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Establishing license fees for food processing plants
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 7, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2024
- Done: Senate committeeApril 1, 2024
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Skipped: House committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the HouseApril 8, 202489–0
- 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 This bill changes how much food processing plants must pay for their annual licenses. It creates a new system where most plants pay fees based on how much money they made in sales, but plants that process meat on a farm or at a private home will pay a flat fee of $75.1
Read the official explanation
BACKGROUND. Code chapter 137F regulates businesses engaged in commercial food preparation and sale. The regulations are administered and enforced by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing.1). In 2023, the general assembly enacted legislation that revised the method used to calculate annual license fees imposed on plants (2023 Iowa Acts, chapter 82). The fee amount is based on a series of increasing steps calculated using the plant’s gross annual sales during the prior year.6). BILL’S PROVISIONS. This bill revises the license fee schedule for plants. It distinguishes between two categories of plants: the first is a general category and the second is a category of plant where meat is processed on the premises of a farm or private residence. Under the general category, the fee amount is based on a series of three increasing steps calculated again using the plant’s gross annual sales. For a plant with annual gross sales of less than $200,000, the fee amount is $150; for a plant with annual gross sales of at least $200,000 but less than $2 million, the fee amount is $300; and for a plant with annual gross sales of $2 million or more, the fee amount is $500. Under the second category, the fee amount is a flat $75.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 12, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.
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- HF 1006 Providing for the licensing of food processing plants, including certain operations locate…91st General Assembly · Passed HouseNearly identical
- SF 9 Establishing license fees for food processing plants91st General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passageNearly identical
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