Bills & Legislation

A bill for an act relating to public records, including employment separation information for certain government employees, contractors, or appointees.(Formerly HF 2388.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to preneed sellers, sales agents and sales agent applicants, and government cemeteries. (Formerly HSB 600.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

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 living organ donors and life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance. (Formerly HF 2193.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to trespass, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 981.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the driving privileges of persons under the age of eighteen who were previously issued a special minor’s restricted license that was subsequently suspended, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2113.)

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to criminal investigation, including the extension of DNA submission requirements to persons arrested for a felony or aggravated misdemeanor. (Formerly HSB 571.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to elections for school district and city officers, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2191.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act prohibiting signs giving notice that an automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement is used when the use of a system is not authorized.(Formerly HSB 597.)

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles. (Formerly HSB 667.)

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act eliminating the Iowa smart planning principles and other local comprehensive planning and development guidelines.(Formerly HF 2148.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to thoroughbred and quarter horse racing seasons.(Formerly HSB 658.)

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

A bill for an act relating to education programs and systems, including career and technical education expenditures and definitions, statewide lower division general education framework and common course numbering systems, and the implementation of a statewide corequisite model in Iowa community colleges. (Formerly HSB 675.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the use of synthetic media in campaign materials, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 643.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the licensure of massage establishments, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 671.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to campaign finance, including participation in ballot issue campaigns by foreign nationals and investigations of election misconduct, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 2044.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to a required course of instruction regarding human trafficking prevention for persons applying for the initial issuance of certain commercial driver’s licenses, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 697.)

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act regulating the marketing of grain, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 745.)

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

A bill for an act relating to open enrollment, student transfers, and interscholastic athletic eligibility requirements, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2034.) Effective date: Enactment, 08/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to public notice requirements for meetings of a governmental body.(Formerly HSB 75.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the provision of accessible prescription-related measures for persons who are blind, have a visual impairment, or other print disability. (Formerly HF 2033.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act establishing drug-free homeless service zones, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 705.)

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act establishing a human trafficking investigative task force.(Formerly HF 1011, HF 831, HF 463.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to care facility placement decisions for certain adults, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 653.) 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act allowing a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child’s sex.(Formerly HSB 669.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to career academies, the collective statewide articulation agreement between community colleges and the state board of regents, the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program, and individual career and academic plans, and by requiring the state board of regents to submit a report related to establishing a performance-based funding model for the institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents. (Formerly HSB 572.)

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

A bill for an act modifying the duties of the department of education related to electronic systems, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2124.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 666.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to subacute mental health care facilities and services, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2220.) Effective date: 04/16/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act repealing certain programs and other matters relating to higher education. (Formerly HSB 607.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

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 exhibit disorderly conduct in the classroom, 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, and school district professional development plans, and authorizing teachers to request a meeting of a student’s individualized education program team. (Formerly HF 2122.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to probate and trust matters, including time limitations on actions, attorney fees, trust code proceedings and notice requirements, damages for wrongful death, and filing deadlines, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 614.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2026 Applicability date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to interests in minerals owned by counties and cities. (Formerly HF 2213.)

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES

A bill for an act providing for the repair of a diesel exhaust fluid system that is part of farm equipment, and providing penalties.(Formerly HSB 684.)

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

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 the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents. (Formerly HF 2036.)

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act establishing the right of a parent or guardian of a minor child to consent to and authorize certain medical services over the minor child’s objection. (Formerly HF 2114.) Effective date: 07/01/2026

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to elections to fill vacancies in elective county and city offices.(Formerly HSB 639.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the abandonment of cats and dogs including delivery to an animal shelter or pound, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HF 2157.)

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the department of health and human services and reporting requirements for shelter care, residential treatment, and Medicaid provider reimbursement rates, and establishing provider reimbursement rates for Medicaid home and community-based waiver services. (Formerly HSB 621.)

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to collection of accrued interest on unpaid child support by the department of health and human services.(Formerly HSB 620.)

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act prohibiting institutions of higher education from entering into employment contracts with citizens of federally designated foreign adversaries and state sponsors of terrorism holding certain visas. (Formerly HSB 536.)

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to statewide resilience planning, including the development, implementation, and periodic updating of an Iowa state resilience plan. (Formerly HF 2158.)

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the social studies instruction provided to students enrolled in grades one through twelve and the educational programs provided by the institutions of higher education under the control of the state board of regents. (Formerly HSB 714.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act modifying the time periods alcoholic beverages may be sold, dispensed, or consumed at commercial service airports, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2281.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

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 paid parental leave for state employees, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 579.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act enacting the interstate podiatric medical licensure compact.(Formerly HF 930, HSB 291.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2092.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act requiring the director of the department of education to prepare, publish, and submit to the general assembly annual reports related to reading proficiency, mathematics proficiency, and area education agencies.(Formerly HSB 599.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION