House Study Bill 126 



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            EDUCATION BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON WENDT)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the election for approval of the physical
  2    plant and equipment levy and providing an effective date.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1539HC 83
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 298.9, Code 2009, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    298.9  SPECIAL LEVIES.
  1  4    If the voter=approved physical plant and equipment levy,
  1  5 consisting solely of a physical plant and equipment property
  1  6 tax levy, is approved by the voters at the regular school an
  1  7 election held on a date specified in section 39.2, subsection
  1  8 4, paragraph "c", and certified to the board of supervisors
  1  9 after the regular levy is made, the board shall at its next
  1 10 regular meeting levy the tax and cause it to be entered upon
  1 11 the tax list to be collected as other school taxes.  If the
  1 12 certification is filed prior to May 1, the annual levy shall
  1 13 begin with the tax levy of the year of filing.  If the
  1 14 certification is filed after May 1 in a year, the levy shall
  1 15 begin with the levy of the fiscal year succeeding the year of
  1 16 the filing of the certification.
  1 17    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 18 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 19                           EXPLANATION
  1 20    This bill specifies that the portion of the physical plant
  1 21 and equipment levy that is required to receive approval of the
  1 22 voters may be submitted at a special election rather than only
  1 23 at the regular school election.
  1 24    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
  1 25 LSB 1539HC 83
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