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Alcohol/Drugs/Tobacco

Enacts wide-ranging reforms across healthcare, education, and nutrition, including mandatory nutrition/metabolic health continuing education for physicians, required nutrition coursework for medical school graduates, new restrictions on food dyes and additives in school meals and the summer EBT program, over-the-counter access to ivermectin, digital device time limits in elementary schools, reintroduces the Presidential Fitness Test, and Iowa's adoption of the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PsyPACT).

Signed

Makes changes related to taxation and regulation of alternative nicotine and vape products.

Signed
Broadband/Technology

Establishes requirements and guidelines for conversational AI to make sure they are not encouraging harm to the people using them or providing inappropriate content to minors.

Signed
Budgets

Appropriates $715.1 million for the public safety, public defense, emergency management, justice, and victim services programs and agencies for fiscal year 2027, which begins July 1, 2026. This is an increase of $12 million.  

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Appropriates $47.3 million for agricultural and natural resources programs and agencies for fiscal year 2027 (which begins on July 1, 2026).  This is an increase of $700,000.

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Appropriates $38.9 million for fiscal year 2027, which begins on July 1, 2026.  This is decrease of $1.4 million.

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Appropriates $2.56 billion to fund various health, veterans, and human services (including Medicaid) for fiscal year 2027, which begins on July 1, 2026. This is a $3.1 million increase. 

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Appropriates $1.042 billion to the Department for the Blind, Department of Education, Board of Regents, and Department of Workforce Development for fiscal year 2027, which begins July 1, 2026. This is an increase of $10.5 million.

Signed / Line-Item Vetoed

Changes standing (automatic) appropriations, makes other appropriations left out of other budgets, fixes mistakes in other bills, and drops in changes that were part of last-minute negotiations.

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Allocates $193.6 million from the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund (RIIF) and Technology Reinvestment Fund for fiscal year 2027, which begins on July 1, 2026. Money in these funds comes from taxes on gambling.

Signed / Line-Item Vetoed
Childcare/Child Welfare

Makes state employees eligible for paid parental leave, even if they are not covered by the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

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Civil Rights

Strikes numerous provisions from Iowa law that require or reference affirmative action, race, gender, or citizenship in state employment, contracting, and educational programs.
 

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Crime/Courts

Strengthens Iowa’s response to human trafficking by establishing new screening and referral protocols for children potentially subject to commercial sexual exploitation, adding commercial sexual requiring annual legislative stakeholder meetings and reports, and refining legal definitions and prosecutorial discretion.

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Establishes a grant program to fund a nonprofit sexual assault forensic examination center (SAFE Center).

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Implements the Attorney General's recommendations to enhance victim rights.

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Education

Makes falsely claiming academic degrees, credentials, and professional licensure for purposes of employment or personal gain a fraudulent practice.

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Mandates use of federal e-verify and SAVE systems for employment and professional licensure eligibility verification across multiple sectors, including education, public employment, and professional licensing.

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Requires public schools and charter schools to report on whether the school has an AEDs (automated external defibrillators), where the AED is located, and whether they have adopted cardiac emergency response plans.

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Government

Makes state employees eligible for paid parental leave, even if they are not covered by the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

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Health Care

Gives health care providers and institutions the right to not participate in a health care service that violates the provider's or institution's conscience.

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Allows certain pregnant minors to give consent to prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care.

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Enacts wide-ranging reforms across healthcare, education, and nutrition, including mandatory nutrition/metabolic health continuing education for physicians, required nutrition coursework for medical school graduates, new restrictions on food dyes and additives in school meals and the summer EBT program, over-the-counter access to ivermectin, digital device time limits in elementary schools, reintroduces the Presidential Fitness Test, and Iowa's adoption of the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PsyPACT).

Signed

Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.

Signed

Requires public schools and charter schools to report on whether the school has an AEDs (automated external defibrillators), where the AED is located, and whether they have adopted cardiac emergency response plans.

Signed
Immigration/Refugees

Mandates use of federal e-verify and SAVE systems for employment and professional licensure eligibility verification across multiple sectors, including education, public employment, and professional licensing.

Signed
Insurance

Prohibits insurance companies from discriminating against living organ donors.

Signed
Medicaid

Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.

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Other

Makes a number of changes to eligibility for various public assistance programs (FIP, SNAP, Medicaid, childcare assistance), requiring legal status/citizenship checks and aligning changes made in "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (aka HR 1).  Also makes it nearly impossible to end Medicaid managed care. 

Signed

Establishes a new Early Childhood and Family Services system under the Department of Health and Human Services.

Signed
Professional Licensing/Scope of Practice

Enacts wide-ranging reforms across healthcare, education, and nutrition, including mandatory nutrition/metabolic health continuing education for physicians, required nutrition coursework for medical school graduates, new restrictions on food dyes and additives in school meals and the summer EBT program, over-the-counter access to ivermectin, digital device time limits in elementary schools, reintroduces the Presidential Fitness Test, and Iowa's adoption of the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PsyPACT).

Signed

Mandates use of federal e-verify and SAVE systems for employment and professional licensure eligibility verification across multiple sectors, including education, public employment, and professional licensing.

Signed
Public Health

Requires radon mitigation for certain new family homes.

Signed

Denies minors the right to consent to vaccinations for a sexually transmitted disease or infection.

Signed
Reproductive Rights

Makes changes in the process for Iowans accessing medications that induce an abortion (mifepristone, misoprostol), creates private cause of action for violations, and repeals the fetal heartbeat law.

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Taxes

Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.

Signed
Victim Rights

Implements the Attorney General's recommendations to enhance victim rights.

Signed
Voting/Elections

Mandates use of federal e-verify and SAVE systems for employment and professional licensure eligibility verification across multiple sectors, including education, public employment, and professional licensing.

Signed
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