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A bill for an act relating to individual income taxation by exempting certain amounts received from nonqualified deferred compensation plans and including retroactive applicability provisions.

A bill for an act relating to individual income taxation by exempting certain amounts received from nonqualified deferred compensation plans and including retroactive applicability provisions.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
ROWLEY and SWEENEY
Last action
2025-02-11
Official status
Subcommittee: Schultz, Bisignano, and Dawson. S.J. 243 .
Effective date
Not listed

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A bill for an act relating to individual income taxation by exempting certain amounts received from nonqualified deferred compensation plans and including retroactive applicability provisions.

A bill for an act relating to individual income taxation by exempting certain amounts received from nonqualified deferred compensation plans and including retroactive applicability provisions.

What This Bill Does

  • A bill for an act relating to individual income taxation by exempting certain amounts received from nonqualified deferred compensation plans and including retroactive applicability provisions.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-11 Iowa Legislature

    Subcommittee: Schultz, Bisignano, and Dawson. S.J. 243 .

  2. 2025-02-04 Iowa Legislature

    Introduced, referred to Ways and Means. S.J. 188 .

Official Summary Text

A bill for an act relating to individual income taxation by exempting certain amounts received from nonqualified deferred compensation plans and including retroactive applicability provisions.

Current Bill Text

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Senate

File

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Introduced

SENATE

FILE

201

BY

ROWLEY

and

SWEENEY

(COMPANION

TO

HF

94

BY

JONES)

A

BILL

FOR

An

Act

relating

to

individual

income

taxation

by

exempting

1

certain

amounts

received

from

nonqualified

deferred

2

compensation

plans

and

including

retroactive

applicability

3

provisions.

4

BE

IT

ENACTED

BY

THE

GENERAL

ASSEMBLY

OF

THE

STATE

OF

IOWA:

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Section

1.

Section

422.7,

Code

2025,

is

amended

by

adding

1

the

following

new

subsection:

2

NEW

SUBSECTION

.

45.

a.

Subtract,

to

the

extent

included,

3

up

to

five

hundred

thousand

dollars

of

a

nonqualified

deferred

4

compensation

plan

or

any

earnings

attributable

to

the

5

nonqualified

deferred

compensation

plan

received

by

a

person

6

who

is

any

of

the

following:

7

(1)

Disabled.

8

(2)

Fifty-five

years

of

age

or

older.

9

(3)

The

surviving

spouse

of

an

individual

or

a

survivor

10

having

an

insurable

interest

in

an

individual

who

would

have

11

qualified

for

the

exemption

under

this

subsection

for

the

tax

12

year.

13

b.

Married

taxpayers

who

file

separate

state

income

tax

14

returns

shall

allocate

their

combined

annual

exclusion

amount

15

to

each

spouse

in

the

proportion

that

each

spouse’s

respective

16

income

received

from

a

nonqualified

deferred

compensation

plan

17

bears

to

the

total

combined

pension

or

retirement

pay

received.

18

Sec.

2.

RETROACTIVE

APPLICABILITY.

This

Act

applies

19

retroactively

to

January

1,

2025,

for

tax

years

beginning

on

20

or

after

that

date.

21

EXPLANATION

22

The

inclusion

of

this

explanation

does

not

constitute

agreement

with

23

the

explanation’s

substance

by

the

members

of

the

general

assembly.

24

Under

current

law,

a

taxpayer

may

exclude

retirement

25

income

from

the

computation

of

net

income

for

purposes

of

26

the

individual

income

tax.

In

order

to

be

eligible

for

27

the

retirement

income

exclusion,

a

person

must

be

disabled,

28

at

least

55

years

of

age,

or

be

the

surviving

spouse

of

an

29

individual

or

be

a

survivor

having

an

insurable

interest

in

an

30

individual

who

would

have

qualified

for

the

retirement

income

31

exclusion.

32

This

bill

excludes

up

to

$500,000

of

nonqualified

deferred

33

compensation

plan

income

from

the

computation

of

net

income

34

for

purposes

of

the

individual

income

tax

under

similar

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circumstances

as

the

retirement

income

exclusion.

In

order

to

1

be

eligible

for

the

nonqualified

deferred

compensation

plan

2

income

exclusion,

the

taxpayer

must

be

disabled,

at

least

55

3

years

of

age,

or

be

the

surviving

spouse

of

an

individual

or

be

4

a

survivor

having

an

insurable

interest

in

an

individual

who

5

would

have

qualified

for

the

income

exclusion.

6

A

nonqualified

deferred

compensation

plan

is

deferred

7

compensation

with

no

federal

legal

deferral

limit

that

is

8

subject

to

tax

at

a

later

date,

and

is

usually

made

available

9

to

select

employees.

10

The

bill

applies

retroactively

to

January

1,

2025,

for

tax

11

years

beginning

on

or

after

that

date.

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