Legislation

Revise certain provisions regarding the sales and use tax.

Revise the limitation on the increases and decreases that may be made to the total taxable value of cropland and noncropland.

Revise the definition of domestic use of water.

Establish and revise certain provisions and penalties related to the regulation of grain warehouses, grain buyers, and warehouse receipts.

Limit the terms of certain conservation easements.

Restrict certain state purchases of gasoline to ethanol blends.

Revise certain property tax levies for the general fund of school districts.

Require the filing of certain documents relating to the vacation, location, or changing of highways with the register of deeds.

Exempt bedding used for agricultural purposes from sales and use taxes.

Revise certain provisions relating to identity theft and employment.

Revise certain provisions regarding tax refunds for energy related projects and facilities.

Repeal the sunset concerning tax refunds for new or expanded agricultural facilities and new or expanded business facilities.

Modify the publication requirements regarding the application for a well driller license or a well pump installer license.

Establish sanctions relating to the hiring of illegal aliens.

Separately classify, assess, and tax agricultural land that is leased for certain purposes that restrict the use of the land.

Require that notice be provided before certain drainage activities are undertaken.

Permit counties and townships to levy a capital improvement property tax for highways, secondary roads, bridges, and culverts.

Provide for the disposal of the Napa Junction to Platte segment of the state-owned rail system.

Modify the ethanol production incentive payment to include qualified producers of biobutanol.

Temporarily increase the state sales and use tax and to declare an emergency.

Revise how the taxes are applied to rural electric companies.

Provide for the severance of certain water rights.

Authorize counties and townships to permit fencing within the rights-of-way of certain minimum maintenance roads.

Prohibit the employment of unauthorized aliens and to provide penalties therefor.

Create certain watershed districts.

Revise the property tax levies for the general fund of a school district.

Exempt the production of certain plants and sod from sales and use taxes.