A water quality bill continues to move its way through the Iowa legislative process.

Representative Chip Baltimore explains the goal of his bill.

“The whole goal of the legislation is to get urban and rural entities to work together to voluntarily come up with the group of projects within their individual, smaller watersheds to improve water quality throughout the state.”

Because there are so many parts to the bill, Baltimore says he is waiting to add even more to it later to improve the substance of the bill.

“So I’ve got kind of a list potential amendments that will probably end of making (to the bill), we just have to perfect those. But the time to do that will probably be when it hits the House floor.”

The bill still has quite a road to get through before the governor can sign it into law. It has to get through the House appropriations committee, then onto the House floor. If the House passes it, then the bill will go into the Senate natural resources committee, then to ways and means along with appropriations and finally onto the Senate floor for a vote.