Bill Tracker
No longer taxes aboveground flammable/combustible liquid storage tanks as real property if they would ordinarily be removed when the property owner moves.
Requires an assessor to comply with any policies on employees or expenditures put into place by the city or county.
Allows a board of supervisors to vote to establish or dissolve a county compensation board.
Eliminates requirements for counties to consider buying or leasing vacant school buildings before building or leasing a new facility.
Makes updates to landlord-tenant laws.
Enhances the homestead credit for low-income individuals age 65 and older.
Expands the list of persons authorized to withdraw a blood specimen from a person suspected of operating while intoxicated.
Requires bail bond companies to be licensed when acting as bail enforcement agencies.
Makes changes to judicial branch administration.
Allows public funds to be used by an ecclesiastical or sectarian entity if it benefits the public.
Requires maternity group homes to be considered as a residential use for zoning purposes.
Makes changes to public utility services, including energy production, alternate energy, public utility affiliates, and cable and video service.
Appropriates $300,000 for radon awareness, education, and outreach.
Appropriates funding to implement an plan to reduce the obesity rate.
Increases penalties for an assault against people in certain occupations.
Prohibits a city or county from providing a guaranteed income program unless authorized by state law.
Allows for warrantless inspections of retail premises selling tobacco products.
Appropriates $10 million for refugee support services.
Prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing certain ordinances or building codes related to residential building exteriors.
Allows an ambulance service to transport a person experiencing a mental health crisis to a mental health access center.
Requires HHS to issue an RFP to provide access to PMIC services for children with specialized needs.
Makes changes to HHS processes concerning adoption information sharing, dependent adult abuse, juvenile court records, and mandatory reporter training.
Establishes regulations for firearm hold agreements.
Creates the Opioid Settlement Future Fund and an Opioid Epidemic Response Advisory Council.
Allows cities to impose a tax to support a public library.
Prohibits a court from deferring a judgment or sentence of a public employee or public official defendant under certain circumstances.
Streamlines election procedures, including adjusting voter registration deadlines, mandating comprehensive training for election personnel, introducing provisions for recounts, and updating rules on various aspects of elections to ensure consistency and accuracy.
Allows a trained physician and surgeon to staff an ambulance.
Increases penalties for violations of open meetings laws.
Directs HHS to submit a Medicaid waiver request to provide coverage for certain inmates due to be released.
Requires certain school districts to employ security personnel and authorizes school employees to be issued weapons permits.
Creates a Work Without Worry Program that allows individuals with disabilities to buy-into the Medicaid program for insurance and creating a "Right to Repair" by eliminating the Medicaid requirement to get a prescription prior to being able to repair complex technology equipment.
Modifies income thresholds for mobile and manufactured home property tax.
Makes changes to the duties of the Iowa Secretary of State in regards to the address confidentiality program and the conduct of elections.
Charges Iowa Department of Education (DE) to oversee AEA operations and changes how AEAs are funded and operate.
Appropriates funds to county sheriffs without digital radios that are compatible with the statewide interoperable communications system for the purchase of radios.
Removes the annual cap on the amount of Real Estate Transfer Tax funds that can be transferred to the Housing Trust Fund.
Changes property tax assessment limitations for commercial child care facilities.
Makes changes to reimbursement rates for the child care assistance program.
Makes provisions related to public safety retirement benefits and tax credits, and bail for certain individuals.
Allows counties to allow/disallow forest and fruit tree reservation tax exemptions.
Establishes the behavioral health service system.
Allows the initial registration of a vehicle in any county.
Exempts from state income taxes CPA income earned from auditing or examining a local government agency or program.
Makes changes to organization, structure, and functions of state and local governments.
Increases the amount of money a person can earn in the Medicaid for Employed Persons with Disabilities (MEPD) program and the resource limits for a married couple.
Appropriates $213.6 million from gambling revenues (Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund, or RIIF) to various infrastructure projects in fiscal year 2025 (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025).
Proposes a constitutional amendment to set a flat rate for individual income taxes and to require two-thirds approval of both legislative chambers for increasing tax rates.
Appropriates funds from the opioid settlement fund for opioid prevention, treatment, recovery, and infrastructure activities.
Reduces tax rates for casinos and racetracks.
Includes heated tobacco products in definition of "cigarettes" for tax purposes.
Makes changes to the maximum tax levy for county hospitals.
Requires Medicaid MCOs to pay providers 100 percent of items or services for which prior authorization was obtained.
Prohibits Medicaid from requiring a prescription or a face-to-face visit for reimbursement of complex rehabilitation technology repairs under certain circumstances.
Makes several changes to combat human trafficking, including an annual stakeholder meeting to develop legislative proposals, increase in the statute of limitations for human trafficking of a minor, and allowing video depositions for human trafficking victims of any age.
Allows cities to establish land redevelopment trusts. Summary available HERE
Requires the board of review to be in session between May 1 and May 7.
Prohibits cities/counties from administering storm water regulation that exceeds or conflicts with federal/state regulations.
Makes changes related to the certificate of need process for health facilities.
Prohibits public funds from entering into contracts with certain companies engaged in nonpecuniary social investment or a boycott of certain companies.
Requires each area agency on aging to hire a dementia service specialist and requires the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to hire a dementia state coordinator. Appropriates $750,000 to pay for this.
Increases the amount that can be considered for the elderly and disabled property tax credit or rental reimbursement.
Prohibits certain structures from being taxed as real property.
Prohibits government entities from treating religious conduct more restrictively than secular conduct.
Repeals gender balance requirements for appointed local and state government boards, councils, commissions.
Increases the amount that may be set aside without court approval for medical income assistance trust fees from $10/month to $50/month.
Gives DAS the option of issuing an RFP when replacing, renovating, or relocating office space in Des Moines.
Expands Medicaid coverage for pregnant women and infants while adjusting the income eligibility levels.
Allows a housing provider to prohibit assistance or service animals under certain circumstances.
Makes changes to certain HHS reporting requirements.
Prohibits entry or reentry into the state by previously deported foreign individuals.
Makes numerous changes to state boards, commissions, committees, councils, and other state government entities.
Allocates funds from the opioid settlement fund.
The Governor's tax bill.
Makes numerous changes to state government budgets and financial control, and information technology.
Creates a jobs and infrastructure revolving fund.
Appropriates funding for fiscal year 2025 (July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025) to the Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship (IDALS) and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Total general fund increase of $1,029,518 (3.3%) and total increase in funding from the fish & game fund of $1,354,756 (2.8%).
Provides property tax abatement for certain volunteer emergency services providers.
Authorizes local emergency management agencies to levy for the agency and strikes the county authority.
Appropriates funding for economic and workforce development programs and activities for fiscal year 2025 (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025).
Appropriates funding for fiscal year 2025 (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025) for various state agencies.
Appropriates $688.5 million for the Attorney General, Iowa Law Enforcement Academy and Departments of Corrections, Public Safety, Homeland Security and Emergency Management and Inspections, Appeals and Licensing ($19.2 million increase, or 2.9%).
Appropriates $216.2 million to the judicial branch (courts), an increase of $3.7 million.
Appropriates $2.2 billion for health and human services programs (including Medicaid) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024 (FY 2025). This is an increase of $63.1 million.
Appropriates $223.2 million in gambling revenues from the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund (RIIF) for various infrastructure projects in fiscal year 2025 (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025).
Requires larger counties to use plan "three" for county supervisor elections and outlines how to fill a county supervisor vacancy.
Proposes a state constitutional amendment to require a single individual income tax rate.
Recognizes the term "brain health" in order to combat stigma around mental health and encouraging early treatment and preventative measures for brain-related issues in Iowa.
Eliminates individual income tax.
Increases the maximum disregard of assets for a couple in the Medicaid Employed Persons with Disabilities (MEPD) program.