# Iowa SF 660: A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1240.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. Iowa SF 660, A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1240.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025., is a 91st General Assembly (2025–2026) Senate bill sponsored by COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS; status signed, last action 2025-06-27 (Explanations of votes.) (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IA-SF660-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-19 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Iowa SF 660 - State: Iowa - Session: 91st General Assembly (2025–2026) - Title: A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1240.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-05-14 - Last action: 2025-06-27, Explanations of votes. - Sponsor: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS - Cosponsors: 0 - Touches household money: no - Roll calls: 2 (119 yes, 2 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 8 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - More pay funding for school staff: benefit, medium. The law provides $14 million from sports wagering receipts for school support staff compensation in the 2025–2026 budget year. Eligible staff are regular and part-time district employees who are not salaried. District shares follow their July 2024 budget-year enrollment compared with statewide enro… - Yearly funding for public safety equipment: benefit, low. Starting July 1, 2025, Iowa provides $8 million each budget year for the public safety equipment fund. The money comes from sports wagering receipts. The law exempts this funding from the specified reporting requirements that otherwise apply. - Yearly support for service award grants: benefit, low. Starting July 1, 2026, Iowa makes yearly transfers from sports wagering receipts to the length-of-service award grant fund. Each transfer brings the balance not already committed to $1.5 million as of July 1. This is a balance target, not a new $1.5 million payment every year. The transfers are exe… - More funding for special education oversight: benefit, low. Iowa provides up to $5 million from sports wagering receipts for its special education division in the 2025–2026 budget year. The Department of Education can use it for supervision, oversight, compliance, staff pay, support, maintenance, and related work. The funding supports work across Area Educa… - Funding set aside for film incentives: benefit, low. Iowa sets aside up to $4 million from sports wagering receipts for film incentives in the 2025–2026 budget year. The Economic Development Authority receives the money for deposit in the Iowa film production incentive fund. The funding depends on that fund's creation under Senate File 657, section 7… - Recipients cannot combine tourism program grants: cost, low. Starting July 1, 2025, entities awarded major events and tourism aid cannot also receive sports tourism infrastructure aid. Cities, counties, and nonprofit public entities receiving sports infrastructure aid are also ineligible for major events and tourism aid. - Bigger sports project grants, tighter eligibility: mixed, low. Starting July 1, 2025, sports tourism aid funds infrastructure that directly supports college, professional, or other local sporting events—not marketing. Cities, counties, and nonprofit public entities can qualify. The law removes the $500,000 annual award cap per applicant, but assistance still c… - New event grants replace sports marketing: mixed, low. Starting July 1, 2025, Iowa's Economic Development Authority runs a new major events and tourism program. It gets up to $4 million from sports wagering receipts for 2025–2026, plus remaining money from the repealed sports tourism marketing fund. Grants cover bidding, planning, hosting, and event fe… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-05-14 | House | Passed House | pass | 80 | 2 | | | 2025-05-14 | Senate | Passed Senate | pass | 39 | 0 | | ## Actions (21) - 2025-06-27: Explanations of votes. (House) - 2025-06-11: Signed by Governor. (Senate) - 2025-06-02: NOBA: Final (legislature) - 2025-05-23: Reported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor. (Senate) - 2025-05-20: Explanation of vote. (House) - 2025-05-14: Message from Senate. (House) - 2025-05-14: Immediate message. (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Passed Senate, yeas 39, nays 0. (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Senate concurred with S-3194. (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Message from House, with amendment S-3194. (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Immediate message. (House) - 2025-05-14: NOBA: Senate Full Approps (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Passed House, yeas 80, nays 2. (House) - 2025-05-14: Amendment H-1360 filed, adopted. (House) - 2025-05-14: Substituted for HF 1041. (House) - 2025-05-14: Message from Senate. (House) - 2025-05-14: Immediate message. (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Passed Senate, yeas 43, nays 0. (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Amendment S-3192 filed, adopted. (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Committee report, approving bill. (Senate) - 2025-05-14: Introduced, placed on Appropriations calendar. (Senate) ## Bill text - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGI/91/SF660.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGE/91/SF660.pdf) ## Related bills - HF 2801: A bill for an act modifying the major economic growth attraction program, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 785.) Effective date: 10/02/20… (signed) - SF 2472: A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions, divisions… (signed) - HF 2601: A bill for an act relating to campaign finance, including participation in ballot issue campaigns by foreign nationals and investigations of election misconduc… (signed) - SF 2471: A bill for an act relating to fees for lifetime fur harvester licenses. (Formerly SF 2317, SSB 3121.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. (signed) - SF 2399: A bill for an act relating to bail and bond amounts and conditions. (Formerly SSB 3162.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. (signed) - SF 2299: A bill for an act relating to the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program. (Formerly SF 2176.) Vetoed 6-2-26. (vetoed) ## Sources - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGI/91/SF660.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGE/91/SF660.pdf) ## Related - [HF 2801: A bill for an act modifying the major economic growth attraction program, and i…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IA-HF2801-2025-2026) - [SF 2472: A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IA-SF2472-2025-2026) - [HF 2601: A bill for an act relating to campaign finance, including participation in ball…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IA-HF2601-2025-2026) - [SF 2471: A bill for an act relating to fees for lifetime fur harvester licenses. (Former…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IA-SF2471-2025-2026) - [SF 2399: A bill for an act relating to bail and bond amounts and conditions. (Formerly S…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IA-SF2399-2025-2026) - [SF 2299: A bill for an act relating to the district-to-community college sharing or conc…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IA-SF2299-2025-2026) - [Iowa bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/iowa/bills) - [Iowa state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/iowa) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IA-SF660-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).