Bills & Legislation

A bill for an act relating to public meetings and records, including public notice requirements for meetings of a governmental body, supervision and fees associated with examining and copying public records, employment separation information for certain government employees, contractors, or appointees, and injunctions to restrain vexatious requesters. (Formerly HSB 578.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

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 open meetings and open records, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 416.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to deer and wild turkey hunting licenses for disabled veterans. (Formerly HF 692.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

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 special landowner turkey hunting licenses. (Formerly SF 10.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

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 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 relating to bail and bond amounts and conditions. (Formerly SSB 3162.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to fees for lifetime fur harvester licenses. (Formerly SF 2317, SSB 3121.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

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 creating a rural attorney recruitment assistance program, and making appropriations. (Formerly HF 209, HF 15.)

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act establishing a partial exemption on property taxes for certain residential properties sold in disaster areas.(Formerly HF 565.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act prohibiting counties from charging a fee to operate a registered all-terrain vehicle or off-road utility vehicle on secondary roads.(Formerly HF 257.)

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act modifying the child and dependent care credit available against the individual income tax, and including retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 962.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to the adoption tax credit available against the individual income tax, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 965.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to radon by establishing radon mitigation requirements, creating a radon mitigation system tax credit available against the individual and corporate income taxes, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 211.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to county recorder fees and land record information systems management. (Formerly HF 328.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act providing for an individual income tax credit for the purchase of firearm safety devices and including retroactive and other applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 132.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to the assessment of property containing certain aboveground storage tanks and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 238.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

A bill for an act relating to additional penalties for violations for failing to reduce speed when required or otherwise control a motor vehicle that result in serious injury or death.(Formerly HF 41.)

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act relating to in-state residency for purposes of undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees at regents institutions and community colleges for certain military personnel and family members. (Formerly HSB 6.)

COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

A bill for an act relating to the penalty for speeding in excess of twenty miles per hour over the limit.(Formerly HF 45.)

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act designating kratom as a schedule I controlled substance, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 508.)

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

A bill for an act relating to requirements for proof of ownership of dogs and providing penalties.(Formerly HF 2016.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act authorizing resident students who are admitted to and in attendance in a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program to participate in the Iowa tuition grants program.(Formerly HF 2012.)

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to debt management programs, services, fees, and licensee requirements. (Formerly HSB 603.)

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

A bill for an act relating to the distribution of the department of administrative services’ report on state employee salaries.(Formerly HSB 577.)

COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT

A bill for an act relating to tuition charged to resident undergraduate students enrolled at regents institutions. (Formerly HSB 549.)

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

A bill for an act increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits.

Daniel GosaDemocrat

A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year.

Daniel GosaDemocrat

A bill for an act prohibiting private institutions of higher education that participate in the Iowa tuition grant program from establishing diversity, equity, and inclusion offices. (Formerly HSB 537.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

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 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 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 establishing drug-free homeless service zones, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 705.)

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

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 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 trespass, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 981.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers.

Daniel GosaDemocrat

A bill for an act relating to the Medicaid home and community-based services elderly waiver program, including transition planning and assisted living services.(Formerly HSB 739.)

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act establishing a pilot program that authorizes eligible community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees. (Formerly HSB 533.)

COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

A bill for an act relating to the expungement of certain criminal history records of victims of human trafficking, and including penalties.(Formerly HF 2144.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to business entity-owned residential arrangements, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 750.)

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

A bill for an act relating to the supplemental nutrition assistance program; the medical assistance program; the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children; and other public assistance programs under the purview of the department of health and human services. (Formerly HSB 696.)

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

A bill for an act establishing a scenic byways enhancement fund, including by providing for voluntary contributions to the fund, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2353, HF 971, HF 581, HF 130.)

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

A bill for an act relating to agriculture, including by providing for the powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, including the promotion and regulation of commodities and products; the regulation of the transportation of agricultural commodities; the use of agricultural land; and taxation, including property taxes, excise and sales taxes, and income taxes; making penalties applicable; and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 2340, HSB 588.)

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS