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

SF 2282: Providing for the removal of municipal utility board members under specified circumstances and including effective date provisions

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on May 24, 2022. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

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

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 15, 2022Filed in the Senate
  2. February 15, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
  3. April 6, 2022Withdrawn

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/SF2282