DES MOINES, IOWA (May 16, 2019) — On Thursday, May 16, Governor Kim 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 post-conviction 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.
