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

HF 2627: Exempting the sales price of honey bees from the state sales and use tax

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 exempts the sales price of honey bees from the state sales and use tax. By operation of Code section 423.6, an item exempt from the imposition of the sales tax is also exempt from the use tax imposed in Code section 423.5.

Sponsors

Ways and Means (successor To Hf 457) committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named March 11, 2024

  • Sen. Dawn Driscoll (R) · dawn.driscoll@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Carrie Koelker (R) · carrie.koelker@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Herman C. Quirmbach (D) · herman.quirmbach@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 3 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Farmers Union; Iowa Honey Producers Association; Personal Interest-Stacey Schnuckel

In plain words

  1. February 22, 2024Filed in the House
  2. March 5, 2024Passed the House, 95–0
  3. March 5, 2024Arrived in the Senate
  4. March 11, 2024Senate subcommittee named: Driscoll, Koelker and Quirmbach

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/90/HF2627