Bill Text: IA HF264 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act allowing city council members to serve a city’s volunteer fire department without compensation in any position or capacity. (See HF 485.)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-08 - Withdrawn. H.J. 562. [HF264 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF264-Introduced.html

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House File 264 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  ZUMBACH

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act allowing city council members to serve a city's
  2    volunteer fire department without compensation in any
  3    position or capacity.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 372.13, subsection 10, Code 2017, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    10.  A council member, during the term for which that member
  1  4 is elected, is not precluded from holding the office of chief
  1  5 of the volunteer fire department if the fire department serves
  1  6 an area with a population of not more than two thousand or from
  1  7 serving the volunteer fire department without compensation in
  1  8 any other position or capacity. A person holding the office
  1  9 of chief of such a volunteer fire department at the time of the
  1 10 person's election to the city council may continue to hold the
  1 11 office of chief of the fire department during the city council
  1 12 term for which that person was elected.
  1 13                           EXPLANATION
  1 14 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 15 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 16    This bill allows city council members to serve a city's
  1 17 volunteer fire department without compensation in any position
  1 18 or capacity.
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