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HSB 690Died when the session ended · April 15, 2026

Concerning the beer barrel tax, and including effective date provisions

Topics:Alcohol, cannabis & gamingTaxes

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Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 5, 2026
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 5, 2026
  3. Done: House committeeApril 15, 2026
  4. Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
  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 hold certain beer permits would pay different tax rates depending on where the beer comes from. Instead of paying the same amount for everything, they would pay $5.89 per barrel for imported beer and $1.86 per barrel for beer made in American breweries. This change would only happen once the federal government approves these different tax rates.1

Read the official explanation

89 to the department of revenue on every 31-gallon barrel of beer manufactured for sale or sold in this state at wholesale and 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. The bill takes effect upon the publication date in the Iowa administrative bulletin of a notice by the director of revenue that the federal government has adopted regulations providing for or has otherwise approved the difference in tax rates for American breweries and foreign import beer in the bill.

Full bill text2

House subcommittee

Named April 14, 2026. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§123.136§123.3

How the Code works3

Lobbying

6 for · 4 against · 4 undecided · Who →

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