Bills & Legislation

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.) Effective date: 05/15/2026, 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to sufficient English language proficiency requirements for commercial drivers, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 2173.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: Conditional.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

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 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 workforce matters including apprenticeships and other career training, unemployment insurance, and membership of the state workforce development board, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3044.) Effective date: 06/30/2026, 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WORKFORCE

A bill for an act relating to the recounting and contesting of elections, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 596.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to residential real estate, including access to records of unit owners associations and the disclosure of home inspection information. (Formerly SSB 3144.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act establishing an Iowa-Ireland trade commission. (Formerly SF 2268.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE 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 creating a lifetime fur harvester license for disabled veterans. (Formerly SSB 1079.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

A bill for an act relating to the excise tax on certain ethanol blended gasoline purchased exclusively for use in an implement of husbandry used in agricultural production. (Formerly SF 2188, SSB 3025.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

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 relating to nonresident deer hunting licenses. (Formerly SSB 3127.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

A bill for an act concerning retirement contributions of and benefits associated with cancer diagnoses of members of certain public retirement systems, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 266.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE 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 judicial branch administration, including judicial officer residency, judicial officer retirement age, remote proceedings, court reporter supervision and duties, and civil pleadings availability, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 259.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the minimum age for acquiring or carrying weapons. (Formerly HSB 262.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch. (Formerly HSB 776.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; transfers, cash flow, and nonreversions; report on nonreversion of moneys; more options for maternal support program; reimbursement rates review; mental diseases exclusion waiver; full-time equivalent dashboard; comprehensive family support program; federal community mental health services block grant; behavioral health expenditure report; opioid settlement fund; emergency rules; graduate medical education; and special population nursing facilities; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 777.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to state and local government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds, making corrections, and providing for properly related matters including the national electrical code, local civil rights laws, political party state central committees, noxious weeds, nonresident deer hunting licenses, proprietary treatment systems, poultry associations, tax credits, alternative nicotine and vapor products, public assistance programs, judicial branch and county attorney salaries, civil litigation abuse, human trafficking, federal grants and loans notifications, quarterly payments to area education agencies, civic proficiency in higher education, charter schools under the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, school district incentives, extracurricular interscholastic eligibility, and levy increases, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 784.) Contingent effective date, effective 06/02/2026, 06/19/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027. Applicability date: 01/01/2026, 05/12/2026, 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026, 07/01/2028.

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, state board of regents, department of workforce development, and Iowa special education council. (Formerly HSB 778.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the calculation of the teacher salary supplement district cost per pupil, teacher preparation requirements, out-of-state placement of certain specified students requiring special education, the duties of the department of education, and minimum teacher salaries, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 147.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, the national board certification pilot project, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and the employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 43.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to bank utilization of filing services offered by the secretary of state. (Formerly SSB 1034.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing fees, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 775.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

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 relating to government employee paid leave. (Formerly HSB 78.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

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 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 the fee for duplicates or other evidence of interstate fuel use tax permits or licenses. (Formerly HF 695, HSB 203.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to charter school approval, contracts, funding, and operations, services provided to charter schools by area education agencies, charter school student participation in extracurricular activities provided by public schools, the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, education savings accounts, independent accreditation, teacher training and licensure, the statewide voluntary preschool program, the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program, open enrollment, school tuition organizations, private instruction, and innovation zone schools; making appropriations; and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 2713, HSB 735.) Effective date: 05/12/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

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 and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and codifying the housing renewal program. (Formerly HSB 773.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

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 relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority, the utilities commission, and the department of education, including creation of the headquarters expansion and development for growth and employment program, and the business incentives for growth program training fund; repeal of the new jobs tax credit program; the major economic growth attraction program; load forecasting and analysis of electric transmission system expansion plans; creation of the electric transmission system expansion planning and analysis and load forecasting fund; the industrial new jobs training program; and establishing the new jobs training program interim study committee; and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 755.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

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 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. (Formerly HSB 771.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to licensing of service companies, motor vehicle service contracts, and residential service contracts, and providing civil penalties and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2714, HSB 517.) Effective date: 01/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to health-related matters, including health-related professions, nutrition, medication, and education, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 694.) Effective Date: Conditional, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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 prohibiting warrant resolution clinics, including enforcement mechanisms, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 780.) Effective date: 06/02/2026.

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT

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 judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 722.) Effective date: 07/01/2026, 11/01/2026, 06/18/2027.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to health carriers standards of conduct; utilization review organizations, artificial intelligence, audits, and prior authorizations; certificate of need processes; and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 2438.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

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 state policies and programs with race or gender requirements. (Formerly HSB 668.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY