Bill Text: IA HF589 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the property tax levy for the payment of general obligation bonds issued by cities for certain flood-related purposes and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 99; See HF 741.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-22 - Withdrawn. H.J. 945. [HF589 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2019-HF589-Introduced.html
House File 589 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 589 BY COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 99) A BILL FOR An Act relating to the property tax levy for the payment 1 of general obligation bonds issued by cities for certain 2 flood-related purposes and including applicability 3 provisions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1914HV (2) 88 md/jh
H.F. 589 Section 1. Section 76.1, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code 1 2019, is amended to read as follows: 2 b. General obligation bonds issued for any of the following 3 purposes may mature and be retired in a period not exceeding 4 thirty years from date of issue: 5 (1) Purposes specified in section 331.441, subsection 2 , 6 paragraph “b” , subparagraphs (18) and (19) , or . 7 (2) Purposes specified in section 384.24, subsection 3 , 8 paragraphs “w” and “x” , and bonds . 9 (3) Purposes specified in section 384.24, subsection 10 3, paragraph “i” , if the bonds are issued in conjunction 11 with a project approved by the flood mitigation board under 12 chapter 418 and if the estimated useful life of the project, 13 independently determined by a licensed professional engineer, 14 is at least two hundred percent of the maturity and retirement 15 period for the bonds. 16 (4) Bonds issued to refund or refinance bonds issued for 17 those the purposes , may mature and be retired in a period 18 not exceeding thirty years from date of issue specified in 19 subparagraph (1), (2), or (3) . 20 Sec. 2. APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to bonds issued 21 before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. 22 EXPLANATION 23 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 24 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 25 This bill amends provisions governing the property tax 26 levy imposed by a city to retire bonds. The bill provides 27 that general obligation bonds issued by a city for specified 28 flood-related purposes and bonds issued to refund or 29 refinance such bonds may mature and be retired in a period 30 not exceeding 30 years from the date of issue, instead of a 31 20-year retirement period. However, the 30-year period is 32 only applicable if the bonds are issued in conjunction with 33 a project approved by the flood mitigation board under Code 34 chapter 418 and if the estimated useful life of the project, 35 -1- LSB 1914HV (2) 88 md/jh 1/ 2
H.F. 589 independently determined by a licensed professional engineer, 1 is at least 200 percent of the maturity and retirement period 2 for the bonds. 3 The bill applies to bonds issued before, on, or after the 4 effective date of this Act. 5 -2- LSB 1914HV (2) 88 md/jh 2/ 2
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