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IowaSF 216891st General Assembly (2025–2026)SenateWALLET
A bill for an act relating to workforce matters including apprenticeships and other career training, unemployment insurance, and membership of the state workforce development board, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3044.) Effective date: 06/30/2026, 07/01/2026.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON WORKFORCE
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
10 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 1 costs, 4 mixed.
New job help for unemployment claimants
Beginning July 1, 2026, Iowa must provide individual job-search help to unemployment claimants no longer attached to work. Services start as early as the week after the initial claim, and no later than two weeks afterward. Claimants who participate and follow the program count as actively seeking work for benefit eligibility. The provision does not change benefit amounts.
New need rules for workforce scholarships
The Future Ready Iowa last-dollar scholarship replaces its initial student aid index limit of $20,000 with commission-set financial-need rules. The commission must write those rules with the Iowa Department of Workforce Development. The new criteria are not specified here, so the effect on each student's eligibility is not yet clear.
Easier entry into career teaching
Beginning July 1, 2026, Iowa limits the experience required for career and technical secondary teaching authorization to 3,000 recent, relevant hours. Required training for an initial authorization is limited to ethics training. Eligible applicants can receive authorization before accepting a school job offer.
Facility grants expand career training capacity
Iowa creates building and equipment grants for community colleges and private apprenticeship programs, whether union or nonunion. Projects must expand physical training capacity in high-demand fields, train more workers, and show demand from Iowa employers. Online training expansion is ineligible. Priority goes to training that does not duplicate offerings at other Iowa community colleges or apprenticeship programs. The program ends July 1, 2030.
Higher funding ceiling for workforce training
The annual withholding-transfer ceiling for Iowa's workforce development fund rises from $7.75 million to $9.25 million. Transfers follow a business's repayment of a qualifying training project and continue quarterly for ten years. Each quarterly transfer equals 25% of the reported final-12-month withholding amount. Transfers are prorated when withholding is insufficient.
More apprenticeship sponsors can seek grants
Intermediary apprenticeship sponsors join other eligible sponsors in seeking Iowa training grants. Programs must be federally registered through Iowa, employ apprentices at Iowa worksites, and provide at least 100 contact hours per apprentice each training year. Sponsors are ineligible if their apprentices receive contact hours from a lead sponsor. Grant money can cover only the cost of running and maintaining the apprenticeship program.
Summer youth internship pilot ends
Iowa ends its summer youth internship pilot on June 30, 2026. Young people and participating employers lose access to this pilot. The law also removes the pilot from programs guided by the high-demand jobs list.
Apprenticeship sponsors gain control and protections
Intermediary sponsors alone approve employer partners, who must meet the sponsor's standards. Employers oversee on-the-job training when a lead or intermediary sponsor handles related instruction; otherwise, the program sponsor oversees both. Before enforcement, Iowa must give written grounds and at least 60 days for employer partners to fix problems. Sponsors get at least 90 days, followed by a written decision within 30 days after that period ends. The office must prove both the violation and failure to fix it. An affected sponsor can reapply after 60 days, and an intermediary sponsor can seek court review of a final order.
New wage test for training priorities
Iowa replaces the high-demand jobs list's $14 hourly entry-wage floor with a competitive entry-level wage test. Jobs must still meet education and job-opening or growth criteria. The workforce board must update the statewide list every three years with community colleges, stakeholder input, and public comment. Earlier updates require a written request from a community-college-designated representative and board agreement.
Three-apprentice limit for licensed trade supervisors
In plumbing and mechanical trades, each licensed journeyperson or master can employ or supervise up to three licensed apprentices at once. The three-apprentice ceiling does not apply to classroom training.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON WORKFORCE
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Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/1/2026
Passed House
Yes: 87 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/30/2026
Passed Senate
Yes: 40 • No: 0
House vote • 4/15/2026
Passed House
Yes: 95 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/5/2026
Passed Senate
Yes: 28 • No: 14
Actions Timeline
Signed by Governor.
6/2/2026SenateFiscal note.
5/20/2026legislatureReported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
5/18/2026SenateMessage from House.
5/2/2026SenateExplanation of vote.
5/2/2026HouseImmediate message.
5/1/2026HousePassed House, yeas 87, nays 0.
5/1/2026HouseHouse concurred in Senate amendment H-8453.
5/1/2026HouseFiscal note.
5/1/2026legislatureSenate amendment H-8453 filed.
5/1/2026HouseMessage from Senate.
5/1/2026HouseImmediate message.
4/30/2026SenatePassed Senate, yeas 40, nays 0.
4/30/2026SenateSenate concurred with S-5187, as amended.
4/30/2026SenateAmendment S-5233 adopted.
4/30/2026SenateAmendment S-5241 filed, withdrawn.
4/30/2026SenateAmendment S-5233 to S-5187 filed.
4/29/2026SenateFiscal note.
4/16/2026legislatureMessage from House, with amendment S-5187.
4/16/2026SenateImmediate message.
4/15/2026HousePassed House, yeas 95, nays 0.
4/15/2026HouseCommittee amendment H-8344 adopted, as amended.
4/15/2026HouseAmendment H-8363 to amendment H-8344 adopted.
4/15/2026HouseAmendment H-8363 filed.
4/14/2026HousePlaced on Appropriations calendar.
4/9/2026House
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
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