Bills & Legislation

A bill for an act requiring the director of the department of education to develop and administer a purple star school initiative. (Formerly SSB 1067.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act prohibiting public entities from engaging in certain activities relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 155.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the law enforcement academy, including military veterans with active duty military police experience and former federal law enforcement officers. (Formerly HF 539.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act relating to qualifications for a certificate as a certified public accountant and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 177.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the applicability of the standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities to contingent deferred annuities. (Formerly SSB 3064.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act enacting the respiratory care interstate compact. (Formerly HSB 120.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act concerning quarterly reports on and payments of beer barrel and wine gallonage taxes, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 273.) Effective date: 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to driver age qualifications for certain commercial motor vehicle drivers operating solely intrastate to transport hazardous material. (Formerly SSB 1015.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to statutory corrections which may adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, remove ambiguities, and provide for Code editor directives. (Formerly HSB 115.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to students who attend a course in religious instruction that is provided by a private organization, including by modifying provisions related to compulsory education and chronic absenteeism. (Formerly HSB 218.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to partial payments during construction of a farm-to-market road. (Formerly HSB 296.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to pediatric palliative care centers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 267.) Effective date: 05/27/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to special landowner turkey hunting licenses. (Formerly SF 10.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

A bill for an act relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 32.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act establishing a center for intellectual freedom at the university of Iowa. (Formerly HSB 52.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

A bill for an act removing birth centers from the meaning of institutional health facility. (Formerly HF 277.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, and related provisions and appropriations, including aging and disability services; behavioral health, public health, community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; sex reassignment surgeries or associated procedures; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care, administration and compliance; transfers, cash flows, and nonreversions; prior appropriations; the beer and liquor control fund, and the behavioral health fund; report on nonreversion of moneys; emergency rules; and a hospital directed payment program; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 342.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2024.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to alcoholic beverages, including license authorizations, bond requirements, and fee determinations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 79.) Effective date: 04/25/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 11/10/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the duties of the director of the department of corrections, the board of corrections, superintendents, and district directors. (Formerly HSB 111.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to electronic devices in schools, including student access during instructional hours and school safety plans, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 106.) Effective date: 04/30/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the practice of dental assistants without registration by the dental board. (Formerly HF 340.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to eligibility requirements for financial institutions in which public funds may be deposited. (Formerly HSB 252.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to tuition, degree programs, employment, and related matters pertaining to students enrolled at regents institutions. (Formerly HSB 51.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to deer and wild turkey hunting licenses for disabled veterans. (Formerly HF 692.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. (Formerly HSB 176.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act implementing requirements related to organizations that sponsor or administer extracurricular interscholastic athletics, including the creation of a conference realignment committee. (Formerly HF 331.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act enacting the physician assistant licensure compact. (Formerly HSB 87.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to the release of liens on snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, and water vessels. (Formerly HSB 295.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to medical residency and fellowship positions, including priority for admission to the university of Iowa’s colleges of medicine and dentistry, and hospitals and clinics. (Formerly HF 137.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act prohibiting state and local regulations on fuel-powered equipment based on the equipment’s fuel source. (Formerly HSB 214.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES

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

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, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to health insurers’ credentialing process. (Formerly HF 556.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to solicitation by a financial institution using prescreened trigger lead information from a consumer report. (Formerly HSB 150.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act concerning private sector employee drug testing. (Formerly HSB 26.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND WORKFORCE

A bill for an act creating the uniform family law arbitration Act. (Formerly HF 2277.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the harassment or bullying of students enrolled in school districts or accredited nonpublic schools. (Formerly HF 149.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to open meetings and open records, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 416.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the representation of boards of supervisors and county officials by outside counsel, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 414.) Effective date: 05/19/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act providing for the disclosure of lead service lines in real estate disclosures and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 442.) Effective date: 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to roofs on private docks and required insurance. (Formerly HSB 163.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES

A bill for an act creating a special motion for expedited relief in actions involving the exercise of the right of freedom of speech and of the press, the right to assemble and petition, and the right of association, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 116.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act modifying provisions related to charter school board member requirements. (Formerly HSB 105.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage for covered individuals for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 5.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to peer-to-peer car sharing programs. (Formerly HSB 602.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to the address confidentiality program. (Formerly HSB 74.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the delegation of custodial rights and duties with respect to a child. (Formerly HF 374.) Effective Date: Conditional, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act concerning county and city regulation of real property and the powers granted to a board of adjustment. (Formerly HF 415.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 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