemption for sales or services rendered, furnished, or performed by state and county fairs. HF 2422
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Taxation of payments received by organized health care delivery systems. HF 2432
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: 7/1/96

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
• Membership of the Iowa telecommunications and technology commission. SF 2147
  Signed: 5/30/96Effective: 7/1/96
• Making appropriations to the Iowa Communications Network and providing for connection of additional Part III sites. SF 2195
  Signed: 5/10/96 ITEM VETO Effective: Various effective dates; see bill

TRANSPORTATION
• Handicapped parking provisions. SF 2085
  Signed: 4/25/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Increasing the speed limit on certain highways. SF 2140
  Signed: 5/16/96 Effective: 5/16/96
• Transportation-related sanctions, including increasing penalties, issuance of temporary restricted licenses, scheduled fines, and prohibiting certain activities of motor vehicle dealers. SF 2186
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Transportation-related Code changes, including providing for a temporary registration permit and increasing fees for certain trailers. SF 2266
  Signed: 4/23/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Providing for class "C" area service system roads. HF 419
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Motor vehicle registration plates, including special plates, distinguishing emblems, and plate specifications. HF 514
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: 1/1/97
• Extending an exemption from federal motor carrier safety regulations for medically unqualified drivers. HF 2001
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 4/4/96
• Operation of motor vehicles in border cities. HF 2066
  Signed: 3/1/96 Effective: 3/1/96
• Providing for a permanent registration plate for trucks licensed pursuant to multistate registration. HF 2113
  Signed: 4/8/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Motorcycle rider education. HF 2225
  Signed: 3/29/96 Effective: 3/29/96
• State transportation commission's planning process and federal funding. HF 2207
  Signed: 4/4/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Hazardous materials transportation. HF 2303
  Signed: 3/25/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Expanding the factors that a court and the DOT may consider in ordering the issuance of a temporary restricted license. HF 2331
  Signed: 5/30/96 ITEM VETO Effective: 5/30/96
• Dimensional and weight requirements and certificates of title for commercial vehicles. HF 2350
  Signed: 4/15/96 Effective: Various effective dates; see bill
• Granting the DOT condemnation rights for utility facility replacement and various other related provisions. HF 2419
  Signed: 4/17/96 Effective: 7/1/96
• Public access to motor vehicle records. HF 2462
  Signed: 4/16/96 Effective: 9/13/97; see bill for conditional repeal

Iowa General Assembly

Search: Site

Comments? webmaster@legis.iowa.gov.

Last update: Mon June 17, 1996
sw/