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HF 59Died when the session ended · January 14, 2021

Prohibiting cities and counties from banning specific dog breeds

Topics:Cities & counties

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 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 Local governments in Iowa cannot pass laws that ban people from owning specific breeds of dogs. This rule applies to any ban based on a dog's looks, behavior, or genetics. Any existing local laws that ban certain breeds will no longer be allowed or enforced.1

Read the official explanation

This bill prohibits cities and counties from adopting or H.F. enforcing an ordinance, motion, resolution, or amendment that bans a person from owning a specific breed of dog, including through an ordinance, motion, resolution, or amendment based on physical, behavioral, or genetic features that in effect would ban a person from owning a specific breed of dog. The bill defines “dog” to mean a domestic dog or the offspring of a domestic dog and a wolf, or the offspring from each subsequent generation in which at least one parent is a domestic dog. An ordinance, motion, resolution, or amendment adopted prior to the effective date of the bill that violates the prohibition is void and unenforceable on and after the effective date of the bill.

Full bill text2

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§331.301§364.3

How the Code works3

Lobbying

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