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Senate Study Bill 1051

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  1  1                           DIVISION I
  1  2    Section 1.  Section 23A.2, subsection 10, Code 1999, is
  1  3 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  4    NEW PARAGRAPH.  m.  The repair, calibration, or maintenance
  1  5 of radiological detection equipment by the emergency
  1  6 management division of the department of public defense.
  1  7    Sec. 2.  Section 29C.8, Code 1999, is amended by adding the
  1  8 following new subsection:
  1  9    NEW SUBSECTION.  5.  The emergency management division may
  1 10 charge fees for the repair, calibration, or maintenance of
  1 11 radiological detection equipment and may expend funds in
  1 12 addition to funds budgeted for the servicing of the
  1 13 radiological detection equipment.  The division shall adopt
  1 14 rules pursuant to chapter 17A providing for the establishment
  1 15 and collection of fees for radiological detection equipment
  1 16 repair, calibration, or maintenance services and for entering
  1 17 into agreements with other public and private entities to
  1 18 provide the services.  Fees collected for repair, calibration,
  1 19 or maintenance services shall be treated as repayment receipts
  1 20 as defined in section 8.2 and shall be used for the operation
  1 21 of the division's radiological maintenance facility or
  1 22 radiation incident response training.  
  1 23                           DIVISION II
  1 24    Sec. 3.  Section 29C.6, subsection 17, Code 1999, is
  1 25 amended to read as follows:
  1 26    17.  a.  When the president of the United States has
  1 27 declared a major disaster to exist in the state and upon the
  1 28 governor's determination that financial assistance is
  1 29 essential to meet disaster-related necessary expenses or
  1 30 serious needs of local and state government adversely affected
  1 31 by a major disaster that cannot be otherwise adequately met
  1 32 from other means of assistance, accept a grant by the federal
  1 33 government to fund the financial assistance, subject to terms
  1 34 and conditions imposed upon the grant, and enter into an
  1 35 agreement with the federal government pledging the state to
  2  1 participate in the funding of the financial assistance
  2  2 authorized to local government and eligible private nonprofit
  2  3 agencies in an amount not to exceed ten percent of the total
  2  4 eligible expenses, with the applicant providing fifteen
  2  5 percent the balance of any participation amount.  If financial
  2  6 assistance is granted by the federal government for state
  2  7 disaster-related expenses or serious needs, the state shall
  2  8 participate in the funding of the financial assistance
  2  9 authorized in an amount not to exceed twenty-five percent of
  2 10 the total eligible expenses.  If financial assistance is
  2 11 granted by the federal government for hazard mitigation, the
  2 12 state may participate in the funding of the financial
  2 13 assistance authorized to a local government in an amount not
  2 14 to exceed ten percent of the eligible expenses, with local
  2 15 government the applicant providing forty percent the balance
  2 16 of any participation amount.  If financial assistance is
  2 17 granted by the federal government for state-related hazard
  2 18 mitigation, the state may participate in the funding of the
  2 19 financial assistance authorized, not to exceed fifty percent
  2 20 of the total eligible expenses.  If state funds are not
  2 21 otherwise available to the governor, an advance of the state
  2 22 share may be accepted from the federal government to be repaid
  2 23 when the state is able to do so.
  2 24    b.  State participation in funding financial assistance
  2 25 under paragraph "a" is contingent upon the local government
  2 26 having on file a state-approved, comprehensive, countywide
  2 27 emergency operations plan which meets the standards adopted
  2 28 pursuant to section 29C.9, subsection 8.
  2 29    Sec. 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This division of this Act takes
  2 30 effect July 1, 2000.  
  2 31                          DIVISION III
  2 32    Sec. 5.  Section 331.321, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
  2 33 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  2 34    a.  An emergency management coordinator in accordance with
  2 35 section 29C.10 officer.  The emergency management officer
  3  1 shall possess the qualifications established by rule of the
  3  2 administrator of the emergency management division of the
  3  3 department of public defense.  The county emergency management
  3  4 officer shall serve as the coordinator of emergency services
  3  5 and planning for the county and, in times of disaster, shall
  3  6 also serve as an operations officer for the emergency
  3  7 management coordinator as established in section 29C.10.  
  3  8                           EXPLANATION 
  3  9    Division I of this bill exempts the provision of repair,
  3 10 calibration, or maintenance services by the emergency
  3 11 management division of the department of public defense from
  3 12 state law which prohibits state competition with private
  3 13 enterprise.  The bill also authorizes the division to charge
  3 14 fees for the provision of repair, calibration, or maintenance
  3 15 services for radiological detection equipment.  Fees charged,
  3 16 if any, are to be treated as repayment receipts under Code
  3 17 section 8.2 and are to be used for the operation of the
  3 18 radiological maintenance facility or for radiation incident
  3 19 response training.
  3 20    Division II of the bill provides that a local government
  3 21 shall have on filed with the emergency management division of
  3 22 the state department of public defense a comprehensive,
  3 23 countywide emergency operations plan meeting state standards
  3 24 in order to be eligible for the partial state funding of
  3 25 financial assistance to the local government or eligible
  3 26 private nonprofit agencies for disaster-related expenses,
  3 27 serious needs, or hazard mitigation.  Division II takes effect
  3 28 July 1, 2000.
  3 29    Division III of the bill allows the board of supervisors to
  3 30 appoint an emergency management officer for the county.  The
  3 31 county emergency management officer shall coordinate emergency
  3 32 services and planning in the county and shall also serve as an
  3 33 operations officer for the emergency management coordinator
  3 34 appointed pursuant to Code section 29C.10.  
  3 35 LSB 1087DP 78
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