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90th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 705: Relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability provisions

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 it does

424(1) under the county’s supplemental property tax levy authority in an amount sufficient to pay for the maintenance and operation of the local emergency management agency. This bill authorizes the local emergency management commission to certify and levy the countywide special levy for the maintenance and operation of the agency and strikes the county’s authority to certify such a levy. The bill also specifies the local emergency management commission to be a municipality for purposes of Code chapter (local budgets).

Sponsors

Ways and Means (successor To Hf 126) committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 8 for, 6 against

For: City of Cedar Falls; City of Waukee; Iowa Chapter of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO); Iowa Chapter of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA); Iowa Emergency Management Association; Iowa League of Cities; Motorola Solutions, Inc.; Racom Corporation

Against: Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; Iowa State Association of County Supervisors; Iowans for Tax Relief; Mahaska County - Board of Supervisors; Urban County Coalition

In plain words

  1. April 10, 2023Filed in the House

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/HF705