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Week 3 –
Committee Reports STAFF CONTACT: Sue Monahan SSB
3004 – Barn Preservation Property Tax Exemption COMMITTEE ACTION: SSB
3004 removes the requirement that a barn must have been put into service
prior to 1937 to be eligible for property tax exemption due to improvements
made for the purposes of preserving the integrity of the barn. The bill
states any barn that had been placed into service 50 or more years before the
date the exemption application is filed with the assessing authority is eligible
for the property tax exemption. [1/29: short form] STAFF CONTACT: Kris Bell SF
2054 – Eligibility for County Mental Health Payment SSB
3014 – Dependent Adult Abuse Information SSB
3051 – Advanced Practice Nurse Licensure Compact SSB
3053 – Pharmacy Tech-Check-Tech Program SSB
3054 – Pharmacy Controlled Substance Schedules and Reporting FLOOR AND COMMITTEE ACTION:SF 2054 (formerly SF 2029) allows county eligibility for state payment of mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities services funding. [1/28: 13-0 short form; 1/29: 48-0 (McKibben, Putney excused)] COMMITTEE ACTION: SSB 3014 (as amended) provides for control over dependent adult abuse information. It will expedite hiring processes for agencies that do not have access to the Dependent Adult Abuse Registry and want to complete background checks on prospective employees. [1/30: 10-0, short form (Hatch, Kreiman, Wood excused] SSB 3051 (with technical amendment) repeals the July 1, 2008, sunset of the advanced practice nursing compact, which allows nurses to hold a license in the state of residency and practice in other compact states subject to each state’s practice law and regulation. [1/28: 12-0, short form (Kreiman, present)] SSB 3053 establishes a pharmacy
tech-check-tech program and rules. The
program allows registered pharmacy technicians to check the work of other
technicians. Section 4 of the bill is proposed at the request of the Office
of the Attorney General and SSB 3054 provides for scheduling of
certain substances in conformance with action taken within the past year by
the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. The bill proposes adding
the substances oripavine and lisdexamfetamine
to Schedule II of the Iowa Controlled Substances Act. Substances in
Schedule II are approved for medical practice in the The bill also includes provisions relating to the scheduling in Schedule III of any substance similar or related to dronabinol (which is currently a Schedule III substance) and which substance is approved by the FDA for use in medical practice. The amendment proposed in Section 4 of the bill provides that a new drug that is substantially similar to dronabinol, which substance is approved by the FDA, will be immediately classified as a Schedule III substance. The final section of the bill deletes the substances pseudoephedrine and phenylpropanolamine from the list of precursor substances regulated pursuant to Iowa Code Chapter 124B. These substances are now classified as Schedule V controlled substances, subject to Iowa Code Chapter 124. [1/28: 13-0, short form] STAFF CONTACT: Kerry Wright SSB
3086 – Absentee ballot request SF
2007 – Chiefs of police maximum age COMMITTEE ACTION:
SSB 3086 allows a registered voter to submit an application for an absentee ballot on something other than the absentee ballot request form, if the request contains all of the information required by law. [1/30: 8-4-1, party line, Houser absent] SF 2007 allows that the maximum age limit of 65 for employment of
city police officers, marshals, or fire fighters does not apply to chiefs of police of cities greater than 8,000.
[1/30: short form, Houser absent] STAFF CONTACT: Julie T. Simon SF
2059 – DCA Iowa Code clean-up COMMITTEE ACTION SF 2059 (SSB 3030) is a recommendation by the Department of Cultural Affairs. The bill makes the State Historical Society of Iowa (rather than the Society’s advisory Board of Trustees) responsible for administering the Iowa Heritage Fund. It also removes Iowa Code language from 1984 that is
no longer needed regarding
an indemnification program for special exhibit items
lost or damaged while on loan to non-profit organizations
or governmental entities in use this, primarily because they now acquire appropriate insurance coverage arranged by private organizations. [1/28: short form] |