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Modifying the definitions of essential county purpose and essential corporate purpose to include cybersecurity purposes
Sponsored by the Senate Technology Committee
Topics:Cities & countiesTechnology & privacy
Same legislation: SF 46
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 17, 2023
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 2, 2023
- 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 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 Counties and cities can now borrow money to buy or improve computer systems used to protect against cyberattacks. This change allows local governments to use certain types of bonds for cybersecurity without needing to ask voters for permission first.1
Read the official explanation
This bill amends the definitions of “essential county purpose” and “essential corporate purpose” to include the acquisition, development, and improvement of information systems to protect against a cybersecurity event. The bill defines “cybersecurity event” as an event resulting in unauthorized access to, or the disruption or misuse of, an information system or of nonpublic information stored on an information system, as defined in the bill. Under Code chapters 331 and 384, the applicable county or city may generally contract indebtedness and approve the issuance of general obligation bonds to carry out an essential county purpose or essential corporate purpose without approval by voters at an election, while the issuance of general obligation bonds to carry out a general county purpose or general corporate purpose generally requires approval by voters at an election.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 15, 2023. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
9 for · 1 against · 21 undecided · Who →
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Tried before
90th General Assembly
Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.
Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.
- HF 2288 Modifying the definitions of essential county purpose and essential corporate purpose to i…89th General Assembly · Passed House · same titlePassed a chamber
Similar bills this General Assembly
- HSB 16 HSB 1690th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passageNearly identical
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