Bill Text: IA SF2018 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to Iowa's urban renewal law by establishing restrictions on the use of divided revenues and including effective date provisions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Independent 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-25 - Subcommittee, Bolkcom, Feenstra, and Quirmbach. S.J. 98. [SF2018 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF2018-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2018 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  JOHNSON

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to Iowa's urban renewal law by establishing
  2    restrictions on the use of divided revenues and including
  3    effective date provisions.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 403.5, subsection 2, paragraph b,
  1  2 subparagraph (1), Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    (1)  Prior to its approval of an urban renewal plan which
  1  4  that provides for a division of revenue pursuant to section
  1  5 403.19, the municipality shall mail the proposed plan by
  1  6 regular mail to the affected taxing entities. The municipality
  1  7 shall include with the proposed plan notification of a
  1  8 consultation to be held between the municipality and affected
  1  9 taxing entities prior to the public hearing on the urban
  1 10 renewal plan. If the proposed urban renewal plan or proposed
  1 11 urban renewal project within the urban renewal area, which
  1 12 plan or project is approved prior to the effective date of
  1 13 this Act, includes the use of taxes revenue resulting from a
  1 14 division of revenue taxes under section 403.19, subsection 2,
  1 15  for a public building, including but not limited to a police
  1 16 station, fire station, administration building, swimming
  1 17 pool, hospital, library, recreational building, city hall, or
  1 18 other public building that is exempt from taxation, including
  1 19 the grounds of, and the erection, equipment, remodeling,
  1 20 maintenance, repair, or reconstruction of, and additions or
  1 21 extensions to, such a building, the municipality shall include
  1 22 with the proposed plan notification an analysis of alternative
  1 23 development options and funding for the urban renewal area or
  1 24 urban renewal project and the reasons such options would be
  1 25 less feasible than the proposed urban renewal plan or proposed
  1 26 urban renewal project. A copy of the analysis required in this
  1 27 subparagraph shall be included with the urban renewal report
  1 28 required under section 331.403 or 384.22, as applicable, and
  1 29 filed by December 1 following adoption of the urban renewal
  1 30 plan or project.  Urban renewal plans and urban renewal
  1 31 projects approved on or after the effective date of this Act
  1 32 shall not include the use of revenue resulting from a division
  1 33 of taxes under section 403.19, subsection 2, for a public
  1 34 building, including but not limited to a police station, fire
  1 35 station, administration building, swimming pool, hospital,
  2  1 library, recreational building, city hall, or other public
  2  2 building that is exempt from taxation, including the grounds
  2  3 of, and the erection, equipment, remodeling, maintenance,
  2  4 repair, or reconstruction of, and additions or extensions to,
  2  5 such a building.
  2  6    Sec. 2.  Section 403.12, subsection 1, paragraph f, Code
  2  7 2016, is amended to read as follows:
  2  8    f.  Cause Subject to the limitation in section 403.5,
  2  9 subsection 2, paragraph "b", subparagraph (1), cause public
  2 10 buildings and public facilities, including parks, playgrounds,
  2 11 and recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or
  2 12 drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise
  2 13 empowered to undertake to be furnished;
  2 14    Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  2 15 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  2 16                           EXPLANATION
  2 17 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  2 18 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2 19    This bill relates to Iowa's urban renewal law by providing
  2 20 that urban renewal plans and urban renewal projects approved on
  2 21 or after the effective date of the bill shall not include the
  2 22 use of revenue resulting from a division of taxes for a public
  2 23 building that is exempt from taxation, including the grounds
  2 24 of, and the erection, equipment, remodeling, maintenance,
  2 25 repair, or reconstruction of, and additions or extensions to,
  2 26 such a building. The bill also modifies provisions governing
  2 27 the use of such revenues for public buildings for plans and
  2 28 projects approved before the effective date of the bill to
  2 29 include the maintenance and repair of such public buildings.
  2 30    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
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