Amendment S-5076 to SF 2088
Relating to transportation, including the administration and regulation of matters associated with the operation, registration, and titling of motor vehicles and the Mississippi river parkway commission, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions
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Filed March 9, 2026 in the Senate by
In plain words
AI summary This amendment changes the number of advisory members on the Mississippi River Parkway Commission from seven to four and updates which state agencies provide those members. It also requires the commission to submit an annual report on the economic impact of the Great River Road and allows the commission to create a technical advisory committee.1
What it changes
- Page 23, after line 11 by inserting: “DIVISION ___ MISSISSIPPI RIVER PARKWAY COMMISSION Sec. ___. Section 308.1, subsection 1, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows:
- The Mississippi river parkway planning commission shall must be composed of ten members appointed by the governor, five members to be appointed for two-year terms beginning July 1, 1959, and five members to be appointed including one member each from Allamakee county, Clayton county, Clinton county, Des Moines county, Dubuque county, Jackson county, Lee county, Louisa county, Muscatine county, and Scott county, for four-year terms beginning July 1, 1959 . In addition , to the above members there shall must be seven four advisory , ex officio members who shall be as follows: a. One member from the state department of transportation commission . b. One member from the natural resource commission. c. One member from the state soil conservation and water quality committee. One member from the economic development authority, whose primary responsibility includes tourism under section 15.108, subsection
- d. One member from the state historical society of Iowa. e. One member from the faculty of the landscape architectural division of the Iowa state university of science and technology. f. One member from the economic development authority. g. One member from the environmental protection commission. Sec. ___. Section 308.1, Code 2026, is amended by adding the following new subsections: NEW SUBSECTION . 1A. The parkway commission shall submit a report regarding the economic impact of the great river road on this state on or before December 15 each year to the general -1- SF 2088.3253.H (2) 91 md 1/ 2 assembly and to the governor. NEW SUBSECTION . 1B. The parkway commission may establish a technical committee to advise the commission. If established, members of the committee must include at least one employee each from the departments of transportation and agriculture and land stewardship, from the consumer protection division of the office of the attorney general, and from the economic development authority, designated by the applicable head of the entity. The commission may request any other state agency to designate an employee to serve on the committee.”
- Title page, line 1, after “to” by inserting “transportation, including”
- Title page, line 3, by striking “vehicles,” and inserting “vehicles and the Mississippi river parkway commission,”
- By renumbering as necessary. -2- SF 2088.3253.H (2) 91 md 2/ 2