All Roll Calls
Yes: 115 • No: 93
IowaHF 280091st General Assembly (2025–2026)HouseWALLET
A bill for an act relating to state and local government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds, making corrections, and providing for properly related matters including the national electrical code, local civil rights laws, political party state central committees, noxious weeds, nonresident deer hunting licenses, proprietary treatment systems, poultry associations, tax credits, alternative nicotine and vapor products, public assistance programs, judicial branch and county attorney salaries, civil litigation abuse, human trafficking, federal grants and loans notifications, quarterly payments to area education agencies, civic proficiency in higher education, charter schools under the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, school district incentives, extracurricular interscholastic eligibility, and levy increases, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 784.) Contingent effective date, effective 06/02/2026, 06/19/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027. Applicability date: 01/01/2026, 05/12/2026, 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026, 07/01/2028.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
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
12 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 3 costs, 4 mixed.
Preschool providers face 5% admin cap
Beginning July 1, 2026, approved community preschool providers can spend up to 5% of their state preschool dollars on administration each year. Outreach and rent for facilities you do not own are allowed uses within that 5%. Providers must cover any other admin costs from non-state funds.
Penalties for late retail dealer filings
Retail dealers who file reports or keep records late can be fined up to $100 per occurrence. If you missed the latest required filing period that ended on or before your tax year’s last day, you cannot claim the tax credits in sections 422.11O, 422.11P, or 422.11Y for that year.
Fewer renewals for admin medicine licenses
The board sets the term for administrative medicine licenses. You cannot be required to renew more often than every three years. The license expires on the license holder’s birthday.
Who can consent for patients
When a patient cannot decide, a person on the state’s priority list may consent, refuse, or withdraw consent. That person must follow the patient’s stated or implied wishes. The person must be reasonably available, willing, and competent to act.
Junior firefighter classes must prep for certification
If a school offers a junior firefighter class, it must work with a local fire department. Students get the training and materials needed for Fire Fighter I certification. The class prepares students for both the written and practical Fire Fighter I exams.
Courts can order restitution with dismissals
When both the defendant and the prosecutor agree, a court can dismiss a charge and still order payments. The court may order the defendant to pay the victim money and category B restitution, which includes court costs.
Set funding levels for health allocations 2027–2036
The state sets fixed funding levels for certain health program allocations. For allocation periods starting January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2031, the amount is $4 million. For periods starting January 1, 2032 through December 31, 2036, the amount is $4.5 million. Which amount applies depends on when the allocation period begins.
Temporary 2026 tax on HMOs
From January 1, 2026 through September 30, 2026, each HMO doing business in Iowa pays a temporary health care tax of 3.5% of its taxable funds for that period. Any difference from the regular rate is not subject to prepayment.
Tighter rules for shared vehicle programs
To sign up with a shared vehicle program, you must be an Iowa resident with an Iowa license for that vehicle, a nonresident with a valid home license who meets Iowa’s minimum age, or someone the state specifically authorizes. Programs must keep permanent records of each driver’s name and address, license number and where it was issued, and other people allowed to drive the shared vehicle.
Approval needed for publicly funded living services
Supported community living services do not need a facility license to receive public money. To get public funding, a provider must first be approved under the state’s approval process. Providers must meet those approval conditions to receive payment.
New conscience rules in health care
The law lets medical practitioners and health care institutions refuse to take part in or pay for services that violate their conscience. A practitioner who objects must tell their employer what the objection is. Buying, refusing to buy, or negotiating insurance or a health service is not treated as discrimination, and a facility’s good-faith effort to accommodate conscience is not discrimination. The state insurance commissioner can make rules to carry out and enforce these provisions.
Tax rules for nuclear facility purchases
Sales of tangible goods, specified digital products, and services to a nuclear electric generation facility are covered when state law allows. This applies retroactively to January 1, 2026 for those sales tied to the covered facility activities.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/3/2026
Passed Senate
Yes: 29 • No: 11
legislature vote • 5/2/2026
Amendment H-8494 to amendment H-8491
Yes: 28 • No: 56
House vote • 5/2/2026
Passed House
Yes: 58 • No: 26
Actions Timeline
Item vetoed, signed by Governor. H.J. 06/02.
6/2/2026GovernorNOBA: Final
5/19/2026legislatureReported correctly enrolled, signed by Speaker and President, and sent to Governor. H.J. 05/18.
5/18/2026SenateMessage from Senate. H.J. 05/03.
5/3/2026SenateImmediate message.
5/3/2026legislaturePassed Senate, yeas 29, nays 11.
5/3/2026SenateSubstituted for SF 2507.
5/3/2026legislatureRead first time, attached to SF 2507.
5/3/2026legislatureMessage from House.
5/3/2026HouseExplanation of vote. H.J. 05/03.
5/3/2026legislatureExplanation of vote. H.J. 05/03.
5/3/2026legislatureImmediate message.
5/2/2026legislatureExplanation of vote.
5/2/2026legislaturePassed House, yeas 58, nays 26.
5/2/2026HouseAmendment H-8491 adopted.
5/2/2026legislatureAmendment H-8493 to amendment H-8491 filed, withdrawn.
5/2/2026legislatureAmendment H-8494 to amendment H-8491, yeas 28, nays 56, filed, lost.
5/2/2026legislatureAmendment H-8492 to amendment H-8491 filed, withdrawn.
5/2/2026legislatureAmendment H-8491 filed.
5/2/2026legislatureIntroduced, placed on Appropriations calendar.
5/2/2026legislature
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
Related Bills
HF 2783 — A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, state board of regents, department of workforce development, and Iowa special education council. (Formerly HSB 778.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
SF 2490 — A bill for an act relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, pooling orders, negotiation of surface damage, imposition and distribution of a tax, and jurisdiction, and providing civil penalties. (Formerly SF 2449, SF 546, SF 268.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
HF 2782 — A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; transfers, cash flow, and nonreversions; report on nonreversion of moneys; more options for maternal support program; reimbursement rates review; mental diseases exclusion waiver; full-time equivalent dashboard; comprehensive family support program; federal community mental health services block grant; behavioral health expenditure report; opioid settlement fund; emergency rules; graduate medical education; and special population nursing facilities; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 777.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.
HF 2799 — A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority, the utilities commission, and the department of education, including creation of the headquarters expansion and development for growth and employment program, and the business incentives for growth program training fund; repeal of the new jobs tax credit program; the major economic growth attraction program; load forecasting and analysis of electric transmission system expansion plans; creation of the electric transmission system expansion planning and analysis and load forecasting fund; the industrial new jobs training program; and establishing the new jobs training program interim study committee; and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 755.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026.
HF 2768 — A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for state government administration and regulation, including the department of administrative services, auditor of state, ethics and campaign disclosure board, offices of governor and lieutenant governor, department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, department of insurance and financial services, department of management, Iowa public employees’ retirement system, public information board, department of revenue, secretary of state, treasurer of state, and utilities commission. (Formerly HSB 771.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
HF 2770 — A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing fees, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 775.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.