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IA HSB65

SB

Status

Introduced

1/22/2025

Primary Sponsor

Commerce

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Origin

House of Representatives

91st General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Narrows the scope of Iowa Utilities Commission regulation of "alternative operator services" to apply only to incarcerated person calling services at correctional facilities, removing broader coverage of telephones in locations like hotels, hospitals, and college dormitories

  • Defines "correctional facility" to include county jails, municipal holding facilities, juvenile detention centers, community-based correctional facilities, Department of Corrections institutions, and similar private, local, state, or federal facilities

  • Requires incarcerated person calling service providers to operate under commission-approved tariffs and subjects both providers and correctional facilities to commission regulations

  • Eliminates the requirement for the Iowa Utilities Commission general counsel to prepare a blank form for electric transmission line franchises, removing the chair signature and official seal requirements while still requiring the same substantive information

  • Amends Code sections 476.91 and 478.7 to update definitions and streamline franchise application procedures for electronic transmission services

Legislative Description

A bill for an act relating to rate-regulated utilities, including telecommunications and electronic transmission services.(See HF 304, HF 2181.)

Last Action

Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 304.

2/10/2025

Committee Referrals

Commerce1/22/2025

Full Bill Text

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