DES MOINES – On Thursday, May 16, Gov. Reynolds signed the following bills into law:
HF289: an act concerning the distribution of gambling game receipts for charitable purposes.
HF305: an act relating to the enhance Iowa board and moneys allocated by the board.
HF485: an act concerning state purchasing requirements relating to targeted small business procurement goals.
HF499: an act allowing certain vans and pickups to be used to transport pupils to activity events or from school to home in emergency situations.
HF590: an act relating to tax return preparers, and providing penalties.
HF692: an act relating to the conduct of state and local elections, providing penalties, and including effective date elections provisions.
HF734: an act relating to postconviction DNA profiling procedure.
HF741: an act relating to the property tax levy for the payment of general obligation bonds issued by cities for certain flood-related purposes and including applicability provisions.
HF767: an act relating to motor vehicle taxes and fees, including registration fees for certain electric vehicles, an excise tax on hydrogen used as special fuel, providing penalties, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.
HF779: an act relating to the administration of the tax and related laws by the department of revenue, including the administration and modification of certain tax credits and refunds, the individual and corporate income taxes, franchise taxes, moneys and credits taxes, sales and use taxes, and automobile rental excise taxes, the assessment of property owned by certain long distance telephone companies, establishing a taxation and exemption of computers task force, extending the utility replacement task force, and providing for other properly related matters, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
SF228: an act relating to bioscience-based economic development, the establishment of a bioscience development corporation, and membership on the Iowa innovation council.
SF589: an act relating to criminal law and procedure including certain related administrative proceedings, providing penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
SF597: an act exempting the sales tax certain items and services sold or furnished to nonprofit blood centers.
SF619: an act modifying provisions applicable to certain service contract providers regulated by the commissioner of insurance, providing fees, making penalties applicable, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions.
