Senate File 55
SENATE FILE
BY LUNDBY
(COMPANION TO LSB 1743HH
BY ELGIN)
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act modifying allocations and apportionments of road use tax
2 funds.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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1 1 Section 1. Section 307.22, subsection 7, Code 2003, is
1 2 amended to read as follows:
1 3 7. Annually recalculate the construction and maintenance
1 4 needs of roads under the jurisdiction of each county to take
1 5 into account the needs of a road whose jurisdiction has been
1 6 transferred from the department to a county or from a county
1 7 to the department during the previous year. The recalculation
1 8 shall be reported by January 1 of the year following the
1 9 transfer and shall take effect the following July 1 for the
1 10 purposes of allocating moneys under sections section 312.3 and
1 11 312.5.
1 12 Sec. 2. Section 309.10, Code 2003, is amended to read as
1 13 follows:
1 14 309.10 USE OF FARM=TO=MARKET ROAD FUND ACCOUNT.
1 15 1. Notwithstanding section 310.4, if the board of
1 16 supervisors of a county does not plan to utilize its farm=to=
1 17 market road fund account allocation for the succeeding fiscal
1 18 year for farm=to=market projects, the board may annually, by
1 19 stipulation in the secondary road construction program and
1 20 secondary road budget submitted to the department in
1 21 accordance with sections 309.22 and 309.93, determine an
1 22 amount of the unobligated portion of its allocation, up to a
1 23 maximum of fifty percent of its anticipated total annual
1 24 allocation, for the construction and reconstruction of local
1 25 secondary roads. However, moneys from the farm=to=market road
1 26 fund account shall not be so used if the moneys are needed to
1 27 match federal funds available for farm=to=market road
1 28 projects.
1 29 2. A county shall not use farm=to=market road funds
1 30 account moneys as described in this section unless the total
1 31 funds that the county transferred or provided during the prior
1 32 fiscal year pursuant to section 331.429, subsection 1,
1 33 paragraphs "a", "b", "d", and "e", are at least seventy=five
1 34 percent of the sum of the following:
1 35 1. a. From the general fund of the county, the dollar
2 1 equivalent of a tax of sixteen and seven=eighths cents per
2 2 thousand dollars of assessed value on all taxable property in
2 3 the county.
2 4 2. b. From the rural services fund of the county, the
2 5 dollar equivalent of a tax of three dollars and three=eighths
2 6 of a cent per thousand dollars of assessed value on all
2 7 taxable property not located within the corporate limits of a
2 8 city in the county.
2 9 Sec. 3. Section 310.3, Code 2003, is amended to read as
2 10 follows:
2 11 310.3 FUNDS FARM=TO=MARKET ROAD ACCOUNT OF SECONDARY ROAD
2 12 FUND.
2 13 There is hereby created a fund As provided in section
2 14 312.2, the treasurer of state shall maintain a separate
2 15 account in the secondary road fund which shall be known as the
2 16 farm=to=market road fund account which shall be made up as
2 17 follows of the following:
2 18 1. All federal aid secondary road funds received by the
2 19 state.
2 20 2. All road use tax funds by law credited to the farm=to=
2 21 market road fund account.
2 22 3. All other funds which may, under the provisions of this
2 23 chapter or any other law, be credited or appropriated for the
2 24 use of the farm=to=market road fund account.
2 25 Sec. 4. Section 310.4, Code 2003, is amended to read as
2 26 follows:
2 27 310.4 USE OF FUND ACCOUNT.
2 28 Said The farm=to=market road fund account is hereby
2 29 appropriated for and shall be used in the establishment,
2 30 construction, reconstruction, or improvement of the farm=to=
2 31 market road system, including the drainage, grading,
2 32 surfacing, resurfacing, construction of bridges and culverts,
2 33 the elimination, protection, or improvement of railroad
2 34 crossings, the acquiring of additional right of way and all
2 35 other expenses incurred in the construction, reconstruction or
3 1 improvement of said the farm=to=market road system under this
3 2 chapter.
3 3 Sec. 5. Section 310.6, Code 2003, is amended to read as
3 4 follows:
3 5 310.6 ACCOUNTS BY DEPARTMENT.
3 6 The department shall keep accounts subaccounts in relation
3 7 to the farm=to=market road fund account and each county's
3 8 allotment thereof of the account, crediting each fund
3 9 subaccount with all amounts by law creditable thereto, and
3 10 charging each with all duly and finally approved vouchers for
3 11 claims properly chargeable thereto.
3 12 Sec. 6. Section 310.8, Code 2003, is amended to read as
3 13 follows:
3 14 310.8 QUARTERLY STATEMENT TO COUNTY ENGINEER.
3 15 The department shall, quarterly, advise each county
3 16 engineer of the condition of said the county's allotment of
3 17 the farm=to=market road fund account. Said The statement
3 18 shall show the balance in said the county's allotment at the
3 19 beginning of said the period, the amount or amounts allotted
3 20 to said the county during said the period, the amount
3 21 disbursed from said the county's allotment during said the
3 22 period, and the balance in said the county's allotment at the
3 23 end of the said period. Said The statement shall also show
3 24 the estimated outstanding obligations against the said
3 25 county's allotment at the date of said the statement.
3 26 Sec. 7. Section 310.16, Code 2003, is amended to read as
3 27 follows:
3 28 310.16 CLAIMS CHARGED TO COUNTY ALLOTMENT.
3 29 All claims for improving farm=to=market roads hereunder
3 30 shall be paid from the farm=to=market road account of the
3 31 secondary road fund and charged to the allotment of said fund
3 32 the account for the county in which said the project is
3 33 located.
3 34 Sec. 8. Section 310.20, Code 2003, is amended to read as
3 35 follows:
4 1 310.20 SUPERVISORS RESOLUTION TO STATE TREASURER.
4 2 Any county may, in any year, by resolution of its board of
4 3 supervisors, make available for improvement or construction of
4 4 farm=to=market roads within the county any portion of its
4 5 allotment of road use tax funds. Upon certification of such a
4 6 resolution, the state treasurer shall place in the county's
4 7 allotment of the farm=to=market road account of the secondary
4 8 road fund the amount authorized by such the resolution.
4 9 Sec. 9. Section 310.27, Code 2003, is amended to read as
4 10 follows:
4 11 310.27 PERIOD OF ALLOCATION == REVERSION == TEMPORARY
4 12 TRANSFERS.
4 13 1. The portion of the farm=to=market road account of the
4 14 secondary road fund allotted to any county as provided in this
4 15 chapter shall remain available for expenditure in said the
4 16 county for three years after the close of the fiscal year
4 17 during which said sums respectively were the portion was
4 18 allocated. Any sum portion remaining unexpended at the end of
4 19 the period during which it is available for expenditure, shall
4 20 be reapportioned among all the counties as provided in section
4 21 312.5 for original allocations.
4 22 2. For the purposes of this section, any sums portions of
4 23 the farm=to=market road account of the secondary road fund
4 24 allotted to any county shall be presumed to have been
4 25 "expended" when a contract has been awarded obligating the
4 26 sums portions. When projects and their estimated costs, which
4 27 are proposed to be funded from the farm=to=market road fund
4 28 account, are submitted to the department for approval, the
4 29 department shall estimate the total funding necessary and the
4 30 period during which claims for the projects will be filed.
4 31 After anticipating the funding necessary for approved
4 32 projects, the department may temporarily allocate additional
4 33 moneys from the farm=to=market road fund account for use in
4 34 any other farm=to=market projects. However, a county shall
4 35 not be temporarily allocated funds for projects in excess of
5 1 the county's anticipated farm=to=market road fund account
5 2 allocation for the current fiscal year plus the four
5 3 succeeding fiscal years.
5 4 3. If in the judgment of the department the anticipated
5 5 claims against the primary road fund for any month are in
5 6 excess of moneys available, a temporary transfer for highway
5 7 construction costs may be made from the farm=to=market road
5 8 fund account to the primary road fund providing there will
5 9 remain in the transferring fund farm=to=market road account a
5 10 sufficient balance to meet the anticipated obligations. All
5 11 transfers shall be repaid from the primary road fund to the
5 12 farm=to=market road fund account within sixty days from the
5 13 date of the transfer. A transfer shall be made only with the
5 14 approval of the director of management and shall comply with
5 15 the director of management's rules relating to the transfer of
5 16 funds. Similar transfers may be made by the department from
5 17 the primary road fund to the farm=to=market road fund account
5 18 and these transfers shall be subject to the same terms and
5 19 conditions that transfers from the farm=to=market road fund
5 20 account to the primary road fund are subject.
5 21 Sec. 10. Section 310.28, Code 2003, is amended to read as
5 22 follows:
5 23 310.28 ENGINEERING AND OTHER EXPENSE.
5 24 1. Engineering, inspection, and administration expense
5 25 expenses in connection with any farm=to=market road project
5 26 may be paid from said the county's allotment of the farm=to=
5 27 market road account of the secondary road fund. Any such
5 28 expense incurred by the department may in the first instance
5 29 be advanced out of the primary road fund, said the amounts
5 30 later being reimbursed to said funds the primary road fund out
5 31 of the farm=to=market road fund account.
5 32 2. Provided, that no No part of the salary or expense of
5 33 the county engineer, any member of the county board of
5 34 supervisors, any member of the department, the chief engineer,
5 35 or any department head or district engineer of the department
6 1 shall be paid out of the farm=to=market road fund account.
6 2 Sec. 11. Section 310.34, Code 2003, is amended to read as
6 3 follows:
6 4 310.34 SECONDARY ROAD RESEARCH FUND.
6 5 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the
6 6 department is hereby authorized to may set aside each year not
6 7 to exceed one and one=half percent of the receipts in the
6 8 farm=to=market road fund account of the secondary road fund in
6 9 a fund to be known as the secondary road research fund.
6 10 Sec. 12. Section 312.2, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2003,
6 11 is amended to read as follows:
6 12 The treasurer of the state shall, on the first day of each
6 13 month, credit all road use tax funds which have been received
6 14 by the treasurer, to the primary road fund, the secondary road
6 15 fund of the counties, the farm=to=market road fund, and the
6 16 street construction fund of cities in the following manner and
6 17 amounts:
6 18 Sec. 13. Section 312.2, subsections 1 through 4, Code
6 19 2003, are amended to read as follows:
6 20 1. To the primary road fund, forty=seven and one=half
6 21 fifty percent.
6 22 2. To the secondary road fund of the counties, twenty=four
6 23 and one=half twenty=five percent. The treasurer shall
6 24 maintain a separate farm=to=market road account in the
6 25 secondary road fund for deposit of moneys to be used for farm=
6 26 to=market roads.
6 27 3. To the farm=to=market road fund, eight percent.
6 28 4. 3. To the street construction fund of the cities,
6 29 twenty twenty=five percent.
6 30 Sec. 14. Section 312.2, subsection 10, Code 2003, is
6 31 amended to read as follows:
6 32 10. The treasurer of state, before making the other
6 33 allotments provided for in this section, shall credit annually
6 34 to the primary road fund from the road use tax fund the sum of
6 35 four million four hundred thousand dollars and to the farm=to=
7 1 market road account of the secondary road fund from the road
7 2 use tax fund the sum of one million five hundred thousand
7 3 dollars for partial compensation of allowing trucks to operate
7 4 on the roads of this state as provided in section 321.463.
7 5 Sec. 15. Section 312.3, subsection 1, Code 2003, is
7 6 amended by striking the subsection and inserting in lieu
7 7 thereof the following:
7 8 1. Apportion among the counties of the state, in the ratio
7 9 which the population of each county, as shown by the latest
7 10 available federal census, bears to the total population of all
7 11 counties in the state, the percentage of the road use tax fund
7 12 which is credited to the secondary road fund of the counties.
7 13 A county may have one special federal census taken each
7 14 decade, and the population figure thus obtained shall be used
7 15 in apportioning amounts under this subsection beginning the
7 16 calendar year following the year in which the special census
7 17 is certified by the secretary of state.
7 18 Sec. 16. Section 312.3C, Code 2003, is amended to read as
7 19 follows:
7 20 312.3C SECONDARY ROAD FUND DISTRIBUTION ADVISORY
7 21 COMMITTEE.
7 22 A secondary road fund distribution advisory committee is
7 23 established to consider methodologies for distribution of
7 24 moneys in the secondary road fund and farm=to=market road
7 25 fund. The committee shall be comprised of representatives
7 26 appointed by the president of the Iowa county engineers
7 27 association, the president of the Iowa county supervisors
7 28 association, and the department. The committee shall
7 29 recommend to the general assembly, for the general assembly's
7 30 consideration and adoption, one or more alternative
7 31 methodologies for distribution of moneys in the secondary road
7 32 fund and the farm=to=market road fund.
7 33 Sec. 17. Section 312.4, subsections 2 and 4, Code 2003,
7 34 are amended to read as follows:
7 35 2. The amount of the road use tax fund which that the
8 1 treasurer has credited to (a) the following:
8 2 a. The primary road fund, (b) the.
8 3 b. The secondary road fund of the counties, (c) the farm=
8 4 to=market road fund, and (d) the.
8 5 c. The street construction fund of the cities.
8 6 4. The amount of federal aid secondary road funds which
8 7 the treasurer has received from the federal government and
8 8 credited to the farm=to=market road account of the secondary
8 9 road fund.
8 10 Sec. 18. Section 314.3, Code 2003, is amended to read as
8 11 follows:
8 12 314.3 CLAIMS == APPROVAL AND PAYMENT.
8 13 1. All claims for construction, reconstruction,
8 14 improvement, repair, or maintenance on any highway shall be
8 15 itemized on voucher forms prepared for that purpose, certified
8 16 to by the claimants and by the engineer in charge, and then
8 17 forwarded to the agency in control of that highway for final
8 18 audit and approval. Claims payable from the farm=to=market
8 19 road account of the secondary road fund shall be approved by
8 20 both the board of supervisors and the department. Upon
8 21 approval by the department of vouchers which are payable from
8 22 the farm=to=market road fund account, or from the primary road
8 23 fund, as the case may be, such vouchers shall be forwarded to
8 24 the director of revenue and finance, who shall draw warrants
8 25 therefore for the vouchers and said the warrants shall be paid
8 26 by the treasurer of the state from the farm=to=market road
8 27 fund account or from the primary road fund, as the case may
8 28 be.
8 29 2. If the engineer makes such certificate or a member of
8 30 the agency approves such claim when said the work has not been
8 31 done in accordance with the plans and specifications, and said
8 32 the work be not promptly made good without additional cost,
8 33 the engineer or member shall be liable on the person's bond
8 34 for the amount of such claim.
8 35 Sec. 19. Section 331.401, subsection 1, paragraph b, Code
9 1 2003, is amended to read as follows:
9 2 b. Establish budgets for the farm=to=market road account
9 3 of the secondary road fund and the secondary road fund in
9 4 accordance with sections 309.10 and 309.93 to 309.97.
9 5 Sec. 20. Section 331.429, Code 2003, is amended to read as
9 6 follows:
9 7 331.429 SECONDARY ROAD FUND.
9 8 1. Except as otherwise provided by state law, county
9 9 revenues for secondary and farm=to=market road services shall
9 10 be credited to the secondary road fund, including the
9 11 following:
9 12 a. Transfers from the general fund not to exceed in any
9 13 year the dollar equivalent of a tax of sixteen and seven=
9 14 eighths cents per thousand dollars of assessed value on all
9 15 taxable property in the county multiplied by the ratio of
9 16 current taxes actually collected and apportioned for the
9 17 general basic levy to the total general basic levy for the
9 18 current year, and an amount equivalent to the moneys derived
9 19 by the general fund from military service tax credits under
9 20 chapter 426A, manufactured or mobile home taxes under section
9 21 435.22, and delinquent taxes for prior years collected and
9 22 apportioned to the general basic fund in the current year,
9 23 multiplied by the ratio of sixteen and seven=eighths cents to
9 24 three dollars and fifty cents.
9 25 b. Transfers from the rural services fund not to exceed in
9 26 any year the dollar equivalent of a tax of three dollars and
9 27 three=eighths cents per thousand dollars of assessed value on
9 28 all taxable property not located within the corporate limits
9 29 of a city in the county multiplied by the ratio of current
9 30 taxes actually collected and apportioned for the rural
9 31 services basic levy to the total rural services basic levy for
9 32 the current year and an amount equivalent to the moneys
9 33 derived by the rural services fund from military service tax
9 34 credits under chapter 426A, manufactured or mobile home taxes
9 35 under section 435.22, and delinquent taxes for prior years
10 1 collected and apportioned to the rural services basic fund in
10 2 the current year, multiplied by the ratio of three dollars and
10 3 three=eighths cents to three dollars and ninety=five cents.
10 4 c. Moneys allotted to the county from the state road use
10 5 tax fund.
10 6 d. Moneys provided by individuals from their own
10 7 contributions for the improvement of any secondary or farm=to=
10 8 market road.
10 9 e. Other moneys dedicated to this fund by law including
10 10 but not limited to funds so dedicated pursuant to sections
10 11 306.15, 309.52, 311.23, 311.29, and 313.28.
10 12 f. All federal aid secondary road funds received by the
10 13 state.
10 14 2. The board may make appropriations from the secondary
10 15 road fund and from the farm=to=market road account within the
10 16 fund for the following secondary road services:
10 17 a. Construction and reconstruction of secondary and farm=
10 18 to=market roads and costs incident to the construction and
10 19 reconstruction.
10 20 b. Maintenance and repair of secondary and farm=to=market
10 21 roads and costs incident to the maintenance and repair.
10 22 c. Payment of all or part of the cost of construction and
10 23 maintenance of bridges in cities having a population of eight
10 24 thousand or less and all or part of the cost of construction
10 25 of roads which are located within cities of less than four
10 26 hundred population and which lead to state parks.
10 27 d. Special drainage assessments levied on account of
10 28 benefits to secondary or farm=to=market roads.
10 29 e. Payment of interest and principal on bonds of the
10 30 county issued for secondary or farm=to=market roads, bridges,
10 31 or culverts constructed by the county.
10 32 f. A legal obligation in connection with secondary and
10 33 farm=to=market roads and bridges, which obligation is required
10 34 by law to be taken over and assumed by the county.
10 35 g. Secondary and farm=to=market road equipment, materials,
11 1 and supplies, and garages or sheds for their storage, repair,
11 2 and servicing.
11 3 h. Assignment or designation of names or numbers to roads
11 4 in the county and erection, construction, or maintenance of
11 5 guideposts or signs at intersections of roads in the county.
11 6 i. The services provided under sections 306.15, 309.18,
11 7 309.52, 311.7, 311.23, 313A.23, 316.14, 468.43, 468.108,
11 8 468.341, and 468.342, chapter 310, or other state law relating
11 9 to secondary or farm=to=market roads.
11 10 Sec. 21. TRANSITION PROVISIONS. The treasurer of state
11 11 and the state department of transportation shall cooperate to
11 12 coordinate any transitional procedures required for allocation
11 13 of road use tax funds as provided in this Act.
11 14 Sec. 22. Sections 310.7 and 312.5, Code 2003, are
11 15 repealed.
11 16 EXPLANATION
11 17 This bill makes changes in the allocations from the road
11 18 use tax fund to the primary road fund, the secondary road
11 19 fund, the farm=to=market road fund, and the street
11 20 construction fund of the cities. The bill provides that 50
11 21 percent of the moneys shall be allocated to the primary road
11 22 fund, 25 percent to the secondary road fund, and 25 percent to
11 23 the street construction fund of the cities. The bill directs
11 24 the treasurer of state to establish a separate farm=to=market
11 25 road account in the secondary road fund which shall consist of
11 26 moneys currently deposited into the farm=to=market road fund.
11 27 The account is to be used for the same purposes for which the
11 28 farm=to=market road fund is currently used.
11 29 The bill also provides that the allocation from the road
11 30 use tax fund to the secondary road fund of the counties shall
11 31 be apportioned to the counties on a per capita basis in the
11 32 manner that the allocation to the street construction fund of
11 33 the cities is currently apportioned to cities. Currently, the
11 34 road use tax funds allocated to the secondary road fund of the
11 35 counties and to the farm=to=market road fund are apportioned
12 1 to the counties based 70 percent on need and 30 percent on
12 2 area.
12 3 The bill makes corresponding changes in Code chapter 309,
12 4 relating to secondary roads; Code chapter 310, relating to
12 5 farm=to=market roads; Code chapter 312, relating to the road
12 6 use tax fund; Code chapter 314, relating to administrative
12 7 provisions for highways; and Code chapter 331, relating to
12 8 county home rule. The bill also makes corresponding Code
12 9 reference changes.
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