House File 653 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 653 BY COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 128) A BILL FOR An Act relating to the financing of the construction or repair 1 of works or facilities used to provide telecommunications 2 services. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2098HV (1) 89 jda/rn
H.F. 653 Section 1. Section 28F.1, subsection 1, Code 2021, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 1. This chapter provides a means for the joint financing 3 by public agencies of works or facilities useful and necessary 4 for the collection, treatment, purification, and disposal 5 in a sanitary manner of liquid and solid waste, sewage, 6 and industrial waste, facilities used for the conversion of 7 solid waste to energy, works or facilities useful for the 8 operation of a telecommunications system or the provision 9 of telecommunications services, gasworks and facilities 10 useful for the delivery of natural gas service, and also 11 electric power facilities constructed within the state of 12 Iowa, except that hydroelectric power facilities may also be 13 located in the waters and on the dams of or on land adjacent 14 to either side of the Mississippi or Missouri river bordering 15 the state of Iowa, water supply systems, swimming pools 16 or golf courses. This chapter applies to the acquisition, 17 construction, reconstruction, ownership, operation, repair, 18 extension, or improvement of such works or facilities, by a 19 separate administrative or legal entity created pursuant to 20 chapter 28E or chapter 389 . When the legal entity created 21 under this chapter is comprised solely of cities, counties, 22 and sanitary districts established under chapter 358 , or any 23 combination thereof or any combination of the foregoing with 24 other public agencies, the entity shall be both a corporation 25 and a political subdivision with the name under which it was 26 organized. The legal entity may sue and be sued, contract, 27 acquire and hold real and personal property necessary for 28 corporate purposes, adopt a corporate seal and alter the seal 29 at pleasure, and execute all the powers conferred in this 30 chapter . 31 EXPLANATION 32 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 33 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 34 This bill relates to the financing of the construction 35 -1- LSB 2098HV (1) 89 jda/rn 1/ 2
H.F. 653 or repair of works or facilities used to provide 1 telecommunications services. 2 The bill permits joint financing under Code chapter 3 28F for works or facilities useful for the operation 4 of a telecommunications system or the provision of 5 telecommunications services. 6 -2- LSB 2098HV (1) 89 jda/rn 2/ 2