SF 41: Relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability provisions

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).

Senate subcommittee · named January 12, 2023

• Sen. Mike Klimesh (R) · mike.klimesh@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Herman C. Quirmbach (D) · herman.quirmbach@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Cherielynn Westrich (R) · cherielynn.westrich@legis.iowa.gov

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. January 11, 2023Filed in the Senate and sent to the Local Government committee
2. January 12, 2023Senate subcommittee named: Klimesh, Quirmbach and Westrich
3. January 24, 2023Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. February 21, 2023Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 352