H-1338

   Amend Senate File 443, as passed by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  Section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph a, subparagraph (1), subparagraph division (d), Code 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   (d)  Not more than four hundred thousand dollars to To the department for purposes of providing funding assistance to eligible communities to address abandoned buildings by promoting waste abatement, diversion, selective dismantlement of building components, and recycling. Eligible communities include a city with a population of five thousand or fewer, except that eligible communities include a city with a population of seven thousand five hundred or fewer if the amount allocated for purposes of this subparagraph division exceeds four hundred thousand dollars. Eligible costs for program assistance include but are not limited to asbestos and other hazardous material abatement and removal, the recovery processing of recyclable or reusable material through the selective dismantlement of abandoned buildings, and reimbursement for purchased recycled content materials used in the renovation of buildings.>

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COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

BLOOMINGDALE of Worth, Chairperson