Bills in Committee

Agriculture (H)

Bills under consideration and review by committee.

Bill	Bill Title
HF 2498	A bill for an act creating an agricultural land, soils, water quality, and farm tenure initiative committee to conduct a study and make recommendations to improve the manner in which farm tenants may profitably grow agricultural products using leased agricultural land while providing for the sustainability and quality of this state’s natural resources.
HF 2468	A bill for an act prohibiting the mistreatment of animals other than livestock and wild animals, providing for the rescue of animals by local law enforcement agencies, providing for criminal offenses and court orders, and including penalties. (Formerly HSB 608.)
HF 2408	A bill for an act regulating the sale of eggs by grocery stores participating in a federal program. (Formerly HSB 623.) Effective 7-1-18.
HF 2357	A bill for an act providing for a country of origin label and allowing for injunctive relief.
HF 2334	A bill for an act relating to activities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and the environment, including by increasing the sales and use tax rates, transferring moneys to the natural resources and outdoor recreation trust fund, funding certain government entities and initiatives, providing for an Iowa water policy, establishing water quality and water management objectives, goals, and benchmarks, regulating confinement feeding operations, making appropriations, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
HF 2333	A bill for an act relating to leases between local governments and persons using land for farming.
HF 2315	A bill for an act relating to animals, including dogs, that are subject to certain health and safety regulations, including by providing for rabies control, and the confiscation, impoundment, and disposition of such animals, providing a criminal penalty, and making penalties applicable.
HF 2259	A bill for an act providing for the regulation of animals other than livestock that are maintained by commercial establishments, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2210	A bill for an act relating to pumping stations that are part of drainage or levee districts, by providing procedures for the establishment of such stations and the annexation of land contiguous to the district.
HF 2135	A bill for an act relating to confinement feeding operations, including by establishing a moratorium, requiring the department of natural resources to adjust compliance fees, requiring the department to submit a report to the general assembly, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2134	A bill for an act requiring that a person submit a bond with a manure management plan associated with a confinement feeding operation, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2133	A bill for an act relating to requiring water quality plans for persons receiving financial assistance for establishing soil and water conservation plans.
HF 2132	A bill for an act prohibiting the construction of confinement feeding operation structures that are part of confinement feeding operations located in certain subwatersheds, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2086	A bill for an act authorizing counties to adopt county legislation relating to the siting of confinement feeding operations.
HF 2084	A bill for an act requiring a notice of structural failure involving a manure storage structure that is part of a confinement feeding operation, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2083	A bill for an act establishing a moratorium relating to the construction, including expansion, of structures that are part of certain confinement feeding operations where swine are kept, requesting an interim study committee, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2082	A bill for an act relating to animal agriculture, by providing for a public hearing conducted by the board of supervisors in a county where a structure associated with a confinement feeding operation is proposed to be constructed, including expanded, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2081	A bill for an act establishing an advisory committee to evaluate the use and value of the master matrix when approving a permit to construct a confinement feeding operation structure, and including effective date provisions.
HF 2065	A bill for an act prohibiting the mistreatment of animals excluding livestock or unconfined wildlife, providing reporting requirements, providing for criminal offenses, and including penalties.
HF 594	A bill for an act providing for the transfer of dogs and cats by research facilities to certain persons, providing for limitations on liability, and making penalties applicable.
HF 484	A bill for an act relating to the governing of certain water utilities and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 316.)
HF 456	A bill for an act authorizing counties to adopt county legislation relating to the siting of confinement feeding operations.
HF 454	A bill for an act relating to the regulation of persons, including commercial establishments, keeping nonagricultural animals, providing for fees and appropriations, and making penalties applicable.
HF 416	A bill for an act relating to water quality and soil conservation efforts, including election requirements and powers and duties of commissioners of soil and water conservation districts, and related powers and duties of county boards of supervisors, county treasurers, the state soil conservation committee, the department of agriculture and land stewardship’s division of soil and water conservation, and the attorney general.
HF 415	A bill for an act relating to the production, marketing, and distribution of industrial hemp and related plant materials, and providing for penalties.
HF 378	A bill for an act providing for a state assessment for clean water imposed on agricultural commodities, including establishing procedures for referendums to establish, continue, or terminate the state assessment, the transfer of moneys to the department of agriculture and land stewardship, state sales and use taxes, the natural resources and outdoor recreation fund, the establishment of a commission and fund and the appropriation of moneys.
HF 346	A bill for an act requiring the department of natural resources to include additional water quality criteria in the master matrix used to evaluate applications for permits to construct confinement feeding operation structures.
HF 328	A bill for an act exempting certain soil and water conservation practices from being considered as the practice of engineering.
HF 327	A bill for an act regulating the stockpiling of certain effluent from animal feeding operations and animal truck wash facilities, providing for penalties, and making penalties applicable.
HF 243	A bill for an act relating to certain soil and water conservation practices and the practice of engineering.
HF 185	A bill for an act eliminating a restriction on a person associated with a county agricultural extension district from engaging in certain activities affecting legislation.
HF 151	A bill for an act relating to the local food and farm program fund, by making a name change and making an appropriation to the fund to support projects for the development or expansion of food hubs or farming innovation zones.