{"id":668,"date":"2016-03-31T13:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2016-03-31T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:15:35","slug":"iowa-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/iowa-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Fireworks Bill Passes Senate Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Fireworks<\/a>

Fireworks over Des Moines, Iowa
Photo credit: Brian Abeling from Abeling Productions<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Getting 1.4G (consumer) fireworks in Iowans hands has been an up-and-down proposition.\u00a0The state’s fireworks bill first made an appearance in 2015 in two forms: one in the House and one in the Senate.<\/p>\n

By the end of the year, however, it died out because Iowa’s House and Senate couldn’t agree on a single version of the bill.<\/p>\n

However, this past month, a Senate committee passed a revised version of the bill that now has the chance to go to the Senate floor for vote.<\/p>\n

Why Did the Iowa Fireworks Bill Hit a Dead End?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

An article from the\u00a0Des Moines Register<\/em><\/a> said “majority Democrats were divided” on the bill because it posed a health risk and it also could be a nuisance to “Iowans trying to sleep on warm summer nights.”<\/p>\n

That didn’t stop House\u00a0Representative Matt Windschitl (R)<\/a>\u00a0from championing the bill.<\/p>\n

Matt told us in an interview that he wants to see the bill through because, “it’s a matter of equality. Iowans deserve the right to choose for themselves if they want to use fireworks.”<\/p>\n

How Did the Iowa Fireworks Bill Get Back in the Senate?<\/h2>\n

The bill was re-proposed\u00a0and passed\u00a0in the Senate. According\u00a0to\u00a0another\u00a0Des Moines Register story<\/a>, the new bill has a provision that would allow each city or community to decide whether or not they want to legalize fireworks. This is known as an opt-in provision.<\/p>\n

Sen. Jeff Danielson, a Democrat and firefighter, was pretty vocal about his support of the bill and his distaste for the provision. His version of the bill has an opt-out provision, which means all cities and communities are under the new law and have to choose to opt-out of it.<\/p>\n

Danielson feels his bill gives Iowans a better chance to buy and use 1.4G fireworks.<\/p>\n

Rep. Windschitl still sounded optimistic despite the difficulties the bill faces.<\/p>\n

“My family and I like to watch the local fireworks displays in my district,” he said. “My favorite part is the enjoyment they bring to my children.”<\/p>\n

A poll on the\u00a0Register’s\u00a0<\/em>website shows that more than 92% of respondents are in favor of legalizing fireworks in Iowa.<\/p>\n

The newest\u00a0version of the bill is SF2113<\/a>, and is currently with the Senate Ways and Means committee.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time and certainly won’t be the last time the Iowa fireworks bill struggles through the Senate and House. We’ll keep you posted on any new developments.<\/p>\n

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Getting 1.4G (consumer) fireworks in Iowans hands has been an up-and-down proposition.\u00a0The state’s fireworks bill first made an appearance in 2015 in two forms: one in the House and one in the Senate. By the end of the year, however, it died out because Iowa’s House and Senate couldn’t agree on a single version of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-superior-fireworks-retail","tag-superior-fireworks-wholesale"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IowaFireworks_crop.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4JdUR-aM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superiorfireworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}