Controversial public lands bill dies in Iowa House – Iowa Capital Dispatch

A invoice that was broadly derided for its potential to decrease the state’s acquisition of land for public parks and leisure trails didn’t survive a legislative deadline for additional consideration this session.

Senate File 516 cleared the Iowa Senate about two weeks in the past however stumbled within the Home. It might have made upkeep of present public lands — and public partnerships with non-public landowners — paramount to buying new property.

The invoice was criticized by conservationists, hunters, cyclists and others for its nebulous language. It didn’t clearly outline what degree of upkeep was essential earlier than the state ought to purchase new property.

The invoice was championed by cattle producers, who stated the kind of land that’s not ideally suited for crops — and almost certainly to be purchased by the Iowa Division of Pure Assets — is a low-cost possibility for starting livestock farmers that ought to stay out there on the market.

The invoice briefly stalled within the Home Environmental Safety Committee and was moved to the State Authorities Committee, the place on Wednesday it obtained assist from two of three subcommittee members.

On Thursday, the complete committee was poised to vote on it — which might have stored it alive previous the Legislature’s second funnel deadline — however finally it was not mentioned.