Bills in Committee

Agriculture (H)

Bills under consideration and review by committee.

Bill	Bill Title
SF 2381	A bill for an act relating to animal feeding operations, by providing for open feedlot operations. (Formerly SSB 3259.)
SF 2363	A bill for an act regulating some livestock markets as animal feeding operations. (Formerly SSB 3258.)
SF 2137	A bill for an act relating to the regulation of motor fuel, by providing standards for gasoline and for the advertisement of renewable fuel. (Formerly SF 2004.)
SF 504	A bill for an act providing for the regulation of packers and the purchase of swine from producers, and providing for penalties. (Formerly SSB 1001.)
SF 484	A bill for an act relating to maximum size and weight requirements for vehicles hauling crops during the annual period of harvest. (Formerly SSB 1315.)
HF 2638	A bill for an act providing for separation distance requirements between a confinement feeding operation structure and a designated wetland, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 698)
HF 2631	A bill for an act requiring that a person entering into a repurchase contract for the growing of corn seed stock post a special bond. (Formerly HF 2503)
HF 2514	A bill for an act providing for the incurrence of costs to establish soil and water conservation practices. (Formerly HSB 704)
HF 2503	A bill for an act requiring that a person entering into a repurchase contract for the growing of corn seed stock post a special bond. (See Cmte. Bill HF 2631)
HF 2496	A bill for an act providing for the stockpiling of dry manure from a confinement feeding operation and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 2363)
HF 2459	A bill for an act providing for an annual report regarding the purchase of locally and regionally produced or processed food by schools under the farm-to-school program.
HF 2445	A bill for an act providing that a local government entity may adopt legislation regulating the use of phosphorus in proximity to a recreational lake.
HF 2438	A bill for an act relating to agricultural seeds that have been genetically modified, by providing for costs associated with making the genetic modifications and making a penalty applicable.
HF 2408	A bill for an act providing for the regulation of food derived from cloned agricultural animals and providing penalties.
HF 2363	A bill for an act providing for the stockpiling of dry manure from a confinement feeding operation and making penalties applicable. (See Cmte. Bill HF 2496)
HF 2360	A bill for an act relating to the biodiesel blended fuel tax credit for retail dealers, and providing for retroactive applicability. (See Cmte. Bill HF 2565)
HF 2304	A bill for an act relating to farmland preservation, by providing tax credits and restrictions on the uses of farmland eligible for tax credits, and providing penalties.
HF 2286	A bill for an act providing for criminal penalties for the mistreatment of livestock and other animals.
HF 2247	A bill for an act providing for motor fuel pumps which dispense renewable fuel.
HF 2241	A bill for an act concerning separation distance requirements that apply to two or more confinement feeding operations under common ownership or management, and making penalties applicable.
HF 2162	A bill for an act relating to swine by providing for their health and movement, the taking of estray swine, the registration of game swine, the imposition of fees, and providing for penalties and an effective date.
HF 2046	A bill for an act providing for standardized analytical testing methods for measuring components of distillers commercial feed, and providing penalties.
HF 885	A bill for an act concerning horse racing by providing for purse agreements for races of standardbred horses at county fairs. (Formerly HSB 224)
HF 735	A bill for an act relating to organic food by providing for the duties of the department, establishing a council, and establishing a fund.
HF 594	A bill for an act providing for the regulation of swine, including feral swine and estray swine, providing penalties, and providing for effective dates.
HF 578	A bill for an act providing for the regulation of Iowa packers and the purchase of swine from Iowa producers, providing for civil and state enforcement, and providing civil penalties.
HF 540	A bill for an act relating to soil and water conservation district work projects supporting water protection practices, and providing an effective date. (See Cmte. Bill HF 860)
HF 539	A bill for an act relating to animal feeding operations, by providing for the enforcement of regulatory provisions. (Formerly HSB 83) (See Cmte. Bill HF 765)
HF 419	A bill for an act providing protections for contract producers of agricultural commodities, providing for the administration and enforcement of its provisions, providing penalties, and including applicability and effective date provisions.
HF 392	A bill for an act providing for the free association of contract producers of agricultural commodities and providing a penalty.
HF 389	A bill for an act making an appropriation to the department of agriculture and land stewardship for purposes of providing a grant to assist farmers with disabilities and their families. (See Cmte. Bill HF 672)
HF 173	A bill for an act providing authority to a county board of supervisors to establish a separation distance requirement between an animal feeding operation maintaining swine and a structure which is part of a swine farrowing and gestating operation, and providing an effective date.
HF 169	A bill for an act relating to animal pounds, by authorizing pounds to provide for foster care, to refer to themselves as animal shelters, and providing penalties. (See Cmte. Bill HF 547)
HF 128	A bill for an act relating to pesticide application within schools, and on school grounds, athletic fields, and playgrounds, and providing an effective date.
HF 98	A bill for an act establishing an environmental design and construction program for open animal feeding operations.
HF 59	A bill for an act providing for the regulation of packers and the purchase of swine from producers, and providing for penalties.
HF 29	A bill for an act relating to confinement feeding operations by providing for the approval by counties of construction of structures associated with the operations.
HCR 106	A concurrent resolution urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to take all actions necessary to provide American consumers with the opportunity to use higher ethanol blended gasoline for general use in conventional engines. (Formerly HSB 770)