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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 2475: Providing for the removal of municipal utility board members under specified circumstances and including effective date provisions

Signed into law

What it does

This bill relates to utility board member removal criteria. The bill provides that utility board members shall be subject to removal only as provided in Code section 66.1A. That section provides that an appointive or elective officer may be removed from office by the district court for willful or habitual neglect or refusal to perform the duties of the office, willful misconduct or maladministration in office, corruption, extortion, conviction of a felony, intoxication or conviction for intoxication, campaign finance violations, and failure to pay specified fines. The bill takes effect upon enactment.

Sponsors

State Government (companion To Sf 2282 By Committee on Local Government) committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 3 for, 3 against

For: Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities; Missouri River Energy Services; Nebraska Municipal Power Pool - NMPP Energy

Against: City of Des Moines; Iowa League of Cities; Iowa Manufactured Housing Association

In plain words

  1. February 18, 2022Filed in the House
  2. March 14, 2022Passed the House, 83–10
  3. March 15, 2022Arrived in the Senate
  4. April 6, 2022Took the place of SF 2282 on the Senate floor (the same legislation)
  5. April 6, 2022Passed the Senate, 42–5
  6. May 17, 2022Sent to the Governor
  7. May 17, 2022Signed into law

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/HF2475