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HSB 309Died when the session ended · March 18, 2025

Concerning the beer barrel tax

Topics:Alcohol, cannabis & gamingTaxes

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Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedMarch 6, 2025
  2. Done: SubcommitteeMarch 6, 2025
  3. Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  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

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 People who sell beer at wholesale or brew it on their own property would pay different tax rates under this law. Instead of paying the same amount for all beer, they would pay $1.86 per barrel for beer made in Iowa and $5.89 per barrel for beer imported from other countries.1

Read the official explanation

_____ 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 a domestic brewery, defined in the bill, and at a like rate for any other quantity or for the fractional part of a barrel.

Full bill text2

House subcommittee

Named March 6, 2025. On March 18, 2025 it recommended passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§123.136§123.3

How the Code works3

Lobbying

3 for · 0 against · 9 undecided · Who →

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