House File 97HOUSE FILE BY SWAIM and ANDERSON Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to distress criteria for counties under the 2 enterprise zone program. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1525HH 82 5 tm/gg/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 15E.194, subsection 1, unnumbered 1 2 paragraph 1, Code 2007, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 An enterprise zone may be designated by a county which has 1 4 one of the fifteen highest family poverty rates for counties 1 5 in this state based on the 2000 census and has a population of 1 6 less than twenty thousand based on the 2000 census or a county 1 7 which meets at least two of the following criteria: 1 8 EXPLANATION 1 9 This bill relates to distress criteria for counties under 1 10 the enterprise zone program. 1 11 The bill provides that, in addition to counties that meet 1 12 two of four possible distress criteria, a county which has one 1 13 of the 15 highest family poverty rates for counties in the 1 14 state based on the 2000 census and has a population of less 1 15 than 20,000 based on the 2000 census may also designate an 1 16 enterprise zone. 1 17 LSB 1525HH 82 1 18 tm:sc/gg/14