Bills & Legislation

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 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 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 prohibiting the licensure of certain entities of the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to establish, conduct, or maintain a hospital or health care facility. (Formerly SSB 1186.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

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 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 relating to the recounting and contesting of elections, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 596.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the use of the titles physician assistant and physician associate. (Formerly SSB 3059.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to assaults, including assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and inmate assaults on department of corrections employees, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1058.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

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 relating to retention of fees for public improvement contracts. (Formerly SF 431.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to judicial branch administration, including judicial officer residency, judicial officer retirement age, remote proceedings, court reporter supervision and duties, and civil pleadings availability, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 259.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act establishing an Iowa-Ireland trade commission. (Formerly SF 2268.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the use of an electronic device in a voice-activated or hands-free mode while driving, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. Effective date: 07/01/2025.

Mark S. LofgrenRepublican

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 relating to library services provided by the department of administrative services. (Formerly SSB 1031.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

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 foster parent training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care providers. (Formerly SSB 3016.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to theft, forgery, and fraud involving a gift card, and providing penalties. Effective date: 07/01/2025.

Scott WebsterRepublican

A bill for an act prohibiting the consideration of the deployment, implementation, or use of a motor carrier safety improvement when determining a person’s employment status. (Formerly SSB 1107.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to children’s specialty hospital designations for certain nonprofit organizations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 268.) Effective date: 05/01/2025.

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 statutory corrections that adjust language to reflect current practices, correct grammar, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, remove ambiguities, and establish Code editor directives. (Formerly HSB 615.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act modifying the costs eligible for emergency medical services fund expenditures, and including effective date provisions. Effective date: 03/28/2025.

Mark S. LofgrenRepublican

A bill for an act relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, including establishment training programs, schools of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, and course of study. (Formerly HF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act concerning retirement contributions of and benefits associated with cancer diagnoses of members of certain public retirement systems, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 266.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units. (Formerly SSB 3070.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to vehicles operating with a permit for excessive size or weight, and providing fees. (Formerly HF 696, HSB 202.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

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 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 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 enacting the dietitian licensure compact. (Formerly HSB 119.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the installation of transmission lines on highway rights-of-way. (Formerly SSB 3063.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to the definition of qualified education expenses. (Formerly SSB 3027.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the minimum age for acquiring or carrying weapons. (Formerly HSB 262.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to school personnel training, including by implementing provisions related to emergency care planning, authorizations for assisting, and limitations of liability concerning students with epilepsy or seizure disorder, and requiring the department of education to convene a health care-related training for school personnel work group. (Formerly HF 102.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to robotics extracurricular activities, including requiring the department of education to provide technical assistance to school districts related to chartering career and technical student organizations related to robotics and authorizing high school athletic organizations to sponsor interscholastic contests related to robotics. (Formerly SF 61.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the authority of counties and cities to regulate the installation or use of battery-charged security alarm systems on nonresidential properties. (Formerly SSB 3112.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to mathematics instruction, practitioner preparation programs, and the duties of the director of the department of education, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 137.) Effective date: 06/02/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the use or creation of bots to purchase event tickets on the internet, and providing civil penalties. (Formerly SF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, the national board certification pilot project, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and the employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 43.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the effective date of school district enlargements, reorganizations, changes in boundaries, and dissolutions, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 16.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act creating a lifetime fur harvester license for disabled veterans. (Formerly SSB 1079.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

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 education, including by modifying provisions related to the calculation of the teacher salary supplement district cost per pupil, teacher preparation requirements, out-of-state placement of certain specified students requiring special education, the duties of the department of education, and minimum teacher salaries, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 147.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the authority of an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care. (Formerly SSB 3020.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to filing applications and custody of the respondent in an involuntary commitment proceeding. (Formerly HF 139.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to government employee paid leave. (Formerly HSB 78.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to bank utilization of filing services offered by the secretary of state. (Formerly SSB 1034.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the conveyance of firearms in or on certain vehicles. Effective date: 07/01/2025.

Amy SinclairRepublican