Bills & Legislation

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 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 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 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 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 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 requiring the director of the department of education to develop and administer a purple star school initiative. (Formerly SSB 1067.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act prohibiting public entities from engaging in certain activities relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 155.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the law enforcement academy, including military veterans with active duty military police experience and former federal law enforcement officers. (Formerly HF 539.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act relating to qualifications for a certificate as a certified public accountant and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 177.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to the applicability of the standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities to contingent deferred annuities. (Formerly SSB 3064.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act enacting the respiratory care interstate compact. (Formerly HSB 120.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act concerning quarterly reports on and payments of beer barrel and wine gallonage taxes, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 273.) Effective date: 01/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to driver age qualifications for certain commercial motor vehicle drivers operating solely intrastate to transport hazardous material. (Formerly SSB 1015.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

A bill for an act relating to statutory corrections which may adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, remove ambiguities, and provide for Code editor directives. (Formerly HSB 115.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to students who attend a course in religious instruction that is provided by a private organization, including by modifying provisions related to compulsory education and chronic absenteeism. (Formerly HSB 218.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to partial payments during construction of a farm-to-market road. (Formerly HSB 296.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to pediatric palliative care centers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 267.) Effective date: 05/27/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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 removing birth centers from the meaning of institutional health facility. (Formerly HF 277.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, and related provisions and appropriations, including aging and disability services; behavioral health, public health, community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; sex reassignment surgeries or associated procedures; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care, administration and compliance; transfers, cash flows, and nonreversions; prior appropriations; the beer and liquor control fund, and the behavioral health fund; report on nonreversion of moneys; emergency rules; and a hospital directed payment program; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 342.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2024.

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to alcoholic beverages, including license authorizations, bond requirements, and fee determinations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 79.) Effective date: 04/25/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 11/10/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to electronic devices in schools, including student access during instructional hours and school safety plans, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 106.) Effective date: 04/30/2025.

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the practice of dental assistants without registration by the dental board. (Formerly HF 340.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act relating to eligibility requirements for financial institutions in which public funds may be deposited. (Formerly HSB 252.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to tuition, degree programs, employment, and related matters pertaining to students enrolled at regents institutions. (Formerly HSB 51.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION