Local Government Legislation

SENATE FILE 2278 - Jails and Local or Regional Confinement Facilities - Space and Needs Inventory

HOUSE FILE 582 - Division, Annexation, and Development of Land

HOUSE FILE 2135 - City Planning and Zoning Commissions - Extended Zoning Jurisdiction - Membership

HOUSE FILE 2152 - Volunteer Emergency Services Provider Death Benefits

HOUSE FILE 2246 - Property Tax and Vehicle Registration Procedures

HOUSE FILE 2289 - Abatement of Nuisances by Cities - Assessment Schedule

HOUSE FILE 2291 - City Real Estate - Attachment of Judgment Liens

HOUSE FILE 2365 - Documents and Records Filed With County Recorder - Snowmobile and All-Terrain Vehicle Titles - Registration of Vessels

HOUSE FILE 2418 - State Building Code - Minimum Energy Standards

HOUSE FILE 2448 - Fire Protection or Emergency Medical Services - Disbursement of Township Taxes for Municipal Services

Related Legislation

SENATE FILE 165 - Iowa English Language Reaffirmation Act

SENATE FILE 437 - Snowmobiles and All-Terrain Vehicles - Titling, Registration, and Use

SENATE FILE 2124 - Public Defense, Emergency Management, and Iowa Technology Center

SENATE FILE 2141 - Servers of Civil Process - Appointment by Sheriff

SENATE FILE 2145 - Water Pollution Control and Drinking Water Facilities Financing

SENATE FILE 2156 - County Issuance of Driver's Licenses, Nonoperator Identification Cards, and Persons With Disabilities Identification Devices

SENATE FILE 2160 - Dry Fire Hydrant and Rural Water Supply Education and Demonstration Project

SENATE FILE 2192 - Highways and Motor Vehicles - Miscellaneous Provisions

SENATE FILE 2207 - Conservation Easements

SENATE FILE 2273 - Juneteenth National Freedom Day

SENATE FILE 2275 - Substantive Code Corrections

SENATE FILE 2277 - Open Meeting and Public Records - Confidential Public Airport, Municipal Corporation, Utility, and Rural Water District Information

SENATE FILE 2288 - Temporary or Acting County Attorneys

SENATE FILE 2293 - Animal Feeding Operations and Environmental Regulation

SENATE FILE 2304 - Miscellaneous Appropriations, Reductions, Transfers, and Other Provisions

SENATE FILE 2325 - State Agency Regulatory Functions - Miscellaneous Reorganizations, Transfers, and Revisions

SENATE FILE 2326 - Appropriations - Miscellaneous Provisions, Reductions, Transfers, and Other Matters

HOUSE FILE 2009 - City and County Assessors - Candidacy for Elective Public Office

HOUSE FILE 2082 - Registration of Watercraft

HOUSE FILE 2150 - Military Honor Guard Services on Public Property

HOUSE FILE 2151 - Confidential Public Records - School Security or Emergency Preparedness

HOUSE FILE 2193 - Transportation Services and Aircraft Regulation

HOUSE FILE 2201 - DNA Profiling of Criminal Defendants

HOUSE FILE 2317 - Regulation of Outdoor Advertising Devices

HOUSE FILE 2378 - Enterprise Zones

HOUSE FILE 2416 - Mental Health and Developmental Disability Services

HOUSE FILE 2430 - Administration of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Services

HOUSE FILE 2453 - Procedures and Records Pertaining to Deaths - Medical Examiners

HOUSE FILE 2472 - Elections and Voter Registration

HOUSE FILE 2532 - Public Retirement Systems

HOUSE FILE 2584 - Property Taxation - Vineyard Real Estate and Buildings

HOUSE FILE 2622 - Tax Administration - Additional Related Matters

HOUSE FILE 2623 - Compensation for Public Employees and Additional Provisions

HOUSE FILE 2625 - Miscellaneous Appropriations, Reductions, Transfers, and Other Provisions - Fiscal Year 2001-2002 - SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION

SENATE FILE 2278 - Jails and Local or Regional Confinement Facilities - Space and Needs Inventory Full text of Bill
By Committee on Judiciary.

This Act relates to analyzing the confinement and detention needs of jails and other local or regional confinement facilities.

The Act requires the Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning of the Department of Human Rights, in consultation with the Department of Corrections, the Iowa State Sheriff's Association, the Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police and Peace Officers, a state organization representing rural property taxpayers, the Iowa League of Cities, and the Iowa Board of Supervisors Association, to prepare a report analyzing the confinement and detention needs of jails, alternative jails, municipal holding facilities, and county detention facilities. The Act provides that the analysis for each type of jail or facility shall include, but not be limited to, daily prisoner counts, compliance with minimum jail or facility standards, and an estimate by the Department of Corrections of the amount of additional prisoner space needed in each county, geographic region, and statewide over the next two, five and 10 years. The report shall also contain an inventory of jail or facility construction projects in which voters approved the issuance of general obligation bonds, essential county purpose bonds, revenue bonds, or bonds payable with local option sales tax receipts.

The Act takes effect April 1, 2002.

HOUSE FILE 582 - Division, Annexation, and Development of Land Full text of Bill
By Committee on Local Government.

This Act makes changes to the law relating to development of land by subdividing land and by annexation of territory and other boundary adjustments.

Code Sections 354.8 and 354.9 are amended to give a city council authority to review for approval divisions of land lying within their jurisdiction outside the city's boundaries for which a plat of survey has been prepared. Prior law gave them authority only to review subdivision plats.

Code Section 368.4, relating to annexing moratorium agreements, is amended to require that notice of a hearing on an agreement be served at least 30 days before the hearing. Besides notice being served on the City Development Board, the Act requires that notice also be served on the board of supervisors of the county where the area is located and on all landowners whose property is located in the area that is the subject of the agreement. House File 2623 (see Appropriations) amended H.F. 582 to provide that this notice be served by regular mail. House File 582 also amends Code Section 368.4 to provide that a voluntary or involuntary annexation shall be dismissed by the City Development Board if it violates the terms of an annexing moratorium agreement.

Code Section 368.7, relating to an application for voluntary annexation of territory adjoining a city that does not have the consent of all the landowners in the territory, is amended. The Act increases from 10 days to 14 business days the time period that must expire between the time a copy of an application is mailed to each landowner and public utility and the time at which the council may take action on the application. The Act provides that the city must hold a public hearing on the application and provide notice of the hearing by regular mail to the county board of supervisors, each landowner, and each public utility in the territory to be annexed. The city may assess the costs of providing notice to the applicants.

Code Section 368.7 is also amended, relating to annexation applications involving territory within the urbanized area of the annexing city and not within any other city's urbanized area. The Code section is amended to provide that a copy of the application for such annexations must be sent by certified mail to the board of supervisors of the county at least 14 business days prior to any action. The council is also required to publish notice of the application at least 14 days prior to any action taken by the council.

The Act amends the provision relating to voluntary annexations not within the annexing city's urbanized area to increase from 10 days to 14 business days the time period that must expire between mailed notice to certain entities and persons and action taken by the city council.

Code Section 368.11 is amended to increase from 10 days to 14 business days the time period in which a petitioner for involuntary annexation must provide a letter of intent to interested parties before the petition may be filed. Code Section 368.26 is enacted to require the City Development Board to initiate an action for severance of territory that had been involuntarily annexed to a city if the city fails to provide municipal services to the territory within three years after city taxes are imposed in the annexed territory. "Municipal services" is defined in the Act. House File 2623 amends this Act to further define "municipal service" to mean those services a city is authorized by law to provide. However, H.F. 582 also provides that a city may appeal to the City Development Board for an additional three years if good cause is shown. A petition for severance filed by the board under these circumstances is to be acted upon in the same manner as an involuntary petition, i.e., it is subject to approval by the committee of local representatives and is subject to approval at an election.

The Act applies to applications, petitions or plans for annexation of territory filed on or after July 1, 2002.

HOUSE FILE 2135 - City Planning and Zoning Commissions - Extended Zoning Jurisdiction - Membership Full text of Bill
By Committee on Local Government.

This Act provides that the planning and zoning commission of a city exercising its zoning jurisdiction in the unincorporated area within two miles beyond the boundaries of the city shall be expanded to include one member of the board of supervisors and one public member residing in the unincorporated area subject to the city zoning jurisdiction. Currently, two public members residing in the unincorporated area subject to the city zoning jurisdiction are appointed to the commission. If the extended zoning jurisdiction of a city extends into an adjacent county without a county zoning ordinance, the boards of supervisors of the affected counties, jointly, shall appoint one of their members to the planning and zoning commission.

HOUSE FILE 2152 - Volunteer Emergency Services Provider Death Benefits Full text of Bill
By Horbach, Huser, Millage, Tyrrell, Eddie, Rayhons, Broers, Baudler, Kettering, and Hoffman.

This Act repeals the provision that would in turn repeal, as of July 1, 2002, the volunteer emergency services provider death benefit established in Code Section 100B.11. The Act also adds reserve peace officers to those individuals covered by the volunteer emergency services provider death benefit.

The Act takes effect April 5, 2002.

HOUSE FILE 2246 - Property Tax and Vehicle Registration Procedures Full text of Bill
By Committee on Local Government.

This Act changes certain administrative procedures relating to the registration of vehicles by county treasurers and the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) and to the assessment and collection of taxes on property.

Code Section 321.40 is amended to require IDOT to create electronic files for vehicle registration purposes to assist the county treasurers in sending statements of fees due on vehicles and collection of the fees.

The Act amends Code Section 321.134 to extend the payment deadline for vehicle registrations to include the first business day of the following month if a registration delinquency would occur on the last calendar day of a month that is a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday. However, an electronic payment must be initiated by midnight on the last day of the month preceding the delinquent date.

Code Section 331.553, subsection 3, is amended to provide that payments for taxes or assessments made within 30 days before an annual tax sale shall be made by guaranteed funds. Prior law provided that guaranteed funds must be used for payments made within 10 days of an annual tax sale.

Code Section 331.559, subsection 20, is amended to provide that the county treasurer may dispose of the tax list received pursuant to Code Chapter 443 after 10 years. Prior law required disposal of the tax list after 10 years.

Code Section 445.36, subsection 2, is amended to provide that if the first installment of taxes paid in installments is delinquent and not paid as of February 1, the county treasurer shall mail a notice of the delinquency and due date for the second installment. Under prior law, the notice was sent if payment of the first installment was not made as of February 15.

Code Section 445.37 is also amended so that when a semiannual property tax payment becomes delinquent on the last day of September or March but that last day is a Saturday or Sunday, the payment amount does not become delinquent until the second business day of October or April, as applicable. However, an electronic payment of the amount due must be initiated by midnight on the last day of the month preceding the delinquent date.

Code Section 446.9 is amended to provide that if, for good cause, a parcel is not included in the publication of the annual tax sale, notice shall be given by publication or by posting the description of the parcel and the date, time and place of the tax sale in the treasurer's office for two weeks before the tax sale and, at the time of publication or posting, the notice shall be mailed to the person in whose name the parcel is taxed at the person's last known address.

Code Section 446.9, subsections 1 and 2, are amended to provide for the imposition and collection of a service fee not to exceed $4 for each parcel of property for which a notice of the date, time and place of the annual tax sale is served. The service fee shall be noted in the notice along with the amount of delinquent taxes, the amount of interest, and other fees due. The service fee is included in the notice in lieu of the actual cost of publication of the notice.

Code Section 446.10 is amended to provide that the service fee shall be collected as a fee for sale notice preparation and shall be deposited in the county general fund. If the taxes are paid before the date of the annual sale, the service fee shall be included as a part of the costs of collecting the taxes. The service fee is collected in lieu of compensation for the actual cost of publication of notice of the annual tax sale as provided under prior law.

HOUSE FILE 2289 - Abatement of Nuisances by Cities - Assessment Schedule Full text of Bill
By Committee on Local Government.

This Act allows a city clerk or the engineer retained by a city council to prepare, sign and file the assessment schedule and other related documents for abatement of a nuisance by a city. Currently, such duties are assigned to the engineer only.

HOUSE FILE 2291 - City Real Estate - Attachment of Judgment Liens Full text of Bill
By Committee on Local Government.

This Act allows a city to discharge a judgment lien against the real estate of the city if the city files a bond in the amount of the judgment with the clerk of the district court in which the judgment was entered.

The Act also prohibits a judgment lien from attaching to the streets, alleys or utility easements of a city or to the real estate of a city which is used by the city for transportation, health, safety, or utility purposes.

HOUSE FILE 2365 - Documents and Records Filed With County Recorder - Snowmobile and All-Terrain Vehicle Titles - Registration of Vessels Full text of Bill
By Committee on Local Government.

This Act relates to county recorders by amending Code provisions pertaining to the recording and indexing of certain documents recorded with the county recorder and by establishing a method for issuing certificates of title for snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles for which ownership has not been conclusively established and for issuing registration certificates for certain watercraft for which ownership has not been conclusively established.

The Act amends Code sections relating to the recording of documents relating to liens and to documents presented for recording with regard to the platting and subdivision of land.

The Act strikes the term "index book" in reference to indexing notices of liens. Current law allows the recorder to maintain a combined index record or system in lieu of separate index books. The Act strikes redundant language relating to the recording of environmental protection charge liens. The Act also substitutes "document reference" number for references to "book and page" number.

The Act adapts a method established for issuing certificates of title for motor vehicles for which the issuing authority is not satisfied as to the ownership of the vehicle or that there are no undisclosed security interests in the vehicle to issuance of certificates of title for snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles, and to issuance of registration for watercraft, with similarly questioned ownership. The Act provides that the county recorder may issue a certificate of title for such a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle, or registration certificate for such a watercraft, if the applicant files a bond with the Department of Natural Resources.

The Act provides that the bond shall be executed by a person authorized to conduct a surety business and shall be in an amount determined by the department by rule. The bond shall protect prior owners, secured parties, and subsequent owners of the snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or watercraft. The bond is to be returned at the end of three years, or before if the snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or watercraft is no longer registered in this state and the certificate of title or registration certificate is surrendered to the department, unless the department has been notified of the pendency of an action to recover on the bond.

The Act prohibits a person from including an individual's social security number in a document that is prepared for recording in the office of county recorder. This prohibition does not apply to a preparer of a state or federal tax lien or a military separation or discharge record. However, the Act provides that if a military separation or discharge record is recorded with the county recorder, it shall not be accessible through the Internet.

The Act also strikes Code Section 331.602, subsection 4, which provides that the county recorder shall record the registration of a person registered under the federal Social Security Act who requests recordation and keep an alphabetical index of the record.

HOUSE FILE 2418 - State Building Code - Minimum Energy Standards Full text of Bill
By Committee on State Government.

This Act relates to the minimum energy efficiency standards in the State Building Code. The Act provides that a governmental subdivision is not prohibited from adopting or enacting a minimum energy standard which is substantially in accordance and consistent with model energy codes and standards developed by a nationally recognized organization in effect on or after the effective date of the Act, July 1, 2002. The Act provides that a governmental subdivision that adopts or enacts a minimum energy standard which is substantially in accordance and consistent with model energy codes and standards developed by a nationally recognized organization shall adopt or enact any update or revision to the model energy codes and standards.

HOUSE FILE 2448 - Fire Protection or Emergency Medical Services - Disbursement of Township Taxes for Municipal Services Full text of Bill
By Huser.

This Act allows a township to indicate on its budget that it requests a portion of its taxes be paid directly to a municipality providing fire protection service or emergency medical service to the township. The Act provides that the township is required to attach a copy of the emergency services agreement to each copy of the budget transmitted to the county auditor and the county auditor is to indicate to the county treasurer the portion of the township taxes that shall be disbursed to the municipality.

SENATE FILE 165 - Iowa English Language Reaffirmation Act
SEE STATE GOVERNMENT.
   This Act adds a new section to the Code to declare that English is the official language of the state and requires all state and local official government business to be conducted in English with some exceptions.

SENATE FILE 437 - Snowmobiles and All-Terrain Vehicles - Titling, Registration, and Use
SEE NATURAL RESOURCES & OUTDOOR RECREATION.
   This Act amends various sections of Code Chapter 321G relating to the operation, registration and titling of all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles.

SENATE FILE 2124 - Public Defense, Emergency Management, and Iowa Technology Center
SEE STATE GOVERNMENT.
   This Act relates to the Department of Public Defense by amending provisions of the State Military Code and Iowa Code of Military Justice, creates a statewide mutual aid compact, creates an Iowa National Guard Civil Relief Act, provides for confidentiality of certain records relating to public assets and defense capabilities, exempts the department from certain service contract requirements and state competitive bidding requirements, exempts the Iowa Technology Center from anticompetition provisions, and increases a standing appropriation for senior commander allowances from $450 annually for each general officer to $750 annually.

SENATE FILE 2141 - Servers of Civil Process - Appointment by Sheriff
SEE CIVIL LAW, PROCEDURE & COURT ADMINISTRATION.
   This Act authorizes sheriffs to appoint civil process servers to execute and return writs and other legal process issued to the sheriff by legal authority.

SENATE FILE 2145 - Water Pollution Control and Drinking Water Facilities Financing
SEE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
   This Act relates to terminology and eligibility under the Sewage Treatment and Drinking Water Facilities Financing Program.

SENATE FILE 2156 - County Issuance of Driver's Licenses, Nonoperator Identification Cards, and Persons With Disabilities Identification Devices
SEE TRANSPORTATION.
   This Act authorizes all counties not served by a permanent Iowa Department of Transportation facility to issue driver's licenses, nonoperator identification cards, and persons with disabil

SENATE FILE 2160 - Dry Fire Hydrant and Rural Water Supply Education and Demonstration Project
SEE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
   This Act defines the term "dry fire hydrant" for purposes of the Dry Fire Hydrant and Rural Water Supply Education and Demonstration Project created in 1998 Iowa Acts, Chapter 1219, and administered by the Department of Economic Development.

SENATE FILE 2192 - Highways and Motor Vehicles - Miscellaneous Provisions
SEE TRANSPORTATION.
   This Act makes several Code changes relating to highways and motor vehicles, including condemnation procedures, restoration of government or other established corners and land monuments, the quadrennial need study of public roads in the state, issuance of driver's licenses and nonoperator's identification cards, and motor vehicle registration provisions.

SENATE FILE 2207 - Conservation Easements
SEE NATURAL RESOURCES & OUTDOOR RECREATION.
   This Act relates to the acquisition, enforceability and purpose of conservation easements.

SENATE FILE 2273 - Juneteenth National Freedom Day
SEE STATE GOVERNMENT.
   This Act authorizes and requests the Governor to issue an annual proclamation designating the third Saturday in June as Juneteenth National Freedom Day and encourages all governmental entities, civic organizations, schools, and institutions of higher education in the state to observe this day commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in the United States.

SENATE FILE 2275 - Substantive Code Corrections
SEE STATE GOVERNMENT.
   This Act contains statutory corrections that adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, delete temporary language, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, update ongoing provisions, or remove ambiguities. Changes made include the following: a clarification in language relating to meetings of regional workforce development advisory boards; a clarification in provisions related to the determination of eligibility of special service members for disability benefits under the Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System chapter; a correction in provisions relating to local elections held on the question of withdrawal from a county library district; and correction of two references to municipalities in the Urban Renewal chapter. A series of corrections are also made to a 2000 Acts chapter that added a definition of the term "county system" in numerous Code chapters. In provisions relating to taxation, clarifications are made in language relating to petitions regarding the issuance of bonds for storm water drainage and bonds secured by revenues derived from the local hotel and motel tax and language relating to a list compiled by the county auditor of all tracts of agricultural land entitled to tax credit. In the Local Option Taxes chapter, a technical change is made in language relating to notice of the results of the election on the question of imposition of a tax. In the chapter relating to which property is exempt or taxable, an internal reference to the Indian Housing Authority property tax exemption is added to language regarding filing a claim for exemption and a reference to the Iowa Administrative Procedure Act is clarified in a provision regarding revocation of exemptions. Language describing acquisitions that constitute a "major addition" for purposes of taxation of electricity and natural gas providers is clarified and certain obsolete property tax limitations, as well as references to those provisions, are eliminated. A clarification is made in provisions relating to responses by local recorders offices to requests for information under the Uniform Commercial Code to permit county boards of supervisors to adopt ordinances or resolutions setting fees for those responses. In provisions pertaining to indigent defense, language relating to the appointment and removal of local public defenders and local public defender office staff is clarified.

SENATE FILE 2277 - Open Meeting and Public Records - Confidential Public Airport, Municipal Corporation, Utility, and Rural Water District Information
SEE STATE GOVERNMENT.
   This Act creates a new category of confidential records in the Open Records Law for certain records in the custody of a public airport, municipal corporation, municipal utility, jointly owned municipal utility, or rural water district, where disclosure could reasonably be expected to jeopardize the security or the public health and safety of the citizens served by that public entity. The Act also permits a governmental body to hold a closed session to discuss such confidential records. The provisions of the Act are repealed effective June 30, 2007.

SENATE FILE 2288 - Temporary or Acting County Attorneys
SEE CRIMINAL LAW, PROCEDURE & CORRECTIONS.
   This Act relates to the appointment of an acting or temporary county attorney.

SENATE FILE 2293 - Animal Feeding Operations and Environmental Regulation
SEE AGRICULTURE.
   This Act amends provisions in several Code chapters, and principally Code Chapter 455B, regulating animal feeding operations regulated by the Department of Natural Resources, including confinement feeding operations. The Act provides for fees and appropriations to the department for purposes of administering and enforcing regulations affecting animal feeding operations. The Act decreases the threshold required for the issuance of a construction permit and provides new conditions for the approval of a construction permit, including the use of a comprehensive assessment mechanism, referred to as a master matrix, by county boards of supervisors and the department.

SENATE FILE 2304 - Miscellaneous Appropriations, Reductions, Transfers, and Other Provisions
SEE APPROPRIATIONS.
   This Act makes, reduces and transfers appropriations for FY 2001-2002 and includes exemptions from an across-the-board reduction for various property tax relief appropriations and a transfer to the General Fund of the State of an appropriation from the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Services Risk Pool. The Act takes effect March 1, 2002.

SENATE FILE 2325 - State Agency Regulatory Functions - Miscellaneous Reorganizations, Transfers, and Revisions
SEE STATE GOVERNMENT.
   This Act relates to certain regulatory functions. The Act reorganizes duties of the Department of Inspections and Appeals (DIA), transfers the Court Appointed Special Advocate Program from the judicial branch to the DIA, reorganizes the structure of the Department of Natural Resources, provides for legislative review of agencies, and addresses regulation of birth centers. The Act includes authority for allowing certain cities to conduct a controlled burn of a demolished building.

SENATE FILE 2326 - Appropriations - Miscellaneous Provisions, Reductions, Transfers, and Other Matters
SEE APPROPRIATIONS.
   This Act provides FY 2002-2003 appropriations from the General Fund of the State to the executive and judicial branches of state government, reduces or limits standing appropriations, and transfers appropriations. The Act is organized into divisions corresponding to the General Assembly's joint appropriations subcommittees and, although a large portion of the Act was vetoed by the Governor, a number of provisions affecting local government were approved. These include an appropriation for community empowerment areas and limitations on standing appropriations for the homestead property tax credit and other property tax replacement measures.

HOUSE FILE 2009 - City and County Assessors - Candidacy for Elective Public Office
SEE ELECTIONS, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE.
   This Act allows a city or county assessor to run for elective office during the assessor's term of appointment as assessor. The Act takes effect April 8, 2002.

HOUSE FILE 2082 - Registration of Watercraft
SEE NATURAL RESOURCES & OUTDOOR RECREATION.
   This Act amends provisions in Code Chapter 462A relating to the time period within which a newly purchased or transferred watercraft must be registered by the new owner.

HOUSE FILE 2150 - Military Honor Guard Services on Public Property
SEE STATE GOVERNMENT.
   This Act provides that members of the Iowa National Guard, the Reserve Forces of the United States, or a Reserve Officers Training Corps shall be allowed to perform any honor guard services on public property.

HOUSE FILE 2151 - Confidential Public Records - School Security or Emergency Preparedness
SEE EDUCATION.
   This Act requires that school corporation information concerning security procedures or emergency preparedness be kept confidential if disclosure could reasonably be expected to jeopardize student, staff or visitor safety.

HOUSE FILE 2193 - Transportation Services and Aircraft Regulation
SEE TRANSPORTATION.
   This Act makes several changes relating to public transportation programs, including requiring public, private, and private nonprofit organizations applying for or receiving federal, state or local aid for providing transit services to annually report to the Iowa Department of Transportation the costs of their transportation programs rather than requiring such organizations to annually provide copies of their fiscal year operating budgets.

HOUSE FILE 2201 - DNA Profiling of Criminal Defendants
SEE CRIMINAL LAW, PROCEDURE & CORRECTIONS.
   This Act requires a county to take a physical specimen from persons convicted of a third offense of operating while intoxicated or an aggravated misdemeanor pursuant to Code Section 709.11 (Assault with Intent to Commit Sexual Abuse) for the purpose of DNA profiling if the person has been sentenced to confinement in the county jail. The county must then submit the physical specimen to the Department of Public Safety for DNA profiling, a procedure for determining a person's genetic identity.

HOUSE FILE 2317 - Regulation of Outdoor Advertising Devices
SEE TRANSPORTATION.
   This Act relates to prohibitions on placement of advertising devices along interstate highways in certain circumstances. The Act exempts from the prohibition advertising devices that are located in areas zoned and used for commercial or industrial purposes.

HOUSE FILE 2378 - Enterprise Zones
SEE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
   This Act amends the Enterprise Zone Program administered by the Department of Economic Development.

HOUSE FILE 2416 - Mental Health and Developmental Disability Services
SEE HUMAN SERVICES.
   This Act relates to mental health and developmental disability services requirements involving Medical Assistance (Medicaid) Program waiver services, intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation, and community mental health centers. Many of the services addressed are paid for or managed by counties.

HOUSE FILE 2430 - Administration of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Services
SEE HUMAN SERVICES.
   This Act provides for the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (MH/DD) Commission to assume the duties of the State-County Management Committee, incorporates membership positions from the committee into the commission, and transfers certain rule adoption authority from the Council on Human Services to the commission.

HOUSE FILE 2453 - Procedures and Records Pertaining to Deaths - Medical Examiners
SEE HEALTH & SAFETY.
   This Act includes provisions relating to the offices of the state and county medical examiners, including provisions relating to the confidentiality of medical examiner records and reports, medical certification of death, deaths affecting the public interest, disposition of a body following an investigation by the county medical examiner, and cremation permits and fees.

HOUSE FILE 2472 - Elections and Voter Registration
SEE ELECTIONS, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE.
   This Act makes a number of changes to the election laws of Iowa. The Act requires all candidates for public office to be eligible electors at the time of election; requires all elected officials, except members of the General Assembly, U.S. Senators, and U.S. Representatives, to be eligible electors and residents of the jurisdiction they are elected to represent; provides that, in elections on annexations, if a city is divided into wards, the detailed map required must show the ward designations for the annexed territory; amends a provision pertaining to proof of death for purposes of canceling voter registration to correspond with a prior change in the law that made county recorders responsible for maintaining records of deaths in the county; provides that persons elected or appointed to fill vacancies, or who are holding over to fill vacancies, must qualify for the vacant office within 10 days of the county board's canvass of the election or within 10 days of appointment; provides a method for determining and declaring a vacancy in a local appointive or elective office; provides that, in the case of a vacancy in the office of county sheriff, the first deputy sheriff shall hold the office of sheriff until a successor is appointed or elected; moves the filing deadline for petitions to establish or terminate a county library district from 40 days before the general election to 82 days before the general election; strikes provisions permitting the question to establish or terminate a county library district to be placed on the primary election ballot; strikes a provision permitting the question of issuance of county bonds and conveyance of title to property to be placed on the primary election ballot; requires that townships with a taxable valuation of $250 million or more be represented by five township trustees rather than three; provides that the full text of a proposed home rule charter or alternative form of government proposal and the date of the election on the charter or alternative form must be included in the published notice of the election; requires the city council of a city with a primary election to notify the county commissioner of elections of the date of a special election to fill a vacancy in a city office at least 85 days before the date chosen; requires a special election to change the length of the terms of elected city officers be held more than 90 days before the regular city election if the changed terms are to be effective for offices filled at that election; and changes the deadline, from 77 days before the election to 90 days before the election, for city clerks to notify the county auditor of the type of nomination process to be used for city elections. The Act takes effect January 1, 2003, and applies to elections held on or after that date.

HOUSE FILE 2532 - Public Retirement Systems
SEE STATE GOVERNMENT.
   This Act makes numerous changes pertaining to public retirement systems, including the Public Safety Peace Officers' Retirement, Accident, and Disability System (PORS, Code Chapter 97A), the Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System (IPERS, Code Chapter 97B), the Statewide Fire and Police Retirement System (Code Chapter 411), and the Judicial Retirement System.

HOUSE FILE 2584 - Property Taxation - Vineyard Real Estate and Buildings
SEE TAXATION.
   This Act provides that a vineyard and buildings used in connection with a vineyard are agricultural property for purposes of property taxation.

HOUSE FILE 2622 - Tax Administration - Additional Related Matters
SEE TAXATION.
   This Act amends local property taxes and other laws affecting local governments to do the following:

• Allow a taxpayer to file for an urban revitalization property tax exemption up to two years after the improvements are first assessed for taxation and still receive the exemption for the total number of years allowed in the exemption schedule.
• Change the method of imposing and refunding the sales and use taxes on building materials, supplies, and equipment used in a construction project for exempt entities.
• Provide the Director of the Department of Revenue and Finance with additional time to determine and notify cities and counties of the estimated amount of local option taxes they will be receiving in the fiscal year.
• Increase the income level from $25,000 to $35,000 below which a disabled veteran receives a homestead credit for the entire amount of tax on the homestead purchased pursuant to federal law related to disabled veterans.
• Add members of the U.S. Coast Guard as eligible veterans for purposes of receiving the military service property tax exemption.
• Provide that the operation of bingo games on property of a veterans organization does not affect the property tax exemption of the property if the proceeds in excess of expenses are used for the legitimate purposes of the organization.
• Extend the deadline by which a statement of objects and uses must be filed for certain organizations and institutions claiming a property tax exemption.
• Provide for the abatement of property taxes on the land and buildings of a religious institution located in Linn County that are payable in FY 2001-2002.
• Provide for the abatement of local sales and services taxes owed by foundries located in Lee County or Jefferson County on purchases used by the foundry in making patterns, molds or dies if the purchase was made between July 1, 1997, and May 6, 2002.
• Provide for refunds if the local taxes have been paid and if claims are filed by October 1, 2002.
• Create a pension task force to study the creation of a pension system for voluntary fire fighters and report to the General Assembly by January 1, 2003.

HOUSE FILE 2623 - Compensation for Public Employees and Additional Provisions
SEE APPROPRIATIONS.
   This Act relates to compensation and benefits for public officials and employees, county mental health allowed growth, regulatory and other related matters of the state, and makes and reduces appropriations. The Act also specifies that a city's notice of the hearing on annexation shall be served by regular mail, and that the municipal services to be provided in an annexed area must be within the legal authority of the annexing city.

HOUSE FILE 2625 - Miscellaneous Appropriations, Reductions, Transfers, and Other Provisions - Fiscal Year 2001-2002 - SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
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   This Act addresses public funding provisions and related matters by making, transferring and reducing appropriations in order to balance the State General Fund budget for FY 2001-2002. The Act includes transfers for funding of the renters' credits under the elderly and disabled property tax credit.