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Concerning local government notice requirements on certain actions
Sponsored by the House Local Government Committee
Topics:Cities & counties
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2025
- Done: House committeeFebruary 25, 2025
- Done: Passes the HouseApril 8, 202588–8
- Skipped: Senate committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the SenateMarch 25, 202549–0
- Done: To the GovernorMay 19, 2025
- Done: Signed into lawJune 6, 2025
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What’s in it
Under current law, notice requirements for local governments vary as follows: state building codes adopted by ordinance and later repealed require a public hearing after giving not less than but not more than days’ notice; a city resolution of intent to discontinue requires a public hearing on the proposal to discontinue the city with at least days’ notice; a city resolution to reduce the number of council members from five to three requires a public hearing on the proposal with at least days’ notice; city council budget certifications require a public hearing with not less than nor more than days’ notice; city resolutions of necessity for public improvements require a public hearing with not less than days’ notice to the property owners subject to the special assessment; city appointments of civil service commissioners require published notice of the proposed appointments for no less than days prior to a vote by the city council; amendments to city or county revitalization area plans require a hearing with at least days’ notice and the public hearing shall not be held earlier than the next regularly scheduled city council or board of supervisors meeting following the published notice; and when a city council amends, supplements, or changes regulations and restrictions or the boundaries of districts, a public hearing is required with at least days’ notice and the public hearing shall not be held earlier than the next regularly scheduled city council meeting following the published notice.
Read the full explanation
3 for these local government actions as follows: the notice must be published at least once, for a period of not less than nor more than days before the date of the hearing or other action; the publication must be in a newspaper published at least once weekly and having general circulation in the city; and if the city has a population of 200 or less, or if the city has no newspaper, the publication is made by posting in three public places in the city that have been permanently designated by local government ordinance.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Changed since by amendment H-1213; see Amendments. Full bill text · What changed before it passed
House subcommittee
Named February 11, 2025 (as HSB 154). On February 19, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Iowa Code it changes
Amends§103A.12§368.3§372.4§384.16§384.50§400.1§404.2§414.4
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