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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).

Sent to Governor

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

Sent to Governor
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.  

Sent to Governor

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.

Sent to Governor

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

Sent to Governor

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. 

Sent to Governor

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.

Sent to Governor

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.

Sent to Governor

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.

Sent to Governor
Childcare/Child Welfare

Makes changes to paid parental leave for state employees.

Signed
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.
 

Sent to Governor
Crime/Courts

Makes changes to Iowa's human trafficking laws.

Sent to Governor

Establishes a grant program to fund a nonprofit providing sexual assault forensic examination centers (SAFE Centers).

Sent to Governor

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

Signed
Education

Makes it a fraudulent practice to falsely claim academic degrees or credentials for purposes of employment or personal gain.

Signed

Creates a competitive grant program to support the development and implementation of school cardiac emergency response plans.

Sent to Governor
Government

Makes changes to paid parental leave for state employees.

Signed
Health Care

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

Sent to Governor

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

Signed

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).

Sent to Governor

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

Signed

Creates a competitive grant program to support the development and implementation of school cardiac emergency response plans.

Sent to Governor
Medicaid

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

Signed
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. 

Sent to Governor

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

Sent to Governor
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).

Sent to Governor
Public Health

Requires radon mitigation for certain new family homes.

Sent to Governor

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

Sent to Governor
Reproductive Rights

Makes provisions related to abortion regulation, including informed consent, chemical abortion drugs, and reporting.

Sent to Governor
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
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