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90th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 167: Relating to emergency food assistance and making appropriations

Died when the session ended · The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill creates a standing appropriation of $1 million from the general fund of the state for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, through the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2027, to the department of health and human services for support of an Iowa food bank association to buy food on behalf of an Iowa emergency feeding organization or distribute the moneys to such organizations for the purchase of food. The moneys appropriated shall only be allocated if it is matched dollar-for-dollar. Any moneys unused during a fiscal year shall remain available for the same purpose until the end of the following fiscal year. The new Code section created in the bill is repealed July 1, 2028.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 6 for, 0 against

For: Des Moines Area Religious Council; Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa Food Bank Association; Iowa Hunger Coalition; United Way of Central Iowa

In plain words

  1. February 1, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the Health and Human Services committee

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/HF167