Iowa legislative session 2026

[Pucky Freak]

It would also qualify anyone who works in Iowa. Union iron worker comes to Lansing to work on the bridge for a few weeks, now he’s a resident.

Remote work?
Gig work of someone who lives across the State line?
Contractors who take bids in multiple States?
Pass through investors?

And those are just the legitimate jobs. I could hire 1000 NR’s and pay them a salary, then have them pay me back under the table.

 

[Gellar]

If this passes any chance you could open a LTE trail clearing position ? I even have my own saw !!

I can, but it’s going to cost you. You’ll have to pay the big man.

 

[OMB]

ACTION ALERT

HF 2657

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Introduced today - expands hunting and fishing residency to anyone filing a IA tax return with the last 24 months. Basically anyone could loophole around to pay resident prices.

Note, not income tax return, ANY tax return!

Email House Committee on State Government members to express your opinions. Please help support resident preference for hunting and fishing opportunities. Thanks!!

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I said this to some friends when the party hunting rule was "clarified" to exclude non-residents, that the people that pushed/celebrated that are going to regret it.

It might not be this year or next year, but there's going to be NR landowner tags and/or more buck tags issued. There's too much money riding on it.

 

[Pucky Freak]

There's too much money riding on it.

Money rides from NR landowners into politician’s pockets. Legislators are hellbent on pimping out our State’s resources - constituents be damned.

 

[Pucky Freak]

ACTION ALERT

HF 2657

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Introduced today - expands hunting and fishing residency to anyone filing a IA tax return with the last 24 months. Basically anyone could loophole around to pay resident prices.

Note, not income tax return, ANY tax return!

Email House Committee on State Government members to express your opinions. Please help support resident preference for hunting and fishing opportunities. Thanks!!

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Referred to Ways and Means. To the best of my understanding, this is for financial impact analysis. Less of a concern at this point as the bill did not survive either of the legislative funnels in this session, so at this point would have to come back as a zombie bill (unlikely), or get rolled into an omnibus package (also unlikely).

Oddly quiet year for the crossbow industry, the outfitter lobby, and the perennial attacks of Farm Bureau on public land. Unsettling…

 

[Pucky Freak]

SF424 unanimously passed by the senate. This bill takes the 50 NR Governor deer tags “Miranda Lambert tags” and specifically allocates 40 of them to conservation organizations to sell for funding.

Governor tags haven’t been doled out as political gifts for years, and have only been granted to conservation orgs. The bill essentially codifies existing practice. Ex, IA BHA has snagged one of these tags the last two years and funded about 75% of their operation with it.

I despise auction tags, but I’ll count this bill as a win. Narrowing natural resources away from political bargaining chips, and expanding them into IA wildlife habitat, public land acquisitions, and public hunting access is a move in the right direction.

Additionally, this also acts as a buffer against the relentless push to give NR’s unlimited deer tags, b/c the scarcity of current tags allows the Nonprofits to raise tens or hundreds of thousands of $$ to directly benefit IA wildlife.

 

[Gellar]

It looks like they amended hf 2657 to allow 1/2 of iowas NR landowner tags to go to applicants who file an Iowa tax return but are not residents or to NR landowners who own 160 acres or more. On Monday I was in a max property tax levy hearing where 15 people were arguing for tightening budgets due to increased property taxes and the cost of property taxes makes it so only non residents can afford to buy land. Yet most of them are probably members of groups that strongly support an increase in NR tags. Pot call the kettle black. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGI/91/HF2657.pdf

 

[Gellar]

It looks like they amended hf 2657 to allow 1/2 of iowas NR landowner tags to go to applicants who file an Iowa tax return but are not residents or to NR landowners who own 160 acres or more. On Monday I was in a max property tax levy hearing where 15 people were arguing for tightening budgets due to increased property taxes and the cost of property taxes makes it so only non residents can afford to buy land. Yet most of them are probably members of groups that strongly support an increase in NR tags. Pot call the kettle black. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGI/91/HF2657.pdf

If you are planning on applying for a nonresident license and don’t meet those 2 criteria your wait time to get a tag just doubled.