Bills & Legislation

A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the effective date of school district enlargements, reorganizations, changes in boundaries, and dissolutions, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 16.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

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 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 relating to foster parent training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care providers. (Formerly SSB 3016.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to library services provided by the department of administrative services. (Formerly SSB 1031.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE 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 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 the use of the titles physician assistant and physician associate. (Formerly SSB 3059.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to the authority of an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care. (Formerly SSB 3020.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the installation of transmission lines on highway rights-of-way. (Formerly SSB 3063.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

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 relating to the carrying, transportation, and possession of weapons, and including effective date provisions.

Jason SchultzRepublican

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 district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program. (Formerly SF 2176.) Vetoed 6-2-26.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the authority of counties and cities to regulate the installation or use of battery-charged security alarm systems on nonresidential properties. (Formerly SSB 3112.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units. (Formerly SSB 3070.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts. (Formerly SF 2091.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act establishing requirements and guidelines for conversational AI services, and providing civil penalties, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3011.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY

A bill for an act eliminating a city’s ability to create a city board of health or a city health department, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3135.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to local government, including the approval of action by ordinance, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3175.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to city utilities including landlord notification, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3128.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to rounding the amount of cents for cash transactions and payments.(Formerly SSB 3143.)

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to veterans services and making appropriations.(Formerly SF 2282, SSB 3079.)

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act providing for the conversion of partnerships into other forms of domestic or foreign organizations, and providing for fees. (Formerly SF 2363, SSB 3160.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to event-driven contracts traded on dedicated contract markets by requiring a permit to conduct business in the state, imposing a tax on adjusted revenues or amounts traded, making adjustments to individual and corporate income taxes, providing for fees, and including contingent effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 2085.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

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 and the primary road fund. (Formerly SSB 3186.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund, technology reinvestment fund, and renewable fuel infrastructure fund, providing for related matters including financial assistance eligibility for regional sports authority districts, department of health and human services information technology systems, the railway tracks overpass and underpass fund, and eligibility for entities to receive financial assistance from both the Iowa major events and tourism fund and the sports tourism infrastructure program, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3187.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act providing for the rural veterinarian loan repayment program, including by allowing a loan repayment recipient to exclude net income attributable to loan payments received under the program.(Formerly SF 2460.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to townships, including the appointment and duties of township officers, township budgets, and the provision of fire protection and emergency medical services to townships by cities, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 2431, SSB 3009.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act limiting the release of personal information for traffic violations observed by an out-of-state traffic camera, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 51.)

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to theft, forgery, and fraud involving a gift card, and providing penalties. Effective date: 07/01/2025.

Scott WebsterRepublican

A bill for an act relating to robotics extracurricular activities, including requiring the department of education to provide technical assistance to school districts related to chartering career and technical student organizations related to robotics and authorizing high school athletic organizations to sponsor interscholastic contests related to robotics. (Formerly SF 61.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to students who are pregnant or who recently gave birth who attend state institutions of higher education governed by the board of regents and community colleges. (Formerly SF 12.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of consumer fireworks. (Formerly SSB 1104.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act providing an exception to a minor’s legal capacity to consent to the provision of medical care or services for a sexually transmitted disease or infection. (Formerly SF 120.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to disclosure to the general assembly of information concerning nongovernmental employers and providing remedies.(Formerly SF 20.)

COMMITTEE ON WORKFORCE

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 certain cost controls for health care services.(Formerly SSB 1029.)

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to harassment by the dissemination, publication, distribution, or posting of personal information, and making penalties applicable.

Charlie McClintockRepublican

A bill for an act prohibiting the consideration of the deployment, implementation, or use of a motor carrier safety improvement when determining a person’s employment status. (Formerly SSB 1107.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to requirements for, and regular meetings of, the board of directors of a state bank, and electronic activities of a state bank. (Formerly SSB 1070.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

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 the allocation of special nonresident deer hunting licenses.(Formerly SF 293.)

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations and reducing appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1135.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to prior authorization for dental care services, notice to dental care providers that a dental care service plan is state-regulated, and the recovery of overpayments by a dental carrier. (Formerly SSB 1146.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to the maximum power output for low-speed electric bicycles and pedestrian conveyances powered by an electric motor. (Formerly SF 375.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

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