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Providing for a surface water protection user fee assessed and imposed on the sale of nitrogen-based fertilizer and making appropriations
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedApril 12, 2024
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary A new fee would be added to the sale of fertilizer based on how much nitrogen it contains. The money collected from this fee would go into a special fund used to support clean water projects and research. These funds would help protect Iowa's lakes, streams, and groundwater.1
Read the official explanation
This bill includes a provision finding and declaring that waters of the state are being used to collect and transport contamination throughout Iowa, damaging lakes and streams and infiltrating groundwater aquifers. The bill imposes a surface water protection user fee on the sale of fertilizer based on the percentage of nitrogen contained in the fertilizer.8).45). The bill provides for the expenditure of moneys collected from user fees to support clean water efforts administered by the division. A portion of the user fees are allocated to support the IIHR —— hydroscience and engineering within the college of engineering of the state university of Iowa and to support projects conducted or approved by a watershed management authority in a benefited watershed.