SF 2024 (LSB 5490XS (2) 86)

SENATE FILE 2024

BY  FEENSTRA

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to city eligibility for receipt of abandoned building program funding assistance.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph a, subparagraph (1), subparagraph division (e), Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   (e)  Not more than four hundred thousand dollars to the department for purposes of providing funding assistance to eligible communities to address abandoned buildings by promoting waste abatement, diversion, selective dismantlement of building components, and recycling. Eligible communities include a city with a population of five six thousand or fewer. Eligible costs for program assistance include but are not limited to asbestos and other hazardous material abatement and removal, the recovery processing of recyclable or reusable material through the selective dismantlement of abandoned buildings, and reimbursement for purchased recycled content materials used in the renovation of buildings. For projects that support community beautification, the department may elect to administer funding to eligible communities in collaboration with the organization awarded the beautification grant in accordance with subparagraph division (a), subparagraph subdivision (i).
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill makes changes to city eligibility requirements for receipt of abandoned building program funding assistance. Under current law, such assistance is available to cities with populations of 5,000 or less. Under the bill, such assistance is made available to cities with populations of 6,000 or less.