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Concerning local government notice requirements on certain actions

Topics:Cities & counties

Same legislation: SSB 1116, HF 651, SF 588

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2025
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2025
  3. Done: House committeeFebruary 25, 2025
  4. Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 651
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Became HF 651 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 651 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary Local governments must follow new rules for telling the public about certain official actions, such as changing building codes or city budgets. These notices must be published in a weekly local newspaper for a specific number of days before a hearing. If a city is very small or does not have a newspaper, officials can instead post the notice in three designated public places.1

Read the official explanation

_____ 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. 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.

Changed since by amendment H-1213; see Amendments.

Full bill text · What changed before it passed2

House subcommittee

Named February 11, 2025. 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

How the Code works3

Lobbying

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