Study Bills

Agriculture (H)

Study bills still in committee.

Bill Bill Title
HSB 645 A bill for an act relating to certain water quality programs and other provisions properly related to water quality, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (See HF 2440.)
HSB 640 A bill for an act providing for the management of weeds, including noxious weeds, and making penalties applicable. (See HF 2422.)
HSB 623 A bill for an act regulating the sale of eggs by grocery stores participating in federal programs, and providing for penalties. (See HF 2408.)
HSB 140 A bill for an act extending the beginning farmer tax credit program and appropriations used to support the program, including the agricultural assets transfer tax credit and the custom farming contract tax credit. (See HF 495; HF 2490.)
HSB 135 A bill for an act relating to water quality by providing for appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund, creating a water quality infrastructure fund, establishing new water quality programs, providing for cost-share programs for infrastructure on agricultural land under the water quality initiative, creating a state water service excise tax and a related sales tax exemption, making appropriations and other changes properly related to water quality, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (See HF 538; HF 612.)
HSB 134 A bill for an act providing for certain court actions involving an allegation of a public or private nuisance or the interference with a person’s comfortable use and enjoyment of life or property caused by an animal feeding operation, providing for the award of damages, costs, and expenses, and including effective date provisions. (See HF 468.)
HSB 120 A bill for an act providing for the department of agriculture and land stewardship’s administration of certain functions, relating to forest and fruit tree reservation requirements, the name of the state soil conservation committee, financing of soil conservation and water quality practices, the health of agricultural animals, issuance of two-year licenses and the collection of related fees imposed upon persons engaged in the marketing of agricultural animals and mining operations, license fees imposed upon pesticide dealers, tickets for delivering commodities in bulk, labeling of motor fuel pumps dispensing certain ethanol blended gasoline, the use of scales, providing for penalties, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (See HF 550; HF 617.)
HSB 87 A bill for an act relating to the filing and publication duties of county agricultural extension councils. (See HF 440.)
HSB 86 A bill for an act modifying licensing provisions applicable to electricians and electrical contractors. 2/7/17 Subcommittee assigned Holz, Maxwell and Kearns. (See HF 443.)