House Speaker Pat Grassley says property tax negotiations during the recently concluded 2026 session of the Iowa legislature ended in a good place. Grassley says the two percent property tax revenue cap on cities and counties is the hallmark of the legislation. Grassley says he’s disappointed that the Iowa Senate did not debate a House bill that would have prohibited carbon pipeline developers from using the government’s eminent domain authority to seize property from landowners who do not want the pipeline on their property. Grassley says some of the lessons learned during year five of the stand-off between a majority of Republicans in the House and in the Senate on the issue, however, are included in new guidelines for companies looking for pools of hydrogen deep underground — and extracting what’s found. Companies will have to get written permission to survey someone’s land and if a landowner doesn’t want to participate in a hydrogen project, the company is not allowed to keep contacting them.
