Real Estate & Title Law Section Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:39 PM
| BILL | TITLE | SUMMARY | STATUS | ISBA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HF 1031 | A bill for an act relating to county recorder fees and land record information systems management. (Formerly HF 328.) | This bill relates to documents and instruments filed or recorded with a county recorder. Under current law, the board of supervisors of each county, on behalf of each county recorder, is directed to enter into an agreement under Code chapter 28E (chapter 28E agreement) with the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar. (4/15/26) | Support |
| SF 2490 | A bill for an act relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, pooling orders, negotiation of surface damage, imposition and distribution of a tax, and jurisdiction.(Formerly SF 2449, SF 546, SF 268.) | Referred to Appropriations. (4/15/26) | ||
| HF 2745 | A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, budgets, and authority, by modifying provisions relating to the assessment and taxation of property, funding from the secure an advanced vision for education fund, urban renewal areas, establishing a program for certain first-time homebuyers, establishing a local government efficiency grant fund, making appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 596.) | Fiscal Note. (4/14/26) | ||
| HF 2749 | A bill for an act relating to real estate transfer tax, including declarations of value.(Formerly HF 2188, HSB 569.) | Committee report, recommending passage. (4/14/26) | ||
| SF 2431 | A bill for an act relating to the appointment and duties of township officers and township budgets, and including effective date and applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 3009.) | This bill relates to township boards of trustees, including the appointment and duties of township officers and township budgets. Under current law, the county board of supervisors is responsible for dividing each county into townships. Townships in Iowa have a board of township trustees that is... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as []. (4/14/26) | |
| SF 2449 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, and pooling orders.(Formerly SF 546, SF 268; See SF 2490.) | This bill relates to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources (department), confidential information, and pooling orders. The bill provides the director of the department the authority to require yearly filings from every person acting as a principal... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2490 . (4/14/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2472 | A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, modifying divisions of revenue, establishing a program for first-time homebuyers, modifying appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3001.) | Fiscal Note. (4/14/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 1050 | A bill for an act relating to the assessment of property containing certain aboveground storage tanks and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 238.) | Code section 427A.1 specifies that for the purposes of property taxation only, certain property shall be assessed and taxed, unless otherwise qualified for exemption, as real property, including buildings, structures, or improvements, any of which are constructed on or in the land, attached to the... Full Bill Text |
Referred to Ways and Means. (4/13/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2595 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining.(Formerly HSB 731; See HF 2765.) | This bill states that it is the intention of the general assembly to enact legislation regulating mining in this state. | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2765 (4/13/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2748 | A bill for an act relating to agriculture, including by providing for the powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, including the promotion and regulation of commodities and products; the regulation of the transportation of agricultural commodities; the use of agricultural land; and taxation, including property taxes, excise and sales taxes, and income taxes; making penalties applicable; and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 2340, HSB 588.) | Referred to Ways and Means. (4/13/26) | ||
| HF 2750 | A bill for an act relating to the collection and distribution of fees for wire transmissions, the establishment of the school security grant program, and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 601.) | Referred to Ways and Means. (4/13/26) | ||
| HF 2765 | A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HF 2595, HSB 731.) | Introduced, placed on Ways and Means calendar. (4/13/26) | ||
| HF 601 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to fees for wire transmissions, and related income tax credits.(See HF 2750.) | This bill relates to fees for wire transmissions and related income tax credits. Under the bill, in addition to any other fee required by law for a wire transmission, a licensee or the licensee's authorized delegate shall collect a fee of $5 for each wire transmission... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/9/26) | |
| HF 2062 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts.(See HF 2636.) | This bill repeals the ability of property owners to submit a written protest to challenge a proposed change in a zoning district. Under Code section 414.5, as a part of an ordinance changing land from one zoning district to another zoning district or an ordinance approving... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2188 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to real estate transfer tax, including declarations of value.(Formerly HSB 569; See HF 2749.) | This bill relates to real estate transfer tax, including declarations of value. A real estate transfer tax is imposed on deeds, instruments, or writings when land, tenements, or other real property are granted, assigned, transferred, or otherwise conveyed, except in certain circumstances specified in Code section... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/9/26) | |
| HF 2340 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to agriculture, including by providing for the powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, including the promotion and regulation of commodities and products; the regulation of the transportation of agricultural commodities; the use of agricultural land; and taxation, including property taxes, excise and sales taxes, and income taxes; making penalties applicable; and including effective date and applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 588; See HF 2748.) | GENERAL. This bill amends a number of Code chapters relating to agriculture, including providing for the powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship (DALS). The bill provides for the promotion and regulation of commodities and regulation by DALS, including fees, and... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/9/26) | |
| HF 2558 | A bill for an act relating to the definition of public improvement for purposes of public construction bidding. (Formerly HSB 592.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill revises the definition of "public improvement" for purposes of Code chapter 26 (public construction bidding) to exclude equipment acquired by or for a city utility under Code chapter 388 when such equipment is related to an electric generating project and to exclude the... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2198 | A bill for an act relating to the authority of an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care. (Formerly SSB 3020.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill relates to the authority of an attorney in fact (attorney) under a durable power of attorney for health care (durable power of attorney). Current law provides that an attorney under a durable power of attorney has the duty to act in accordance with the... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | |
| SF 2214 | A bill for an act relating to the installation of transmission lines on highway rights-of-way. (Formerly SSB 3063.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill relates to the installation of transmission lines on highway rights-of-way. Under current law, the general assembly encourages proactive coordination between the department of transportation (DOT), local governments, utility companies, and other affected parties to minimize costs and avoid relocating utilities during highway construction. Affected... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | |
| SF 2340 | A bill for an act relating to the authority of counties and cities to regulate the installation or use of battery-charged security alarm systems on nonresidential properties. (Formerly SSB 3112.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | Under current law, Code sections 331.301 and 364.3 provide limitations on the powers of counties and cities, respectively. This bill amends those Code sections to limit a county's or city's authority to regulate the use and installation of battery-charged security alarm systems under certain circumstances. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2369 | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units. (Formerly SSB 3070.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | Under current law, a county or city shall allow a minimum of one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the same lot as a single family residence in accordance with certain conditions. This bill specifies that a county or city shall allow a minimum of one ADU... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | |
| SF 2378 | A bill for an act relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts.(Formerly SF 2091.) | This bill repeals the ability of property owners to submit a written protest to challenge a proposed change in a zoning district. Under Code section 414.5, as a part of an ordinance changing land from one zoning district to another zoning district or an ordinance approving... Full Bill Text |
Message from House, with amendment S-5176 . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2418 | A bill for an act relating to drainage districts and levees, including district parcel records, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 2349.) Effective date: 04/09/2026. | Under Code chapter 468 (levee and drainage districts and improvement), the board of supervisors has the authority to establish a drainage district or to locate and establish a levee. Upon establishment of a district, the drainage district is deemed to acquire a permanent easement for... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Undecided |
| HF 640 | A bill for an act concerning self-storage facilities, including acceptances and defaults of rental agreements.(Formerly HSB 184.) | This bill relates to leased spaces in self-storage facilities. The bill provides that if a person receives a written rental agreement from a self-storage facility operator and takes possession of or retains the leased space, a person who fails to execute and deliver the written... Full Bill Text |
Message from House, with amendment S-5167 . (4/8/26) | Monitor |
| HF 940 | A bill for an act relating to civil law, including providing notice to named beneficiaries in probate law, a process for named beneficiaries to obtain ownership of property held by others in probate law, and authorizing spouses to amend premarital agreements, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 713.) | This bill relates to probate law regarding notice provided to named beneficiaries. The bill provides that if a holder of property that has a beneficiary designation owned by a decedent has been notified of the death of the decedent, the property holder shall within 10... Full Bill Text |
Senate amendment H-8334 filed. (4/8/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2636 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts.(Formerly HF 2062.) | Under Code section 414.5, as a part of an ordinance changing land from one zoning district to another zoning district or an ordinance approving a site development plan, a city council may impose conditions on a property owner in addition to existing regulations if the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/8/26) | Monitor |
| SF 633 | A bill for an act relating to forest and fruit-tree reservations by establishing a program fee and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 219.) | Currently, a person who establishes a forest or fruit-tree reservation (reservation) is entitled to a property tax exemption on the tract of land selected to be a reservation, subject to certain conditions. Beginning January 1, 2026, this bill establishes a fee structure for reservations dependent upon... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (4/8/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2531 | A bill for an act relating to interests in minerals owned by counties and cities. (Formerly HF 2213.) | This bill requires a county or city to divest any interest in minerals that the county or city owns or controls. The county or city shall convey any interest in minerals it owns or controls to the surface owner of the land to which the... Full Bill Text |
Amendment S-5158 filed. (4/6/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2448 | A bill for an act relating to residential real estate, including access to records of unit owners associations and the disclosure of home inspection information. (Formerly SSB 3144.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill relates to access to records of unit owners associations and the disclosure of home inspection information in residential real estate transactions. Code section 499C.2 (records and documents ?? access) requires a unit owners association, the association's designee, or the association's management company to make... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/6/26) | Undecided |
| SF 2313 | A bill for an act relating to property tax sales, including bidding procedures and foreclosures on certificates, and including applicability provisions. | Under current law, a notice of the annual tax sale containing certain information shall be published in at least one official newspaper. This bill specifies that if the treasurer has an official internet site with the information required by Code section 446.9, then the publication... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee Meeting: 04/08/2026 12:00PM Room 315. (4/2/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2667 | A bill for an act relating to project design standards and specifications, including by providing for a statewide urban design and specifications board and requiring certain reports to city councils regarding noncompliant projects. (Formerly HSB 744.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill establishes the statewide urban design and specifications board (SUDAS board) within the department of transportation (DOT). The SUDAS board is required to develop statewide urban design standards and specifications (SUDAS), which may include soliciting recommendations from the institute for transportation at Iowa state... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/1/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2629 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to trespass, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 981.) | This bill establishes the criminal offense of unlawful squatting. The bill provides that a person commits the offense of unlawful squatting if all of the following circumstances apply: the person knowingly enters the premises of another person and resides on the premises of the other person... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/31/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2394 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a statewide urban design and specifications board, including assessment of costs for local government projects that do not comply with the board's design or specifications manuals.(Formerly SSB 3173.) | This bill establishes the statewide urban design and specifications board (SUDAS board) within the department of transportation (DOT). The SUDAS board is required to develop statewide urban design standards and specifications (SUDAS), which may include soliciting recommendations from the institute for transportation at Iowa state... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/31/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2104 | A bill for an act relating to the exercise of eminent domain for carbon oxide pipelines, and including applicability and effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 507.) | This bill prohibits exercising the power of eminent domain for acquiring right-of-way for, constructing, or operating a pipeline that has the primary purpose of transporting carbon oxide. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to all condemnation proceedings instituted on or after that date. Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | |
| HF 2255 | A bill for an act relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders.(Formerly HF 2061.) | Under current law, a peace officer, a civilian employee of a law enforcement agency, a state or federal judicial officer, or state or federal prosecutor may request their name be redacted from documents made public by the county assessor or county recorder. This bill adds... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2297 | A bill for an act relating to radon mitigation in residential buildings.(Formerly HF 82.) | This bill relates to radon mitigation requirements. The bill requires the state building code commissioner to adopt as part of the state building code a requirement that new single-family or two-family residential construction include a passive method for the mitigation of radon listed in appendix... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2618 | A bill for an act eliminating the Iowa smart planning principles and other local comprehensive planning and development guidelines.(Formerly HF 2148.) | Current Code section 18B.1 enumerates the Iowa smart planning principles. The Iowa smart planning principles are 10 principles that state agencies, local governments, and other public entities are required to consider and may apply during deliberation of all appropriate planning, zoning, development, and resource management... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2434 | A bill for an act relating to local government, including the approval of action by ordinance, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3175.) | Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 2227 | A bill for an act relating to land restoration following the initial construction of electric transmission lines, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 526.) Applicability date: 07/01/2024 | This bill relates to land restoration following the initial construction of electric transmission lines. The bill directs the commission to adopt rules to implement the land restoration requirements after initial construction of an electric transmission line as set forth in the bill. The bill requires electric transmission... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (3/25/26) | |
| HSB 596 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to local government taxes, budgets, and authority, by establishing property tax limitations and modifying provisions relating to the assessment and taxation of property, certain taxpayer notices, bond issuances, and councils of governments, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions.(See HF 2745.) | This bill relates to local government taxes, budgets, and authority. DIVISION I ?? PROPERTY TAX REVENUE LIMITATIONS. The bill enacts new Code section 444.25, which establishes a maximum aggregate amount of property tax dollars that may be certified for levy among all property tax levies imposed... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2745 (3/23/26) | Monitor |
| HF 843 | A bill for an act relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, and pooling orders.(Formerly HSB 194.) | This bill relates to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources (department), confidential information, and pooling orders. The bill provides the director of the department the authority to require yearly filings from every person acting as a principal... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2438 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to city utilities including landlord notification, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3128.) | Under current law, a city utility or enterprise service to a property or premises shall not be discontinued or disconnected unless prior written notice is sent by mail to the account holder in whose name the delinquent rates were incurred. If the account holder is... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/18/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2740 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of certain information filed with the secretary of state by foreign persons holding agricultural land. | Introduced, referred to State Government. (3/17/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 981 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to real property, including the removal of unauthorized persons and trespass, and providing penalties.(See HF 2629.) | This bill relates to real property owners' rights against unauthorized occupants and modifies the definition of trespass. The bill allows a real property owner to submit to law enforcement a complaint to remove unauthorized persons occupying the owner's real property if all of the following conditions... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/16/26) | Monitor |
| SF 579 | A bill for an act relating to local laws implementing the Iowa civil rights Act of 1965, local civil rights commissions, and local civil rights agencies, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1184.) Effective date: 03/10/2026. | This bill relates to local civil rights commissions or local civil rights agencies. The bill provides that any complaint that is filed with a local commission or local agency where a party is a political subdivision shall be referred to the Iowa office of civil rights... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/13/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2698 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to business entity-owned residential arrangements, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 750.) | This bill regulates certain business entity-owned residential arrangements. The bill defines "business entity", "managing entity", "residential arrangement", and "residential property". The bill requires that an agreement for the purchase of an interest in a managing entity must disclose to the purchaser that the agreement is for the... Full Bill Text |
Tabled until future meeting. (3/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2672 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to solar energy by establishing a community solar facility program.(Formerly HSB 629.) | This bill establishes a community solar facility program. Under current law, the Iowa utilities commission (commission) is required to initiate a proceeding to develop a value of solar methodology and rate for eligible distributed generation facilities if petitioned by an electric utility on or after July... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8209 filed. (3/11/26) | Monitor |
| SF 654 | A bill for an act relating to wildlife, including the treatment of beaver dams, identification for traps, snares, and tree stands, and maximum fur dealer license fees, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SF 260, SSB 1093.) | This bill relates to wildlife, including the treatment of beaver dams, identification for traps, snares, and tree stands, and maximum fur dealer license fees. The bill requires that a stand placed on public land for hunting deer be affixed with and exhibit a metal plate that... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/11/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2256 | A bill for an act relating to required information on certain recorded documents and statements of property taxes due mailed to titleholders. | Code section 331.606B relating to documents or instruments presented for recording requires that, for any instrument of conveyance, certain information be contained on the document, including the name and address of the taxpayer. This bill provides that for a taxpayer that is an individual, the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (3/11/26) | Undecided |
| SSB 3001 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, modifying divisions of revenue, modifying appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.(See SF 2472.) | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2472 (3/11/26) | Monitor | |
| HSB 748 | A bill for an act relating to residential real estate, including access to records of unit owners associations and the disclosure of home inspection information. | This bill relates to access to records of unit owners associations and the disclosure of home inspection information in residential real estate transactions. Code section 499C.2 (records and documents ?? access) requires a unit owners association, the association's designee, or the association's management company to make... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee Meeting: 03/11/2026 12:30PM RM 102 (Cancelled). (3/10/26) | Undecided |
| HSB 761 | A bill for an act relating to a convenience fee for recording instruments in a county by a person who is not a resident of the county. | Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (3/10/26) | Oppose | |
| HF 736 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the installation of transmission lines on highway rights-of-way.(See HF 2228.) | This bill relates to the installation of transmission lines on highway rights-of-way. Under current law, the general assembly encourages proactive coordination between the department of transportation (DOT), local governments, utility companies, and other affected parties to minimize costs and avoid relocating utilities during highway construction. Affected... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2148 - Dead | A bill for an act eliminating the Iowa smart planning principles and other local comprehensive planning and development guidelines.(See HF 2618.) | Current Code section 18B.1 enumerates the Iowa smart planning principles. The Iowa smart planning principles are 10 principles that state agencies, local governments, and other public entities are required to consider and may apply during deliberation of all appropriate planning, zoning, development, and resource management... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 922 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to discrimination in the provision of financial services, and providing civil penalties.(Formerly HF 594.) | This bill relates to discrimination by a financial institution in the provision of financial services. The bill prohibits a financial institution from discriminating in the provision of financial services to a person, and from agreeing, conspiring, or coordinating with another person or group of persons to... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8161 filed. (3/5/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2252 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units.(Formerly HSB 618.) | Under current law, a county or city shall allow a minimum of one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the same lot as a single family residence in accordance with certain conditions. This bill specifies that a county or city shall allow a minimum of one ADU... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/5/26) | |
| HF 2516 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authority of counties and cities to regulate the installation or use of battery-charged security alarm systems on nonresidential properties.(Formerly HSB 659.) | Under current law, Code sections 331.301 and 364.3 provide limitations on the powers of counties and cities, respectively. This bill amends those Code sections to limit a county's or city's authority to regulate the use and installation of battery-charged security alarm systems under certain circumstances. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/5/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2702 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the production of oil and gas, geologic hydrogen, hydrocarbons, or other minerals, including establishing certain duties required of oil and gas operators, requiring notice and surface use agreement offers, and providing for remedies.(Formerly HSB 740.) | This bill relates to the production of oil and gas, geologic hydrogen, hydrocarbons, or other minerals, including establishing certain duties required of oil and gas operators, requiring notice and surface use agreement offers, and providing for remedies. The bill is known as and may be... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8164 filed. (3/5/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3183 | A bill for an act relating to the publication of certain public notices by designated public entities, providing for fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. | Subcommittee: Green, Guth, and Petersen. (3/5/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 2223 | A bill for an act relating to local and state government finances by modifying provisions relating to homestead property tax credits, providing a residential property tax rebate, modifying provisions relating to retirement systems, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to local and state government finances by modifying provisions relating to homestead property tax credits, providing a residential property tax rebate, and modifying provisions relating to the municipal fire and police retirement system. The bill authorizes a homestead property tax credit based on... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Nordman, Jacoby and Lundgren. (3/4/26) | |
| HSB 755 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority, the utilities commission, and the department of education, including creation of the headquarters expansion and development for growth and employment program, and the business incentives for growth program training fund; repeal of the new jobs tax credit program; the major economic growth attraction program; load forecasting and analysis of electric transmission system expansion plans; creation of the electric transmission system expansion planning and analysis and load forecasting fund; the industrial new jobs training program; and including effective date provisions. | This bill relates to economic development authority programs and tax credits; load forecasting and the state electric transmission system expansion plans; and the industrial new jobs training program. DIVISION I ?? HEADQUARTERS EXPANSION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM. The bill creates a headquarters expansion... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/4/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2157 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to malicious prosecution arising from civil actions between private parties. | This bill relates to malicious prosecution arising from civil actions between private parties. The bill defines "malice" as the initiation of a civil action for a primary purpose other than securing a proper adjudication of the claim, and "probable cause" as the existence of reasonably known... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/4/26) | |
| SF 2191 | A bill for an act relating to real estate transfer tax, including declarations of value.(Formerly SSB 3019.) | This bill relates to real estate transfer tax, including declarations of value. A real estate transfer tax is imposed on deeds, instruments, or writings when land, tenements, or other real property are granted, assigned, transferred, or otherwise conveyed, except in certain circumstances specified in Code section... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/4/26) | Support |
| SF 2410 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the definition of public improvement for purposes of public construction bidding.(Formerly SF 2164.) | This bill revises the definition of "public improvement" for purposes of Code chapter 26 (public construction bidding) to exclude equipment acquired by or for a city utility under Code chapter 388 when such equipment is related to an electric generating project and to exclude the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/4/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2442 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county zoning ordinances governing residential buildings.(Formerly SSB 3152.) | This bill relates to county zoning ordinances that govern residential buildings. Under current law, a county board of supervisors may by ordinance regulate and restrict the height, number of structures, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the... Full Bill Text |
Read first time, referred to Local Government. (3/4/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 758 | A bill for an act relating to evidence and burdens of proof in property tax assessment protests and appeals and including retroactive applicability provisions. | Under current law, for assessment years on or after January 1, 2018, the burden of proof shall be upon any complainant attacking a property valuation as excessive, inadequate, inequitable, or capricious. When the complainant offers competent evidence that the market value of the property is... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/3/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2061 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders.(See HF 2255.) | Under current law, a peace officer, a civilian employee of a law enforcement agency, a state or federal judicial officer, or state or federal prosecutor may request their name be redacted from documents made public by the county assessor or county recorder. This bill adds... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2074 - Dead | A bill for an act permitting a city to create entertainment districts allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places.(See HF 2325.) | This bill permits a city to create entertainment districts (district) allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places. A city may define by ordinance a licensed premises which may be used by holders of class "C" or special class "C" retail... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2213 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to interests in minerals owned by counties and cities.(See HF 2531.) | This bill requires a county or city to divest any interest in minerals that the county or city owns or controls. The county or city shall convey any interest in minerals it owns or controls to the surface owner of the land to which the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2228 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the installation of transmission lines on highway rights-of-way.(Formerly HF 736.) | This bill relates to the installation of transmission lines on highway rights-of-way. Under current law, the general assembly encourages proactive coordination between the department of transportation (DOT), local governments, utility companies, and other affected parties to minimize costs and avoid relocating utilities during highway construction. Affected... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | |
| SF 2433 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the national electrical code, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3148.) | This bill relates to the national electrical code. The bill adopts the international energy conservation code, 2009 edition (national energy code), as part of the national electrical code applicable in this state. Current law requires the electrical examining board (board) to adopt rules for the... Full Bill Text |
Amendment S-5040 filed. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2325 - Dead | A bill for an act permitting a city to create social districts allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places.(Formerly HF 2074.) | This bill permits a city to create social districts (district) allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places. A city may define by ordinance an area which may be used by holders of class "C" or special class "C" retail alcohol... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Bisignano, and Schultz. (2/26/26) | |
| SF 2435 | A bill for an act relating to local government by modifying property tax credits and rent reimbursements, provisions governing abandoned mobile homes and personal property in rural areas, and tax sales.(Formerly SF 2024.) | This bill relates to local government administration of certain property tax credits and rent reimbursements, abandoned mobile homes and personal property in rural areas, and tax sales. DIVISION I ?? PROPERTY TAX CREDITS AND RENT REIMBURSEMENTS. The bill specifies a claim for credit of property taxes due... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/26/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2441 | A bill for an act concerning locally imposed hotel and motel taxes for tourism development and tourism promotion.(Formerly SSB 3114.) | This bill concerns locally imposed hotel and motel taxes by creating a local hotel and motel tax account for the development and promotion of tourism, and includes applicability provisions. The bill strikes the detailed list of permissible expenditures for at least 50 percent of the locally... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Dawson, Bisignano, and Gruenhagen. (2/26/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 734 | A bill for an act authorizing cities to establish self-supported tourism improvement districts. | This bill authorizes a self-supported tourism improvement district (district). The bill allows a levy (assessment) upon lodging businesses for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, installing, or maintaining improvements and providing activities that will provide certain benefits to lodging businesses located within the district. The bill defines "activities"... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/25/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2659 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing an affordable housing task force.(Formerly HF 2312.) | This bill establishes an affordable housing task force to study state and local regulations that contribute to the cost of affordable housing and to examine the corresponding public benefit of such regulations relative to their impact on housing The bill requires the task force to... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8038 filed. (2/24/26) | |
| SF 2436 | A bill for an act relating to the division of revenue of school district foundation property taxes for urban renewal projects, authorizing voluntary payments by school districts, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 3138.) | This bill excludes the school district foundation property tax imposed under Code section 257.3 from the division of revenue under Code section 403.19 (tax increment financing). The bill prohibits the foundation property tax from being divided and paid into the municipality's special fund for the payment... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Dawson, Bisignano, and Gruenhagen. (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2440 | A bill for an act relating to the permissible uses of certain school district property tax revenue for urban renewal projects and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3136.) | Iowa's urban renewal law under Code chapter 403 authorizes the division of revenue (tax increment financing). This bill provides that school district foundation property taxes levied under Code section 257.3 and deposited into a municipality's special fund as the result of a division of revenue... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Dawson, Gruenhagen, and Winckler. (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2683 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to pipeline projects, including damage claims and landowner rights, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 691.) | This bill relates to pipeline projects, including damage claims and landowner rights. Under current law, landowners and crop owners who incur damages from the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, or operation of pipelines are eligible for compensation. The bill provides that claims for damages are not precluded from... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 629 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to solar energy by establishing a community solar facility program.(See HF 2672.) | This bill establishes a community solar facility program. The bill specifies that "electric utility" for purposes of the bill means a public utility that provides electricity to the public for compensation and is required to be rate-regulated under Code chapter 476. The bill defines "brownfield site"... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2672 (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 740 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the production of oil and gas, geologic hydrogen, hydrocarbons, or other minerals, including establishing certain duties required of oil and gas operators, requiring notice and surface use agreement offers, and providing for remedies.(See HF 2702.) | This bill relates to the production of oil and gas, geologic hydrogen, hydrocarbons, or other minerals, including establishing certain duties required of oil and gas operators, requiring notice and surface use agreement offers, and providing for remedies. The bill is known as and may be... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2702 (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 744 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a statewide urban design and specifications board, including assessment of costs for local government projects that do not comply with the board's design or specifications manuals.(See HF 2667.) | This bill establishes the statewide urban design and specifications board (SUDAS board) within the department of transportation (DOT). The SUDAS board is required to develop statewide urban design standards and specifications (SUDAS), which may include soliciting recommendations from the institute for transportation at Iowa state... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2667 (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 750 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to business entity-owned residential arrangements, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2698.) | This bill regulates certain business entity-owned residential arrangements. The bill defines "business entity", "managing entity", "residential arrangement", and "residential property". The bill requires that an agreement for the purchase of an interest in a managing entity must disclose to the purchaser that the agreement is for the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2698 (2/23/26) | Undecided |
| SF 546 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, and pooling orders.(Formerly SF 268; See SF 2449.) | This bill relates to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources (department), confidential information, and pooling orders. The bill provides the director of the department the authority to require yearly filings from every person acting as a principal... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2449 . (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2024 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to local government by modifying property tax credits and rent reimbursements, provisions governing abandoned mobile homes and personal property in rural areas, and tax sales.(See SF 2435.) | This bill relates to local government administration of certain property tax credits and rent reimbursements, abandoned mobile homes and personal property in rural areas, and tax sales. DIVISION I ?? PROPERTY TAX CREDITS AND RENT REIMBURSEMENTS. The bill specifies a claim for credit of property taxes due... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2435 . (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2326 | A bill for an act modifying first-time homebuyers savings accounts, and including retroactive applicability provisions. | Currently, individuals may open an interest-bearing savings account and designate the account as a first-time homebuyer savings account (account) for the purpose of financing the purchase of a single-family residence in this state by a first-time homebuyer. The account may be established individually, or jointly... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Zumbach, Donahue, and Kraayenbrink. (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2349 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to drainage districts and levees, including district parcel records.(See SF 2418.) | Under Code chapter 468 (levee and drainage districts and improvement), the board of supervisors has the authority to establish a drainage district or to locate and establish a levee. Upon establishment of a district, the drainage district is deemed to acquire a permanent easement for... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2418 . (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 731 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining.(See HF 2595.) | This bill states that it is the intention of the general assembly to enact legislation regulating mining in this state. | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2595. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3009 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to duties of certain political subdivisions, including duties of fence viewers, stewardship of certain cemeteries, and provision of fire protection and emergency medical services, and including transition and effective date provisions.(See SF 2431.) | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2431 (2/19/26) | Monitor | |
| SSB 3128 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to city utilities including tenant notification.(See SF 2438.) | Under current law, when a landlord has given written notice to the city utility or enterprise that a property is residential rental property and that the tenant is liable for the rates or charges for certain utilities, the property is exempt from a lien for... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2438 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3144 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to residential real estate, including access to records of unit owners associations and the disclosure of home inspection information.(See SF 2448.) | This bill relates to access to records of unit owners associations and the disclosure of home inspection information in residential real estate transactions. Code section 499C.2 (records and documents ?? access) requires a unit owners association, the association's designee, or the association's management company to make... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2448 (2/19/26) | Undecided |
| SSB 3148 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the national electrical code, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2433.) | This bill relates to the national electrical code. The bill adopts the international energy conservation code, 2009 edition, as the basis of the national electrical code applicable in this state. The bill requires the electrical examining board (board) to conduct an analysis of the change... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2433 (2/19/26) | |
| SSB 3152 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county zoning ordinances governing residential buildings.(See SF 2442.) | This bill relates to county zoning ordinances that govern residential buildings. Under current law, a county board of supervisors may by ordinance regulate and restrict the height, number of structures, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2442 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3175 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to local government, including the approval of action by ordinance and posting of public notices.(See SF 2434.) | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2434 (2/19/26) | ||
| SF 2091 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts.(See SF 2378.) | This bill repeals the ability of property owners to submit a written protest to challenge a proposed change in a zoning district. Under Code section 414.5, as a part of an ordinance changing land from one zoning district to another zoning district or an ordinance approving... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2378. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2352 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to eviction procedures, including tenants who pose a clear and present danger, maximum durations for forcible entry and detainer actions, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to eviction procedures involving tenants who pose a clear and present danger and establishes a maximum duration for certain residential forcible entry and detainer actions. Under current law, if a tenant creates or maintains a threat constituting a clear and present danger to... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2353 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to residential tenant responsibility for utility charges, providing civil penalties, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to the responsibility for payment of utility charges incurred by tenants of residential units and provides enforcement mechanisms and penalties. The bill prohibits a city or city utility from assessing, certifying, or collecting unpaid utility charges as a lien against real property when... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2354 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to assistance animals in residential rental housing, including damage reimbursement, refundable income tax credits, and a landlord insurance risk pool, and providing penalties and effective date provisions. | This bill relates to landlord reimbursement for damage to dwelling units caused by a tenant's assistance animal, emotional support animal, service animal, or therapy animal, including a refundable income tax credit and a landlord insurance risk pool. The bill provides that if a landlord suffers unreimbursed... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3173 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a statewide urban design and specifications board, including assessment of costs for local government projects that do not comply with the board's design or specifications manuals.(See SF 2394.) | This bill establishes the statewide urban design and specifications board (SUDAS board) within the department of transportation (DOT). The SUDAS board is required to develop statewide urban design standards and specifications (SUDAS), which may include soliciting recommendations from the institute for transportation at Iowa state... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2394. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2569 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to recovery of costs for the demolition of abandoned buildings by cities. | Under current law, a building is considered abandoned if it is vacant, or is occupied only by trespassers, and is in violation of the housing code or building code of the city or county in which the property is located. Under current law, a city may... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2309 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to city regulation of short-term rental properties. | This bill relates to city regulation of short-term rental properties. Under current law, a city shall not adopt or enforce any regulation, restriction, or other ordinance, including a conditional use permit requirement, relating to short-term rental properties within the city. A city also shall not... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Bousselot, Driscoll, and Weiner. (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3070 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units.(See SF 2369.) | Under current law, a county or city shall allow a minimum of one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the same lot as a single family residence in accordance with certain conditions. This bill specifies that a county or city shall allow a minimum of one ADU... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2369 (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2459 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to liability of persons performing housing or rental inspections for a municipality. | This bill modifies the definition of "employee" for purposes of Code chapter 670 (tort liability of governmental subdivisions) to include a person performing a housing or rental inspection for a municipality. Under Code chapter 670, a municipality is liable for the torts of the municipality's... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2551 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to rent increases under residential landlord and tenant rental agreements and in manufactured home communities and mobile home parks. | This bill limits the amount a landlord can increase rent on current tenants under residential landlord and tenant agreements and in manufactured home communities or mobile home parks. The bill provides that if a landlord applies a rent increase to the dwelling unit or mobile... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Commerce. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2208 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the prohibition of geoengineering activities, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3010.) | This bill relates to geoengineering by creating penalties and enforcement procedures for persons engaging in such practices. A person who engages in polluting atmospheric activity, cloud seeding, or weather engineering with the intent to manipulate or alter the weather commits a class "D" felony. A class... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (2/16/26) | |
| SF 2251 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authority of combined recreational lake and water quality districts when issuing bonds. | This bill relates to bonding and indebtedness authority of a combined recreational lake and water quality district (district) under Code chapter 357E. Under current law, such a district has the same powers to issue bonds that a city 357E.11A(3) requires any indebtedness of the district,... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2307 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing the criminal offense of felony rental vandalism, addressing state supplementary assistance, and providing penalties. | This bill establishes the criminal offense of felony rental vandalism and addresses eligibility for state supplementary assistance. The bill provides that a tenant or occupant of a dwelling unit, as defined in Code section 562A.6, who commits criminal mischief, as described in Code section 716.1, that... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2333 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county requirements for land surveyors. | Code chapter 542B regulates the licensure of land surveyors by the engineering and land surveying examining board. This bill prohibits a county from imposing on a land surveyor to survey land in the county any requirements in addition to those required for licensure, including any bonds,... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Guth, Drey, and Green. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3098 - Dead | A bill for an act related to boundary adjustments between cities by petition of property owners. | This bill relates to boundary adjustments between cities by petition of property owners. Under current law, a real property owner within the boundaries of a city may file a petition for severance with the city council if the property would then be eligible for annexation by... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2422 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to creation of transfer on death deeds and to disclaimers of an interest in real property. | This bill provides that an individual may execute a transfer on death deed which transfers real property outside of probate death. essential elements and formalities of a properly recordable inter vivos deed, state that the transfer to the designated beneficiary is to occur at the transferor's... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/12/26) | Undecided |
| HSB 724 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to notarial acts, recording of instruments affecting real property, quiet title proceedings, and providing penalties. | This bill relates to notarial acts, recording of instruments affecting real property, quiet title proceedings, and theft. The bill creates a new criminal offense for a notarial officer who performs a notarial act without requiring the personal appearance of the individual, or requiring the use of... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 730 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to rehabilitation projects and tax incentives under the workforce housing tax incentives program. | This bill relates to rehabilitation projects and tax incentives issued under the workforce housing tax incentives program. The bill defines a "rehabilitation project" as a proposed housing project eligible to receive workforce housing tax incentives that includes at least four or more single-family dwelling units, except... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Latham, Wilson and Wood. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2032 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to tax and special assessment collections for buildings or improvements erected on land owned by another person.(See SF 2334.) | When property adjacent to a public improvement benefits from the improvement, a special assessment may be levied against the adjacent properties that received the benefit to pay for all or a portion of the improvement. Under current law, principal and interest due and delinquent because... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2334. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2100 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county zoning of industrial and commercial businesses. | This bill prohibits a county from preventing an industrial or commercial business that operates or seeks to operate the business on and out of property in the county but outside the corporate limits of any city from storing items directly related to the business, regardless... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/12/26) | Undecided |
| SF 2242 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to radon testing and mitigation for the conveyance of single-family residences, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to radon testing and mitigation for the conveyance of single-family residences. The bill defines "single-family residence" as existing and newly built residential dwellings designed for occupancy by one household and located on property zoned for single-family residential use. The definition includes detached dwellings... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Blake, and Schultz. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2334 | A bill for an act relating to tax and special assessment collections for buildings or improvements erected on land owned by another person.(Formerly SF 2032.) | When property adjacent to a public improvement benefits from the improvement, a special assessment may be levied against the adjacent properties that received the benefit to pay for all or a portion of the improvement. Under current law, principal and interest due and delinquent because... Full Bill Text |
Committee report, approving bill. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2367 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to unit owners associations and native vegetation. | vegetation restrictions. The bill limits the authority of a unit owners association to restrict native vegetation on unit owners' lawns, as long as the native vegetation is properly maintained. The unit owner's lawn must be kept generally free of weeds, invasive species, and trash, and the... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2386 - Dead | A bill for an act related to city regulation of single-family residential property. | This bill allows a city to require the first purchaser of a single-family residential home in a new housing development to physically occupy the single-family residential home for one year after the purchase of the home. The city may charge the owner of a single-family... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2225 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to property law, including rental properties, manufactured home communities, mobile home parks, and actions relating to such properties, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | This bill relates to property law. GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION OF TENANCY. The bill prohibits a landlord from terminating a tenancy unless the tenant acts in material noncompliance with the rental agreement, commits a material violation of the manufactured home community or mobile home park rules or... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Webster, Dickey, and Weiner. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2317 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to real property, including the removal of unauthorized persons and trespass, and providing penalties. | This bill relates to real property owners' rights against unauthorized occupants and modifies the definition of trespass. The bill allows a real property owner to submit to law enforcement a complaint to remove unauthorized persons occupying the owner's real property if all of the following conditions... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/6/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2320 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to short-term rental property classification by cities. | Under current law, cities are prohibited from regulating short-term rental properties. In addition, cities are permitted to impose a hotel and motel tax upon the sales price from the renting of lodging. This bill allows a city to consider a short-term rental property as lodging for... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (2/6/26) | |
| HSB 588 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to agriculture, including by providing for the powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, including the promotion and regulation of commodities and products; the regulation of the transportation of agricultural commodities; the use of agricultural land; and taxation, including property taxes, excise and sales taxes, and income taxes; making penalties applicable; and including effective date and applicability provisions.(See HF 2340.) | GENERAL. This bill amends a number of Code chapters relating to agriculture, including providing for the powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship (DALS). The bill provides for the promotion and regulation of commodities and regulation by DALS, including fees, and... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2340 (2/6/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2107 - Dead | A bill for an act permitting a city to create entertainment districts allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places. | This bill permits a city to create entertainment districts (district) allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places. A city may define by ordinance a licensed premises which may be used by holders of class "C" or special class "C" retail... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/5/26) | Monitor |
| SF 578 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to record access by members of certain special districts and associations providing utility service.(Formerly SF 169.) | This bill provides that if a rural water district, rural water association, nonprofit cooperative association, or cooperative association provides utility service to members, the most recent biennial report and financial information, including the budget and balance sheet, for the rural water district, rural water association,... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/4/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3010 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the prohibition of geoengineering activities, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2208.) | This bill relates to geoengineering by creating penalties and enforcement procedures for persons engaging in such practices. A person who engages in polluting atmospheric activity, cloud seeding, or weather engineering with the intent to manipulate or alter the weather commits a class "D" felony. A class... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2208 (2/4/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3019 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to real estate transfer tax, including declarations of value.(See SF 2191.) | This bill relates to real estate transfer tax, including declarations of value. A real estate transfer tax is imposed on deeds, instruments, or writings when land, tenements, or other real property are granted, assigned, transferred, or otherwise conveyed, except in certain circumstances specified in Code section... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2191 (2/3/26) | Support |
| SSB 3020 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authority of an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care.(See SF 2198.) | This bill relates to the authority of an attorney in fact (attorney) under a durable power of attorney for health care (durable power of attorney). Current law provides that an attorney under a durable power of attorney has the duty to act in accordance with the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2198 (2/3/26) | Support |
| HF 2224 | A bill for an act relating to property assessment standards and litigation. | This bill relates to property assessment standards and litigation. The international association of assessing officers (IAAO) is a nonprofit professional membership organization of government assessment officials and others interested in the administration of the property tax. The IAAO regularly publishes standards related to property assessments with... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Ways and Means. (1/30/26) | |
| HSB 526 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to land restoration following the initial construction of electric transmission lines.(See HF 2227.) | This bill relates to land restoration following the initial construction of electric transmission lines. The bill directs the commission to adopt rules to implement the land restoration requirements after initial construction of an electric transmission line as set forth in the bill. The bill requires electric transmission... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2227 (1/30/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 618 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units.(See HF 2252.) | Under current law, a county or city shall allow a minimum of one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the same lot as a single family residence in accordance with certain conditions. This bill specifies that a county or city shall allow a minimum of one ADU... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2252 (1/30/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2207 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the purchase of single-family residences by certain business entities. | This bill relates to the purchase of single-family homes by certain business entities. The bill defines "private equity entity" and "single-family residence". The bill prohibits a private equity entity from purchasing, contracting to purchase, or otherwise acquiring a single-family residence during the first 75 days that... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2208 | A bill for an act related to the meaning of residential property for purposes of property taxation. | This bill prohibits single-family homes that are owned by a titleholder of more than 10 single-family homes from being classified as residential property for purposes of property taxation. Instead, a single-family home that is owned by a titleholder who owns more than 10 single-family homes... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Ways and Means. (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 563 | A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, budgets, and authority, by modifying provisions relating to the assessment and taxation of property, funding from the secure an advanced vision for education fund, the election of certain county officers, urban renewal areas and urban revitalization areas, establishing a rent reimbursement program, establishing a program for certain first-time homebuyers, establishing a local government shared-services grant fund, making appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. | Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/29/26) | Monitor | |
| SF 2067 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to easements for hazardous liquid pipelines, including negotiation requirements, eminent domain authorization, and contract execution, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. | This bill relates to easements for hazardous liquid pipelines, including negotiation requirements, eminent domain authorization, and contract execution. The bill states as the goal of the general assembly that the right of eminent domain will not be granted for a hazardous liquid pipeline except when every... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 569 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to real estate transfer tax, including declarations of value.(See HF 2188.) | This bill relates to real estate transfer tax, including declarations of value. A real estate transfer tax is imposed on deeds, instruments, or writings when land, tenements, or other real property are granted, assigned, transferred, or otherwise conveyed, except in certain circumstances specified in Code section... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2188. (1/28/26) | Support |
| HF 2169 - Dead | A bill for an act requiring the Iowa finance authority to conduct a review of the firsthome program's household income limit. | This bill requires the Iowa finance authority (authority) to conduct a review of the firsthome program to analyze whether the household income limit to determine eligibility for the program provides adequate assistance to individuals in the state to purchase their first home, and an adequate... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Economic Growth and Technology. (1/27/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2109 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a review of fire safety code requirements and enforcement mechanisms for basement egress windows. | This bill requires the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (department) to conduct a study regarding compliance with and sufficiency of fire safety code requirements for basement egress windows in this state. The study must include a review of enforcement mechanisms available to property owners... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Schultz, and Townsend. (1/27/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2134 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to rental agreements and early termination rights of tenants who are victims of certain crimes.(Formerly HSB 141.) | This bill allows a victim of certain crimes to terminate a rental agreement early. The bill allows a tenant to terminate a rental agreement without penalty or liability if the tenant provides written notification to the landlord that a tenant or household member is a... Full Bill Text |
Rereferred to Calendar (1/26/26) | Undecided |
| SF 567 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to property law by modifying provisions related to forcible entry and detainer actions and to landlord and tenant law.(Formerly SSB 1204.) | This bill relates to property law and modifies provisions related to forcible entry and detainer actions and landlord and tenant law. The bill permits tenants and landlords to consent to notice by electronic mail by executing a separate addendum to rental agreements under Code chapters 562A... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Webster, Driscoll, and Petersen. (1/22/26) | Undecided |
| HSB 141 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to rental agreements and early termination rights of tenants who are victims of certain crimes.(See HF 2134.) | This bill allows a victim of certain crimes to terminate a rental agreement early. The bill allows a tenant to terminate a rental agreement without penalty or liability if the tenant provides written notification to the landlord that a tenant or household member is a... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2134. (1/21/26) | Undecided |
| SF 609 | A bill for an act authorizing the abatement of property taxes owed on property owned by the surviving spouse of an emergency services member killed in the line of duty, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 21.) | This bill authorizes the abatement of property taxes and special assessments owed on property owned by the surviving spouse of an emergency services member killed in the line of duty. The bill defines "emergency services member" or "member" to mean a fire fighter, a peace officer... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (1/20/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 507 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the exercise of eminent domain for carbon oxide pipelines, and including applicability and effective date provisions.(See HF 2104.) | This bill prohibits exercising the power of eminent domain for acquiring right-of-way for, constructing, or operating a pipeline that has the primary purpose of transporting carbon oxide. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to all condemnation proceedings instituted on or after that date. Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2104 (1/15/26) | Monitor |
| HJR 2003 - Dead | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa providing the right to donate private property to public entities or nonprofit corporations. | This joint resolution proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa that provides the right of the people to donate, convey, devise, or otherwise transfer their private property to any public entity or nonprofit organization. The resolution, if adopted, would be published and... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (1/14/26) | Monitor |