HF 2534 (LSB 6834HV (4) 91)

RELATING TO ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS BY REGULATING  SHELLFISH, AND MAKING PENALTIES APPLICABLE. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 459.102, subsection 4, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  “Animal” means cattle, swine, horses, sheep, chickens, turkeys, or fish, or shellfish.
    Sec. 2.  Section 459.102, subsection 7, Code 2026, is amended by adding the following new paragraphs:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  n.  Shellfish weighing twenty-five 

grams or more  0.001
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  o.  Shellfish weighing less than 

 twenty-five grams  0.00006
    Sec. 3.  Section 459.320, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows:
   459.320  Exception from regulation —— election for confinement feeding operations confining fish or shellfish.

   A person who exclusively confines fish or shellfish as part of a confinement feeding operation may elect to comply with the permitting requirements of section 455B.183 in lieu of the permitting requirements of this subchapter.

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PAT GRASSLEY
Speaker of the House

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AMY SINCLAIR
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2534, Ninety-first General Assembly.

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MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House

Approved _______________, 2026

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KIM REYNOLDS
Governor