Bills & Legislation

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 the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 2092.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the issuance of medical cannabidiol registration cards and licensure of medical cannabidiol dispensaries. (Formerly HSB 224.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act providing for certain persons acting under the jurisdiction of the secretary of state, including by providing for information from required filings, and the administrative dissolution of certain entities, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 665.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

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 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 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 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 activities in the administration of alcoholic beverage control by the department of revenue, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 587.) Effective date: 06/02/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, and providing fees. (Formerly HSB 770.) Effective date: 06/02/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2021.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

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 allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund. (Formerly HF 2537, HF 2315.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 666.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act providing for intervention by members of the general assembly in proceedings for judicial review of agency action under the Iowa administrative procedure Act. Effective date: 07/01/2026.

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A bill for an act relating to the application of foreign law and limiting changes in venue of civil actions, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 2554.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

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: 06/02/2026, 08/01/2026.

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 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 establishing a seal of civics excellence program administered by the department of education to recognize student excellence in civics. (Formerly HSB 558.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the regulation of certain places and activities by the governor. (Formerly HF 2145.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 908, HF 452.) Effective date: 07/01/2026, 07/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

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 establishing the state public defender’s pilot project to implement innovative models of child welfare legal representation as the project to preserve families. (Formerly HSB 566.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act making children of child care workers in this state eligible for the state child care assistance program. (Formerly HSB 500.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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

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 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 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 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 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 captive insurance companies and life captive reinsurance companies, and including civil penalties. (Formerly HSB 756.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to abortions including definitions, informed consent, dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs, and other abortion-related provisions. (Formerly HF 2563, HSB 704.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

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 protections for medical practitioners and health care institutions, including those related to the exercise of conscience, whistleblower activities, and free speech, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 139.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to civil liability actions against motocross facilities. (Formerly HF 632.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to the sales tax exemption for the purchase of central office equipment or transmission equipment used by certain entities primarily in the furnishing of telecommunications services on a commercial basis. (Formerly HSB 235.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

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 school funding by establishing the state percent of growth and the categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2026, modifying provisions relating to property tax replacement payments, transportation equity aid funding, funding for school district budget adjustments, and school district enrollment, establishing an education support personnel salary supplement, making appropriations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3100.) Effective date: 02/26/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act requiring boards of directors of school districts, governing boards of charter schools, and authorities in charge of accredited nonpublic schools to adopt policies related to exempting student absences for school-sponsored activities, programs, competitions, and projects. (Formerly SSB 3041.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

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

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 education, including by modifying provisions related to the Iowa dyslexia board and requiring the department of education to prepare a report related to cardiac emergency response plans and automated external defibrillators. (Formerly SF 2390, SF 2092.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act providing an exception to a minor’s legal capacity to consent to the provision of medical care or services for a sexually transmitted disease or infection. (Formerly SF 120.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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 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 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 providing for the conversion of partnerships into other forms of domestic or foreign organizations, and providing for fees. (Formerly SF 2363, SSB 3160.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3089.) Effective date: 07/01/2026, 07/01/2027.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act enacting the athletic trainer compact. (Formerly SSB 3046.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT