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Relating to library services provided by the department of administrative services
Sponsored by the Senate State Government Committee
Proposed by the Department of Administrative Services · their explanation · all agency proposals
Topics:State government
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 4, 2025
- Done: Passes the SenateFebruary 18, 202546–0
- Skipped: House committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 12, 202596–0
- Done: To the GovernorMay 19, 2025
- Done: Signed into lawMay 19, 2025
Signed into law What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The state librarian would no longer have to send a report to the governor every two years about library services. This change also removes the requirement for the Department of Administrative Services to create a specific two-year plan for library services or set standards for state agency libraries. Additionally, the law updates the name of a specific program that the state supports through the Enrich Iowa program.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to library services provided by the department of administrative services (DAS). The bill eliminates the requirement that the state librarian submit a biennial report to the governor on the activities of DAS relating to library services. As the eliminated provision contains the only biennial report in the Code for the state librarian, the bill also strikes a corresponding provision applying general biennial reporting requirements to the state librarian.210, DAS is still obligated to prepare reports of its progress in meeting goals from its agency strategic plan and operational plan. The bill strikes the requirement that DAS develop and approve a biennial unified plan of service and service delivery for DAS as part of DAS’s library services. The bill strikes DAS’s obligation to establish and administer standards for state agency libraries. The bill eliminates a reference to “access plus programs” of public libraries for purposes of DAS’s duty to support such programs under the enrich Iowa program, and substitutes the term “interlibrary loan programs” for such purposes.
Why it matters. The Department of Administrative Services would no longer be required to submit biennial reports to the governor or develop a unified plan for library services. The agency would also stop establishing standards for state agency libraries and would replace references to access plus programs with interlibrary loan programs when supporting the Enrich Iowa program.2
Senate subcommittee
Named January 22, 2025 (as SSB 1031). On February 4, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2246 Relating to duties of the department of administrative services90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · similarCleared committee
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