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

SF 526: Regarding port authorities, including by allowing port authorities to enter into certain loan agreements and lease contracts

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 relates to the powers and duties of port authorities. Under Code chapter 28J, the bill modifies the defined terms “authorized purposes”, “city”, “cost”, “facility” or “port authority facility”, “governmental agency”, “political subdivision”, “port authority revenue bonds” or “revenue bonds”, and “revenues”. The bill creates and defines the terms “net revenues” and “public works project”. The bill provides for the creation of a port authority anywhere in this state regardless of proximity to a body of water.

Sponsors

Commerce committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 8 for, 2 against

For: Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance; Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce; Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce; Iowa Chamber Alliance; Iowa Travel Industry Partners; Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce; Metropolitan Coalition; Professional Developers of Iowa (PDI)

Against: Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; Iowans for Tax Relief

In plain words

  1. March 6, 2023Filed in the Senate
  2. March 6, 2023Approved by the Senate committee
  3. June 5, 2023Sent to the Senate Commerce committee

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/SF526