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Yes: 193 • No: 32
IowaHF 278791st General Assembly (2025–2026)House
A bill for an act prohibiting warrant resolution clinics, including enforcement mechanisms, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 780.) Effective date: 06/02/2026.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT
Signed by Governor
judiciary
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
Residents can sue over banned clinics
Beginning June 2, 2026, residents can sue in district court over banned clinics or equivalent programs held or planned in their county. They can seek court orders stopping violations or declaring whether conduct violates the law. They can also recover actual damages, if any. Residents who substantially win their case can recover reasonable lawyer fees and court costs.
Clinic violations bring penalties and enforcement
Beginning June 2, 2026, public officials and employees who knowingly violate the ban commit a simple misdemeanor. They also face possible removal from office or employment under applicable law. Private people who knowingly organize, sponsor, host, or fund banned clinics or equivalent programs also commit a simple misdemeanor. They face civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation, recoverable by the Iowa Attorney General in district court. Anyone can report suspected violations; the Attorney General must publish a process for receiving and reviewing reports. The Attorney General can investigate with or without a report and seek court orders stopping violations, applicable penalties, costs, and reasonable attorney fees.
Counties supporting clinics lose court-debt money
Beginning June 2, 2026, counties cannot receive court-debt money if they organize, sponsor, host, fund, promote, or participate in banned clinics. This includes fees and payments tied to collecting overdue fines and fees that count as court debt. The law does not state how much money a county can lose.
Iowa bans clinics for clearing warrants
Beginning June 2, 2026, Iowa bans planned events for resolving arrest warrants without immediate arrest or processing into custody. No person or group may organize, sponsor, host, fund, promote, or participate in these clinics. Public money and facilities cannot host them, and local governments cannot authorize them or enforce conflicting rules. Equivalent programs are also banned, including renamed events or grouped court dates offering resolution without immediate arrest outside standard procedures. People must instead surrender to law enforcement, attend a regular hearing directed by a judge, or make a motion in their pending case. That motion may be written or oral, must give notice to the prosecutor, and must follow normal court procedures outside banned arrangements.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/3/2026
Passed Senate
Yes: 31 • No: 12
House vote • 4/29/2026
Passed House
Yes: 71 • No: 20
legislature vote • 4/29/2026
Amendment H-8429
Yes: 91 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by Governor.
6/2/2026HouseReported correctly enrolled, signed by Speaker and President, and sent to Governor.
5/13/2026HouseImmediate message.
5/3/2026SenatePassed Senate, yeas 31, nays 12.
5/3/2026SenateMessage from Senate.
5/2/2026HouseCommittee report, recommending passage.
5/1/2026SenateSubcommittee: Bousselot, Quirmbach, and Webster.
4/30/2026legislatureRead first time, referred to Judiciary.
4/29/2026SenateMessage from House.
4/29/2026SenateImmediate message.
4/29/2026HousePassed House, yeas 71, nays 20.
4/29/2026HouseAmendment H-8429, yeas 91, nays 0, filed, adopted.
4/29/2026HouseMotion to suspend rules failed.
4/29/2026HouseMotion to suspend rules for immediate consideration of amendment H-8434, yeas 27, nays 64.
4/29/2026HousePoint of order raised on amendment H-8434, ruled not germane.
4/29/2026HouseAmendments H-8429 and H-8434 filed.
4/29/2026HouseIntroduced, placed on calendar.
4/24/2026House
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
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