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Concerning local government notice requirements on certain actions

Topics:Cities & counties

Same legislation: HSB 154, HF 651, SF 588

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 13, 2025
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 13, 2025
  3. Done: Senate committeeMarch 6, 2025
  4. Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 588
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Became SF 588 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 588 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary Local governments currently follow many different rules for how much notice they must give the public before holding hearings or taking certain actions. This bill creates a single, consistent rule for how these notices must be published in a newspaper. 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

_____ with not less than nor more than days’ notice; a city proposal to establish one or more utility districts with fee schedules for the connection of property to the city sewer or water utility requires a 20-day 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

Senate subcommittee

Named February 19, 2025. On March 3, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§103A.12§24.2A§28E.17§368.15§368.3§372.4§384.16§384.38§384.50§400.1§404.2§414.4

How the Code works3

Lobbying

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