Relating to the regulation of certain short-term rental properties by counties and cities

Topics:Housing & property Cities & counties

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedJanuary 26, 2022
Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 27, 2022
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 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 are currently limited in how they can make rules for short-term rentals. This new law would allow cities and counties to create and enforce special rules for rental properties located within one mile of a public or state-owned lake. These new rules can limit how rentals operate, but they cannot ban them entirely.¹

Read the official explanation

This bill relates to the regulation of certain short-term rental properties by counties and cities. Current law prohibits a county or city from adopting or enforcing any regulation, restriction, or other ordinance, including a conditional use permit requirement, relating to short-term rental properties within the respective county or city. Current law provides some exceptions to the prohibition if enforcement is performed in the same manner as enforcement applicable to similar properties that are not short-term rental properties. The bill provides an additional exception, not subject to the enforcement limitation, that allows a county or city to enact or enforce an ordinance that regulates or limits, but does not prohibit, short-term rental properties that are located within one mile of a lake that is accessible to the public or owned by the state.

Full bill text²

Senate subcommittee

Named January 27, 2022. Meeting: Tuesday, February 1 · 3:00 PM · Room G15.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§331.301 §414.1

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Lobbying

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