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Relating to the administration of the habitat and public access program and establishing an annual payment under the program
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 14, 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 The Department of Natural Resources would manage a program that gives money to Iowa landowners to improve wildlife habitats. To participate, owners must allow the public to hunt on their land for free. Landowners enrolled in the program would receive an annual payment of $8 per acre.1
Read the official explanation
2. That program is established, in part, to incentivize the opening of private lands to public hunting while providing grant funds to create, manage, and enhance wildlife habitat. The bill specifies that for land to be eligible under the habitat and public access program, the applicant’s land shall be located in this state and already contain wildlife habitat or the applicant shall be willing to allow development of wildlife habitat. The applicant must also enter into an agreement with the department and allow public access for hunting without charge on at least acres. The bill also provides that, from funds available to the department of natural resources for the habitat and public access program, the department shall provide an annual payment to owners of land enrolled in the program of $8 per acre.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 14, 2022. On February 15, 2022 it recommended passage.
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