Bill Text: IA SF164 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the determination of city population for purposes of civil service commissions. (Formerly SF 19.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-03-12 - Read first time, referred to Local Government. H.J. 558. [SF164 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF164-Introduced.html

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Senate File 164 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON LOCAL
                                     GOVERNMENT

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SF 19)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the determination of city population for
  2    purposes of civil service commissions.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 400.1, subsection 2, Code 2015, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  For the purpose of determining the population of a city
  1  4 under this chapter, the most recent decennial federal census
  1  5 conducted in 1980 shall be used.
  1  6    Sec. 2.  IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT.  Section 25B.2, subsection
  1  7 3, shall not apply to this Act.
  1  8                           EXPLANATION
  1  9 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 10 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 11    Code section 400.1 currently requires a city having a
  1 12 population of 8,000 or more according to the federal census
  1 13 conducted in 1980 and having a paid fire department or a paid
  1 14 police department, to appoint a civil service commission. Code
  1 15 chapter 400 also establishes several other powers and duties of
  1 16 cities based on population as determined by the federal census
  1 17 conducted in 1980.
  1 18    This bill requires the most recent decennial federal census
  1 19 to be used in determining the population of a city.
  1 20    The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  1 21 section 25B.3.  The bill makes inapplicable Code section 25B.2,
  1 22 subsection 3, which would relieve a political subdivision from
  1 23 complying with a state mandate if funding for the cost of
  1 24 the state mandate is not provided or specified.  Therefore,
  1 25 political subdivisions are required to comply with any state
  1 26 mandate included in the bill.
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