Bills & Legislation

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 providing for the preparation and filing of a district parcel record that identifies all parcels contained within a drainage or levee district that is part of a county. (Formerly SSB 1178.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

A bill for an act relating to the measurement of units sold for purposes of cigarette and tobacco regulation and taxation, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1155.) Effective date: 05/06/2025.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to electronic filing of sales and use tax returns, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1154.) Effective date: 05/06/2025.

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A bill for an act relating to forest and fruit-tree reservations by establishing a program fee and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 219.)

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A bill for an act relating to registration fees for persons on the sex offender registry.(Formerly SF 317.)

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A bill for an act relating to the abatement of property taxes owed on property owned by certain volunteer emergency services providers and including effective date and applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 96.)

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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 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 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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A bill for an act relating to wildlife, including the treatment of beaver dams, identification for traps, snares, and tree stands, maximum fur dealer license fees, and deer depredation, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 260, SSB 1093.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

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A bill for an act creating a specialty business court, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 570, SSB 1203.) Effective date: 09/01/2026.

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A bill for an act providing for an expedited filing service for filers of business documents administered by the secretary of state, and providing fees. (Formerly SF 285, SSB 1003.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

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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 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.

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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

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 agriculture, including by providing for the powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, including the promotion and regulation of commodities and products, the regulation of the transportation of agricultural items, the use of agricultural land, sales and use taxes, and veterinary practice and income taxes, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 2420, SSB 3123.) Effective date: 06/01/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027. Applicability date: 01/01/2027.

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A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions, divisions of revenue, and funding from the secure an advanced vision for education fund, establishing a program for first-time homebuyers, modifying and making appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3001.) Effective date: 05/18/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027. Applicability date: 01/01/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027, 07/01/2027, 07/01/2028.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

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 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 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 home inspections, including persons authorized to perform home inspections and requirements for independent home inspection reports, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 1144.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act requiring students to pass the United States citizenship and immigration services naturalization civics test as a condition of high school graduation and high school equivalency diplomas. (Formerly SSB 1030.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act prohibiting a court from ordering payment of a postsecondary education subsidy for a child under a dissolution of marriage temporary order or final judgment or decree, and providing for application to existing orders, judgments, and decrees. (Formerly SF 241.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

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 deer hunting, including deer depredation and the purchasing of a youth deer hunting license and tag. (Formerly SF 331.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

A bill for an act providing for the continuation of health insurance in certain circumstances for the surviving spouse and each surviving child of employees of the state of Iowa and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1039.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2024.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to speed limits, including the speed limit range for which certain excessive speed violations cannot be considered for certain purposes and the default speed limit for all vehicular traffic, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 73.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to state income tax withholdings on winnings from sports wagering, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1152.) Effective date: 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act creating an emeritus license to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. (Formerly SSB 1121.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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 early childhood and family services, including the creation of an early childhood and family services system, making appropriations, convening an early childhood Iowa interim study committee, and including applicability, retroactive applicability, and effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 2462, SSB 3111.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to the taxation and regulation of alternative nicotine products and vapor products, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3193.) Effective date: 01/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties of the department of education; the discipline of students enrolled in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools who cause violent or nonviolent disruptions; the responsibilities and powers of the department of education, school district teachers, and other educational staff related to students who have individualized education programs or plans under section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act; school district professional development plans; and authorizing teachers to request a meeting of a student’s individualized education program team. (Formerly SF 2044.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act providing for an assignment of assets for the benefit of creditors, exempting the related tax on the transfer of real estate, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 2213.) Effective date: 01/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

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. Applicability date: Conditional.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to public assistance programs under the purview of the department of health and human services, including the supplemental nutrition assistance program, Medicaid, and the Iowa health and wellness plan, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3140.) Contingent effective date, effective 06/02/2026, 01/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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