House File 126 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 126 BY MEGGERS (COMPANION TO SF 41 BY KLIMESH) A BILL FOR An Act relating to budgets of local emergency management 1 agencies and including applicability provisions. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1120YH (2) 90 md/jh

H.F. 126 Section 1. Section 29C.9, subsection 4, Code 2023, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 4. For the purposes of this chapter , a commission is a 3 municipality as defined in section 670.1 and a municipality as 4 defined in section 24.2 . 5 Sec. 2. Section 29C.17, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code 6 2023, is amended to read as follows: 7 a. A countywide special levy pursuant to section 331.424, 8 subsection 1 certified and levied by the commission up to an 9 amount sufficient to pay for the maintenance and operation of 10 the local emergency management agency . 11 Sec. 3. Section 29C.17, subsection 6, Code 2023, is amended 12 to read as follows: 13 6. Subject to chapter 24 , the commission shall adopt, 14 certify, and provide a budget, on or before February 28 of 15 each year, to the funding entities determined pursuant to 16 subsection 2 . The form of the budget shall be as prescribed 17 by the department of management. Any portion of a tax levied 18 by a county or city to support the local emergency management 19 agency shall be identified separately on tax statements issued 20 by the county treasurer. A tax levied by the commission under 21 subsection 2, paragraph “a” , shall be identified separately on 22 tax statements issued by the county treasurer. 23 Sec. 4. Section 331.424, subsection 1, paragraph a, 24 subparagraph (9), Code 2023, is amended by striking the 25 subparagraph. 26 Sec. 5. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to budgets for 27 property taxes due and payable in fiscal years beginning on or 28 after July 1, 2024. 29 EXPLANATION 30 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 31 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 32 Under Code section 29C.17, a local emergency management 33 agency’s approved budget is funded by one or any combination 34 of several funding options, as determined by the local 35 -1- LSB 1120YH (2) 90 md/jh 1/ 2

H.F. 126 emergency management commission, including a countywide 1 special levy pursuant to Code section 331.424(1) under the 2 county’s supplemental property tax levy authority in an amount 3 sufficient to pay for the maintenance and operation of the 4 local emergency management agency. This bill authorizes the 5 local emergency management commission to certify and levy the 6 countywide special levy for the maintenance and operation of 7 the agency and strikes the county’s authority to certify such a 8 levy. The bill also specifies the local emergency management 9 commission to be a municipality for purposes of Code chapter 10 24 (local budgets). 11 The bill applies to budgets for property taxes due and 12 payable in fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2024. 13 -2- LSB 1120YH (2) 90 md/jh 2/ 2