Iowa 2019-2020 Regular Session Status: In Committee

HSB 606 — A bill for an act relating to underground storage tanks, including by creating the Iowa tanks fund and Iowa tanks fund financing program, repealing the Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund, and eliminating the Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund board, and including effective date and transition provisions. (See HF 2494, HF 2622.)

Last action — Committee report, recommending amendment and passage.

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    Passed House
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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Bill Text

How this bill changes current law

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This bill repeals the existing Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund and establishes a new Iowa tanks fund and financing program for underground storage tanks.

  • Section 455B.471, subsection 1

    1. "Fund" means the Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund created in section 455B.472A.

    This change removes the definition of the old fund from the statute.

  • Section 455B.471

    NEW SUBSECTION . 1A. "Claimant" means an owner or operator who has received assistance under the Iowa tanks fund or its predecessor, the Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund created in section 455G.3, Code 2019.

    This adds a new definition for 'Claimant'.

  • Section 455B.471

    NEW SUBSECTION . 1B. "Community remediation" means a curriculum of coordinated testing, planning, or remediation involving two or more tank sites potentially connected with a continuous contaminated area.

    This introduces a new definition of 'Community remediation'.

  • Section 455B.471

    NEW SUBSECTION . 3A. "Insurance" means any form of financial assistance or showing of financial responsibility sufficient to comply with the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq.

    This establishes a definition for 'Insurance' within the context of the program.

  • Section 455B.471

    NEW SUBSECTION . 10A. "Third-party liability" means property damage including physical injury to tangible property, bodily injury including sickness, physical injury, or death.

    This defines 'Third-party liability'.

  • Section 455B.472

    The general assembly recognizes that because the appropriation of moneys to the Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund created in section 455G.3, Code 2019, ended on December 31, 2016, it is in the public interest to expeditiously use any remaining moneys from the Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund to assist as many owners as possible with financing all or part of the costs of corrective action for petroleum releases from leaking underground storage tanks through the establishment of the Iowa tanks fund financing program.

    This removes explicit mention of the defunct Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund.

  • Section 455B.472

    NEW SECTION. 455B.472A Iowa tanks fund financing program —— fund created.

    This establishes the Iowa tanks fund financing program and the fund.

  • Section 455B.472

    Moneys in the fund shall be used to reimburse tank owners for all or part of the costs of a corrective action for a petroleum release and for permanent closure of an underground storage tank system under the program.

    This specifies how the funds can be used for reimbursement.

  • Section 455B.472A

    5. The Iowa tanks fund is created in the state treasury under the control of the department.

    This creates the Iowa tanks fund in the state treasury specifically for underground storage tank financing.

  • Section 455B.472B

    The department may seek full recovery from an owner, operator, or other potentially responsible party liable for a release that is the subject of a corrective action for which moneys from the fund are expended.

    This allows the department to recover costs from liable parties for corrective actions funded by the new tanks fund.

Action History

  1. Committee report, recommending amendment and passage.

  2. Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage.

  3. Subcommittee Meeting: 02/12/2020 8:00AM House Lounge.

  4. Subcommittee: Gerhold, Sexton and Staed.

Sponsors

  • COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION · Primary

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 149 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (149)

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Who sponsors HSB 606?
HSB 606 is sponsored by COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
What is the current status of HSB 606?
This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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