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SSB 3168Died when the session ended · February 12, 2024

SSB 3168

Topics:Cities & countiesTaxes

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2024
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 8, 2024
  3. Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  4. Next: Passes the Senate
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. 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 City councils would gain more control over how they hire library directors. They could also decide how to use library tax money through local laws instead of needing a public vote.1

Read the official explanation

This bill relates to city library directors and city library moneys. The bill allows a city council to oversee and change the hiring practice for a library director and utilize library tax moneys by ordinance and without a referendum.

Full bill text2

Senate subcommittee

Named February 8, 2024. On February 12, 2024 it recommended amendment and passage. [].

Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part

164 written public comments to its subcommittee: February 12, 2024 (10), February 12, 2024 (154) · on the Legislature’s site

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§392.5

How the Code works3

Lobbying

1 for · 7 against · 4 undecided · Who →