Senate File 573 S-3188 Amend Senate File 573 as follows: 1 1. By striking everything after the enacting clause and 2 inserting: 3 < Section 1. Section 478.6A, subsection 2, Code 2023, is 4 amended to read as follows: 5 2. Notwithstanding section 478.21 , in addition to any 6 other applicable requirements pursuant to this chapter , if a 7 petition for a franchise to construct a merchant line that 8 is proposed to be constructed above ground and involves the 9 taking of property under eminent domain is not approved by the 10 board and a franchise granted within three years following the 11 date the petition is filed with the board pursuant to section 12 478.3 , the board shall reject the petition and make a record 13 of the rejection. If the hearing on the petition conducted 14 pursuant to section 478.4 has been held within the three-year 15 period following the date the petition is filed, but the board 16 has not completed its deliberations within that three-year 17 period, the three-year period may be extended by the board to 18 allow completion of deliberations. A petitioner shall not file 19 a petition for the same or a similar project that has been 20 rejected within sixty months following the date of rejection 21 if the rejection was for failure to be approved within three 22 years following the date the petition was filed as provided in 23 this subsection . 24 Sec. 2. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. This Act applies 25 retroactively to a petition for a franchise submitted on or 26 after September 1, 2020. > 27 2. Title page, line 2, by striking < levee and drainage 28 districts, and > 29 ______________________________ JASON SCHULTZ -1- SF 573.1992 (3) 90 (amending this SF 573 to CONFORM to HF 714) es/rn 1/ 1 #1. #2.