A renewal of the SAVE bill is scheduled to come before the Iowa Senate’s Ways and Means Committee this week; and the committee’s chair may plan on speeding up the process by working directly from the House version.

State Sen. Amy Sinclair tells KNIA/KRLS News Ways and Means Committee Chair Randy Feenstra apparently sees no need to rewrite the House version of the bill.

“He has told me that he plans to do a subcommittee this upcoming week to get that extension moving forward; and honestly, I think he just will work from the House bill that has already passed out of the House,” Sinclair says.

“Since it has already passed over there, we may as well work from that model instead of creating a new one. It will make the process move more quickly, and just be more consistent.”

The local option sales and services tax is intended to be used by school districts for infrastructure purposes.