Iowa / State / 91st General Assembly, 2025 Regular Session
2025 Iowa Acts ch 73 (H.F. 885) Created an additional any-sex deer licence for a resident disabled veteran and tripled the nonresident disabled hunt allocation
Added Iowa Code section 483A.8D, under which a disabled veteran who is a resident may be issued one any sex deer hunting licence to hunt during any established firearm deer hunting season, using the method of take authorized for that season, and may obtain it "in addition to any other deer hunting license for which the person is eligible". The section defines disabled veteran for itself as a person who served on federal active duty "and who was disabled during the veteran’s military service, as verified by the department of veterans affairs", with no rating requirement, which is a third and looser disability test alongside the "entitled to a service connected rating under 38 U.S.C. ch. 11" test in section 483A.24, subsections 16 and 17 and the thirty percent test in section 483A.24, subsection 5. The act also raised the nonresident wild turkey hunting licences the director must provide from seventy-five to one hundred twenty-five and increased the share allocated to the disabled veteran and disabled service member hunts under subsection 5 from twenty-five to seventy-five. Tracked because an any-sex tag is the scarce Iowa deer licence, because the entitlement is additional rather than substitutive, and because the new definition means a veteran refused under one Iowa outdoor provision may still qualify under this one.
Progress
Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature
- Introduced Done, As HF 692
- In committee Done, House Veterans Affairs
- Passed one chamber Done, House, 95-0
- Passed both chambers Done, Senate, 50-0
- Signed by the governor Done,
- In effect Done,
Sponsors
- House Committee on Veterans Affairs
What it touches
- Iowa Code § 483A.8D
- Iowa Code § 483A.24
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Official record
Read 2025 Iowa Acts ch 73 (H.F. 885) on the jurisdiction's own record