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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 2321: Relating to utility-scale solar energy facilities installation on agricultural land

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on May 24, 2022. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to utility-scale solar energy facility installation on agricultural land. The bill defines “agricultural land” to mean land that is suitable for farming. The bill defines “utility-scale solar energy facility” or “solar energy facility” to mean an assemblage of photovoltaic modules, equipment, or structural features that collect and convert incident solar radiation into other specific forms of energy or transform the solar energy to transmission on an electric grid. The bill defines “corn suitability rating” (CSR) to mean Iowa state university extension and outreach’s corn suitability rating index which determines the potential for row-crop productivity for a parcel of land.

Sponsors

Agriculture committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 1 for, 24 against

For: Iowa Cattlemen's Association

Against: Alliant Energy Corporation; American Clean Power Association; Center for Rural Affairs; Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO); County Planning and Zoning Officials of Iowa; IBEW Iowa State Conference; Iowa Alliance For Retired Americans; Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives; Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities; Iowa Business for Clean Energy; Iowa Conference of United Methodist Church; Iowa Conservative Energy Forum; and 12 more

In plain words

  1. February 17, 2022Filed in the Senate
  2. February 17, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
  3. March 24, 2022Sent to the Senate Agriculture committee

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SF2321