Bill Text: IA HJR10 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa House Joint Resolution 10 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A joint resolution designating the honeybee as the official state insect for the State of Iowa.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 10)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - Committee report, recommending passage. [HJR10 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HJR10-Introduced.html


House Joint Resolution 10 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION       
                                 BY  R. TAYLOR, HEARTSILL,
                                     FISHER, HEATON,
                                     McKEAN, SIECK,
                                     KAUFMANN, COWNIE,
                                     WILLS, and BACON

                                      HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

  1 A Joint Resolution designating the honeybee as the official
  2    state insect for the State of Iowa.
  3 WHEREAS, honeybees (apis mellifera) most likely originated
  4 in tropical Africa and were brought to the new world with
  5 the first Spanish and English colonists and quickly escaped
  6 into the wild, eventually populating the entire western
  7 hemisphere; and
  8 WHEREAS, bees pollinate approximately 75 percent of
  9 the fruit, nut, and vegetable plants grown in the United
 10 States; and
 11 WHEREAS, one=third of the food produced in the United States
 12 depends on insect pollination, 80 percent of which is due to
 13 honeybees; and
 14 WHEREAS, tiny as they are, honeybees play a key role in
 15 Iowa's agroecosystem, with plant pollination performed by
 16 honeybees valued at an estimated $92 million annually; and
 17 WHEREAS, approximately 1,500 Iowa beekeepers manage around
 18 30,000 colonies of honeybees that produce over 3 million pounds
 19 of honey annually; and
 20 WHEREAS, limited field trials in Clarion, Iowa, revealed
 21 crop yield gains of 8 percent in soybean fields with honeybee
 22 hives placed in close proximity; and
 23 WHEREAS, honey bee pollination is critical to plant and
 24 human survival; NOW THEREFORE,
 25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  STATE INSECT DESIGNATED.  The honeybee (apis
  1  2 mellifera) is designated and shall officially be known as the
  1  3 state insect of Iowa.
  1  4    Sec. 2.  APPROPRIATE REPRESENTATIONS.  The director of
  1  5 the department of cultural affairs shall obtain appropriate
  1  6 pictures and other representations of the honeybee and shall
  1  7 display the pictures and representations in an appropriate
  1  8 place in the state historical museum.
  1  9    Sec. 3.  OFFICIAL REGISTER.  The editor of the Iowa official
  1 10 register shall include an appropriate picture and commentary
  1 11 of the honeybee in the Iowa official register along with the
  1 12 pictures of the state rock, state flower, state bird, and state
  1 13 tree.
  1 14                           EXPLANATION
  1 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 16 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 17    This joint resolution designates the honeybee as the
  1 18 official state insect of Iowa.  The director of the department
  1 19 of cultural affairs shall obtain pictures and other appropriate
  1 20 representations of the state insect and display the pictures
  1 21 and information in the state historical museum.  The editor of
  1 22 the Iowa official register shall include a picture of the state
  1 23 insect along with pictures of the state rock, state flower,
  1 24 state bird, and state tree.
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