House Journal: Page 2265: Wednesday, June 4, 2003
For the above reasons, I hereby respectfully disapprove House File 614.
Sincerely,
Thomas J. Vilsack
Governor
GOVERNOR'S ITEM VETO MESSAGE
June 19, 2003
The Honorable Chester Culver
Secretary of State
State Capitol
L O C A L
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I hereby transmit House Files 683, an Act relating to economic development,
financial, taxation, and regulatory matters, making and revising appropriations,
modifying penalties, providing a fee, and including effective, applicability, and
retroactive applicability provisions.
House Files 683 is approved on this date with the following exceptions, which I
hereby disapprove:
I am unable to approve the item designated as Section 96, subsection 68, in its
entirety. These paragraphs conform the postponement of the phase-out of the sales tax
on residential utilities with the streamlined sales tax initiative. I have item vetoed the
postponing of this tax cut, so this language is unnecessary. I will recommend language
to the next legislature in January 2004 to bring our continued reduction in the sales
tax on residential utilities into alignment with the streamlined sales tax initiative.
I am unable to approve the items designated as Division 15 that consists of 206-208
in their entirety. These sections would require the establishment of a parking fee for
the State Capitol Complex Parking Structure located at Pennsylvania and Grand
Avenues in Des Moines for only those citizens who work for the State of Iowa. I had
earlier vetoed similar language in Senate File 452 because I do not think it is
appropriate to charge such fees to citizens who would use this facility to visit the State
Capitol. My earlier concern still exists because we should not discriminate against our
state employees, who are Iowa citizens. Additionally, since we make free parking
available to state employees elsewhere around the State Capitol Complex, creating a
system where some state employees are charged a parking fee and other state
employees can park for free is not equitable. Therefore, such a fee should not be
approved.
For the above reasons, I respectfully disapprove these items in accordance with
Article 3 Section 16 of the Constitution of the State of Iowa. All other items in House
File 683 are hereby approved as of this date.
Sincerely,
Thomas J. Vilsack
Governor
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