House File 97 



                                       HOUSE 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