Senate Study Bill 1256 



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED REBUILD IOWA
                                            COMMITTEE BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON HOGG)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for the establishment of a municipal energy
  2    enterprise under specified circumstances.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2434SC 83
  5 rn/nh/8

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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  364.23A  MUNICIPAL ENERGY
  1  2 ENTERPRISES.
  1  3    A city with a population of more than one hundred thousand
  1  4 may establish by ordinance a municipal energy enterprise as
  1  5 provided in this section.  A municipal energy enterprise may
  1  6 provide heat energy to entities deemed by the city to be
  1  7 critical to the health of the local economy.  Heat energy
  1  8 shall be supplied to an entity only after the city council
  1  9 holds a public hearing on the question of providing heat
  1 10 energy and the adoption of an ordinance describing the reasons
  1 11 for providing heat energy and authorizing the providing of
  1 12 such heat energy to specifically named entities.  A municipal
  1 13 energy enterprise shall be a city enterprise for purposes of
  1 14 chapter 384, and its activities are a public purpose for
  1 15 purposes of chapters 6A and 6B.
  1 16    Sec. 2.  Section 384.24, subsection 2, Code 2009, is
  1 17 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1 18    NEW PARAGRAPH.  m.  Municipal energy enterprises as
  1 19 provided in section 364.23A.
  1 20                           EXPLANATION
  1 21    This bill authorizes a city with a population of more than
  1 22 100,000 to establish by ordinance a municipal energy
  1 23 enterprise.  The bill provides that a municipal energy
  1 24 enterprise may provide heat energy to entities deemed by the
  1 25 city to be critical to the health of the local economy.  The
  1 26 bill provides that the city council shall conduct a public
  1 27 hearing on the question of providing heat energy and adopt an
  1 28 ordinance describing the reasons for providing heat energy and
  1 29 authorizing the providing of such heat energy to specifically
  1 30 named entities.
  1 31    The bill provides that a municipal energy enterprise shall
  1 32 be a city enterprise for purposes of city finance provisions
  1 33 pursuant to Code chapter 384, and that its activities are a
  1 34 public purpose for purposes of Code chapters 6A and 6B,
  1 35 relating to eminent domain procedures.
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