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Senate File 254

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  1  2                                       SENATE FILE 254
  1  3 
  1  4                             AN ACT
  1  5 RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIVISION OF THE
  1  6    DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC DEFENSE BY AUTHORIZING FEES FOR
  1  7    RADIOLOGICAL DETECTION EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE SERVICES, 
  1  8    BY AUTHORIZING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 
  1  9    FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PURPOSES, BY DIRECTING A REPORT 
  1 10    TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY THE DIVISION DIRECTOR, AND BY
  1 11    PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.  
  1 12 
  1 13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1 14 
  1 15                           DIVISION I
  1 16    Section 1.  Section 23A.2, subsection 10, Code 1999, is
  1 17 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1 18    NEW PARAGRAPH.  m.  The repair, calibration, or maintenance
  1 19 of radiological detection equipment by the emergency
  1 20 management division of the department of public defense.
  1 21    Sec. 2.  Section 29C.8, Code 1999, is amended by adding the
  1 22 following new subsection:
  1 23    NEW SUBSECTION.  5.  The emergency management division may
  1 24 charge fees for the repair, calibration, or maintenance of
  1 25 radiological detection equipment and may expend funds in
  1 26 addition to funds budgeted for the servicing of the
  1 27 radiological detection equipment.  The division shall adopt
  1 28 rules pursuant to chapter 17A providing for the establishment
  1 29 and collection of fees for radiological detection equipment
  1 30 repair, calibration, or maintenance services and for entering
  1 31 into agreements with other public and private entities to
  1 32 provide the services.  Fees collected for repair, calibration,
  1 33 or maintenance services shall be treated as repayment receipts
  1 34 as defined in section 8.2 and shall be used for the operation
  1 35 of the division's radiological maintenance facility or
  2  1 radiation incident response training.  
  2  2                           DIVISION II
  2  3    Sec. 3.  Section 29C.6, subsection 17, Code 1999, is
  2  4 amended to read as follows:
  2  5    17.  a.  When the president of the United States has
  2  6 declared a major disaster to exist in the state and upon the
  2  7 governor's determination that financial assistance is
  2  8 essential to meet disaster-related necessary expenses or
  2  9 serious needs of local and state government adversely affected
  2 10 by a major disaster that cannot be otherwise adequately met
  2 11 from other means of assistance, accept a grant by the federal
  2 12 government to fund the financial assistance, subject to terms
  2 13 and conditions imposed upon the grant, and enter into an
  2 14 agreement with the federal government pledging the state to
  2 15 participate in the funding of the financial assistance
  2 16 authorized to local government and eligible private nonprofit
  2 17 agencies in an amount not to exceed ten percent of the total
  2 18 eligible expenses, with the applicant providing fifteen
  2 19 percent the balance of any participation amount.  If financial
  2 20 assistance is granted by the federal government for state
  2 21 disaster-related expenses or serious needs, the state shall
  2 22 participate in the funding of the financial assistance
  2 23 authorized in an amount not to exceed twenty-five percent of
  2 24 the total eligible expenses.  If financial assistance is
  2 25 granted by the federal government for hazard mitigation, the
  2 26 state may participate in the funding of the financial
  2 27 assistance authorized to a local government in an amount not
  2 28 to exceed ten percent of the eligible expenses, with local
  2 29 government the applicant providing forty percent the balance
  2 30 of any participation amount.  If financial assistance is
  2 31 granted by the federal government for state-related hazard
  2 32 mitigation, the state may participate in the funding of the
  2 33 financial assistance authorized, not to exceed fifty percent
  2 34 of the total eligible expenses.  If state funds are not
  2 35 otherwise available to the governor, an advance of the state
  3  1 share may be accepted from the federal government to be repaid
  3  2 when the state is able to do so.
  3  3    b.  State participation in funding financial assistance
  3  4 under paragraph "a" is contingent upon the local government
  3  5 having on file a state-approved, comprehensive, countywide
  3  6 emergency operations plan which meets the standards adopted
  3  7 pursuant to section 29C.9, subsection 8.
  3  8    Sec. 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This division of this Act takes
  3  9 effect July 1, 2000.  
  3 10                          DIVISION III
  3 11    Sec. 5.  The general assembly recognizes the need for the
  3 12 state government to be prepared to respond to incidents
  3 13 involving nuclear, chemical, or biological materials.
  3 14 Further, the general assembly recognizes that the emergency
  3 15 management division of the department of public defense should
  3 16 take the lead in these efforts.  Therefore, the administrator
  3 17 of the emergency management division is directed to report to
  3 18 the general assembly not later than January 15, 2000,
  3 19 regarding the status of state government preparedness to
  3 20 respond to nuclear, chemical, or biological materials
  3 21 incidents and identify unmet needs for preparedness and
  3 22 response efforts.  
  3 23 
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  3 25                                                             
  3 26                               MARY E. KRAMER
  3 27                               President of the Senate
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  3 29 
  3 30                                                             
  3 31                               RON J. CORBETT
  3 32                               Speaker of the House
  3 33 
  3 34    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
  3 35 is known as Senate File 254, Seventy-eighth General Assembly.
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  4  3                                                             
  4  4                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
  4  5                               Secretary of the Senate
  4  6 Approved                , 1999
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  4  9                               
  4 10 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  4 11 Governor
     

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