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88th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Wednesday, November 11, 2026

HF 2190: Relating to nonresident deer hunting on land owned or formerly owned by nonresidents and making penalties applicable

Died when the session ended · The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to nonresident deer hunting on land owned or formerly owned by a nonresident. The bill creates a definition for “nonresident landowner”, which is a nonresident who owns acres of land in this state with a low suitability for commodity agriculture production, as determined by the department of natural resources, has owned that land for at least five years, has not used an exemption from property taxes for forest and fruit tree reservations for any property the nonresident owns, and has not enrolled the land in the federal conservation reserve program.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 1 for, 4 against

For: Jim Jensen

Against: Iowa Bowhunters Association; Iowa Conservation Alliance; Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; Pheasants Forever, Inc. & Quail Forever

In plain words

  1. January 30, 2020Filed in the House and sent to the Natural Resources committee

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Wednesday, November 11, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/88/HF2190