Bill Text: IA HF380 | 2025-2026 | 91st General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act designating the acquisition of certain vehicles or vehicle equipment as a general county purpose.(Formerly HF 20.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - Introduced, placed on calendar. H.J. 317. [HF380 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2025-HF380-Introduced.html
House File 380 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 380 BY COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SUCCESSOR TO HF 20) (COMPANION TO SF 97 BY LOFGREN) A BILL FOR An Act designating the acquisition of certain vehicles or 1 vehicle equipment as a general county purpose. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1285HV (1) 91 ll/js
H.F. 380 Section 1. Section 331.441, subsection 2, paragraph c, Code 1 2025, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph: 2 NEW SUBPARAGRAPH . (11) Acquisition of vehicles or vehicle 3 equipment for a county sheriff, county attorney, county jail 4 facility, county maintenance department, county conservation 5 department, or county public health department. 6 EXPLANATION 7 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 8 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 9 This bill amends the definition of general county purpose 10 to include the acquisition of vehicles or vehicle equipment 11 for a county sheriff, county attorney, county jail facility, 12 county maintenance department, county conservation department, 13 or county public health department. 14 Under Code chapter 331, a county board of supervisors 15 generally must receive the approval of voters at an election 16 in order to contract indebtedness and issue general obligation 17 bonds to carry out a general county purpose. 18 -1- LSB 1285HV (1) 91 ll/js 1/ 1
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