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SSB 1120
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 25, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2019
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 6, 2019
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- 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
The United States army corps of engineers may require that a permittee under the federal Water Pollution Control Act section 404 permitting program provide mitigation of impacts to the streams and wetlands that arise from the permitted project. Federal rules authorize states to establish fee programs in lieu of requiring on-site mitigation. This bill authorizes the department of natural resources to establish in-lieu fee programs to provide for the payment of a fee by a permit holder in lieu of performing mitigation.
Read the full explanation
The bill allows the department to enter into agreements with entities for the administration of all or part of an in-lieu fee program. Any in-lieu fee program must be approved by the army corps of engineers. Fees collected from an in-lieu fee program shall be deposited into a compensatory mitigation fund created in the state treasury. _____ are appropriated to the department for the restoration, establishment, enhancement, and preservation of aquatic resources within the state to offset impacts to aquatic resources by entities permitted under section 404 of the federal Water Pollution Control Act. The departments shall adopt rules to carry out the purpose of the bill.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 12, 2019. On February 18, 2019 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
Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
2 for · 1 against · 29 undecided · Who →