HF 641: Relating to city civil service employees and related procedures and including effective date provisions

What it does

This bill relates to city civil service.1. The bill strikes language authorizing a city council to establish, by ordinance, the number of civil service commissioners at not less than three in a city having a population of more than 70,000. The bill requires a city council in a city having a population of more than 50,000 to establish, by ordinance, the number of civil service commissioners at not less than five and not more than seven. The bill modifies standards and procedures for the removal, discharge, demotion, or suspension of a city civil service employee.

House subcommittee · named February 3, 2025

• Rep. Sam Wengryn (R) · sam.wengryn@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Megan Jones (R) · megan.jones@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Larry McBurney (D) · larry.mcburney@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 2 for, 10 against

For: Iowa Fraternal Order of Police; Iowa Professional Fire Fighters

Against: City of Cedar Rapids; City of Davenport; City of Marion; Dubuque Branch NAACP; Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund; Iowa League of Cities; Iowa Police Chief Association (FKA Iowa Police Executive Forum); Iowa State Sheriffs' & Deputies' Association; Metropolitan Coalition; NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Iowa-Nebraska

In plain words

1. January 23, 2025Filed in the House and sent to the Local Government committee · as HSB 82
2. January 23, 2025House subcommittee named: Graber, Golding and McBurney · as HSB 82
3. February 3, 2025House subcommittee named: Wengryn, Jones and McBurney · as HSB 82
4. February 13, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it with changes · as HSB 82
5. February 25, 2025Approved by the House committee · as HSB 82
6. February 25, 2025Committee vote: 20–0 · as HSB 82
7. February 28, 2025Filed in the House
8. February 28, 2025Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 641 · as HSB 82
9. April 17, 2025Withdrawn