SENATE FILE _____

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON DANIELSON)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the performance of routine maintenance of a fire protection system and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 100D.1, subsection 11, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   11.  “Routine maintenance” means the repair or replacement of existing fire protection system components of the same size and type for which no changes in configuration are made, and does not include any new installation or the expansion or extension of any existing fire protection system including the replacement of sprinkler heads or nozzles and the temporary disabling and subsequent restarting of a system as necessary to perform such routine maintenance. “Routine maintenance” does not include any new installation or the expansion or extension of any existing fire protection system.
   Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
EXPLANATION
   This bill revises the definition of routine maintenance of a fire protection system, expanding the definition to include the replacement of sprinkler heads or nozzles and the temporary disabling and subsequent restarting of a system as necessary to perform such routine maintenance. 
   Persons who perform only routine maintenance are not required to be licensed.
   The bill takes effect upon enactment.