House File 2182 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2182 BY ISENHART and FORBES A BILL FOR An Act relating to an electric vehicle charging station grant 1 program and fund, and making appropriations. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5697YH (3) 88 mo/ns

H.F. 2182 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 307.50 Electric vehicle charging 1 station grant program —— fund created. 2 1. The department shall establish and administer an 3 electric vehicle charging station grant program to provide 4 monetary incentives to private entities that build electric 5 vehicle charging stations in urban areas and in areas near 6 interstate and primary roads that are frequently used by long 7 distance travelers. 8 2. a. An electric vehicle charging station grant fund is 9 created in the state treasury under the administration and 10 control of the department. The fund shall consist of moneys 11 appropriated to the fund by the general assembly. Moneys in 12 the fund are appropriated to the department to provide grants 13 under the electric vehicle charging station grant program. 14 b. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the fund 15 that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of a 16 fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for 17 expenditure for the purposes designated. Notwithstanding 18 section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys in 19 the fund shall be credited to the fund. 20 3. The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 21 17A to administer the electric vehicle charging station grant 22 program, including but not limited to rules providing for an 23 application process and establishing the criteria necessary to 24 award grants to applicants that plan to build electric vehicle 25 charging stations in urban areas or in areas near interstate 26 or primary roads that are frequently used by long distance 27 travelers. The department may establish a limit on the amount 28 of moneys that may be awarded in order to maximize the use of 29 the moneys in the fund. 30 Sec. 2. ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION FUND 31 APPROPRIATION. There is appropriated from the Iowa 32 comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund created 33 in section 455G.3 to the electric vehicle charging station 34 grant fund created in section 307.50 the following amount, or 35 -1- LSB 5697YH (3) 88 mo/ns 1/ 2

H.F. 2182 so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes 1 designated: 2 For the electric vehicle charging station grant program: 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5,382,117 4 EXPLANATION 5 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 6 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 7 This bill requires the department of transportation (DOT) to 8 establish and administer an electric vehicle charging station 9 grant program. The bill creates an electric vehicle charging 10 station grant fund in the state treasury and appropriates 11 $5,382,117 to the fund from the Iowa comprehensive petroleum 12 underground storage tank fund. The DOT must use the moneys in 13 the fund to provide grants pursuant to the grant program. The 14 DOT must adopt rules to administer the grant program, including 15 rules providing for an application process and for the criteria 16 necessary to award grants to applicants that plan to build 17 electric vehicle charging stations in urban areas or in areas 18 near an interstate or primary road that is frequently used by 19 long distance travelers. The DOT may establish a limit on the 20 amount of moneys that may be awarded as a grant in order to 21 maximize the use of the moneys in the fund. 22 -2- LSB 5697YH (3) 88 mo/ns 2/ 2