Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking
Changes notification requirements for private sector employee drug testing.
Broadband & Technology
Allows the use of 28F joint financing for communication works and facilities.
Permits joint financing for telecommunications facilities.
Prohibits the state or political subdivisions from entering into contracts with, or providing tax incentives or other benefits to, certain companies that censor online content.
Requires an agency in control of a road to give non-discriminatory access to an agency-owned conduit to utilities for broadband deployment.
Strikes the cap that purchases by the ITTC for the ICN cannot exceed without approval.
Allows a public utility to apply for Empower Rural Iowa grants with communications service providers supporting their broadband project costs.
Childcare
Creates a child care workforce state matching grants program.
Provides businesses with tax credits for providing child care benefits for employees.
Requires state childcare assistance payments be made to providers for the time the child is scheduled to be in attendance, regardless of whether the child is in attendance.
Allows a childcare provider to collect the difference between the amount of state assistance and the amount the provider normally charges from a family in the childcare assistance program.
Changes child care center staff ratios.
Allows individuals 16 and older working or volunteering at a childcare facility to be unsupervised.
Increases the cap for family incomes for eligibility for the state childcare assistance program.
Civil Rights
Prohibits gender identify instruction for grades 1-6.
Prohibits someone of a different biological sex from using a school bathroom designated for the other biological sex.
Energy & Utility
Prohibits local governments from requiring a public utility to place facilities within an agency-owned conduit as a condition of accessing a public road.
Requires a pipeline company seeking to use eminent domain to acquire approval from 90% of affected landowners prior to beginning construction.
Deems that refurnishing, maintaining or repowering a wind energy project will not cause the property to receive a new special valuation schedule.
Makes provisions related to regulation of gas and electric utilities.
Makes provisions related to special valuation of wind energy conversion property.
Environment & Natural Resources
Moves the repeal of the Iowa Energy Center to 2030.
Creates a restore the outdoors program.
Eliminates requirements for a person seeking a general permit to publish notice and requires the DNR to publish electronic notice.
Places spending restrictions on county conservation boards and DNR when purchasing certain properties.
Housing
Makes provisions related to regulation of continuing nonconforming uses of manufactured, modular, and mobile homes and site-built dwelling units.
Requires the IFA to establish a Neighborhood Housing Revitalization Program with forgivable loans and other programs to assist lending programs in both urban and rural areas.
Requires agencies and local governments to submit an estimated cost to the State Building Commissioner of new or changed rules on residential housing.
Establishes a home loan program fund and a housing renewal program.
Local Government
Limits local government regulation of home-based businesses.
Requires eminent domain and urban renewal plan notices for the condemnation of all real property match the requirements for the notice to condemn agricultural land.
Allows cities to establish entertainment zones and to charge entertainment surcharges in those zones.
Defines protecting information from cyber-attacks as an essential county/corporate purpose.
Prohibits local governments from adopting stormwater ordinances that exceed the requirements of state or federal law.
Allows county zoning commission members to live within the limits of a city in the county if the county is under population of 20,000.
Prohibits local governments from adopting building codes or other ordinances or rules that regulate the use of building materials that are approved in national codes, that are more stringent than national codes, or that diminish the rights of private property owners.
Changes requirements for zoning commission and board of adjustment members.
Requires a groundwater hazard statement be included with a property declaration only when hazardous conditions exist.
Makes provisions related to various matters under the purview of the state.
Other
Adds additional exemption to a revitalization area.
Places requirements for local government lobbying and contracts.
Prohibits any group that receives tax funds from providing training that teaches, advocates, encourages, promotes, or act upon stereotyping, scapegoating, or prejudice toward others on the basis of demographic membership or identity.
Prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to enter into a non-compete contract, unless financial loss or trade secrets are at risk.
Allows any affected party to challenge the accuracy of a recorded plat of survey.
Moves the repeal of the Iowa Energy Center; changes requirements for the High Quality Jobs Program; and allows the EDA to extend the deadline for the workforce housing program.
Moves the date to not allowing public funds to be spent on lodging if the lodging provider has not certified compliance with human trafficking training to June 30, 2022.
Makes provisions for construction bidding procedures for public improvements.
Allows a governmental body to conduct a meeting electronically even when it is possible or practical to conduct the meeting in person.
Amends current laws related to public construction and improvement contracts to allow the use of Construction Manager at Risk.
Expands eligibility for funding assistance to address abandoned buildings.
Makes provisions related to several child and dependent adult programs.
Makes provisions related to the powers and duties of port authorities.
Property Tax
Strikes changes to the commercial and industrial property tax replacement payments made in the 2021 session to reduce or eliminate the payments.
Public Health
Prohibits employers from requiring employees or applicants from having to receive a vaccine that has not been approved by the FDA.
Prohibits the Labor Commissioner from enforcing federal OSHA standards related to COVID vaccination and testing.
Tax
Excludes from corporate income tax certain income of a public utility regulated by the utilities board.
Excludes all retirement income from individual income tax.
Establishes alternative base income taxes for individuals and corporations.
The House's tax reform bill.
Provides a sales tax exemption for digital products, prewritten computer software, and related services sold to public utilities.
The Senate's tax reform bill.
Governor's Tax Plan.
Makes changes to sales, use, and motor vehicle fuel taxes.
Tax Increment Finance
Prohibits a TIF division of school property taxes in an urban renewal area if the area contains a wind energy conversion project subject to special valuation that has been approved by local government.
Transportation
Makes changes to rules related to airport registration or renewal and airport site approval.
Unemployment
Makes changes to employment security benefits.
Workforce
Creates a Growing Our Workforce Tax Credit.
Establishes an advanced opportunities programs and scholarship.
Prohibits employers from knowingly employing unauthorized aliens.
Prohibits an employer from requiring a low-wage employee to enter into a noncompete agreement.
Allows part-time students to participate in the future ready Iowa skilled workforce last-dollar scholarship fund.
Makes changes to unemployment benefits.
Makes provisions related to various matters under the purview of the state.
