Bill Text: IA SF2155 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: A bill for an act creating a statewide land mobile radio communications system fund, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3106.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-02-25 - Read first time, referred to Appropriations. H.J. 333. [SF2155 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF2155-Amended.html

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Senate File 2155 - Reprinted




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON
                                     APPROPRIATIONS

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                     3106)
       (As Amended and Passed by the Senate February 24, 2016)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act creating a statewide land mobile radio communications
  2    system fund, making an appropriation, 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.  NEW SECTION.  80.29A  Statewide land mobile radio
  1  2 communications system fund.
  1  3    1.  A statewide land mobile radio communications system
  1  4 fund is created in the state treasury under the control
  1  5 of the department.  Moneys in the fund are appropriated
  1  6 to the department for purposes of establishing a statewide
  1  7 land mobile radio communications system to be administered
  1  8 by the department in coordination with the department of
  1  9 transportation.
  1 10    2.  Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest
  1 11 or earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the
  1 12 fund and shall be used for costs associated with construction
  1 13 of the statewide land mobile radio communications system.
  1 14 Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys credited to the fund that
  1 15 remain unexpended or unobligated at the end of a fiscal year
  1 16 through the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June
  1 17 30, 2022, shall not revert to any other fund.
  1 18    Sec. 2.  STATEWIDE LAND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
  1 19 APPROPRIATION.  There is appropriated from the general fund
  1 20 of the state for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and
  1 21 ending June 30, 2016, the following amount, or so much thereof
  1 22 as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
  1 23    1.  For deposit in the statewide land mobile radio
  1 24 communications system fund created in section 80.29A:
  1 25 .................................................. $ 20,371,298
  1 26    2.  The Iowa telecommunications and technology commission
  1 27 shall collaborate with the department of public safety
  1 28 regarding the deployment of the statewide land mobile radio
  1 29 communications system network and the ongoing operations of
  1 30 the network.  The commission, as required by the department,
  1 31 shall provide project management regarding the technical
  1 32 network deployment and ongoing network operations, including
  1 33 the procurement of any vendor services or equipment necessary
  1 34 for the technical network deployment and ongoing operations.
  1 35 The department of public safety, in conjunction with the
  2  1 state department of transportation, shall at all times retain
  2  2 overall responsibility for the statewide land mobile radio
  2  3 communications system network and primary responsibility for
  2  4 the operational policy of the network.
  2  5    Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  2  6 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
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