(DES MOINES, Thursday, April 13, 2017) – Gov. Terry Branstad today signed the following 14 bills into law:
Senate File 438: an Act relating to bidding and contracting for public improvement projects, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions. This bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 9, 26-21 and the Iowa House on April 4, 57-41.
Senate File 413: an Act relating to statute-of-repose periods for improvements to real property and including applicability provisions. This bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 8, 32-16 and the Iowa House on March 21, 57-39.
House File 517: an Act relating to offensive and dangerous weapons, and the justifiable use of reasonable and deadly force, including carrying, possessing, transferring, and acquiring weapons, the purchase and regulation of such weapons, providing penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions. This bill passed the Iowa Senate on April 4, 33-17 and the Iowa House on April 6, 57-36.
Senate File 250: an Act establishing a notification requirement for mammogram reports to patients, and including effective date provisions. This bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 14, 49-0 and the Iowa House on April 4, 96-2.
House File 475: an Act relating to the use of a straight wall cartridge rifle to hunt deer and including penalties. This bill passed the Iowa House on March 13, 96-0 and the Iowa Senate on April 3, 49-0.
House File 568: an Act relating to pari-mutuel wagering, including horse and dog racing medication requirements and the applicability of certain setoff procedures to advance deposit wagering operators and including effective date provisions. This bill passed the Iowa House on March 14, 93-0 and the Iowa Senate on April 5, 50-0.
Senate File 373: an Act relating to service in the national guard and reserve components of the armed forces, including applicability of reemployment protections, and military justice jurisdiction and statutes of limitation. This bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 8, 49-0 and the Iowa House on April 4, 98-0.
Senate File 355: an Act relating to municipal utilities, by restricting the regulatory authority of the Iowa Utilities Board with regard to certain services, and authorizing city utilities to require deposits for gas or electric services for residential rental properties. This bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 9, 48-0 and the Iowa House on April 3, 96-0.
House File 572: an Act relating to employment services programs administered by the Department of Workforce Development by modifying the membership requirements and duties of the Iowa Workforce Development Board and authorizing the Department to carry out unemployment insurance systems modernization, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. This bill passed the Iowa House on March 21, 88-9 and the Iowa Senate on April 3, 49-0.
House File 542: an Act relating to eligibility requirements for individuals claiming unemployment insurance benefits in consecutive benefit years and including effective date provisions. This bill passed the Iowa House on March 20, 58-39 and the Iowa Senate on April 4, 29-21.
House File 541: an Act relating to licensed real estate professionals and real estate disclosure statements. This bill passed the Iowa House on March 27, 98-0 and the Iowa Senate on April 5, 50-0.
House File 533: an Act relating to disqualification from eligibility for unemployment benefits and including effective date provisions. This bill passed the Iowa House on March 20, 97-0 and the Iowa Senate on April 4, 42-8.
House File 471: an Act relating to election precinct boundaries and consolidations. This bill passed the Iowa House on March 8, 97-1 and the Iowa Senate on April 4, 43-7.
House File 441: an Act relating to the use of child labor in laundry occupations. This bill passed the Iowa House on March 20, 94-3 and the Iowa Senate on April 4, 47-3.
(DES MOINES, Friday, April 7, 2017) – Gov. Terry Branstad today signed the following 8 bills into law:
House File 464: an Act relating to the crossing of highways by all-terrain vehicles and off-road utility vehicles, and making a penalty applicable.
The bill passed the Iowa House on March 13, 96-0 and the Iowa Senate on March 29, 49-0.
House File 586: an Act relating to financial matters, including mechanic’s liens, and the Iowa Finance Authority by establishing a rent subsidy program, modifying shelter assistance fund grant award requirements, and revising filing requirements for certain bonds and notes issued by the authority.
The bill passed the Iowa House on March 22, 99-0 and the Iowa Senate on March 30, 47-0.
House File 593: an Act authorizing mental health professionals to perform certain functions relating to persons with substance-related disorders and persons with mental illness.
The bill passed the Iowa House on March 22, 99-0 and the Iowa Senate on March 29, 49-0.
Senate File 332: an Act making changes to the controlled substance schedules, and providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.
The bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 13, 49-0 and the Iowa House on March 30, 98-0.
Senate File 351: an Act providing for the elimination of the Iowa Emergency Response Commission.
The bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 1, 50-0 and the Iowa House on March 30, 97-0.
Senate File 405: an Act relating to statutory corrections which may adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, delete temporary language, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, update ongoing provisions, or remove ambiguities, and including effective date provisions.
The bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 15, 49-0 and the Iowa House on March 22, 99-0.
Senate File 410: an Act relating to a declaration concerning the final disposition of a person’s remains and including applicability provisions.
The bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 9, 48-0 and the Iowa House on March 30, 98-0.
Senate File 448: an Act relating to insurers in possession of salvage motor vehicles.
The bill passed the Iowa Senate on March 21, 49-0 and the Iowa House on March 28, 96-0.
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