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House File 714 - Enrolled
                                                      House File 714
                                  AN ACT
     RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS TRANSPORTING ELECTRICITY AND
        WATER AND INCLUDING RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY PROVISIONS.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
 1      Section 1. Section 468.3, Code 2023, is amended by adding
 2   the following new subsection:
 3      NEW SUBSECTION. 6A. As used in this chapter, the term
 4   “culvert” includes a drain, tile, or tile line.
 5      Sec. 2. Section 478.6A, subsection 2, Code 2023, is amended
 6   to read as follows:
 7      2. Notwithstanding section 478.21, in addition to any
 8   other applicable requirements pursuant to this chapter, if a
 9   petition for a franchise to construct a merchant line that
10   is proposed to be constructed above ground and involves the
11   taking of property under eminent domain is not approved by the
12   board and a franchise granted within three years following the
13   date the petition is filed with the board pursuant to section
14   478.3, the board shall reject the petition and make a record
15   of the rejection. If the hearing on the petition conducted
16   pursuant to section 478.4 has been held within the three-year
17   period following the date the petition is filed, but the board
18   has not completed its deliberations within that three-year
19   period, the three-year period may be extended by the board to
20   allow completion of deliberations. A petitioner shall not file
21   a petition for the same or a similar project that has been
22   rejected within sixty months following the date of rejection
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23   if the rejection was for failure to be approved within three
24   years following the date the petition was filed as provided in
25   this subsection.
26      Sec. 3. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY. The section of this Act
27   amending section 478.6A applies retroactively to a petition for
28   a franchise submitted on or after September 1, 2020.
     ______________________________     ______________________________
     PAT GRASSLEY                       AMY SINCLAIR
     Speaker of the House               President of the Senate
        I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
     is known as House File 714, Ninetieth General Assembly.
                                        ______________________________
                                        MEGHAN NELSON
                                        Chief Clerk of the House
     Approved _______________, 2023     ______________________________
                                        KIM REYNOLDS
                                        Governor
Statutes affected: 
Enrolled: 468.3, 478.6A