Senate Study Bill 1198 



                                       SENATE/HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED GOVERNOR'S BILL)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring a severe weather safe room in newly constructed
  2    public buildings and providing an implementation provision and
  3    applicability date.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1728XL 83
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 103A.7, subsection 2, Code 2009, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  3    NEW PARAGRAPH.  h.  The inclusion, if applicable, in the
  1  4 erection and construction of buildings by a public entity, of
  1  5 a severe weather safe room to protect persons against extreme
  1  6 wind events that is consistent with design and construction
  1  7 guidelines for community safe rooms created by the federal
  1  8 emergency management agency.
  1  9    Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to public
  1 10 buildings both planned and constructed on or after July 1,
  1 11 2009.
  1 12    Sec. 3.  IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT.  Section 25B.2, subsection
  1 13 3, shall not apply to this Act.
  1 14                           EXPLANATION
  1 15    This bill requires the state building code to contain a
  1 16 provision requiring the inclusion of a severe weather safe
  1 17 room in public buildings to protect against extreme wind
  1 18 events that is consistent with design and construction
  1 19 guidelines for community safe rooms created by the federal
  1 20 emergency management agency.  The bill applies to public
  1 21 buildings both planned and constructed on or after July 1,
  1 22 2009.
  1 23    The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  1 24 section 25B.3.  The bill makes inapplicable Code section
  1 25 25B.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a political
  1 26 subdivision from complying with a state mandate if funding for
  1 27 the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified.
  1 28 Therefore, political subdivisions are required to comply with
  1 29 any state mandate included in the bill.
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  1 31 ec/rj/5.1