HelveticaTo: Iowa Sierrans Here are the bills I am tracking for Sierra Club that have made it through the Second Funnel of a session. These are the bills of interest remaining viable for the remainder of thie 1999 Session. Only bills that have passed one chamber and made it onto the Calendar of the second, plus Appropriations and Ways & Means bills, are eligible for further consideration. Actions occurring accumulate in the narrative. Note that I include the Bill #, Bill Title, Bill Description as it appears on the bill itself, and some notes of milestones, as well as the URL address to take you to the bill text via your web browser. This is the beginning of the13th week of the legislative session. We are within four weeks of the scheduled end of session, and 25 more calendar days remaining for legislator expense accounts. Some pundits believe, myself included, that we may finish a few days early, perhaps by April 24. Let me know how I can make this missal, which will now be weekly, a more useful and informative document. I will be adding other narrative information as issues develop and as I gather it. LEGISLATIVE ACTION ANTICIPATED Action now shifts to floor debate as the House and Senate attempt to move bills to final consideration and on to the Governor. Very little committee work remains, only confirmations of Governor appointees, and Appropriations and Ways & Means. Major issues for the remainder of this seesion are the Budget and whatever version of a Tax Reduction will be agreed upon. BOTTLE BILL. Rumor has it that an amendment will be filed that would remove wine bottles from the state's bottle deposit law. Talk with your legislator or leadership, let them know your support for the law and note that it has been extremely effective in removing bottle litter from our roadways! ELECTRIC UTILITY RE-STRUCTURING. This bill is off the list. House leadership says it is dead for the year. A big one for next year! HF 218, LOESS HILLS ALLIANCE. The 30 years easement language did remain. It also still requires annual easement payments. Eligible HF substituted for SF and deferred. SF version is simplified & preferred form without the 30 yr. easement restriction and without the annual payment requirement. H version creates the Loess Hills Alliance; creates Loess Hill Development and conservation fund to fund a Loess Hills Account and a Hungry Canyon Account; requires the alliance to study protection of the natural and cultural resources of the Hills while preserving economic viability and private property rights; requires development of a comprehensive plan with options including federal or state park designations and restrictive easements of no more than 30 years; to establish a pilot project and to report to the Legislature; requires Alliance members to live in Woodbury, Plymouth, Monona, Harrison, Pottawattamie, Mills or Fremont counties plus other environmental, farm, banking and tourism organizations. Senator Hansen has several amendments to help bring the bill back to the intent of the Alliance. S-3170 seems to include most of the main issues. HF 746, AG & NATURAL RESOURCES APPROPRIATIONS. Some of the funding includes: Dept. of Ag. Soil Cons. Div. - $6.8 mil.; DNR - Parks & Preserves - $6.2 mil.; Forestry - $1.7 mil.; Energy & Geology - $1.9 mil.;. Env. Protection - $4.9 mil.; Water Quality Project - $0.7 mil. Prohibits DNR from raising park entrance fees this fiscal year. Passed HAC, eligible for H debate. This is from the General Fund. Other sources include federal funds and Fish and Wildlife Trust funds. REAP FUNDING "REAP" is proposed at $20.475 million, with $9.9 million for other projects that should be funded under the Natural Resource category and $10.5 mil for the REAP allocation. (In the $9.9 million is water quality monitoring, increased cost-share funding to voluntarily close ag drainage wells, soil conservation, the watershed protection program, and other funding proposals by members of both parties for better natural resource protections, but that should be moved out of "REAP" and to the Natural Resources section of the funding bill.) Tell your legislators if they are on the following subcommittee or in leadership to have REAP stand on its own and move the other spending to the Natural Resources component of the bill. SF 313, PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE BAN. Prohibits without exception the sale or distribution of purple loosestrife and multiflora rose. Let me know how I can make this missal, which will now be weekly, a more useful and informative document. I will be adding other narrative information as issues develop and as I gather it. Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sierra Bills of Interest #1999-06 New bills this past week are: GenevaH.F. 746, S.F. 430, S.F. 424, S.F. 400, S.F. 399, H.F. 727 HelveticaH.F. 746 A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for agriculture and natural resources and providing effective dates. (Formerly HSB 254.) Introduced and placed on the House Appropriations Calendar 3/25/99. Amendments H. 1313, H. 1314, H. 1315, H. 1316, H. 1317, H. 1318, H. 1319, H. 1320, H. 1321, H. 1332, H. 1359 filed. Placed on the House Unfinished Business Calendar 4/1/99. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/HF/00700/HF00746.html S.F. 283 A bill for an act appropriating federal funds made available from federal block grants and other federal grants, allocating portions of federal block grants, and providing procedures if federal funds are more or less than anticipated or if federal block grants are more or less than anticipated. (Formerly SSB 1144). Introduced by Senate Appropriations Committee. Placed on Appropriations calendar 3/2/99. Passed Senate, ayes 50, nays 0, 3/4/99, and immediately messaged to the House. Referred to House Appropriations Committee and assigned to a subcommittee of Reps. Nelson, Heaton and Parmenter. Placed on the House Calendar 3/16/99. Passed House, ayes 93, nays 0, 3/22/99, and immediately messaged to the Senate. 3/29 /99, reported correctly enrolled, signed by President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House and sent to Governor. SIGNED by the Governor, 3/31/99. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00200/SF00283.html H.F. 332 A bill for an gct relating to energy conservation including making appropriations of petroleum overcharge funds. (Formerly HSB 42) Introduced by the House Appropriations Committee. Placed on the House Appropriations Committee calendar. Passed House, ayes 97, nays 0, 3/2/99, and immediately messaged to the Senate. Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Assigned to a subcommittee of Sens. Freeman, Behn and Soukup. Placed on the Senate Calendar 3/11/99. Passed Senate, ayes 48, nays 0, 3/23/99, and immediately messaged to the House. Reported correctly enrolled, signed by the Speaker and the President and sent to the Governor. Signed by the Governor 3/30/99. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/HF/00300/HF00332.html S.F. 466 A bill for an act relating to the remediation of agrichemical sites, providing for fees, and providing for the repeal of a section relating to cleanup prioritization. (Formerly SF 299 & SF 452.) Placed on the Senate Ways & Means Calendar 4/1/99. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00400/SF00466.html S.F. 430 A bill for an act relating to and making supplemental and other appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1998, and providing an effective date. (Formerly SSB 1116). Introduced by Senate Appropriations Committee. Placed on the Senate Calendar 3/15/99. Amendment S. 3068, S. 3073 filed. Amendments S. 3073, S. 3068 adopted. Passed Senate, ayes 48, nays 11, 3/16/99, and immediately messaged to the House. Read first time and referred to the House Appropriations Committee. Assigned to a subcommittee of Reps. Millage, Dix and Taylor. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00400/SF00430.html S.F. 424 A bill for an act relating to and making transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the state department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the general fund of the state, road use tax fund, and primary road fund, providing for the use of a former rest area, and providing for the nonreversion of certain moneys. (Formerly SSB 1150). Introduced by Senate Appropriations Committee. Placed on the Senate Calendar 3/15/99. Amendment S. 3075 filed. Amendment S. 3075 adopted. Passed Senate, ayes 50, nays 0, 3/16/99, and immediately messaged to the House. Read first time and referred to the House Appropriations Committee. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00400/SF00424.html S.F. 400 A bill for an act providing for a healthy environmental and value-added energy initiative, providing for tax revenues, the allocation of moneys, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 1090). Introduced by Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee. Referred to Senate Ways & Means Committee. Assigned to a subcommittee of Sens. Bartz, Flynn and Johnson. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00400/SF00400.html S.F. 399 A bill for an act relating to tax exemptions for livestock-related pollution-control or recycling property. (Formerly SF 6). Introduced by Senate Ways & Means Committee. Placed on the Senate Calendar 3/11/99. Amendment S. 3120, S. 3121 filed and adopted. Passed Senate, ayes 48, nays 0, 3/23/99, and immediately messaged to the House. Read first time, referred to House Ways & Means Committee and assigned to a subcommittee of Reps. Teig, Frevert and Houser. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00300/SF00399.html S.F. 353 A bill for an act establishing the community attraction and tourism development program and fund, making an appropriation, and providing an effective date. (Formerly SSB 1080). Introduced by Senate Small Business, Econ. Dev. and Tourism Committee. Placed on the Senate Calendar 3/9/99. Re-referred to Appropriations Committee. Assigned to a subcommittee of Sens. Freeman, Connolly and Johnson. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00300/SF00353.html S.F. 214 A bill for an act relating to forestry and forest resource support, sale of trees and shrubs in the state nursery stock, and making appropriations. (Formerly SSB1083). Introduced by the Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee. Placed on the Senate Calendar 2/24/99. Re-referred to Senate Appropriations Committee, then returned to the Senate Calendar 3/2/99. Passed Senate, ayes 47, nays 1, 3/29/99, and immediately messaged to the House. Assigned to the House Natural Resources Committee, and assigned to a subcommittee of Reps. Weidman, Kettering and Richardson. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00200/SF00214.html H.F. 727 A bill for an act relating to urban renewal and urban revitalization, by making changes related to certain property located in an urban renewal area, to duration of urban renewal areas, to certification of urban renewal debt, to tax increment financing of urban renewal projects, to improvements related to urban renewal projects, and to annual reporting on urban renewal areas, and providing for the Act's applicability. Formerly H.F. 462. Referred to House Ways & Means Committee. Assigned to a subcommittee of Reps. Houser, Jenkins and Shoultz. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/HF/00700/HF00727.html H.F. 587 A bill for an act establishing the community attraction and tourism development program and fund, making an appropriation, and providing an effective date. (Formerly HSB 75) Introduced by House Economic Development Committee. Referred to House Appropriations Committee. Assigned to a subcommittee of Reps. Cormack, Soukup and Wartstadt. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/HF/00500/HF00587.html H.F. 533 A bill for an act providing for an emergency assistance linked deposit program for swine or cattle producers, and providing an effective date. (Formerly HSB 78) Introduced by Agriculture. Referred to House Commerce-Regulation Committee. Re-referred to House Appropriations Committee. Assigned to a subcommittee of Reps. Greiner, Jacobs and Mertz. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/HF/00500/HF00533.html H.F. 528 A bill for an act placing restrictions on expenditures from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund. Introduced by Warnstadt. Referred to House Appropriations Committee and assigned to a subcommittee of Reps. Sukup, Barry and Warnstadt. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/HF/00500/HF00528.html S.F. 447 A bill for an act relating to the imposition of an annual conservation and land preservation tax for agricultural property converted to residential, industrial, or commercial use and providing penalties. (Formerly SF 198). Introduced by Senate Agriculture Committee. Placed on the Senate Calendar 3/15/99. Referred to Senate Ways & Means Committee. Assigned to a subcommittee of Sens. Johnson, McLaren and Soukup. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00400/SF00447.html S.F. 442 A bill for an act making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2000, to the department of agriculture and land stewardship and the department of natural resources. (Formerly SSB 1146). Introduced by Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee. Placed on the Senate Calendar 3/15/99. Referred to Senate Appropriations Committee, and assigned to a subcommittee of Sens. Freeman, McCoy and McLaren. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00400/SF00442.html S.F. 382 A bill for an act establishing the community economic betterment recreational and cultural program and community economic betterment recreational and cultural program account. Introduced by Black, Shearer, Gronstal, Deluhery, Dvorsky, Bolkcom, Connolly, Dearden, Fink, Flynn, Fraise, Hammond, Hansen, Harper, Horn, Judge, Kibbie, McCoy, Soukup and Szymoniak. Referred to Senate Appropriations Committee and assigned to a subcommittee of Sens. Schuerer, Lamberti and Soukup. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00300/SF00382.html S.F. 208 A bill for an act creating an enhance Iowa distribution account, a technology assurance fund, and a recreation, environment, arts, culture, and heritage fund; making changes in the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund; making corresponding statutory changes; and relating to appropriations from the account and funds. Introduced by Harper, Horn, Kibbie and Gronstal. Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee and assigned to a subcommittee of Sens. McLaren, Flynn and Freeman. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00200/SF00208.html S.F. 103 A bill for an act establishing an on-site sewage disposal system assistance program and revolving fund and making an appropriation. Introduced by Angelo. Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Assigned a subcommittee of Sens. McLaren, Bolkcom and Jensen. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00100/SF00103.html S.F. 29 A bill for an act relating to forestry and forest resource support and making appropriations. Introduced by Rehberg. Referred to Senate Appropriations Committee and assigned to a subcommittee of Sens: Behn, Black and Hedge. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/BillHistory/SF/00000/SF00029.html SSB 1146 The rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund appropriations. Drafted by the Senate Appropriations Committee. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/Legislation/SSB/01100/SSB01146/Current.html SSB 1119 This bill amends Code section 321G.7 to provide that moneys from the excise tax on the sale of motor fuels used in snowmobiles which are deposited in the special conservation fund, are to be used by the department of natural resources for snowmobile trails and programs. Drafted by the Senate Ways & Means Committee and assigned to a subcommittee of Sens. Bartz, Deluhery and Redwine. http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/78GA/Legislation/SSB/01100/SSB01119/Current.html Geneva____________________________________________ Lyle Krewson 6403 Aurora Avenue #3 Des Moines, IA 50322-2862 NEW 1/99: [log in to unmask] 515/276-8947 515/276-6935 - FAX ____________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send email to [log in to unmask] Make the message text (not the subject): SIGNOFF IOWA-TOPICS