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Relating to the public safety equipment fund, providing for voluntary contributions to the fund, and including effective date provisions
Sponsored by the House Public Safety (successor To Hf 539) Committee
Topics:State budget
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 26, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 27, 2019
- Done: House committeeMarch 6, 2019
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa will create a new fund to help the Department of Public Safety buy and fix its equipment. When people renew their vehicle registrations, they will be asked if they want to voluntarily donate one dollar or more to this fund. The money collected will go toward public safety tools, though counties can keep a small portion of these donations for their own local funds.1
Read the official explanation
This bill creates a public safety equipment fund and appropriates moneys in the fund to the department of public safety (DPS) for the purchase, maintenance, and replacement of equipment used by DPS. The bill authorizes DPS to designate moneys in the fund for future purchase, maintenance, and replacement of equipment used by DPS. The bill also provides for certain reporting requirements regarding how the moneys in the fund are used, including the amount carried over annually in the fund. The bill provides that for each application for motor vehicle registration renewal, the county treasurer or the department of transportation (DOT) shall request through use of a written form, and, if the application is made in person, through verbal communication, that an applicant make a voluntary contribution of $1 or more, computed to the nearest whole dollar, to the public safety equipment fund. The moneys collected by the county and the DOT in the form of contributions must be remitted to the treasurer of state for deposit in the public safety equipment fund. However, up to percent of the moneys collected by the county may be retained by the county treasurer for deposit in the general fund of the county. The bill takes effect January 1, 2021.
House subcommittee
Named March 3, 2020. On March 10, 2020 it recommended passage.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
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Similar bills
- HF 300 Creating a public safety equipment fund, and including effective date provisions89th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 708Nearly identical
Matched by wording or an identical title.