Bill Text: IA HF2111 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to city eligibility for receipt of abandoned building program funding assistance.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - Introduced, referred to Appropriations. H.J. 120. [HF2111 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF2111-Introduced.html

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House File 2111 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  HUSEMAN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to city eligibility for receipt of abandoned
  2    building program funding assistance.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph a,
  1  2 subparagraph (1), subparagraph division (e), Code 2016, is
  1  3 amended to read as follows:
  1  4    (e)  Not more than four hundred thousand dollars to the
  1  5 department for purposes of providing funding assistance
  1  6 to eligible communities to address abandoned buildings by
  1  7 promoting waste abatement, diversion, selective dismantlement
  1  8 of building components, and recycling. Eligible communities
  1  9 include a city with a population of five six thousand or fewer.
  1 10 Eligible costs for program assistance include but are not
  1 11 limited to asbestos and other hazardous material abatement and
  1 12 removal, the recovery processing of recyclable or reusable
  1 13 material through the selective dismantlement of abandoned
  1 14 buildings, and reimbursement for purchased recycled content
  1 15 materials used in the renovation of buildings. For projects
  1 16 that support community beautification, the department may elect
  1 17 to administer funding to eligible communities in collaboration
  1 18 with the organization awarded the beautification grant in
  1 19 accordance with subparagraph division (a), subparagraph
  1 20 subdivision (i).
  1 21                           EXPLANATION
  1 22 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 23 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 24    This bill makes changes to city eligibility requirements
  1 25 for receipt of abandoned building program funding assistance.
  1 26 Under current law, such assistance is available to cities with
  1 27 populations of 5,000 or less. Under the bill, such assistance
  1 28 is made available to cities with populations of 6,000 or less.
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