Bill Text: IA SF2108 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to a schedule established by the environmental protection commission for civil penalties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-31 - Subcommittee: Kraayenbrink, Hart, and Kapucian. S.J. 195. [SF2108 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2108-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2108 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  JOCHUM

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to a schedule established by the environmental
  2    protection commission for civil penalties.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 455B.109, subsection 1, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 1, Code 2018, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    The commission shall establish, by rule, a schedule or range
  1  4 of civil penalties which may be administratively assessed.
  1  5 The schedule shall provide procedures and criteria for the
  1  6 administrative assessment of penalties of not more than ten
  1  7  twenty=five thousand dollars for violations of this chapter or
  1  8 rules, permits, or orders adopted or issued under this chapter.
  1  9 In adopting a schedule or range of penalties and in proposing
  1 10 or assessing a penalty, the commission and director shall
  1 11 consider among other relevant factors the following:
  1 12                           EXPLANATION
  1 13 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 14 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 15    This bill relates to a schedule established by the
  1 16 environmental protection commission for civil penalties.
  1 17    Currently, the environmental protection commission is
  1 18 required to establish a schedule or range of civil penalties of
  1 19 not more than $10,000 that may be administratively assessed.
  1 20 Currently, if a civil penalty is more than $10,000, the civil
  1 21 penalty is not administratively assessed.
  1 22    The bill increases the maximum administratively assessed
  1 23 civil penalty amount from $10,000 to $25,000.
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