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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 2582: Creating a state sales tax rebate to the owner or operator of a newly constructed baseball and softball park project

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on May 24, 2022. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill creates a state sales tax rebate to the owner or operator of a newly constructed baseball and softball park and makes the rebate subject to an award by the enhance Iowa board (board). 2016 Iowa Acts, chapter 1117, modified the sales tax rebate program by eliminating the rebate for movie sites and modified the rebate program for baseball and softball facilities, and applied the rebate program to baseball and softball complexes completed after July 1, 2016, and that had a cost of construction upon completion that was at least $10 million.

Sponsors

Ways and Means committee

Cost

See the fiscal note

0 million. The actual timing and specific rebate amounts by fiscal year are currently unknown. Based on the assumptions noted above, the following table provides an estimate through FY 2028 of the annual diversion and rebate of State General Fund revenues that…

Senate subcommittee · named April 7, 2022

  • Sen. Tim Goodwin (R)
  • Sen. Pam Jochum (D)
  • Sen. R. Smith

In plain words

  1. March 30, 2022Filed in the House
  2. April 1, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  3. April 5, 2022Passed the House, 64–33
  4. April 6, 2022Arrived in the Senate
  5. April 6, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  6. April 7, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Goodwin, Jochum and R. Smith
  7. April 26, 2022Subcommittee recommended passing it with changes

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/HF2582