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LOCAL GOVERNMENT – Week of April 22, 2013

April 26, 2013

HF 524 – City water liens on commercial property   FLOOR ACTION:             HF 524 relates to city utilities and exempts commercial rental property from liens for delinquent rates or charges. [4/22: 50-0]

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT – Week of April 8, 2013

April 15, 2013

HF 524 — City water liens on commercial property HF 541 — Dam Reconstruction Standards (Lake Delhi)   FLOOR ACTION:             HF 541 involves dam reconstruction standards. Notwithstanding design criteria and guidelines for Iowa dams adopted by the Department of Natural Resources, certain standards apply to the reconstruction of a dam damaged by a natural [...]

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT – Week of April 1, 2013

April 8, 2013

HF 524 – City water liens on commercial property HF 541 – Dam reconstruction standards (Lake Delhi)   COMMITTEE ACTION: HF 524 relates to city utilities and exempts commercial rental property from liens for delinquent rates or charges. [4/3: short form] HF 541 involves dam reconstruction standards. Notwithstanding design criteria and guidelines for Iowa dams [...]

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT – Week of March 18, 2013

March 25, 2013

SF 403 – ISU extension lobbying   FLOOR ACTION: SF 403 repeals the current provision restricting a person associated with a county agricultural extension district from engaging in a legislative program or influencing legislation. [3/19: 35-15 (Anderson, Bertrand, Breitbach, Chapman, Dix, Feenstra, Greiner, Guth, Johnson, Kapucian, Rozenboom, Sinclair, Smith, Whitver, Zumbach)]

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT – Week of March 11, 2013

March 19, 2013

SF 308 – Light duty for pregnant workers SF 403 – ISU extension lobbying   COMMITTEE ACTION: SF 308 requires an employer to provide reasonable work accommodations based on an employee’s pregnancy or childbirth if the employee requests “light duty” work accommodations with advice of her health care provider. The bill defines “reasonable accommodations” as [...]

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT – 2012 All-bill summary

June 14, 2012

SF 2137 – City/ County Property taxes SF 2146 — Rural Water District Annual Meeting SF 2292 — Ankeny legalizing Act HF 524 – Special appraiser’s fund HF 2101 — Public Land Survey Corner Certificates HF 2231 – Memorial Hospital Commissioners Residency Qualifications HF 2323 — Residential rental property and city utilities/city enterprises HF 2369 — [...]

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT-Week of March 26

March 29, 2012

HF 2231 – Memorial hospital commissioners HF 2323 – Residential rental property utility requirements FLOOR ACTION: HF 2231 requires that each commissioner of a memorial hospital must be a resident of this state and reside within the service area of the memorial hospital. Current law requires that each commissioner for a memorial hospital be a [...]

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT-Week of March 19

March 28, 2012

HF 524 – Special appraiser’s fund HF 2101 – Surveyor land certificate HF 2369 – Burial transit permit FLOOR ACTION: HF 524 combines the special appraiser’s fund with the assessment expense fund in the office of the local assessor and specifies that the levy rate for the assessment expense fund cannot exceed the rate of the previous [...]

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT-Week of March 12

March 15, 2012

SF 2137 – Property tax to pay lease HF 2323 — Residential Rental Property Utility Requirements HF 2231 — Memorial Hospital Commissioners HF 2369 — Burial Transit Permit FLOOR ACTION: SF 2137 changes the tax levy for joint county-city buildings from being a specific levy under 384.12(15) to being under the debt service levy, as [...]

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT-Week of March 5

March 8, 2012

SF 2292 – City of Ankeny legalizing bill FLOOR ACTION: SF 2292 is a legalizing bill for the City of Ankeny. All bidders that would have had interest in a letting were notified directly prior to receiving the final bids. The notice was sent to all local bid rooms for public review. However, the city neglected [...]

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