House File 2664 is lingering in the Iowa Senate after it passed the Iowa House with strong bipartisan support. The bill allows parties to file for a declaratory judgment regarding eminent domain at the beginning of a process rather than being forced to wait years for a ruling.
You can read about it here.
Four organizations are working to defend the private property rights of Iowans in this case:
*VALOR Iowa (John Strathman is registered in support)
*Iowa Chapter of Sierra Club (Pam Mackey-Taylor and Jess Mazour are registered in support)
*Iowa State Association of County Supervisors (Lucas Beenken, Kristi Harshbarger, William Peterson and Jamie Cashman are registered in support)
*Land of the Free Action (Victoria Sinclair is registered in support)
Six organizations are working against the private property rights of Iowans:
*POET LLC (Andy Conlin and Dennis Tibben are registered opposed)
*American Petroleum Institute (Jake Highfill is registered opposed)
*Gevo (Kent Hartwig is registered opposed)
*Summit Carbon Solutions (Jeff Boeyink, Courtney Craig, Jake Ketzner, Brittany Lumley and Elliott Meyer are registered opposed)
*Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (Nathan Hohnstein and Mike Heller are registered opposed)
*Archer Daniels Midland Company (Christopher Riley is registered opposed)
Interestingly, none of the individuals opposed to the bill showed up to speak against it in the Iowa House subcommittee meeting on March 18.
The bill was read into the Iowa Senate on April 1. It was assigned a subcommittee of Republican Senators Jason Schultz and Dan Dawson along with Democrat Sen. Herman Quirmbach. The subcommittee has not yet been scheduled.
Maybe the senate doesn’t understand that eventually, they will come for their property. You will own nothing, also. We won’t be happy though.