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SF 256Died when the session ended · March 19, 2025

Relating to disputed land boundaries and corners including acquiesced boundaries and corners

Sponsored by the Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee

Topics:Courts & civil law

Same legislation: SSB 1062, HSB 253

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2025
  2. Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2025
  3. Done: Senate committeeFebruary 10, 2025
  4. Done: Passes the SenateMarch 19, 202547–0
  5. Done: House committeeApril 1, 2025
  6. Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
  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 If neighbors agree to treat a certain line or marker as their property boundary for many years, that line becomes the permanent legal boundary. Even if neighbors later buy the land next to each other so they own both pieces, the old boundary lines stay in place. If the new owners later agree to a different boundary line and follow it for many years, that new line will then become the permanent boundary.1

Read the official explanation

This bill relates to disputed land boundaries and corners.14 provides that boundaries and corners recognized and acquiesced in for a period of years shall be permanently established boundaries and corners.14. The bill provides that common ownership of adjacent tracts where acquiesced boundaries and corners have been permanently established does not terminate the acquiesced boundary and corners previously established through self-execution. Under the bill, adjoining parties may subsequently recognize and acquiesce to new boundaries and corners and if subsequently recognized and acquiesced in for a period of years those boundaries and corners become permanently established.

Full bill text2

House subcommittee

Named March 27, 2025. On April 1, 2025 it recommended passage.

Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§650.14

How the Code works3

Lobbying

1 for · 0 against · 12 undecided · Who →

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