Allowing cities to certify taxes for a general fund levy for libraries

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 3, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeMarch 3, 2025
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

2023 Iowa Acts, chapter (HF 718), amended Code section 384.12 (additional taxes) to eliminate several taxes a city may levy subject to voter approval at an election. In lieu thereof, HF 718 allowed cities to levy the same amounts the eliminated taxes could have levied as a part of the general fund levy under Code section 384.1. This bill reestablishes the tax levy for a public library eliminated by HF 718 in an amount not to exceed cents per $1,000. The tax imposed under the bill is subject to the same voter approval and notice requirements that existed prior to the enactment of HF 718.

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

Senate subcommittee

Named March 3, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Dan Dawson REmail
• Sen. Tony Bisignano DEmail
• Sen. David D. Rowley REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§384.12

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