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

HF 714: Relating to construction projects transporting electricity and water and including retroactive applicability provisions

Signed into law

What it does

This bill relates to merchant line franchise petition requirements. The bill specifies that if a proposed aboveground merchant line involving the use of eminent domain fails to be approved by the Iowa utilities board within three years following the submission of the franchise’s petition, the board shall reject the petition. Current law does not restrict this provision to aboveground merchant lines.

Sponsors

Ways and Means committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 3 for, 9 against

For: Iowa Drainage District Association; Iowa State Association of County Supervisors; SOO Green HVDC Link ProjectCo, LLC

Against: BNSF Railway Co.; Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad; Burlington Junction Railway; CN Rail; Davenport Industrial Railroad; Iowa Interstate Railroad; Iowa Utilities Commission; Patriot Rail (Keokuk Junction Railway); Union Pacific Railroad

In plain words

  1. April 12, 2023Filed in the House
  2. April 19, 2023Passed the House, 95–0
  3. April 26, 2023Took the place of SF 573 on the Senate floor (the same legislation)
  4. April 26, 2023Passed the Senate, 49–0
  5. May 1, 2023Passed the House, 94–0
  6. May 9, 2023Sent to the Governor
  7. June 1, 2023Signed into law

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/HF714