All Roll Calls
Yes: 208 • No: 83
IowaSF 60391st General Assembly (2025–2026)Senate
A bill for an act relating to workforce compensation and training, unemployment insurance, and other functions and programs of the department of workforce development, the workforce development board, and local government entities, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 222, SSB 1068.) Effective date: 03/28/2025, 07/01/2025.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 3 costs, 1 mixed.
Employers get narrower unemployment tax wage rules
Beginning July 1, 2025, Iowa's unemployment insurance taxable wage definition covers wages paid in Iowa during a calendar year. This includes wages paid to a worker by an employer or its predecessor, when employer contributions are required. The law removes the prior inclusion of out-of-state wages from states offering Iowa the same treatment. This may narrow taxable wages for some multistate employers. No contribution rate or wage limit is provided to calculate savings.
Iowa drops required adult skills assessments
Beginning July 1, 2025, Iowa's workforce department no longer must provide a statewide standard skills assessment for adult workers. The law also removes the requirement to include that assessment in one-stop workforce services. It names no replacement assessment.
Iowa Conservation Corps program ends
Beginning July 1, 2025, the law repeals the Iowa Conservation Corps program's legal framework. It also removes the corps from Iowa's national service programs and positions. The law names no replacement program or funding amount.
Local workforce boards face new planning rules
Beginning July 1, 2025, local workforce boards must develop plans with their chief elected officials. Iowa's workforce department reviews and approves the plans and changes to them. Plans must follow current federal workforce laws and rules. They must include federally required information and any extra information required by the department or state board. The department sets the submission and approval process.
Local pay and training requirements face limits
Beginning March 28, 2025, apprenticeship training is voluntary unless state law expressly requires it. Local governments cannot add apprenticeship requirements beyond state law. School districts, counties, and cities cannot impose extra employee pay or training standards on developers, contractors, or subcontractors. They also cannot tie incentives to standards beyond those authorized by state law. Covered businesses face fewer local requirements, while workers lose the possibility of those added local protections.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 3/19/2025
Passed Senate
Yes: 32 • No: 15
legislature vote • 3/18/2025
Amendment H-1106
Yes: 64 • No: 34
House vote • 3/18/2025
Passed House
Yes: 64 • No: 34
Senate vote • 3/12/2025
Passed Senate
Yes: 48 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Fiscal note.
6/6/2025legislatureSigned by Governor.
3/28/2025SenateReported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
3/28/2025SenateMessage from Senate.
3/19/2025HouseImmediate message.
3/19/2025SenatePassed Senate, yeas 32, nays 15.
3/19/2025SenateSenate concurred with S-3030.
3/19/2025SenateDeferred.
3/19/2025SenateAmendment S-3034 filed, lost.
3/19/2025SenateAmendment S-3033 filed, lost.
3/19/2025SenateFiscal note.
3/19/2025legislatureMessage from House, with amendment S-3030.
3/19/2025SenateImmediate message.
3/18/2025HousePassed House, yeas 64, nays 34.
3/18/2025HouseAmendment H-1106, yeas 64, nays 34, adopted.
3/18/2025HouseMotion to suspend rules prevailed.
3/18/2025HouseMotion to suspend rules for immediate consideration of amendment H-1106.
3/18/2025HousePoint of order raised on amendment H-1106, ruled not germane.
3/18/2025HouseMotion to suspend rules failed.
3/18/2025HouseMotion to suspend rules for immediate consideration of amendment H-1117 to amendment H-1106, yeas 33, nays 63.
3/18/2025HousePoint of order raised on amendment H-1117 to amendment H-1106, ruled not germane.
3/18/2025HouseAmendment H-1117 filed.
3/18/2025HouseMotion to suspend rules failed.
3/18/2025HouseMotion to suspend rules for immediate consideration of amendment H-1115 to amendment H-1106, yeas 34, nays 64.
3/18/2025HousePoint of order raised on amendment H-1115 to amendment H-1106, ruled not germane.
3/18/2025House
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
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