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League of Women Voters of Iowa
Alcohol/Drugs/Tobacco

Imposes taxes on vape and alternative nicotine products.

Senate Floor
Budgets

Sets up a process for spending opioid settlement funds, including $9.1 million initial appropriation to support the Behavioral Health ASO fund opioid prevention and $3.9 million to pay for statewide prevention strategies.

Sent to Governor

Appropriates $163.8 million from gambling revenues for various infrastructure projects in fiscal year 2026. This is also known as the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund (RIIF).

Sent to Governor

Appropriates $40,637,127 for economic development programs in fiscal year 2026, a decrease of $150,000.

Withdrawn

Appropriates $47,305,670 for agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection programs and agencies for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $1,381,925. 

Withdrawn

Appropriates $1.035 billion to the Department of Education, health professional shortage programs, community colleges, and state universities for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $16.8 million. 

Withdrawn

Appropriates $705.1 million to the Attorney General, Department of Corrections, Department of Public Safety and other justice system agencies for Fiscal Year 2026, an increase of $9.8 million.

Withdrawn

Appropriates $223.9 million for the state's court system (judicial branch) for Fiscal Year 2026, an increase of $3.7 million increase. 

Withdrawn

Appropriates $2.47 billion for Medicaid and other health/human services programs for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $254.9 million. 

Sent to Governor

Makes changes to automatic (standing) appropriations for fiscal year 2026.

House Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $74,525,590 for state agencies for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $1,584,213.  

House Appropriations Committee

Appropriates $42 million from the opioid settlement fund.

Senate Floor

Distributes anticipated federal block grants for federal fiscal years 2026 and 2027.

Sent to Governor

Appropriates $705.3 million to the Attorney General, Department of Corrections, Department of Public Safety and other justice system agencies for Fiscal Year 2026, an increase of $10 million.

Sent to Governor

Appropriates $40,187,127 for economic development programs in fiscal year 2026, a decrease of $600,000.

Sent to Governor

Appropriates $45,574,050 for agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection programs and agencies for fiscal year 2026, a decrease of $350,000.

Sent to Governor

Appropriates $1.026 billion to the Department of Education, health professional shortage programs, community colleges, and state universities for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $7.4 million. 

Sent to Governor

Appropriates $220.7 million for the state's court system (judicial branch) for Fiscal Year 2026, an increase of $500,000.

Sent to Governor

Appropriates $2.47 billion for Medicaid and other health/human services programs for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $255.4 million.

Senate Floor

Appropriates $164.1 million from gambling revenues for various infrastructure projects in fiscal year 2026. This is also known as the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund (RIIF).

Senate Floor

Makes provisions related to local government property taxes, financial authority, and budgets.

Senate Floor

Appropriates $73.5 million for state agencies for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $520,432.

Senate Appropriations Committee
Childcare/Child Welfare

Expands list of child abuse mandatory reporters and makes provisions related to reporting.

Senate Floor with Companion

Modifies the child and dependent care credit.

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Allows a county hospital to establish a child care facility.

House Floor with Companion

Makes changes related to services and support for youth, including treatment, physical assessments, and behavioral health evaluations (Division I), exemption from children's residential facility certification (Division II), juvenile court services (Division III), and Hawki eligibility (Division IV).

 

Sent to Governor
Constitutional Amendments

Proposes an Iowa Constitutional amendment that the right to confront a witness who is under the age of 18 and who has a mental illness can be limited by law. 

Sent to Governor

Proposes a state constitutional amendment restricting certain tax law changes.

House Ways & Means Committee
Constitutional Rights

Creates the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act.

Sent to Governor
Crime/Courts

Requires a county attorney to issue a written opinion and charging decision on officer-involved shootings and convene a grand jury or refer the matter to the attorney general.

Sent to Governor

Makes provisions related to human trafficking, including civil statutes of limitations, annual stakeholder meetings, deposition of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution. Includes a new $750,000 appropriation for a joint unit to prosecute and investigate human trafficking. 

Senate Appropriations Committee

Makes it a crime to distribute personal information about a person without a legitimate purpose and without consent.

House Floor with Companion

Increases annual fee for individuals required to register as a sex offender.

Senate Floor
Education

Prohibits education accrediting agency from taking action against a higher education public institution for refusing to comply with a state law.

Signed

Establishes a school of intellectual freedom at the University of Iowa.

Sent to Governor

Enacts the Governor's "Math Counts" legislation, making changes to math instruction, civics assessments, and practitioner preparation programs. 

Sent to Governor

Makes several provisions related to education.

Sent to Governor

Modifies definition of "harassment" and "bullying" of students.

Sent to Governor

Allows schools to employ chaplains or use volunteer chaplains.

Senate Unfinished Business Calendar

Establishes the state percent of growth for public school funding for FY2026.

Sent to Governor

Requires pregnancy and fetal development education for students in grades 1-12.

Sent to Governor

Requires DOE to develop model policy on enforcing compulsory education laws and makes changes to chronically absent provisions.

Signed

Makes provisions related to early childhood education and care.

House Floor with Companion

Establishes the school security personnel grant program.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Establishes the school security personnel grant program.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Requires schools to assemble multidisciplinary threat assessment teams to identify students, who are to be flagged for services and other appropriate interventions.

Signed
Energy/Utility

Modifies provisions related to electric power.

Senate Floor
Gambling

Makes changes to the sports wagering receipts fund and makes appropriations to various tourism, health, and public safety projects.

House Floor
Government

Prohibits state and local governmental agencies and subdivisions, community colleges, and private colleges from using funds to support diversity, equity, and inclusion offices or hire DEI officers.

Sent to Governor

Prohibits certain provisions in state contracts.

Senate Floor, Second Time
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.

Senate Floor with Companion

Creates a new license for pediatric palliative care centers, a new model of care for children with chronic, complex and life-threatening illnesses.

Sent to Governor

Implements the Governor's rural health proposal, including hub and spoke models, merging health professional loan repayment programs, expanding residency and fellowship opportunities, moving certificate of need decisions to Iowa HHS, and requiring Iowa HHS to rebid the Iowa Health Information Network.

Sent to Governor
Local Government

Prohibits state and local governmental agencies and subdivisions, community colleges, and private colleges from using funds to support diversity, equity, and inclusion offices or hire DEI officers.

Sent to Governor

Expands costs eligible for emergency medical services trust fund expenditures.

Signed

Prohibits city civil service commissions from establishing a process or board for the purpose of citizen review of conduct of police officer.

Sent to Governor
Medicaid

Requires individuals with health insurance through the Iowa Health and Wellness Plan to work and addresses the "marriage penalty" in the Medicaid for Employed Persons with Disabilities (MEPD) program.

Sent to Governor
Other

Resolution calling upon the president and congress to provide citizenship to certain adoptees.

House Floor

Creates sales tax exemption period for firearms.

House Ways & Means Committee

Makes changes related to open meetings/records requirements and violations.

Sent to Governor

Requires schools to make available free feminine hygiene products for students in grades 6-12.

House Appropriations Committee

Gives veterans priority in most programs and services provided by the state, including waiving state university tuition and giving them priority in behavioral health treatment.

House Appropriations Committee

Lowers the minimum age to carry weapons from 21 to 18.

Signed

Allows residents to open a catastrophic savings account.

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Creates a new prison construction account in the Iowa prison infrastructure fund and requests an interim committee to look at the possibility of expanding prison capacity through build-outs or new prison construction.

House Floor

Allows a person to operate or ride a snowmobile or ATV with a loaded firearm.

Signed

Appropriates funds to the Double Up Food Bucks program.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Enhances penalties for assaults against first responders, law enforcement, correctional officers and health care workers, and adds juvenile detention staff.

Signed

Makes changes to sex and gender definitions under the Iowa civil rights act, in collecting vital statistics, and school curriculum.

Signed

Repeals current law regarding the sharing of information of an individual prohibited from acquiring a firearm by court order.

Senate Floor, Second Time
Reproductive Rights

Requires state universities and community colleges to make reasonable accommodations for students who are pregnant or recently gave birth.

Sent to Governor
Taxes

Reestablishes the tax levy for a public library.

House Ways & Means Committee

Allows a city to impose a tax to support public libraries.

House Ways & Means Committee

Provides for the repeal of existing tax credits.

House Ways & Means Committee

Creates an individual tax credit for purchasing firearm safety devices.

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Makes provisions related to local government property taxes, financial authority, and budgets.

Senate Floor

Makes a number of changes to Tax Increment Financing Law. 

Senate Floor with Companion

Overhaul of the Iowa Property Tax system

Senate Ways & Means Committee
Victim Rights

Makes changes to the address confidentiality program.

Signed
Voting/Elections

Makes changes related to campaign reporting and related requirements.

Senate Unfinished Business Calendar

Reforms the election recount process and sets uniform standards for contesting elections (county auditor's bill).

Sent to Governor

Makes changes to election law to allow challenges for citizenship, clarifies current law, bans ranked choice voting, and makes changes to nomination deadlines.  

Sent to Governor
Workforce

Requires employers to give adoptive parents the same benefits and protections given to biological parents as long as the adopted child is age six or younger.

Sent to Governor

Makes changes to paid leave for government employees.

Sent to Governor
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