All Roll Calls
Yes: 93 • No: 40
IowaSF 64491st General Assembly (2025–2026)SenateWALLET
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing for properly related matters including indigent defense and representation, the corrections capital reinvestment fund, and a corrections federal receipts fund, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1232.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2023.
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
15 provisions identified: 13 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
More funding for prisons and community corrections
Beginning July 1, 2025, the state funds prison operations with large amounts, including $46.56 million for Fort Madison, $39.36 million for Anamosa, and $58.95 million for Oakdale, among others. Judicial district corrections also receive major funding, such as $25.01 million for the 5th district, which includes statewide electronic monitoring devices. The state reimburses counties $1.35 million for temporary prisoner confinement. DOC department‑wide duties get $5.91 million, and $2.00 million supports the ICON corrections data system.
Public safety and training funding for 2026
For July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, the state funds public safety across many agencies. The Department of Public Safety gets large sums, including $92.23 million for the State Patrol and $22.81 million for criminal investigation; some funds do not revert until the end of the next year. The Law Enforcement Academy gets $2.96 million and 31 staff and must provide free training on domestic abuse and human trafficking. The Board of Parole, Department of Public Defense ($7.27 million; 248 staff), Homeland Security ($2.45 million; 25.44 staff), and statewide 911 ($300,000) also receive funds. DPS can move money only with notice and not to end programs.
More help for victims and low-income Iowans
Beginning July 1, 2025, the state provides $5.17 million for victim assistance grants. At least $150,000 goes to care providers for human trafficking victims, and at least $150,000 moves from the victim compensation fund into the program. Unused victim grant money can carry over to the next fiscal year. The law also provides $2.63 million for legal services for Iowans in poverty. These funds support legal aid and services for crime victims across the state.
More funding and higher pay for indigent defense
Starting July 1, 2025, the state funds the Office of the State Public Defender with $35.53 million and 266 staff, plus $42.73 million to pay indigent defense claims. Unspent Title IV‑E federal money stays available in a juvenile justice improvement fund for future years. Appointed-counsel rates are $86/$81/$76 per hour for appointments made July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025, and $88/$83/$78 for appointments on or after July 1, 2025. A $100,000 transfer to a rural attorney program applies only if separate legislation is enacted.
More funding for gaming enforcement
Starting July 1, 2025, gaming enforcement gets $12.23 million and 65 staff. For each new gaming license issued in FY 2025–2026, up to $300,000 more may be added for staffing and costs. After July 1, 2026, the department may hire up to three special agents for each new gambling structure and up to three for each new racing facility.
Mediation help for Iowa farmers
Beginning July 1, 2025, the state provides $300,000 for farm mediation services. Farmers can use mediation funded by this grant to resolve disputes.
Attorney General office and cybersecurity funding
Starting July 1, 2025, the Attorney General’s office receives $10.91 million and can fund 234 staff. The office must keep time records by agency and may run a short negative cash balance only if receivables cover it at year end. The law also provides $202,060 to upgrade cybersecurity and IT systems.
Keep community programs and electronic monitoring statewide
Beginning July 1, 2025, local corrections must keep intensive supervision, sex‑offender treatment, job help, and other community‑based sanctions running when funded. Each district must offer alternatives to prison and may run a day program. DOC must keep a rental program so electronic monitoring devices are available statewide. By January 15, 2026, DOC must report how many people are monitored, by offense, and compare to last year.
More education, treatment, and spiritual care in prisons
Starting July 1, 2025, $3.11 million funds inmate education and job training, with rules to prioritize programs that help with successful release. The DOC may move money from prison industries and canteen funds to support these programs, and unused funds carry over to the next year. The law also adds $28,065 for offender mental health and substance use treatment. DOC must keep contracts for a Muslim imam and a Native American spiritual leader.
New DOC fund and budget flexibility
Effective June 11, 2025, the DOC has a federal receipts fund. Federal money goes into this fund (unless the law sends it elsewhere), can be used for DOC operations under federal rules, and carries over with interest. This division applies retroactively to the fiscal year that began July 1, 2023. DOC may reallocate its appropriations with prior notice and cannot end programs through reallocation. The Office of Drug Control Policy must treat certain DOC federal grants for district departments as local government grants.
New rules for inmate work and prison industries
Leases for private‑industry inmate jobs must ban partisan political use of inmate labor and restrict access to personal data; breaking the ban ends the lease. By January 15, 2026, DOC must report on private‑sector inmate jobs, hours, and how pay was distributed. For the fiscal year starting July 1, 2025, DOC may use inmate labor to clean roads and waters and to restore rural cemeteries and landmarks. During that year, state agencies must get bids from Iowa state industries for office furniture over $5,000 when available.
Prison property sale money kept for upgrades
Beginning July 1, 2025, money from selling Department of Corrections land or buildings goes into a capital reinvestment fund. The fund can buy other property, pay for capital projects, and upgrade the corrections computer system (ICON). Money left at year end stays in the fund, and interest earned stays with it.
Stronger consumer fraud work, focus on seniors
Starting July 1, 2025, the Department of Justice gets $2.00 million from the consumer education and litigation fund for prosecutions, appeals, and related work. The law also updates yearly dollar caps for consumer fraud public education and for work targeting fraud against older Iowans.
Consumer Advocate costs passed to customers
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Office of Consumer Advocate gets $3.76 million and 18 staff. The office must recover this cost in the charges or revenues it collects. That can raise assessed charges that utilities and related services pass on to customers.
Courts cannot use pretrial risk tool
Beginning July 1, 2025, courts must not use the public safety assessment in pretrial hearings to decide release or detention. The tool can be used again only if the legislature authorizes it.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/14/2025
Passed House
Yes: 60 • No: 27
Senate vote • 5/13/2025
Passed Senate
Yes: 33 • No: 13
Actions Timeline
Explanations of votes.
6/27/2025legislatureSigned by Governor.
6/11/2025GovernorNOBA: Final
5/28/2025legislatureReported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
5/23/2025SenateExplanation of vote.
5/20/2025legislatureMessage from House.
5/14/2025HouseImmediate message.
5/14/2025legislatureNOBA: Senate Floor
5/14/2025SenatePassed House, yeas 60, nays 27.
5/14/2025HouseAmendment H-1348 filed, withdrawn.
5/14/2025legislatureAmendment H-1341 withdrawn.
5/14/2025legislatureSubstituted for HF 1046.
5/14/2025legislatureAmendment H-1341 filed.
5/13/2025legislatureRead first time, passed on file.
5/13/2025legislatureMessage from Senate.
5/13/2025SenateImmediate message.
5/13/2025legislaturePassed Senate, yeas 33, nays 13.
5/13/2025SenateAmendment S-3155 adopted.
5/13/2025legislatureAmendment S-3155 filed.
5/12/2025legislatureNOBA: Senate Full Approps
4/30/2025SenateCommittee report, approving bill.
4/30/2025legislatureIntroduced, placed on Appropriations calendar.
4/30/2025legislature
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
Related Bills
SF 2411 — A bill for an act establishing an Iowa-Ireland trade commission. (Formerly SF 2268.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
HF 2357 — A bill for an act relating to statutory corrections that adjust language to reflect current practices, correct grammar, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, remove ambiguities, and establish Code editor directives. (Formerly HSB 615.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
HF 2619 — A bill for an act creating the uniform family law arbitration Act. (Formerly HF 2277.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
HF 2680 — A bill for an act relating to certified medication aides. (Formerly HSB 729.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.
HF 2227 — A bill for an act relating to land restoration following the initial construction of electric transmission lines, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 526.) Effective date: 04/16/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2024.
HF 2500 — A bill for an act relating to contracts entered into by state agencies and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 583.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.