Display
Language
About accessibility
Language
Display
Sign in

Bills › 89th General Assembly

HF 35Died when the session ended · January 12, 2021

Providing for an Iowa individual income tax checkoff for qualified Iowa zoos, making an appropriation, and providing for the Act’s implementation

Topics:TaxesIncome taxes

Write your legislators about it
Official bill pageLobbyist declarationsOne-pager to print

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 12, 2021
  2. Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
  3. Next: House committee
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary People filing income tax returns in Iowa can choose to give $1 or more to a new state zoo fund. This money will be used to give grants to accredited zoos located within the state. The fund will be managed by the department of cultural affairs.1

Read the official explanation

This bill provides that taxpayers filing individual income tax returns will be allowed to designate $1 or more on the return to be paid to the Iowa zoo fund. The bill creates the Iowa zoo fund in the state treasury under the control of the department of cultural affairs. department of revenue to annually remit moneys collected from the checkoff to the fund. Moneys in the fund shall be used to provide grants to qualified zoos that submit an application for funding. To be qualified, a zoo must be located in the state, not used primarily for research activities, and accredited by the association of zoos and aquariums. 12E, which allows no more than four checkoffs on the individual tax return form and provides for the automatic repeal of the two checkoffs receiving the least in contributions over a two-year period.12E.

Full bill text2

Iowa Code it changes

Creates§303.91§422.12M

How the Code works3

Lobbying

0 for · 0 against · 1 undecided · Who →

Family tree

Tried before

HF 20Cleared committee88th GA

89th General Assembly

HF 35Cleared committee

Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.

Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

  • HF 20 Providing for an Iowa individual income tax checkoff for qualified Iowa zoos, making an ap…
    88th General Assembly · In committee · nearly identical
    Cleared committee

Matched by wording or an identical title.