All Roll Calls
Yes: 133 • No: 0
IowaHF 26091st General Assembly (2025–2026)HouseWALLET
A bill for an act relating to the Iowa lottery. (Formerly HSB 69.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT
Signed by Governor
Your PRIA Score
Score Hidden
Personalized for You
How does this bill affect your finances?
Sign up for a PRIA Policy Scan to see your personalized alignment score for this bill and every other piece of legislation we track. We analyze your financial profile against policy provisions to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
6 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 2 mixed.
No lottery jobs for certain convictions
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Iowa Lottery Department does not hire people with a felony conviction or a conviction for bookmaking or other illegal gambling. The director may also deny hiring based on crimes involving moral turpitude. This tightens who can work for the lottery.
Public drawings and stronger lottery security
Beginning July 1, 2025, lottery drawings are open to the public and watched by an independent CPA. The CPA checks the drawing equipment before and after each drawing. The director can hold hearings and give oaths to review security and vendor or retailer compliance. The lottery keeps ticket order history, ticket inventory, and other security‑sensitive records confidential. Security staff may have law‑enforcement training but are not sworn peace officers. The security office must report suspected violations to prosecutors or police and keep central facilities physically secure.
Insiders and households barred from tickets and prizes
Beginning July 1, 2025, certain insiders cannot buy Iowa Lottery tickets or receive prizes. This includes Lottery Commission members, department staff, and state workers who serve the department and have access to confidential lottery information. It also covers vendor officers, employees, agents, and subcontractors who have such confidential access. Their spouse, child, sibling, or parent who lived in the same home for 183 or more days in the past 365 days are barred too.
Tighter rules for self-service kiosks
Beginning July 1, 2025, a self‑service lottery kiosk can only dispense printed lottery products. It cannot show audio or video game play and cannot be a monitor vending machine or a player‑activated gaming machine. Retailers and vendors may need to change or remove devices that do not meet this definition.
More reports and narrower lottery rulemaking
Beginning July 1, 2025, the department sends full quarterly and annual reports of lottery revenues and expenses to the Lottery Commission, Governor, Auditor of State, and Legislature. At the same time, the department’s rulemaking power is limited to rules that deal only with running and managing the lottery, not broader department operations.
New Lottery Fund and transfer deadlines
Beginning July 1, 2025, all lottery receipts go into a new Lottery Fund managed by the Treasurer of State. The director can place money in short‑term interest accounts; interest counts as lottery revenue and goes to the general fund. The director may, with the Treasurer’s approval, keep enough to cover 21 days of expected administrative costs before transferring the rest. Each quarter, the director must certify the amount due before the last day of the next month and transfer it within 45 days after the quarter ends. Lottery revenues are excluded from general fund revenue estimates, except for specialized estimates under section 8.22A.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 2/25/2025
Passed Senate
Yes: 41 • No: 0
House vote • 2/20/2025
Passed House
Yes: 92 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by Governor.
3/28/2025GovernorReported correctly enrolled, signed by Speaker and President, and sent to Governor.
3/28/2025SenateMessage from Senate.
2/26/2025SenateImmediate message.
2/25/2025legislaturePassed Senate, yeas 41, nays 0.
2/25/2025SenateSubstituted for SF 306.
2/25/2025legislatureRead first time, attached to SF 306.
2/24/2025legislatureMessage from House.
2/24/2025HouseImmediate message.
2/20/2025legislaturePassed House, yeas 92, nays 0.
2/20/2025HouseAmendment H-1014 adopted.
2/20/2025legislatureAmendment H-1014 filed.
2/18/2025legislatureIntroduced, placed on calendar.
2/6/2025legislature
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
Related Bills
SF 2411 — A bill for an act establishing an Iowa-Ireland trade commission. (Formerly SF 2268.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
HF 2357 — A bill for an act relating to statutory corrections that adjust language to reflect current practices, correct grammar, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, remove ambiguities, and establish Code editor directives. (Formerly HSB 615.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
HF 2619 — A bill for an act creating the uniform family law arbitration Act. (Formerly HF 2277.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
HF 2680 — A bill for an act relating to certified medication aides. (Formerly HSB 729.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
HF 2227 — A bill for an act relating to land restoration following the initial construction of electric transmission lines, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 526.) Effective date: 04/16/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2024.
HF 2500 — A bill for an act relating to contracts entered into by state agencies and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 583.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.