Bills & Legislation

A bill for an act relating to animal feeding operations by regulating shellfish, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 662.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties of the department of education, the discipline of students enrolled in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools who exhibit disorderly conduct in the classroom, the responsibilities and powers of the department of education, school district teachers, and other educational staff related to students who have individualized education programs or plans under section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act, and school district professional development plans, and authorizing teachers to request a meeting of a student’s individualized education program team. (Formerly HF 2122.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to subacute mental health care facilities and services, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2220.) Effective date: 05/02/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to career academies, the collective statewide articulation agreement between community colleges and the state board of regents, the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program, and individual career and academic plans, and by requiring the state board of regents to submit a report related to establishing a performance-based funding model for the institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents. (Formerly HSB 572.)

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to a pregnant minor’s legal capacity to consent to the provision of certain medical care. (Formerly HF 814.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to investigations of insurance fraud related to adjusters, appraisers, and umpires, and license and financial responsibility requirements for adjusters, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 701.) Effective date: 04/09/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to emergency planning and coordination for electric transmission line owners, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 737.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act establishing drug-free homeless service zones, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 705.)

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act regulating the marketing of grain, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 745.)

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

A bill for an act relating to a required course of instruction regarding human trafficking prevention for persons applying for the initial issuance of certain commercial driver’s licenses, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 697.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: Conditional.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to education programs and systems, including career and technical education expenditures and definitions, statewide lower division general education framework and common course numbering systems, and the implementation of a statewide corequisite model in Iowa community colleges. (Formerly HSB 675.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to thoroughbred and quarter horse racing seasons. (Formerly HSB 658.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

A bill for an act relating to the driving privileges of persons under the age of eighteen who were previously issued a special minor’s restricted license that was subsequently suspended, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2113.)

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to trespass, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 981.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers.

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A bill for an act relating to the Medicaid home and community-based services elderly waiver program, including transition planning and assisted living services.(Formerly HSB 739.)

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act establishing a pilot program that authorizes eligible community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees. (Formerly HSB 533.)

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to summative testing in schools and the educational program provided to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade twelve, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 746.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of administrative services, including rules for capitol complex events and the compatibility of passenger vehicles rented or leased by the state with biodiesel blended fuel classified as B-20 or higher, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 708.) Effective date: 04/09/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the expungement of certain criminal history records of victims of human trafficking, and including penalties.(Formerly HF 2144.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to business entity-owned residential arrangements, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 750.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to alignment of delivery of health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services, and including applicability and effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 622.) Effective date: 04/30/2026, 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to the supplemental nutrition assistance program; the medical assistance program; the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children; and other public assistance programs under the purview of the department of health and human services. (Formerly HSB 696.)

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act requiring the board of educational examiners to establish additional endorsements and authorizations. (Formerly HSB 677.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to state finances by modifying the taxes imposed on health maintenance organizations, making transfers from the taxpayer relief fund, making and supplementing appropriations to the department of health and human services, and including effective date, contingent effective date, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 762.) Contingent effective date, effective 03/25/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act establishing a scenic byways enhancement fund, including by providing for voluntary contributions to the fund, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2353, HF 971, HF 581, HF 130.)

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to agriculture, including by providing for the powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, including the promotion and regulation of commodities and products; the regulation of the transportation of agricultural commodities; the use of agricultural land; and taxation, including property taxes, excise and sales taxes, and income taxes; making penalties applicable; and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 2340, HSB 588.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to the collection and distribution of fees for wire transmissions, the establishment of the school security grant program, and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 601.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to criminal acts against persons in certain occupations, including testing for communicable diseases for certain persons who have committed an assault against a member of a protected occupation, certain public safety personnel, including confidentiality of peer support communications for public safety officers and civilian employees, and obstructing first responders, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 2728.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to the teach Iowa scholar program, including modifying eligibility provisions and establishing funding allocations. (Formerly HF 2441, HSB 648.)

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to state participation in the federal tax credit program for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations.(Formerly HF 2308.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to nuclear electric generation facilities by creating sales and use tax exemptions and refunds, making appropriations to the state board of regents for establishing and maintaining a nuclear energy workforce, making penalties applicable, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 767.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2026, 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to school district budgeting by modifying provisions relating to proposed property tax amounts. (Formerly HSB 768.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2595, HSB 731.) Effective date: 06/02/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to a convenience fee for recording applications for the registration of a snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or vessel in a county by a person who is not a resident of the county. (Formerly HSB 761.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act modifying the individual income tax credit for emergency medical services personnel to include volunteer ambulance drivers, and including retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2280.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act extending the biodiesel blended fuel tax credit.(Formerly HSB 688.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act permitting an exchange of the cash reserve levy for another local levy within the school budget for certain school districts to correct for an extreme circumstance and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 781.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act establishing a sexual assault forensic examination center grant program and trust fund. (Formerly HF 705, HF 458.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to the provision of information relating to immunization exemptions. (Formerly HF 34.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to prior authorization and utilization review organizations. (Formerly HSB 19.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to the review by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing of certain deficient practices by nursing facilities. (Formerly HSB 1.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to career education, including middle school career exploration and industry-recognized credential seals and certificates for high school students. (Formerly HSB 44.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to cost-sharing requirements for supplemental and diagnostic breast examinations. (Formerly HSB 100.)

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to physical examinations of personnel working in licensed or registered child care facilities. (Formerly HSB 7.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to the Iowa school performance profiles published by the department of education, including how dropout students affect school performance grades contained in the profiles. (Formerly HF 136.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to approved courses of instruction for school bus drivers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 107.) Effective date: 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION