House of Representatives
Bill Number	Description	Status	Comments	Legislators
HF 108	deposit of certain insurance premium tax receipts in the fire and police retirement fund of the statewide fire and police retirement system.	Introduced, referred to Ways & Means		Struyk, Huser, Mertz and Rayhons
HF 111	Requiring election to approve the use of increased local sales and services tax revenues to fund urban renewal projects.	01/28/2009 introduced referred to local government                                                    02/03/2009 Subcommittee, Gaskill, Ford & Sorenson		Gaskill
HF 113	exempting investment counseling services from state sales tax.	01/28/2009 Introduced , referred to Ways and Means		Pettengill, Lukan, Olson, S., DeBoef, Upmeyer, Struyk, Alons, Horbach, Drake, Deyoe and Paulsen.
HF 118	An Act eliminating the inheritance tax on property passing to relatives related to the decedent within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity and including an applicability date provision.	01/28/2009 Introduced , referred to Ways and Means		Struyk, Windschitl, Forristall, Pettengill, Schultz, Huseman, Helland, Drake, Rayhons, Horbach, Huser and Mertz.
HF 134	An Act allowing a refund of motor fuel taxes paid by an authorized, privately owned ambulance, rescue, or first response service.	01/28/2009 Introduced , referred to Ways and Means		Pettengill.
HF 140	An Act relating to providing sales, use, and property tax exemptions for certain data processing businesses.	01/28/09 Introduced, referred to Economic Growth.                                                           01/29/09 Subcommittee, Kelley, Soderberg, and Thomas.		Wendt and Whitead
HF 142	An Act exempting certain sales by qualified organizations representing veterans from sales tax.	01/29/2009 Introduced , referred to Ways and Means		Pettengill, Lukan, Olson, S., DeBoef, Upmeyer, Struyk, Alons, Horbach, Drake, Deyoe and Paulsen.
HF 145	DISABLED VETERAN TAX CREDIT. An Act relating to the taxation of a homestead owned by a disabled veteran and including effective date and applicability date provisions.	01/29/2009 Introduced , referred to Ways and Means		May
HF 146	An Act providing sales, use, and property tax exemptions for certain data centers.	01/29/09 Introduced, referred to Economic Growth.                                                           01/29/09 Subcommittee, Kelley, Soderberg, and Thomas.		Rants
HF 149	331.423  PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS == MAXIMUMS An Act relating to a limitation on the amount of property taxes that may be certified by counties and cities and providing effective and applicability dates.	01/29/2009  Introduced, referred to Local Government                                                   02/03/2009  Subcommittee, D. Olson, Cohoon, and Roberts                                               02/05/2009  Subcommittee reassigned, D. Olson, Cohoon, and Deyoe		Struyk, Olson, S., Helland, Drake and Rayhons
HF 154	A bill for an act relating to a limitation on certain county and city property taxes in certain fiscal years and providing for the Act's applicability.	01/29/2009 Introduced , referred to Ways and Means		Struyk
HF 157	An Act crediting revenues from the use tax on aircraft to the state aviation fund.	01/29/2009 Introduced , referred to Transportation		Kuhn
HF 162	A bill for an act excluding from the individual income tax the retirement pay of certain veterans of the armed forces and including a retroactive applicability date provision.	01/29/2009 Introduced , referred to Ways and Means		May
HF 167	An Act relating to withholding agreements and local match requirements of the targeted jobs withholding tax credit program.	02/01/2009 Introduced, referred to Economic Growth		Wendt and Whitead
HF 169	An Act relating to the state and local hotel and motel tax by making taxable certain transactions exempt from the sales tax	02/02/0229 introduced, referred to Ways & Means		Jacoby
HF 175	An Act relating to the sales tax by providing an exemption for certain casual sales by nonprofit organizations.	02/02/0229 introduced, referred to Ways & Means		Schueller
HF 176	An Act relating to the sales tax by providing an exemption for the sales price of lighting provided to farm buildings.	02/02/0229 introduced, referred to Ways & Means		Schueller
HF 177	Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  425B.1  RENEWABLE ENERGY HOMESTEAD PROPERTY TAX CREDIT FUND.  An Act providing for a renewable energy homestead property tax credit for certain homesteads meeting certification requirements relating to renewable energy system installation, making an appropriation, and including an effective and applicability date provision.	02/02/2009 Introduced, referred to Comerce                                                            02/05/209 Subcommittee, Petersen, Oldson, and Soderberg		Lukan
HF 201	Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  425B.1  GREEN APARTMENT OR RENTAL UNIT BUILDING PROPERTY TAX CREDIT FUND.  An Act providing for a property tax credit for certain apartment buildings and rental units meeting certification requirements for designation as a green building, making an appropriation, and including an effective and applicability date provision.	02/04/2009 Introduced, referred to Commerce.                                                        02/05/2009 Subcommittee, Reichert, D. Olson, Petersen, Soderberg, and Wagner		Reichert.
HF 219	An Act relating to the exclusion of stipends or remuneration paid to volunteer fire fighters from the state individual income tax and including a retroactive applicability date provision.	02/05/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means		Struyk
HF 221	An Act exempting the instructional support property tax levy of a school district from being collected as part of the incremental taxes paid to a municipality for an urban renewal area and providing for the Act's applicability.	02/05/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means		Schueller
HF 23	An Act providing an Iowa individual income tax checkoff for qualified Iowa zoos, making an appropriation and providing for the Act's implementation.	01/15/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means		Hunter
HF 230	An Act providing a sales tax exemption from the sale of textbooks for use in attending a postsecondary educational institution	02/09/2009 Introduced, Referred to Ways & Means		Pettengill and Berry
HF 58	An Act exempting from the sales and use taxes as casual sales the provision of certain lawn care, landscaping, and custodial services to religious organizations.	01/22/2009 Introduced, Referred to Ways & Means		Whitaker
HF 79	An Act relating to the sales and use tax imposed on the operation of bingo games.	01/26/2009 Introduced, Referred to Ways & Means		Shomshor
HF 92	An Act relating to a property tax limitation for certain elderly persons, providing a penalty, and including an applicability date provision.	01/27/2009 Introduced, Referred to Ways & Means		May
HF 95	An Act relating to the imposition of a local option sales tax after a disaster and providing an effective date.	01/27/2009 Introduced, Referred to Ways & Means                                                          02/04/2009 Withdrawn		Rebuild Iowa and Disaster Recovery
HF 98	An Act providing a property tax exemption for certain recreational property and including effective and retroactive applicability date provisions.	01/28/2009 Introduced, Referred to Ways & Means		Struyk, Forristall, Huseman, Huser, Mertz, Drake, Rayhons and Horbach
HSB 284	Repeals federal deductibility for individuals, lowers rates, increases earned income credit, increases personal credit for blind and elderly, increases income cap for pre-school credit	Approved by Ways and Means 3/30/09	Presumably will pass; they wouldn't be so dumb as to bring it up to fail, would they?	Ways and Means (Shomshor)
HJR 1	A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa to dedicate a portion of state revenue from the tax imposed on certain retail sales of tangible personal property and services for the benefit of the state's natural resources.	01/12/2009 Introduced, referred to Natural Resources.                                                      01/16/2009 Subcommittee, Bell, Beard, Deyoe, Rayhons, and Whitaker.                         01/28/2009 Committee report, recommending passage		Bell
Senate
Bill Number	Description	Status	Comments	Legislators
SJR 1	A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa to dedicate a portion of state revenue from the tax imposed on certain retail sales of tangible personal property and services for the benefit of the state's natural resources.	01/14/2009 Introduced, referred to Natural Resources                                                  01/14/2009 Subcommittee, Dearden, Black, and Hahn                                                           01/21/2009 Committee report, recommending passage                                                      02/18/2009  HJR1 substituted.                                                                                      02/18/2009  Withdrawn.		Dearden	1
SF 2	An Act providing a sales tax exemption from the sale of clothing.	01/12/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means                                                        01/15/2009 Subcommittee, Quirmbach, Mccoy, and Zaun		Johnson.	2
SF 14	An Act relating to the sales and use tax imposed on the operation of bingo games.	01/14/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means.                                                       01/15/2009 Subcommittee, Jochum, Feenstra, and Quirmbach.		Jochum	14
SF 30	An Act relating to the abatement or refund of property taxes for certain religious, literary, and charitable societies and including effective and retroactive applicability date provisions.	01/22/2009 Introduced, referred to Local Government.                                              01/22/2009 Subcommittee, Quirmbach, Houser, and Schoenhahn		Schoenjahn	30
SF 31	An Act relating to the imposition of a local option sales tax after a disaster and providing an effective date.	01/26/2009 Introduced, placed on calendar                                                           01/26/2009 Referred to Ways & Means                                                                       01/26/2009 Committee report, approving bill		Rebuild Iowa	31
SF 35	An Act relating to the state and local hotel and motel tax by making taxable certain transactions exempt from the sales tax.	01/26/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means.                                                         02/022009 Subcommittee, Dotzler, Bolkcom, and Hamerlinck.		Danielson	35
SF 43	An Act relating to the abatement or refund of property taxes for certain religious, literary, and charitable societies and including effective and retroactive applicability date provisions.	01/26/2009 Introduced, placed on calendar.                                                             01/26/2009 Committee report, approving bill.                                                     01/27/2009 Passed Senate, ayes 50, nays none                                                         01/27/2009 Immediate message.                                                                                  01/27/2009 Message from Senate.                                                                               01/27/2009 Read first time, referred to Local Government                                               02/03/2009 Subcommittee, Ford, Burt, and Windschitl		Local Government	43
SF 44	An Act relating to the imposition of a local option sales tax after a disaster and providing an effective date.	02/02/2009 Sent to Governor.                                                                               02/02/2009 Signed by Governor		Ways & Means	44
SF 62	An Act providing volunteer fire fighters and emergency medical services personnel with an individual income tax credit and including effective and applicability date provisions.	01/27/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means                                                        02/04/2009 Subcommittee, Stewart, Hamerlinck, and Wilhelm		Hancock	62
SF 65	An Act exempting the sale of wood pellets to residential customers from sales tax.	01/27/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means.                                                       02/04/2009 Subcommittee, Quirmbach, Feenstra, and Hogg		Schmitz	65
SF 66	An Act requiring the department of cultural affairs to prioritize and award tax credits for the preservation of historic property according to certain criteria.	01/27/2009 Introduced, referred to Economic Growth.                                                           01/28/2009 Subcommittee, Stewart, Houser, and Olive.		Warnstadt	66
SF 79	An Act modifying wind energy production tax credit eligibility requirements, providing for a refund of sales and use taxes, and including effective and retroactive applicability date provisions.	01/29/2009 Introduced, referred to Environment & Energy Independence.                           02/03/2009 Subcommittee, Hancock, Behn, and Hogg		Kibbie	79
SF 80	An Act modifying wind energy production tax credit certification procedures and eligibility requirements, providing refund of the sales and use taxes, providing refund of sales and use taxes, and including effective and retroactive applicability date provisions.	01/29/2009 Introduced, referred to Environment & Energy Independence.                          02/03/2009 Subcommittee, Hancock, Behn, and Hogg		Johnson	80
SF 83	An Act exempting the use of self=service washers and dryers from state sales taxes.	02/02/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means                                                           02/04/2009 Subcommittee, Quirmbach, Jochum, and Ward		Johnson	83
SF 85	An Act relating to the release of taxpayer debt information by the department of revenue and to the assessment of penalties and interest on taxes due by active duty military personnel and providing a retroactive applicability date.	02/02/2009 Introduced, referred to Veterans Affairs                                                        02/05/2009 Subcommittee, Warnstadt, Danielson, and Wieck		Hogg	85
SF 88	An Act relating to the amount of county hospital tax levy proceeds available for a specified period for distribution for the IowaCare program, and providing effective and retroactive applicability dates.	02/02/2009 Introduced, referred to Human Resources.                                                 02/03/2009 Subcommittee, Hatch, Bolkcom, and Johnson.		Hatch	88
SF 89	An Act relating to providing sales, use, and property tax exemptions for certain data center businesses.	02/03/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means.                                                       02/04/2009 Subcommittee, Dotzler, Bartz, and Bolkcom		Danielson	89
SF 102	An Act relating to the establishment of a searchable budget database website for the public to access the details of the expenditure of state tax revenues and a searchable tax rate database for the public to access the details of each tax rate for all taxing districts in the state.	02/04/2009 Introduced, referred to State Government.                                               02/05/2009 Subcommittee, Courtney, Feenstra, and Kibbie		McKinley, Hamerlinck, Reynolds, Wieck, Behn, Hartsuch, Kapucian, Feenstra, Hahn, Boettger, Noble, Ward, Bartz, Houser and Seymour	102
SF 110	An Act relating to withholding agreements and local match requirements of the targeted jobs withholding tax credit program.	02/04/2009 Introduced, referred to Economic Growth.                                        02/09/2009 Subcommittee, Rielly, Hatch, and Kapucian.		Warnstadt, Courtney, Fraise, Wieck and Gronstal.	110
SF 116	An Act providing that the casual sales exemption under the state sales tax does not apply to the sales of all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, off-road motorcycles, and off-road utility vehicles.	02/05/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means                                              02/10/2009 Subcommittee, Quirmbach, Bolkcom, and Hamerlinck.		Beall	116
SF 121	An Act providing a credit against the individual income tax for volunteer fire fighters, certified reserve peace officers, and volunteer emergency medical services personnel and including effective and applicability date provisions.	02/09/2009 Introduced, referred to Ways & Means		Hancock	121
SF 142	Moves responsibility for corporate sales and use tax credits from Department of Economic Development to Department of Revenue	Passed Senate 3/18		Committee Bill
SF 322	An Act relating to the technical administration of the tax and related laws by the department of revenue, including administration of income taxes, sales and use taxes, fees for new vehicle registrations, and property taxes and including a retroactive applicability date provision.	Passed Senate 3/9 (47-1)	This is mostly administrative minutae; it would add a rule requiring both married-filing-separate taxpayers to itemize if one does	Committee Bill	322
SSB 1308	Bill to expand taxing powers of local government, authorizing 5 percent tax on entertainment venues, local tobacco taxes, an income tax surtax up to 5 percent, utility fees, and an additional 6% tax on hotel-motels rares (on top of curren t75)	Passed Senate 3/9 (47-1)		Bolkom