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House File 115

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  1  1                                              HOUSE FILE 115
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT 
  1  4 RELATING TO THE AWARD OF A CONTRACT FOR A PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
  1  5    BY A CITY OR THE GOVERNING BODY OF A CITY UTILITY.  
  1  6 
  1  7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1  8 
  1  9    Section 1.  Section 384.99, Code 1999, is amended to read
  1 10 as follows:
  1 11    384.99  AWARD OF CONTRACT.
  1 12    The contract for the public improvement must be awarded to
  1 13 the lowest responsible bidder, provided, however, that
  1 14 contracts relating to public utilities or extensions or
  1 15 improvements thereof, as described in division V of this
  1 16 chapter, may be awarded by the governing body as it deems to
  1 17 be in the best interests of the city.  This section shall not
  1 18 be construed to prohibit a city in the award of a contract for
  1 19 a public improvement or a governing body of a city utility
  1 20 from providing in the award of a contract for a public
  1 21 improvement, an enhancement of payments upon early completion
  1 22 of the public improvement if the availability of the
  1 23 enhancement payments is included in the notice to bidders, the
  1 24 enhancement payments are competitively neutral to potential
  1 25 bidders, the enhancement payments are considered as a separate
  1 26 item in the public hearing on the award of contract, and the
  1 27 total value of the enhancement payments does not exceed ten
  1 28 percent of the value of the contract.  
  1 29 
  1 30 
  1 31                                                             
  1 32                               RON J. CORBETT
  1 33                               Speaker of the House
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  2  1                                                             
  2  2                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2  3                               President of the Senate
  2  4 
  2  5    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  2  6 is known as House File 115, Seventy-eighth General Assembly.
  2  7 
  2  8 
  2  9                                                             
  2 10                               ELIZABETH ISAACSON
  2 11                               Chief Clerk of the House
  2 12 Approved                , 1999
  2 13 
  2 14 
  2 15                               
  2 16 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  2 17 Governor
     

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