House Study Bill 704 



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            AGRICULTURE BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON MERTZ)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for the incurrence of costs to establish soil
  2    and water conservation practices.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 6466HC 82
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 161A.48, subsection 3, Code 2007, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    3.  Upon receiving evidence of the submission of an
  1  4 application, the commissioners shall forward to the officer or
  1  5 agency to which the application was made a written request to
  1  6 receive notification of the disposition of the application.
  1  7 When notified of the approval of the application, the
  1  8 commissioners shall issue to the same parties who received the
  1  9 original administrative order, or their successors in
  1 10 interest, a supplementary order, to be delivered in the same
  1 11 manner as provided by sections 161A.43 to 161A.53 for delivery
  1 12 of original administrative orders.  The supplementary order
  1 13 shall state a time, not more than six months after approval of
  1 14 the application for public cost=sharing funds, by which the
  1 15 work needed to comply with the original administrative order
  1 16 shall actually be commenced, and a time thereafter when the
  1 17 work is to be satisfactorily completed.  If feasible, that
  1 18 time shall be within one year after the date of the
  1 19 supplementary order, but the owner of land on which a soil and
  1 20 water conservation practice is being established under this
  1 21 section is not required to incur a cost for the practice in
  1 22 any one calendar year which exceeds ten twenty dollars per
  1 23 acre for each acre of land belonging to that owner and located
  1 24 in the county containing the land on which the required
  1 25 practice is being established or in counties contiguous to
  1 26 that county.
  1 27                           EXPLANATION
  1 28    This bill amends Code section 161A.48 by increasing the
  1 29 amount of cost that a person who is an owner or occupant of
  1 30 land may incur during any calendar year to establish a soil
  1 31 and water conservation practice under a cost=share agreement.
  1 32 Currently, the person is not required to incur a cost
  1 33 exceeding $10 per acre and the bill increases that amount to
  1 34 $20 per acre.
  1 35 LSB 6466HC 82
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