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

SF 2112: Relating to the railroad revolving loan and grant fund by making moneys available for certain projects and prioritizing grants and loans for certain purposes

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

The department of transportation (DOT) controls a railroad revolving loan and grant fund. Moneys in the fund are used to provide assistance for the restoration, conservation, improvement, and construction of railroad main lines, branch lines, switching yards, sidings, rail connections, intermodal yards, highway grade separations, and other railroad-related improvements, and for rail economic development projects that improve rail facilities, including the construction of branch lines, sidings, rail connections, intermodal yards, and other rail-related improvements that spur economic development and job growth.

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named January 30, 2024

Sen. Carrie Koelker (R) · carrie.koelker@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Claire Celsi (D)
Sen. Mark S. Lofgren (R) · mark.lofgren@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 7 for, 1 against

For: Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad; Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen; Burlington Junction Railway; Davenport Industrial Railroad; Iowa Interstate Railroad; Patriot Rail (Keokuk Junction Railway); Soo Line Railroad Company d/b/a Candian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)

Against: Union Pacific Railroad

In plain words

January 25, 2024Filed in the Senate
January 25, 2024Approved by the Senate committee
January 30, 2024Sent to the Senate Appropriations committee
January 30, 2024Senate subcommittee named: Koelker, Celsi and Lofgren
March 6, 2024Subcommittee recommended passing it