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Relating to township fire stations by authorizing the use of certain property taxes approved at election for the payment of anticipatory bonds

Topics:Elections & votingCities & countiesTaxesProperty taxes

Same legislation: HF 718

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 9, 2021
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2021
  3. Done: House committeeMarch 1, 2021
  4. Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 718
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Became HF 718 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 718 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary Townships can ask voters to approve a new tax to pay for building or buying a fire station. If the voters agree, the money from this tax will pay for the station's construction and the bonds used to fund it. Once the construction is finished, the township will use its regular fire and medical service taxes to cover the station's daily running costs and repairs.1

Read the official explanation

43.43, such bonds shall be payable from the tax levy established in the bill if the bonds are issued for the purpose of funding the construction or acquisition, including a lease with purchase option, of a fire station to be used to provide the fire protection and emergency medical services for the township, and if the levy is approved at election. Upon petition of percent of the resident eligible electors, excluding those areas of the township within corporate boundaries of a city, the board of township trustees shall submit to the applicable voters of the township the question of whether to authorize the imposition of the levy under the bill. The ballot is required to set out the reason for the tax, the amount needed, and the duration of the proposed tax. The proposition is adopted if a majority of those voting on the proposition at the election approves it. An approved levy may be imposed at a rate necessary to pay the applicable bonds, but not to exceed and one-fourth cents per $1,000 of assessed value, and for a period not to exceed years. Following expiration of the authority to impose the levy, authority to reimpose the levy requires approval in accordance with the bill.43.385, assumed the exercise of the powers and duties of township trustees relating to fire protection service and emergency medical service for any township located in the unincorporated area of the county.

Full bill text2

House subcommittee

Named February 11, 2021. On February 17, 2021 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-1.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§359.45

How the Code works3

Lobbying

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