Bill Text: IA HF2664 | 2023-2024 | 90th General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to actions involving hazardous liquid pipelines, and providing fees. (Formerly HF 2522, HSB 608.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-04-10 - Subcommittee recommends passage. []. [HF2664 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2023-HF2664-Amended.html
House File 2664 - Reprinted HOUSE FILE 2664 BY COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2522) (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 608) (As Amended and Passed by the House March 28, 2024 ) A BILL FOR An Act relating to actions involving hazardous liquid 1 pipelines, and providing fees. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 HF 2664 (2) 90 sc/ns/md
H.F. 2664 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 479B.9A Judicial review prior to 1 final board action. 2 1. a. Notwithstanding the Iowa administrative procedure 3 Act, chapter 17A, prior to final board action, an applicant 4 before the board under this chapter or a person whose real 5 property is subject to an eminent domain taking claim arising 6 from an application before the board may petition the district 7 court for an eminent domain declaratory review. 8 b. The district court for Polk county shall have exclusive 9 venue for the judicial review under this subsection. 10 c. Relief under this subsection is limited to a declaration 11 of the parties’ rights, status, and other legal matters 12 relating to the constitutional and statutory provisions 13 governing eminent domain takings. 14 d. The court may combine several substantially similar 15 petitions into one review or relief order at its own discretion 16 or upon the application of any party. 17 e. All orders or judgments under this subsection may be 18 reviewed as other judgments, orders, or decrees. 19 f. This subsection does not limit the authority of the board 20 to proceed with an application under consideration at the time 21 of the petition. 22 2. a. A person whose real property is subject to an eminent 23 domain taking claim arising from an application before the 24 board may commence a new action under subsection 1 if any of 25 the following conditions apply: 26 (1) More than eighteen months have passed after the 27 commencement of an action described in subsection 1 involving 28 the person. 29 (2) The facts and circumstances as presented in a previous 30 proceeding under subsection 1 materially differ from the facts 31 and circumstances at the time of the commencement of the new 32 action. 33 b. Notwithstanding subsection 1, paragraph “b” , the new 34 proceeding must be in a district court of a county other than 35 -1- HF 2664 (2) 90 sc/ns/md 1/ 2
H.F. 2664 Polk county, and the district judge assigned to the matter 1 must be a district judge other than the judge who presided in 2 the previous action under subsection 1. The court shall make 3 all determinations of fact and law in the new action de novo, 4 giving no precedential value to determinations in the earlier 5 action. 6 3. Commencement of a declaratory action under this section 7 must be accompanied by a fee of ten dollars, payable to the 8 clerk of the district court of the county in which the action 9 is commenced. Fees collected under this subsection shall be 10 deposited in the general fund of the state. 11 4. A bond shall not be required for an appeal of any 12 order entered in an action arising from this section, or for 13 any injunction to enforce an order entered pursuant to this 14 section. 15 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION . 479B.9B Judicial review of final 16 order. 17 Any person or entity admitted as a party to the hearing may 18 seek judicial review of the final order issued by the board 19 pursuant to section 479B.9, as provided in section 17A.19. The 20 party seeking judicial review shall not be required to post a 21 bond to stay action on the permit. 22 -2- HF 2664 (2) 90 sc/ns/md 2/ 2
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