Iowa Code § 7E.5A (2026)
Buildings and infrastructure — funding
1. For each new vertical infrastructure project, the department in control of the vertical infrastructure shall identify and recommend to the general assembly funding sufficient to meet the projected maintenance, repair, and replacement needs of the vertical infrastructure.
2. A department shall, within its five-year capital budget request, identify specific instances where the failure to address deferred maintenance has had a negative impact on the department’s ability to implement its mission and the proposed costs for annual routine and preventive maintenance based on an industry standard of one percent of the estimated replacement cost of the department’s facilities. This subsection shall not apply to the state department of transportation.
3. A department requesting state moneys for a vertical infrastructure project shall actively pursue any federal funds for which the proposed project may be eligible and shall demonstrate such pursuit prior to receiving state moneys for the project. The department shall report the receipt of any such federal funds to the department of management and the legislative services agency in the manner described in section 8.23.
4. As used in this section, “vertical infrastructure” means the same as defined in section 8.57, subsection 3, paragraph “c”. 97 Acts, ch 215, §28; 2001 Acts, ch 185, §32; 2003 Acts, ch 35, §45, 49; 2012 Acts, ch 1021, §124 \n