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  1  1                                            SENATE FILE 323     
  1  2                                    
  1  3                             AN ACT 
  1  4 RELATING TO THE STANDARD FOR INVESTMENT OF RETIREMENT FUNDS 
  1  5    BY MUNICIPAL UTILITIES.  
  1  6 
  1  7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1  8 
  1  9    Section 1.  Section 12B.10, subsection 6, Code 2001, is
  1 10 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1 11    NEW PARAGRAPH.  k.  Investments by municipal utility
  1 12 retirement systems governed under chapter 412.
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 12B.10B, subsection 3, Code 2001, is
  1 14 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1 15    NEW PARAGRAPH.  j.  Municipal utility retirement systems
  1 16 governed under chapter 412.
  1 17    Sec. 3.  Section 12B.10C, Code 2001, is amended by adding
  1 18 the following new subsection:
  1 19    NEW SUBSECTION.  9.  Municipal utility retirement systems
  1 20 governed under chapter 412.
  1 21    Sec. 4.  Section 412.4, Code 2001, is amended to read as
  1 22 follows:
  1 23    412.4  PAYMENTS AND INVESTMENTS.
  1 24    The council, board of waterworks trustees, or other board
  1 25 or commission, whichever is authorized by law to manage and
  1 26 operate any such waterworks, or other municipally owned and
  1 27 operated public utility, shall have the right and power to
  1 28 contract with any legal reserve insurance company authorized
  1 29 to conduct its business in the state, or any bank located in
  1 30 Iowa having trust powers for the investment of funds
  1 31 contributed to an annuity or pension system, for the payment
  1 32 of the pensions or annuities provided in such pension or
  1 33 annuity retirement system, and may pay the premiums or make
  1 34 the contribution of such contract out of the fund provided in
  1 35 section 412.2.  Funds shall be invested in accordance with the
  2  1 investment policy for the retirement fund, as established by
  2  2 the governing body of the public utility.  In establishing the
  2  3 investment policy, the council, board or commission shall be
  2  4 governed by the standards set forth in section 97B.7,
  2  5 subsection 2, paragraph "b".  However, permissible investments
  2  6 shall be limited to those investments authorized in section
  2  7 12B.10, subsection 5, and investments in diversified
  2  8 commingled investment funds holding only publicly traded
  2  9 securities and under the management of an investment advisor
  2 10 registered with the federal securities and exchange commission
  2 11 under the Investment Advisor Act of 1940.  Funds contributed
  2 12 to a bank pursuant to such a contract shall be invested in the
  2 13 manner prescribed in section 633.123A or chapter 633, division
  2 14 XX, part 4, subpart C, and may be commingled with and invested
  2 15 as a part of a common or master fund managed for the benefit
  2 16 of more than one public utility.  
  2 17 
  2 18 
  2 19                                                             
  2 20                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2 21                               President of the Senate
  2 22 
  2 23 
  2 24                                                             
  2 25                               BRENT SIEGRIST
  2 26                               Speaker of the House
  2 27 
  2 28    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
  2 29 is known as Senate File 323, Seventy-ninth General Assembly.
  2 30 
  2 31 
  2 32                                                             
  2 33                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
  2 34                               Secretary of the Senate
  2 35 Approved                , 2001
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  3  3                                
  3  4 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  3  5 Governor
     

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