Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly
Iowa SF2270: A BILL FOR An Act regulating animal feeding operations, including rulemaking requirements, and making penalties applicable
Status: In committee, February 12, 2026
An Act regulating animal feeding operations, including rulemaking requirements, and making penalties applicable.
What the bill says
A bill FOR An Act regulating animal feeding operations, including rulemaking requirements, and making penalties applicable.
From the introduced text, February 11, 2026:
A BILL FOR An Act regulating animal feeding operations, including rulemaking requirements, and making penalties applicable. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 6662XS (4) da/js S.F. 2270 Section 1. Section 455B.173, subsection 2, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows: 2. Establish, modify, or repeal water quality standards, pretreatment standards, and effluent standards in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and chapters 459, 459A, and 459B. a. The effluent standards may provide for maintaining the existing quality of the water of the state that is a navigable water of the United States under the federal Water Pollution Control Act where the quality thereof exceeds the requirements of the water quality standards. b. (1) If the federal environmental protection agency has promulgated an effluent standard or pretreatment standard pursuant to section 301, 306, or 307 of the federal Water Pollution Control Act, a pretreatment or effluent standard adopted pursuant to this section shall not be more stringent than the federal effluent or pretreatment standard for such source. This section may does not preclude the establishment of a more restrictive effluent limitation in the permit for a particular point source if the more restrictive effluent limitation is necessary to meet water quality standards, the establishment of an effluent standard for a source or …
Sponsors
- Art Staed (D, 40) · primary sponsor
- Herman Quirmbach (D, 25)
- Liz Bennett (D, 39)
Latest actions
- : Subcommittee: Shipley, Rozenboom, and Staed. S.J. 279 .
- : Introduced, referred to Natural Resources and Environment. S.J. 250 .
Subjects: livestock, national pollutant discharge elimination system, administrative rules, environmental protection commission, environmental protection, water quality, animal feeding operations, natural resources
Common questions
- What is SF2270?
- SF2270 is a bill in the Iowa Legislature (91st General Assembly): A BILL FOR An Act regulating animal feeding operations, including rulemaking requirements, and making penalties applicable.
- What does SF2270 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR An Act regulating animal feeding operations, including rulemaking requirements, and making penalties applicable.
- What is the status of SF2270?
- In committee as of February 12, 2026. Latest action: Subcommittee: Shipley, Rozenboom, and Staed. S.J. 279 . (February 12, 2026).
- Who sponsored SF2270?
- Art Staed (D, 40), with 2 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for SF2270?
- On the Iowa Legislature website: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=SF+2270&ga=91
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