Creating a lifetime trapping license for disabled veterans

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 23, 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

This bill creates a lifetime trapping license for a resident of Iowa who has served in the armed forces of the United States on federal active duty and who was disabled, as defined in the bill, during that veteran’s military service. The bill requires the department of natural resources (DNR) to establish a fee by rule for the lifetime trapping license and prepare an application to be used by a person requesting a lifetime trapping license. The department of veterans affairs shall assist DNR in verifying the status or claims of applicants.

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 February 24, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Cherielynn Westrich REmail
• Sen. Mike Pike REmail
• Sen. Mike Zimmer DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§483A.24

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

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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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

• SF 79 Creating a lifetime trapping license for disabled veterans
  90th General Assembly · In committee · same title
  Cleared committee
• SF 2235 Creating a lifetime fur harvester license for disabled veterans
  90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2407 · similar
  Cleared committee

Similar bills this General Assembly

• SF 253 Creating a lifetime fur harvester license for disabled veterans
  91st General Assembly · Signed by Governor
  Very similar

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.