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Yes: 128 • No: 10
IowaSF 51391st General Assembly (2025–2026)SenateWALLET
A bill for an act prohibiting a court from ordering payment of a postsecondary education subsidy for a child under a dissolution of marriage temporary order or final judgment or decree, and providing for application to existing orders, judgments, and decrees. (Formerly SF 241.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
Signed by Governor
judiciary
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
No new court-ordered college payments after divorce
Beginning July 1, 2025, Iowa courts cannot order either parent to pay college or career-training support in divorce cases. The ban covers temporary orders and final judgments, reducing parents’ potential payment duties but limiting students’ court-ordered support. Covered students are ages 18 through 21 and regularly attend qualifying career training, attend college full time, or await their next term after acceptance. The law applies to orders entered or cases pending on or after July 1, 2025. It does not itself allow changes to earlier orders already requiring this support. The law also removes education subsidies from a special prompt-payment and contempt enforcement rule, and from adult stepparent-adoption support references.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
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Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/21/2025
Passed House
Yes: 85 • No: 6
Senate vote • 3/19/2025
Passed Senate
Yes: 43 • No: 4
Actions Timeline
Signed by Governor.
5/6/2025SenateReported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
5/6/2025SenateMessage from House.
4/22/2025SenateImmediate message.
4/21/2025HousePassed House, yeas 85, nays 6.
4/21/2025HousePlaced on calendar under unfinished business.
4/10/2025HousePlaced on calendar.
4/2/2025HouseCommittee vote: Yeas, 21. Nays. 0.
4/1/2025HouseCommittee report, recommending passage.
4/1/2025HouseSubcommittee recommends passage.
4/1/2025legislatureSubcommittee Meeting: 04/01/2025 8:00AM House Lounge 2.
3/27/2025HouseSubcommittee: Holt, Wessel-Kroeschell and Wheeler.
3/25/2025HouseRead first time, referred to Judiciary.
3/19/2025HouseMessage from Senate.
3/19/2025HouseImmediate message.
3/19/2025SenatePassed Senate, yeas 43, nays 4.
3/19/2025SenateCommittee report, approving bill.
3/5/2025SenateIntroduced, placed on calendar.
3/5/2025Senate
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
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