Bills & Legislation

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

A bill for an act relating to the Iowa lottery. (Formerly HSB 69.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for state government administration and regulation, including the department of administrative services, auditor of state, ethics and campaign disclosure board, offices of governor and lieutenant governor, department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, department of insurance and financial services, department of management, Iowa public employees’ retirement system, public information board, department of revenue, secretary of state, treasurer of state, and utilities commission, and providing for properly related matters including the deposit of captive company premium tax revenue. (Formerly HSB 343, HSB 341.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

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 accreditation of postsecondary educational institutions, prohibiting adverse action by accrediting agencies against certain postsecondary educational institutions for compliance with state law, providing remedies, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 57.) Effective date: 05/06/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

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 certified medication aides. (Formerly HSB 729.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to land restoration following the initial construction of electric transmission lines, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 526.) Effective date: 04/16/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2024.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

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 human trafficking including services and prostitution, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 189.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act modifying provisions related to school concussion and brain injury policies. (Formerly HSB 86.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act requiring the department of health and human services to reimburse a county for the temporary holding of, or confinement of, a sexually violent predator who commits a public offense while subject to an order of civil commitment. (Formerly HF 200.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act authorizing school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to apply to the department of education for authorization to maintain a year-round school calendar at an attendance center or school for students enrolled in grades nine through twelve. (Formerly HF 120.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to contracts entered into by state agencies and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 583.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the offense of intentional misrepresentation of an animal as a service animal or service-animal-in-training. (Formerly HF 244.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the place of trial for certain criminal offenses. (Formerly HSB 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund and technology reinvestment fund, providing for related matters including county payment for district court furnishings, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 334.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to reporting total gasoline and diesel fuel gallonage sold and dispensed by retail dealers for a determination period. (Formerly HF 2299.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE