Concerning the beer barrel tax

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2026
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2026
3. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeFebruary 11, 2026
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

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What’s in it

_____ on all beer imported into this state for sale at wholesale and sold in this state at wholesale. Special class “A” beer permittees pay a like amount on all beer manufactured for consumption on the premises and on all beer sold at retail at the manufacturing premises for consumption off the premises. Other quantities and fractional parts of a barrel are taxed at a proportional rate.86 for every 31-gallon barrel of beer manufactured in an American brewery, defined in the bill, and at a like rate for any other quantity or for the fractional part of a barrel.

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 January 22, 2026. On January 27, 2026 it recommended passage.

• Sen. Mike Bousselot REmail
• Sen. Tony Bisignano DEmail
• Sen. Adrian Dickey REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§123.136§123.3

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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

• HSB 309 Concerning the beer barrel tax
  91st General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage
  Nearly identical
• HSB 690 Concerning the beer barrel tax, and including effective date provisions
  91st General Assembly · Approved by committee
  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.