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

SF 2370: Relating to aircraft, including special certificates issued to aircraft manufacturers, transporters, and dealers, and sales tax exemptions associated with aircraft, providing fees, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions

Signed into law

What it does

SPECIAL CERTIFICATES. Under current law, an aircraft manufacturer or dealer may operate an aircraft for purposes of transporting, testing, demonstrating, or selling the aircraft without registering the aircraft by obtaining a special certificate from the department of transportation (DOT). This bill limits the period a manufacturer or dealer may operate the aircraft under a special certificate to three years. The bill increases the annual fee for a special certificate from $100 to $400, and provides that a special certificate expires at midnight on October rather than midnight on June 30.

Sponsors

Ways and Means committee

Cost

More revenue: up to $9,000

Senate File 2370 is estimated to increase revenue to the State Aviation Fund by $9,000 per year beginning in FY 2023. Senate File 2370 is estimated to reduce revenues to the General Fund, Secure an Advanced Vision for Education (SAVE) Fund, and local option sa…

House subcommittee · named March 24, 2022

  • Rep. Lee Hein (R)
  • Rep. Charlie McConkey (D)
  • Rep. Brent Siegrist (R) · brent.siegrist@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 8 for, 0 against

For: Cedar Rapids Airport; Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance; Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce; Des Moines International Airport; Greater Des Moines Partnership; Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Iowa Chamber Alliance; Iowa Public Airports Association

In plain words

  1. March 3, 2022Filed in the Senate
  2. March 3, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
  3. March 23, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  4. March 23, 2022Passed the Senate, 48–2
  5. March 23, 2022Arrived in the House
  6. March 24, 2022House subcommittee named: Hein, McConkey and Siegrist
  7. March 29, 2022Subcommittee recommended passing it
  8. March 30, 2022Approved by the House committee
  9. April 5, 2022Passed the House, 92–5
  10. June 1, 2022Sent to the Governor
  11. June 14, 2022Signed into law
  12. June 24, 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/SF2370