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Wills frames 30-year Iowa resilience plan as 'survival manual'; House passes bill
Summary
Representative Wills described House File 2511 as a 30-year blueprint to protect Iowa from floods, droughts and shifting water supplies; amendments adjusted reporting deadlines and the House approved the bill unanimously (89-0, 11 absent).
Representative Wills (Dickinson) introduced House File 2511 as “Iowa's 30 year blueprint for resilience,” urging a proactive master plan that looks decades ahead at hazards like flooding and water scarcity. He described the bill as mandating temporal, seasonal and spatial projections and requiring a plan by 2027 (amended to 2028), annual reports from 2029 and five-year updates.
Amendments including H8046 changed the report completion date to 2028 and emphasized voluntary measures that respect property rights; those amendments were adopted and the bill was read for final passage. The clerk recorded 89 yeas, 0 nays and 11 absent; the chair declared the bill to have passed the House.
