House File 763 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC
                                           GROWTH

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO HF 100)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to certain distress criteria under the enterprise
  2    zone program.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1526HV 82
  5 tm/gg/14

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 15E.194, subsection 1, paragraph c,
  1  2 Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    c.  The county has experienced a percentage population loss
  1  4 that ranks among the top twenty=five counties in the state
  1  5 between 1995 and 2000.  For purposes of this paragraph, prison
  1  6 population shall not be included in the population
  1  7 calculations.
  1  8                           EXPLANATION
  1  9    This bill relates to certain distress criteria under the
  1 10 enterprise zone program.
  1 11    Currently, an enterprise zone may be designated by a county
  1 12 that meets two of four possible distress criteria.  One of the
  1 13 criteria is that the county has experienced a percentage
  1 14 population loss that ranks among the top 25 counties in the
  1 15 state between 1995 and 2000.
  1 16    The bill qualifies the population criterion by prohibiting
  1 17 the inclusion of prison population in the population
  1 18 calculations.
  1 19 LSB 1526HV 82
  1 20 tm:sc/gg/14