All Roll Calls
Yes: 136 • No: 4
IowaSF 228091st General Assembly (2025–2026)Senate
A bill for an act relating to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons, establishing the criminal offenses of threatening and the malicious sharing of personal information of a general assembly member or a judicial officer or a general assembly member’s or a judicial officer’s immediate family, and considering true threats to public officials as harassment, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 3087.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
New privacy protections for Iowa officials
Beginning July 1, 2026, Iowa protects lawmakers, judicial officers, and their immediate families against malicious sharing of personal information. Sharing their personal physical address, personal phone number, or physical location is a serious misdemeanor when done with prohibited intent. That means intending to cause harm, cause fear of serious harm, or prevent or interrupt the official’s duties. Protected relatives include spouses, children, siblings, parents, grandparents, and grandchildren, including specified step and adoptive relatives.
Stronger protections against threats to officials
Beginning July 1, 2026, Iowa makes specified threats against lawmakers, judicial officers, or their immediate families a class C felony. The threat must aim to cause fear of serious injury, disrupt official duties, or retaliate for those duties. Protected family includes spouses, children, siblings, parents, grandparents, and grandchildren, including specified step and adoptive relatives. The law also treats true threats against public officials, including threats of bodily injury, as harassment. For that harassment rule, the official must learn of the threat within one year.
Professional permit holders must conceal courtroom weapons
Beginning July 1, 2026, holders of Iowa professional weapon permits must keep weapons concealed when carrying inside a courtroom. Peace officers and correctional officers are exempt while performing their job duties.
More officials qualify for weapon permits
Beginning July 1, 2026, Iowa expands professional weapon permits for lawmakers, judicial officers, county attorneys, and assistant county attorneys. The attorney general and deputy and assistant attorneys general also qualify. Listed security, licensed private investigation, and security transport or police jobs also qualify when employment reasonably justifies carrying weapons. Assistant county attorneys need county attorney approval; state attorney general applicants apply through their home county sheriff. Covered officials’ permits can allow statewide carrying at all times, including on school grounds, and last through employment unless canceled. Other covered non-peace-officer permits generally allow carrying only during work and travel to or from work. Permits generally expire after 12 months, but employment-length permits cover the named officials, peace officers, and correctional officers. Holders must surrender employment-length permits when employment ends. A sheriff may require covered officials to take a skills test, with standards no stricter than those for peace officers. Applicants pay reasonable test costs, and the Iowa Supreme Court may set extra training or other requirements for armed judicial officers.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/8/2026
Passed House
Yes: 91 • No: 2
Senate vote • 2/24/2026
Passed Senate
Yes: 45 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Fiscal note.
5/14/2026legislatureSigned by Governor.
5/6/2026SenateReported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
5/5/2026SenateMessage from House.
4/9/2026SenateImmediate message.
4/8/2026HousePassed House, yeas 91, nays 2.
4/8/2026HouseAmendment H-8114 withdrawn.
4/8/2026HouseSubstituted for HF 2533.
4/8/2026HousePlaced on calendar under unfinished business.
3/19/2026HouseFiscal note.
3/6/2026legislatureAmendment H-8114 filed.
3/3/2026HouseRead first time, passed on file.
2/25/2026HouseMessage from Senate.
2/24/2026HouseImmediate message.
2/24/2026SenatePassed Senate, yeas 45, nays 2.
2/24/2026SenateAmendment S-5027 filed, adopted.
2/24/2026SenateFiscal note.
2/20/2026legislatureCommittee report, approving bill.
2/11/2026SenateIntroduced, placed on calendar.
2/11/2026Senate
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
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