SF 271 (LSB 1893XS (2) 91)

SENATE FILE 271

BY  KLIMESH

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to voting membership on joint 911 service boards.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 34A.3, subsection 1, paragraph a, subparagraphs (1) and (2), Code 2025, are amended to read as follows:
   (1)  Each political subdivision of the state located within the county and having a public safety agency serving territory within the county and each local emergency management agency as defined in section 29C.2 operating within the area is entitled to voting membership on the joint 911 service board. For the purposes of this section, a township that operates a volunteer fire department providing fire protection services to the township, or a city which that provides fire protection services through the operation of a volunteer fire department not financed through city government, shall be considered a political subdivision of the state having a public safety agency serving territory within the county. Each private safety agency operating within the area and each political subdivision of the state not located within the county, but having a public safety agency operating within the area, is entitled to nonvoting membership on the board.
   (2)  A township that does not operate its own public safety agency, but contracts for the provision of public safety services, is not entitled to membership on the joint 911 service board, but its contractor is entitled to membership according to the contractor’s status as a public or private safety agency and whether the contractor is located within the county.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to voting membership on a joint 911 service board.
   Under current law, each political subdivision of the state that has a public safety agency serving territory within the county is entitled to voting membership on the joint 911 service board in that county.
   The bill requires each political subdivision of the state that has a public safety agency serving territory within the county to also be located within the county to be entitled to voting membership on the joint 911 service board, otherwise the political subdivision is entitled only to nonvoting membership.