House File 2408 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  ANDERSON


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to contract letting procedures for city and
  2    county hospitals.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 6074HH 81
  5 eg/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 331.341, subsection 1, Code 2005, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  When the estimated cost of a public improvement, other
  1  4 than improvements which may be paid for from the secondary
  1  5 road fund, exceeds the amount specified in section 309.40 or,
  1  6 for a county hospital exceeds one hundred thousand dollars,
  1  7 the board shall follow the contract letting procedures
  1  8 provided for cities in sections 384.95 to 384.103.  However,
  1  9 in following those sections the board shall substitute the
  1 10 word "county" for the word "city", section 331.305 for section
  1 11 362.3, shall consider "governing body" to mean the board, and
  1 12 shall exclude references to a city utility, utility board of
  1 13 trustees, or public utilities.  As used in this section,
  1 14 "public improvement" means the same as defined in section
  1 15 384.95 as modified by this subsection.  This subsection
  1 16 applies to all county hospitals whether organized under
  1 17 chapter 37, 347, or 347A, or otherwise established by law.
  1 18    Sec. 2.  Section 384.96, Code 2005, is amended to read as
  1 19 follows:
  1 20    384.96  SEALED BIDS.
  1 21    When the estimated total cost to a city of a public
  1 22 improvement exceeds the sum of twenty=five thousand dollars
  1 23 or, for a city hospital, including a city memorial hospital,
  1 24 exceeds the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, the governing
  1 25 body shall advertise for sealed bids for the proposed
  1 26 improvement by publishing a notice to bidders as provided in
  1 27 section 362.3, except that the notice to bidders may be
  1 28 published more than twenty days but not more than forty=five
  1 29 days before the date for filing bids.
  1 30                           EXPLANATION
  1 31    This bill raises the bid threshold amount for county and
  1 32 city hospital public improvements.  For county hospitals,
  1 33 whether organized pursuant to Code chapter 37, 347, or 347A,
  1 34 or otherwise established by law, the bid threshold amount is
  1 35 raised from $50,000 to $100,000.  Similarly, for city
  2  1 hospitals, including city memorial hospitals, the bid
  2  2 threshold is raised from $25,000 to $100,000.
  2  3 LSB 6074HH 81
  2  4 eg:nh/gg/14