Bills & Legislation

A bill for an act modifying provisions related to compulsory education, truancy, and chronic absenteeism. (Formerly SSB 1077.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to retention and recertification elections for public employee collective bargaining units and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1172.) Applicability date: 05/19/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WORKFORCE

A bill for an act relating to the suspension of child support and medical support in certain circumstances. (Formerly SSB 1123.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the licensure of crematory operators and funeral establishments, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 198.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to motor vehicle glass repair, replacement, and insurance, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1192.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units. (Formerly SSB 1182.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to workforce compensation and training, unemployment insurance, and other functions and programs of the department of workforce development, the workforce development board, and local government entities, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 222, SSB 1068.) Effective date: 03/28/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to federal moneys and regulations, including the appropriation of federal moneys made available from federal block grants and other nonstate sources, the allocation of portions of federal block grants, the procedures if federal moneys or federal block grants are more or less than anticipated, and the authorization of certain city regulations when required under federal law, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1216.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 03/28/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund, the primary road fund, and the statutory allocations fund. (Formerly SSB 1219.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1240.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to the opioid settlement fund, making appropriations and disbursements, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 331.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2024.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

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 controlled substances, including certain controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 25.) Effective date: 03/28/2025.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act relating to the administration of the statewide summative assessment of student progress to students of online schools by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and charter schools. (Formerly HSB 33.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to level II law enforcement academy training programs. (Formerly HSB 509.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act relating to teacher education and licensing, including by modifying provisions related to practitioner preparation programs and licenses issued by the board of educational examiners. (Formerly HSB 555.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the prohibition of noncompete clauses in certain employment contracts entered into by the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2072.) Effective date: 06/02/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to health care decisions related to palliative care, hospice programs, life-sustaining procedures, out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate orders, durable power of attorney for health care, and probate court guardianship reports. (Formerly HF 708.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to motor vehicle dealers, including rights to certain vehicles, records storage requirements, and remote sales of motor vehicles. (Formerly HSB 656.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to county commissions of veteran affairs. (Formerly HSB 28.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

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 animal feeding operations by regulating shellfish, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 662.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

A bill for an act relating to subacute mental health care facilities and services, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2220.) Effective date: 05/02/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to a pregnant minor’s legal capacity to consent to the provision of certain medical care. (Formerly HF 814.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to investigations of insurance fraud related to adjusters, appraisers, and umpires, and license and financial responsibility requirements for adjusters, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 701.) Effective date: 04/09/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to emergency planning and coordination for electric transmission line owners, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 737.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

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.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: Conditional.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

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 thoroughbred and quarter horse racing seasons. (Formerly HSB 658.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to summative testing in schools and the educational program provided to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade twelve, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 746.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of administrative services, including rules for capitol complex events and the compatibility of passenger vehicles rented or leased by the state with biodiesel blended fuel classified as B-20 or higher, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 708.) Effective date: 04/09/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to alignment of delivery of health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services, and including applicability and effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 622.) Effective date: 04/30/2026, 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act requiring the board of educational examiners to establish additional endorsements and authorizations. (Formerly HSB 677.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

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. Applicability date: 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to nuclear electric generation facilities by creating sales and use tax exemptions and refunds, making appropriations to the state board of regents for establishing and maintaining a nuclear energy workforce, making penalties applicable, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 767.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2026, 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2595, HSB 731.) Effective date: 06/02/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act establishing a sexual assault forensic examination center grant program and trust fund. (Formerly HF 705, HF 458.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

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 prior authorization and utilization review organizations. (Formerly HSB 19.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to the review by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing of certain deficient practices by nursing facilities. (Formerly HSB 1.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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 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 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 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 establishing a center for intellectual freedom at the university of Iowa. (Formerly HSB 52.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

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