Bills & Legislation

A bill for an act relating to participation in cocurricular and extracurricular activities offered by school districts by pupils who open enroll for purposes of receiving educational instruction and course content primarily over the internet. (Formerly SSB 1023.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act concerning self-storage facilities, including acceptances and defaults of rental agreements. (Formerly HSB 184.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to motor vehicle dealers, including rights to certain vehicles, records storage requirements, and remote sales of motor vehicles. (Formerly HSB 656.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act concerning information regarding certain state and federal student loan programs. (Formerly HSB 152.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to real estate transfer tax, including declarations of value. (Formerly HF 2188, HSB 569.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to interest rates and charges on regulated loans, and consumer credit transaction service charges. (Formerly HSB 524.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act requiring the department of transportation to provide for the registration of noncommercial fleet vehicles and issue special noncommercial fleet vehicle registration plates. (Formerly HSB 207.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act repealing certain programs and other matters relating to higher education. (Formerly HSB 607.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

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 paid parental leave for state employees, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 579.) Effective date: 04/30/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to cost sharing for health savings accounts and qualified high-deductible health plans. (Formerly HSB 518.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to living organ donors and life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance. (Formerly HF 2193.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act providing for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at regents institutions for certain veterans with service-connected disabilities. (Formerly HF 2132.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

A bill for an act relating to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials or professional or occupational licenses, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 2091.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to city civil service employees and related procedures and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1010.) Effective date: 08/16/2025.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act incorporating provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth and development and health curricula provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to students enrolled in grades five through twelve. (Formerly SSB 1028.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the license application form for real estate brokers and salespersons, and brokerage agreement requirements. (Formerly SF 15.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection. (Formerly SSB 1230.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act related to state taxation and finance and other related matters, by creating, modifying, and eliminating tax credits and tax incentive programs, providing for penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1205.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025, 12/31/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2017, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to the natural hazard mitigation financing program, the disaster recovery housing assistance program, the disaster recovery new housing program, post-loss assignment of benefits, the licensing and regulation of adjusters, appraisers, and umpires, and the Iowa economic emergency fund, and providing penalties, making appropriations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 591, SSB 1188.) Effective date: 04/22/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: Conditional, 01/01/2024.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to state government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers; authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds; providing for properly related matters including crystalline polymorph psilocybin, medical residency and fellowship positions, state membership in the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, student abuse by school employees, modified supplemental amounts for school budgets, wagering taxes, a state fire marshal study, certain legislative interim studies, and 911 emergency communications services; making corrections; and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1241.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2020, 04/30/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1231.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act regulating the marketing of grain, by providing for fees paid by grain dealers and warehouse operators into the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund, and the payment of claims to reimburse sellers and depositors for losses covered by the fund, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1131.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 10/24/2022.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to federal moneys and regulations, including the appropriation of federal moneys made available from federal block grants and other nonstate sources, the allocation of portions of federal block grants, the procedures if federal moneys or federal block grants are more or less than anticipated, and the authorization of certain city regulations when required under federal law, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1216.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 03/28/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

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.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of health and human services, including administrative services organizations, child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, internal audit and examination information, and the region incentive fund in the mental health and disability services regional service fund, health maintenance organization’s premium tax, and making appropriations and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 620, SF 582, SSB 1171.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2024, 07/01/2024.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to state and local taxation and regulations by changing certain tax credits, cigarette and tobacco-related regulations, and certain city budget certification deadlines, providing for penalties, and including retroactive applicability and effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1153.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch including judicial officer salaries and interpreter or translator fees, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1233.) Effective date: 06/20/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act providing for programs and regulations related to agriculture, including crop production, animal health, and agricultural processing, providing for powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, providing fees, and providing penalties. (Formerly SF 522, SSB 1160.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and the state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and extending the repeal date for the housing renewal pilot program. (Formerly SSB 1236.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

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.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to the administration of the tax by the department of revenue by modifying provisions related to personal income, property, sales and use, motor fuel, and inheritance taxes, changing tax expenditure reviews, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 89.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2024, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to sex and gender, including those and related terms for purposes of statutory construction, indications of a person’s sex on certain vital records, gender identity under the Iowa civil rights Act, and school curricula related to gender theory. Effective date: 07/01/2025.

Jason SchultzRepublican

A bill for an act relating to services and support for youth, including treatment, physical assessments, and behavioral health evaluations for youth involved in juvenile delinquency and child in need of assistance proceedings; the licensing and certification of certain residential facilities; the provision of home and community-based services and habilitation services to certain youth by residential programs; administration and supervision of juvenile court services; and the suspension of Hawki eligibility for inmates of public institutions. (Formerly SSB 1120.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to digital financial asset transaction kiosks and including penalties, and effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1142.) Effective date: 05/19/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY

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.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units. (Formerly SSB 1182.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act concerning local government notice requirements on certain actions. (Formerly SSB 1116.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund, the primary road fund, and the statutory allocations fund. (Formerly SSB 1219.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 599, SF 363.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to health care including a funding model for the rural health care system; the elimination of several health care-related award, grant, residency, and fellowship programs; establishment of a health care professional incentive program; Medicaid graduate medical education; the health facilities council; and the Iowa health information network, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 754, HSB 191.) Contingent effective date, effective 05/28/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act prohibiting the use of remotely piloted aircraft flying over farm property, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 1191.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to school safety by requiring the creation of school safety assessment teams and authorizing information sharing between certain governmental agencies. (Formerly SSB 1099.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, prescription drugs, and pharmacy services administrative organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1074.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to local laws implementing the Iowa civil rights Act of 1965, local civil rights commissions, and local civil rights agencies, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1184.) Effective date: 03/10/2026.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority and the Iowa finance authority including the strategic infrastructure program, brownfield, grayfield, and redevelopment tax credits, community attraction and tourism, vision Iowa, sports tourism marketing, the historic preservation tax credit, homelessness, the title guaranty board, arts and culture, and the Iowa reinvestment Act and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 221.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2020, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS