Bills › 89th General Assembly
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 19, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 25, 2021
- Done: Senate committeeApril 1, 2021
- 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 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill provides for the establishment of land banks. Division I of the bill authorizes one or more municipalities to establish a land bank as a method to return dilapidated, abandoned, blighted, and tax-delinquent properties in their communities to economically productive status. An established land bank is a public agency for the purpose of joint exercise of governmental powers, a governmental body for purposes of public meetings requirements of Code chapter 21, and a government body for purposes of public records requirements of Code chapter 22.
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Land banks are subject to periodic examination by the auditor of state under Code chapter 11. The bill requires the board to establish bylaws addressing matters necessary to govern the conduct of the land bank. Division I of the bill also grants a land bank various powers and duties, including the authority to acquire properties through certain procedures, including the purchase of tax sale certificates and the foreclosure of properties acquired at a tax sale if not redeemed. However, the bill explicitly prohibits a land bank from possessing or exercising the power of eminent domain. The bill establishes financing procedures that govern land banks, including allowing to be remitted to the land bank up to percent of real property taxes collected on a real property conveyed or leased by a land bank that remains after the division of taxes for an urban renewal area and exclusive of any amount levied by a school district for five consecutive years after the property is again put on the tax rolls. The bill requires a land bank to submit annual reports to the governing body that created the land bank. The bill provides procedures for disposing of property that is acquired by the land bank. The bill also provides procedures for dissolving a land bank. Division II of the bill creates a land bank tax sale procedure, which allows a land bank to acquire abandoned, blighted, or dilapidated properties through an exclusive tax sale. In order to acquire property through a land bank tax sale, the land bank shall file a verified statement identifying the parcels for which the land bank intends to purchase the tax sale certificates and shall pay the delinquent total amounts due on each parcel before May 15. Upon timely receipt of the land bank’s verified statement and payment, the county treasurer shall remove the identified parcels from the regular annual tax sale and place those parcels in the land bank tax sale. The land bank tax sale shall occur before a public nuisance tax sale. Division III of the bill makes changes throughout the Code to conform with land bank procedures established in division I of the bill.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Senate subcommittee
Named January 19, 2022. Meeting: Monday, February 21 · 12:30 PM · Room G17.
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Iowa Code it changes
Creates§358A.1§358A.10§358A.11§358A.12§358A.13§358A.14§358A.15§358A.16§358A.17§358A.18§358A.2§358A.3§358A.4§358A.5§358A.6§358A.7§358A.8§358A.9§446.19C
Amends§11.1§21.2§22.1§364.7§427.1§446.16§447.9§573.1§657A.2§97B.1A
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Lobbying
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Tried before
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- SF 2013 Relating to the creation of land banks88th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2369 · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2369 Relating to the creation of land banks88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
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