House File 2380 - Reprinted HOUSE FILE 2380 BY COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2088) (As Amended and Passed by the House February 24, 2022 ) A BILL FOR An Act relating to acreage limitations for the production of 1 hemp, and including effective date provisions. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 HF 2380 (3) 89 da/ns/md
H.F. 2380 Section 1. Section 204.2, subsection 5, Code 2022, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 5. “Crop site” or “site” means a single contiguous parcel 3 tract of agricultural land suitable for the planting, growing, 4 or harvesting of hemp, if the parcel tract does not exceed 5 forty three hundred twenty acres. 6 Sec. 2. Section 204.4, subsection 6, Code 2022, is amended 7 to read as follows: 8 6. A person may hold any number of licenses at the same 9 time. However, the person shall not hold a legal or equitable 10 interest in a licensed crop site, if the total number of acres 11 of all licensed crop sites in which the person holds all any 12 such interests interest equals more than forty three hundred 13 twenty acres. 14 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate 15 importance, takes effect upon enactment. 16 -1- HF 2380 (3) 89 da/ns/md 1/ 1