House File 382 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 382 BY McCONKEY , HOLT , BROWN-POWERS , ANDERSON , GASKILL , STANERSON , STUTSMAN , BEARINGER , HUNTER , OURTH , HANSON , MASCHER , WOLFE , T. TAYLOR , BEST , MAXWELL , KAUFMANN , SALMON , GASSMAN , and SIECK A BILL FOR An Act establishing a database for businesses owned by 1 veterans. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 2187YH (3) 86 ad/sc

H.F. 382 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 35A.19 Veterans’ business database. 1 1. The department and the economic development authority 2 shall jointly establish and maintain a public, searchable 3 database of businesses in Iowa which are fifty-one percent 4 or more owned, operated, and actively managed by one or more 5 veterans. 6 2. a. The department and the economic development authority 7 shall obtain the consent of the business before listing the 8 business or information about the business on the database. 9 b. The business may volunteer information to be included 10 on the database. The department and the economic development 11 authority shall verify the accuracy of the information and 12 verify the business meets the requirements of subsection 1 13 before including the business on the database. 14 3. The department and the economic development authority 15 shall update the database on at least a quarterly basis to 16 determine that a business listed on the database meets the 17 requirements of subsection 1. 18 EXPLANATION 19 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 20 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 21 This bill requires the Iowa department of veterans affairs 22 and the Iowa economic development authority to establish and 23 maintain a database of businesses in Iowa owned by veterans. 24 The bill provides that the department of veterans affairs and 25 the economic development authority shall update the database 26 on a quarterly basis. The bill requires the department and 27 economic development authority to obtain the consent of the 28 business before including the business or the business’s 29 information on the database. The bill allows businesses to 30 volunteer information to be included on the database, and the 31 department and the economic development authority shall add 32 that information after verifying its accuracy. 33 -1- LSB 2187YH (3) 86 ad/sc 1/ 1