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89th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Tuesday, November 10, 2026

HSB 717: HSB 717

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 it does

12 governing fruit-tree reservation and forest reservation property tax exemptions, when a property is part of such a reservation and the property is sold or transferred, the seller is required to notify the buyer that the property is in a fruit-tree or forest reservation and subject to the recapture tax provisions of that Code section. The recapture tax is entered against the property if the property is not maintained or is used for economic gain other than as a fruit-tree reservation during any year of the eight-year exemption period and any year of the following five years or as a forest reservation during any year for which the exemption is granted and any of the five years following those exemption years.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named February 15, 2022

  • Rep. Jane Bloomingdale (R) · jane.bloomingdale@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. David E. Maxwell (R)
  • Rep. Art Staed (D) · art.staed@legis.iowa.gov

In plain words

  1. February 15, 2022Filed in the House and sent to the Ways and Means committee
  2. February 15, 2022House subcommittee named: Bloomingdale, Maxwell and Staed
  3. March 14, 2022Subcommittee recommended passing it

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Tuesday, November 10, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/HSB717