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Establishing license fees for food processing plants
Sponsored by Sen. Jesse Green (R)
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 13, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, 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 Food processing plants would pay different amounts for their annual licenses under these new rules. Most plants would pay a fee based on how much money they made in sales the previous year. However, plants that process meat or poultry at a farm or a private home would 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 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 or poultry 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 January 15, 2025. On January 28, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2256 Establishing license fees for food processing plants90th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2444 Establishing license fees for food processing plants90th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 2682 · nearly identicalCleared committee
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