Relating to beneficial use in the context of water allocation

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 19, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 24, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeMarch 4, 2025
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

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What’s in it

The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. This bill relates to beneficial use of water allocation. Under current law, for the purposes of subchapter III, part 4, of Code chapter 455B, “beneficial use” is defined as the application of water to a useful purpose that inures to the benefit of the water user and subject to the user’s dominion and control but does not include the waste or pollution of water. The bill strikes the definition and provides that beneficial use is determined by the department of natural resources on a case-by-case basis when determining whether to grant a permit for the diversion, storage, or withdrawal of water, and must not be based on the category of use.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

House subcommittee

Named February 24, 2025. On February 27, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Cindy Golding REmail
• Rep. Eddie Andrews REmail
• Rep. Elinor A. Levin DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§455B.261§455B.265

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Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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Similar bills

• HF 2210 Relating to beneficial use in the context of water allocation
  91st General Assembly · In committee
  Nearly identical

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.