Bills & Legislation

A bill for an act relating to fire fighter training and certification. (Formerly HF 265.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

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 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 display of a validation sticker on a vehicle registration plate. (Formerly SF 135.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

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 restricting counties and cities from issuing a local form of identification. (Formerly HSB 552.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act relating to terminology involving a pregnant female. (Formerly HSB 501.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act allowing police service dogs to receive emergency veterinary medical services while on duty. (Formerly SF 31.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 528.) Effective date: 04/16/2026.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act relating to peer review committees and organ procurement organizations. (Formerly HSB 121.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to interviews conducted with a child subsequent to a report of child abuse. (Formerly SSB 3167.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to requirements for licensure as a professional land surveyor. (Formerly SSB 1134.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

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 relating to drainage districts and levees, including district parcel records, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 2349.) Effective date: 04/09/2026.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

A bill for an act relating to the review of an officer-involved shooting case by a county attorney. (Formerly HF 42.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act concerning the executive branch rulemaking process, including the uniform rules on agency procedure and review and regulatory readoption of rules, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3166.) Effective date: 04/16/2026, 07/01/2026.

ADMINISTRATIVE RULES REVIEW COMMITTEE

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 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 providing a limitation on civil or criminal liability for any alleged actual or potential effect on climate caused wholly or partly by a greenhouse gas emission. (Formerly HSB 693.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

A bill for an act relating to satellite absentee voting stations. Effective date: 07/01/2026.

Dawn DriscollRepublican

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 conduct of elections. (Formerly HSB 627.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to intimidation with a dangerous weapon, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 3018.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations including a health care provider, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 9.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act concerning reimbursement of the attorney general for services relating to the second injury fund for workers’ compensation. (Formerly SSB 3107.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act creating a state corporate income tax deduction for net controlled foreign corporation tested income, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 2292, SSB 3105.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1125.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act exempting a parent’s or legal guardian’s inability to access appropriate behavioral or mental health treatment for their child from the definition of child abuse. (Formerly HSB 503.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to the display of flags at half-staff on public buildings. (Formerly SSB 3134.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to animal torture, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 557.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the dissemination and exhibition of obscene material to minors and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 64.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

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 the controlled substance crystalline polymorph psilocybin. (Formerly HF 14.) Vetoed 6-11-25.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to child endangerment. (Formerly HF 2086.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

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 relating to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents. (Formerly HF 2036.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to child placements. (Formerly HF 638, HSB 146.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to dissolution of marriage, including name change requests. (Formerly HF 2436.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the use of blue lights on vessels operating on waters under the jurisdiction of the natural resource commission. (Formerly HF 95.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES

A bill for an act relating to radon mitigation in residential buildings. (Formerly HF 82.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

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 fluid milk products annual permits, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 258, SSB 1044.) Effective date: 01/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to local laws implementing the Iowa civil rights Act of 1965, local civil rights commissions, and local civil rights agencies, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1184.) Effective date: 03/10/2026.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act prohibiting the misclassification of employees as independent contractors, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions.

Brian MeyerDemocrat

A bill for an act providing for a community-based wage enforcement program for purposes of the state wage payment collection and minimum wage laws.

Daniel GosaDemocrat

A bill for an act relating to the ability of peace officers to file a petition for emergency protective orders on behalf of persons seeking relief from domestic abuse. (Formerly HF 108.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act relating to deferred or suspended sentences for cases involving sexual exploitation of a minor. (Formerly HSB 617.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY