Gov. Reynolds signs legislation into law

DES MOINES – On Thursday, May 9, Gov. Reynolds signed the following bills into law:

HF421: an act relating to institutions under the control of the Department of Human Services, including providing for the transfer of dangerous persons with mental illness from a hospital for persons with mental illness to the Iowa medical and classification center.

HF596: an act relating to incentives for whole grade sharing and school district reorganization or dissolution.

HF604: an act relating to commercial fishing to remove underused, undesirable, and injurious organisms from waters of the state, and including applicability provisions.

HF609: an act to legalize the participation in the instructional support program by the Bennett community school district, and providing an effective date.

HF689: an act relating to the removal of county veterans service officers.

SF139: an act relating to a financial literacy requirement under the state’s educational standards.

SF188: an act prohibiting a governing board of a public college or university from adopting or enforcing any policy or rule that prohibits a person from carrying, transporting, or possessing a dangerous weapon producing a nonprojectile high-voltage pulse designed to immobilize a person in the buildings or on the grounds of such a college or university

SF306: an act establishing a Lake Manawa State Park user fee pilot program and a Waubonsie State Park user fee pilot program.

SF394: an act relating to requirements school districts and accredited nonpublic schools must meet to provide distance learning classes that meet the requirements of Iowa’s education program.

SF409: an act relating to administrative procedures within the Department of Natural Resources.

SF548: an act relating to the acquisition, donation, or sale of real property for specified purposes.

SF567: an act relating to disqualifications from holding certain professional licenses for persons convicted of certain felonies.