House File 689 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY PETTENGILL Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to funding for local emergency management and 2 providing an applicability date. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2725HH 82 5 eg/je/5 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 29C.17, subsection 2, unnumbered 1 2 paragraph 1, Code 2007, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 For the purposes consistent with this chapter, the county 1 4 emergency management agency's approved budgetmayshall be 1 5 funded by one or any combination of the following options as 1 6 determined by the commission: 1 7 Sec. 2. Section 29C.17, subsection 2, Code 2007, is 1 8 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 1 9 NEW PARAGRAPH. e. A countywide levy imposed directly by 1 10 the commission. 1 11 Sec. 3. Section 29C.17, Code 2007, is amended by adding 1 12 the following new subsection: 1 13 NEW SUBSECTION. 6. If the commission chooses the funding 1 14 option in subsection 2, paragraph "e", the commission is not 1 15 required to submit its budget to the county board of 1 16 supervisors and the cities as required in subsection 5, and 1 17 the commission shall be considered the certifying board and 1 18 the levying board for purposes of chapter 24. 1 19 Sec. 4. APPLICABILITY DATE. This Act applies to fiscal 1 20 years beginning on or after July 1, 2008. 1 21 EXPLANATION 1 22 Current law provides that a local emergency management 1 23 commission may fund its budget using one or a combination of 1 24 any of four options. This bill provides that the budget shall 1 25 be funded using the statutorily authorized options, and it 1 26 also provides a fifth option. The fifth option for funding is 1 27 a countywide levy imposed directly by the commission. If this 1 28 option is chosen, the commission is not required to submit its 1 29 budget to the cities and county, and the commission shall be 1 30 considered the certifying board and the levying board for 1 31 purposes of statutory requirements relating to most local 1 32 budgets. 1 33 The bill applies to fiscal years beginning on or after July 1 34 1, 2008. 1 35 LSB 2725HH 82 2 1 eg:sc/je/5