(DES MOINES) – Gov. Terry Branstad today signed the following 14 bills into law on April 13:
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.
Terry – I see you and your farmer friends jumped ship on Iowa’s CLEAN WATER BILL – (Not to be brought up until 2018) Iowa has a huge water pollution problem with its drinking wells and waterways being poisoned by large animal operations and fertilizer being applied to farm land. How convenient that you and your cronies in the farm industry passed this problem on to the next governor – Would you and your farmer friends say you PULLED AN OBAMA.. PS – You do know that water testing in Iowa are not even 80% accurate and falsely presented to the public.
when are they making fireworks legal?
Is his middle name Obama? Pushing through as much as he can before he leaves office? I don’t think I have ever seen him pass as much the whole time he has been in office.
1) The governor doesn’t “pass” any bills. The House and Senate do.
2) Most of these are common sense bills that flew through both the House and Senate due to the lack of common sense in our society.
3) Obama granted clemency or pardoned criminals more than the last four President’s combined, he didn’t “pass” bills like a madman.
4) The media reports on anything the government does because they have access to it with the swipe of a finger now. They wouldn’t take time to actually sit at the capital and do work
Intelligent response!