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

SF 2325: Related to matters under the purview of the economic development authority including the high quality jobs program, the Iowa energy center, and the workforce housing tax incentive program, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

Signed into law

What it does

This bill relates to matters under the purview of the economic development authority (authority) including the high quality jobs program, the Iowa energy center, and the workforce housing tax incentive program.120, which establishes the Iowa energy center, is repealed on July 1, 2022. The bill extends the date to 2027. The bill requires the Iowa energy center to support research and development of strategies for carbon management. Under current law, for purposes of the high quality jobs program, a county is qualified as an economically distressed area if the county ranks among the bottom of all Iowa counties, as measured by either the monthly unemployment level for the most recent 12-month period, or the average annualized unemployment level for the most recent five-year period.

Sponsors

Commerce committee

Cost

Cost: up to $250,000

• The Bill continues annual administrative expenditures by the IEC totaling $250,000 beginning in FY 2023 and continuing through FY 2027. The expenditures would cease if the IEC authorization were not extended beyond FY 2022, per current law.

Lobbying · 14 for, 0 against

For: Alliant Energy Corporation; Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance; Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce; Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives; Iowa Business Council; Iowa Chamber Alliance; Iowa Credit Union League; Iowa Environmental Council; Iowa Housing Partnership; Iowa Interfaith Power & Light; MidAmerican Energy Company; and 2 more

In plain words

  1. February 17, 2022Filed in the Senate
  2. February 17, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
  3. February 21, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  4. February 28, 2022Passed the Senate, 45–0
  5. March 2, 2022Took the place of HF 2519 on the House floor (the same legislation)
  6. March 2, 2022Passed the House, 99–0
  7. March 23, 2022Sent to the Governor
  8. March 23, 2022Signed into law
  9. June 22, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted

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/SF2325