Bills & Legislation

A bill for an act relating to assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and harassment against public utility employees or contractors, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SSB 3156.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to bail and bond amounts and conditions. (Formerly SSB 3162.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the Iowa communications network, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3149.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to abusive litigation alleging internet site accessibility violations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3174.)

COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY

A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3089.) Effective date: 07/01/2026, 07/01/2027

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts.(Formerly SF 2091.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to bonds and letters of credit for general contractors and subcontractors. (Formerly SF 576, SSB 1151.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to fire fighting foam purchased by government entities.(Formerly SSB 3099.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the national electrical code, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3097.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act requiring cost-benefit analyses of county jail projects, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3137.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to public improvement contracts, including notice requirements. (Formerly SSB 3159.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the open enrollment of pupils who are truant or chronically absent, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 2116.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the approval and publication of meeting minutes of county boards of supervisors. (Formerly SF 2026.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act directing the department of education to convene a working group to study the impact of technology on the cognitive function and academic performance of students.(Formerly SF 516, SF 237.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program. (Formerly SF 2170.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the inclusion of the your life Iowa program on public school internet sites.(Formerly SF 2084.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to nonresident deer hunting licenses.(Formerly SSB 3127.)

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

A bill for an act relating to certain public utilities, including the development of ratemaking principles permitted for recovery costs of certain investments in infrastructure by water and wastewater utilities and cost considerations for acquisitions of water, sanitary sewer, or storm water utilities. (Formerly SSB 3068.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program. (Formerly SF 2176.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to digital financial kiosks, modifying civil penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3086.)

COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY

A bill for an act relating to the department of administrative services’ historical resource research center in Iowa City, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3033.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3040.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the investment of public funds, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 3075.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the use of automated systems that detect traffic violations or registration plate information, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 2034.)

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by law enforcement officers.(Formerly SF 2105.)

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons, establishing the criminal offenses of threatening and the malicious sharing of personal information of a general assembly member or a judicial officer or a general assembly member’s or a judicial officer’s immediate family, and considering true threats to public officials as harassment, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 3087.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the sale or offer for sale of certain firearm devices.(Formerly SF 2001.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the carrying, transportation, and possession of weapons, and including effective date provisions.

Jason SchultzRepublican

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the protected speech and expression rights of students, modifying provisions related to the duties of the department of education, and modifying eligibility and participation requirements for certain education programs, preschool programs, and tax provisions, providing civil penalties, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 2060.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 Applicability date: 01/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to computer science education, including by modifying provisions related to standards for computer science education, the curriculum provided to students enrolled in grades nine through twelve, and practitioner preparation programs, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3050.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the Iowa statewide assessment of student progress and programs for gifted and talented children, and by requiring school districts to develop an advanced mathematics pathway and implement procedures for subject acceleration and whole-grade acceleration, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3042.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 Applicability date: 07/01/2027

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act requiring boards of directors of school districts, governing boards of charter schools, and authorities in charge of accredited nonpublic schools to adopt policies related to exempting student absences for school-sponsored activities, programs, competitions, and projects. (Formerly SSB 3041.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the verification of the identity and employment eligibility of individuals by the board of educational examiners, school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3015.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the submission of proposed legislation by the governor and state departments and agencies. (Formerly SF 2037.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the verification of United States citizenship of persons registering to vote and registered voters. (Formerly SSB 3045.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to information required for nonresidents who apply for vehicle registration and issuance of a certificate of title. (Formerly SF 2025.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to the verification of citizenship and immigration status of persons who apply for or renew a driver’s license or nonoperator’s identification card, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3024.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: Conditional.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to child custody and visitation for parents subject to deployments. (Formerly SF 2053.)

COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

A bill for an act relating to licenses to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery, and administrative medicine licenses. (Formerly SSB 3081.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to eligibility requirements for lifetime hunting, fishing, and fur harvester licenses.

Jeff ShipleyRepublican

A bill for an act relating to programs and procedures of the department of workforce development and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3044.)

COMMITTEE ON WORKFORCE

A bill for an act relating to malicious prosecution arising from civil actions between private parties.

Adrian DickeyRepublican

A bill for an act relating to respondents in a proceeding to expunge information in a record in the investment adviser registration depository.(Formerly SSB 3056.)

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to the responsibility and liability of property owners for public places in cities, prohibiting fines, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1118.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to monetary donations that may be received and gifted by local officials and local employees to offset medical or health care expenses, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SF 580, SF 261.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act enacting the athletic trainer compact. (Formerly SSB 3046.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to transportation, including the administration and regulation of matters associated with the operation, registration, and titling of motor vehicles and the Mississippi river parkway commission, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3023.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to information provided to the department of workforce development during the fact-finding process for claims for unemployment benefits.(Formerly SSB 3003.)

COMMITTEE ON WORKFORCE

A bill for an act authorizing schools to offer an elective junior fire fighter program to students enrolled in grades eleven and twelve. (Formerly SSB 3007.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON WORKFORCE

A bill for an act relating to the commission on uniform state laws.

Amy SinclairRepublican