LIVE Bills – Bills we are tracking for you that survived the first funnel and can continue to be worked on this session.
Exempts from the individual income tax wages received for providing certain child care services.
Makes changes to sales and use tax refunds.
Expands eligibility for child care/dependent tax credit by doubling income eligibility (from taxpayers earning less than $45,000 to those earning less than $90,000).
Makes changes to the definition of "school-age children" and revises requirements for child care homes.
Requires DHS to set the child care provider reimbursement rates for providers that are below the 50th percentile in market survey to be completed July 1, 2021.
Creates a child care workforce state matching grants program.
Establishes a graduated eligibility phase-out program for state child care assistance.
Authorizes and regulates the operation of personal delivery devices.
Includes the acquisition and improvement of real estate for, and the construction of a child care facilities in the definition of essential corporate purpose.
Creates the new resident and new graduate tax credits.
Places requirements on lobbying activities of political subdivisions.
Creates the manufacturer actives tax credit.
Provides businesses with tax credits for providing child care benefits for employees.
Makes changes to agricultural property taxes based on adjustments to drainage and levee district taxes.
Strikes provisions which state that urban renewal bonds are not indebtedness of the state.
Eliminates property tax classification for multi-residential property by 2022.
Modifies property law provisions relating to rental properties, manufactured home communities, and mobile home parks.
Excludes 50 percent of the net capital gain from net income computation for state individual income tax if the asset was held for more than two years.
Strikes the requirement that the owner of part of a property refile for tax credits if the ownership of the rest of the property changes.
Repeals the state inheritance tax and qualified use inheritance tax.
Changes reporting date for cities that receive road use tax fund moneys.
Prohibits tenure systems at Regents' universities.
Creates a senior housing tax credit program.
Prohibits counties and cities from regulating the sale of natural gas and propane.
Makes changes to EDA apprenticeship sponsor requirements.
Creates a housing tax credit program, modifies distribution of real estate transfer taxes, modifies workforce housing tax incentives, creates a disaster housing recovery assistance program, and modifies redevelopment tax credits.
Establishes a broadband forward certification program and a telecommuter forward certification program.
Permits new or expansion of existent onsite day care facilities to qualify under the high quality jobs program.
Excludes from corporate income tax certain income of a public utility regulated by the utilities board.
Provides an income tax exemption for certain wages paid while on parental leave.
Adds additional exemption to a revitalization area.
Allows the use of 28F joint financing for communication works and facilities.
Makes provisions related to taxation of compensation paid to CEOs of publicly traded corporations.
Gives developers tax credits for constructing child care facilities around the state (including rehab/repair).
Allows for the transfer of funds from the teach Iowa scholar program from the teach shortage loan forgiveness and forgivable loan programs.
Creates a vacant school building demolition grant program.
Authorizes the reduction of damages payable to an unresponsive property owner in condemnation proceedings.
Directs EDA to begin accepting rural development tax credit program applications beginning January 3, 2022.
Establishes the Iowa Private Flood Insurance Act.
Changes effective date for a new deduction for employee income resulting from the payment by and employer of principal or interest on the employee's qualified education loan.
Makes provisions related to tax increment financing.
Excludes certain COVID-19 related grants from individual and corporate income taxes and allows certain deductions related to the paycheck protection program loan forgiveness.
Makes changes to powers of port authorities.
Establishes timelines for marking utility lines after requests from excavators.
Provides for the creation of an internet exchange point utilizing the ICN.
Makes provisions related to Manufacturing 4.0, tourism funding, and other IEDA programs.
Creates land banks.
This bill provides a sales tax exemption for a nonprofit whose primary activity is construction of low-cost homes by incarcerated individuals.
Repeals individual income tax and increases the state sales and use tax.
Proposes new education initiatives and changes to existing law.
This bill phases out the state inheritance tax by July 1, 2030.
Would require schools to offer full-time in person learning options for students during the pandemic. Allows parents/guardians to notify the school district specifying preferred instruction delivery method for students.
Makes changes to protests of commercial and industrial property assessments filed with a local board of review.
Amends current laws related to public construction and improvement contracts.
Prohibits cities/counties from adopting ordinances that prohibit landlords from refusing to accept federal housing vouchers.
Establishes a school allowable growth of 2.5 percent for the budget year beginning July 1, 2021.
This bill limits the amount of research activities tax credits that may be refunded each year.
Prohibits employers from knowingly employing unauthorized aliens.
Changes notification requirements for private sector employee drug testing.
Fully conforms Iowa tax law to federal law regarding money received from the federal paycheck protection program for all taxpayers.
Makes several provisions related to state taxation.
Creates a homeownership development tax credit.
Makes provisions related to broadband service availability and administration of the empower rural Iowa broadband grant fund.
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.
Includes the purchase and construction of land and structures to protect from flooding as an essential county purpose.
Expands eligibility for funding assistance to address abandoned buildings.
Makes provisions related to regulation of continuing nonconforming uses of manufactured, modular, and mobile homes and site-built dwelling units.
Creates a new resident tax credit.
Creates a new remote worker grant fund.
Requires contractors on public improvement projects to file reports with labor commissioner 0prior to performing work.
Prohibits an employer from requiring a low-wage employee to enter into a noncompete agreement.
Prohibits the use of automated and remote traffic enforcement systems.
Modifies regulations and requirements relating to advertising devices along highways.
Makes provisions related to renewable fuel.
Allows counties to follow the same process for acquisition of title to abandoned property in unincorporated as in the city.
Makes several provisions related to vaccinations and immunizations.
Proposes a state constitutional amendment to restrict certain individual income tax changes.
Provides for the apportionment of airline and air freight forwarder business income.
Makes provisions regarding state taxation.
Makes changes to unemployment benefits.
Modifies investment tax credits and innovation fund tax credits.
Makes provisions related to the high quality jobs program, manufacturing 4.0 technology investment program, and Iowa energy center.
The governor's budget for economic development authority, department of cultural affairs, Iowa finance authority, public employment relations board, and department of workforce development for for FY2021-2022 and FY2022-2023.
The governor's budget on transportation and other infrastructure appropriations for FY2021-2022 and FY2022-2023.
Excludes certain COVID-19 related grants from individual and corporate income taxes.
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DEAD Bills – Bills we are tracking for you that died in the first funnel. Since this is the first year of two-year General Assembly, these bills all come back to life next January. These bills can also be turned into amendments that get added to other bills, so don’t let up on your advocacy efforts!
