Bills › 90th General Assembly
Relating to watershed degradation monitoring and making appropriations
Topics:State budgetEnvironment & natural resourcesHigher educationWater quality
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa will provide $500,000 every year to a research center at the University of Iowa to monitor water quality. This money will help the center set up monitoring stations in watersheds that flow into the Mississippi or Missouri rivers. The center will also tell state agencies which areas should be treated as priority watersheds.1
Read the official explanation
This bill appropriates moneys to the IIHR —— hydroscience and engineering within the college of engineering of the university of Iowa (IIHR —— hydroscience and engineering) for watershed monitoring. The IIHR —— hydroscience and engineering is a center for education, research, and public service focusing on understanding and managing water. The IIHR —— hydroscience and engineering focuses on hydrometeorology, hydrology, hydraulics, geology, hydrogeology, climate change, remote sensing, statistics, physical and computational modeling, hydroinformatics, and resilience and vulnerability. The bill annually appropriates $500,000 from the Iowa nutrient research fund to the IIHR —— hydroscience and engineering for the purpose of monitoring water quality in the state. The IIHR —— hydroscience and engineering shall utilize the funds to create and maintain a monitoring station for each United States geological survey hydrologic unit code (HUC) watershed or larger where a stream merges with the Mississippi river or Missouri river. The institute shall be responsible for reporting and preparing recommendations regarding the waters that should be classified as priority watersheds to the department of natural resources and the department of agriculture and land stewardship.