Bills › 88th General Assembly
To exclude equine boarding from the annual lease termination requirements for farm tenancies
Topics:Agriculture
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 16, 2019
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill excludes equine boarding from the definition of farm tenancy under Iowa’s real estate tenant-lessee law (Code chapter 562). Exclusion from the definition of farm tenancy results in a tenancy at will under which the tenancy can be terminated after a 30-day notice by either party to the lease agreement (Code section 562.4). Generally, all farm tenancies terminate on March 1, at the end of the farm tenant’s crop year. However, in order to effectuate the termination one party to the lease must have given the other party written notice of termination by the previous September 1 (Code sections 562.5 through 562.7). Without such timely written notice of the termination, the lease continues under its same terms and conditions until the next September 1.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 16, 2019. On January 24, 2019 it recommended passage.
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