Relating to privately owned lakes

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2024
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2024
3. ✕
   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to the definition of a privately owned lake. The bill defines a privately owned lake as a body of water for which all land under and adjacent to the body of water is owned by an individual or group of joint owners. Current law lists the possible owners as an individual, a group, or a nonprofit organization. The bill also narrows the definition of a privately owned lake to not include a body of water that requires approval for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a dam, embankment, spillway, or appurtenant works from the department of natural resources or the natural resource commission (commission), or a body of water that is fed by, connects with, or discharges into public waters.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

House subcommittee

Named February 12, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Rep. Taylor R. Collins REmail
• Rep. Jacob Bossman REmail
• Rep. Eric J. Gjerde DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§462A.2

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works