Bill Tracker
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.
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).
Appropriates $40,637,127 for economic development programs in fiscal year 2026, a decrease of $150,000.
Appropriates $47,305,670 for agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection programs and agencies for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $1,381,925.
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.
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.
Appropriates $223.9 million for the state's court system (judicial branch) for Fiscal Year 2026, an increase of $3.7 million increase.
Appropriates $2.47 billion for Medicaid and other health/human services programs for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $254.9 million.
Makes changes to automatic (standing) appropriations for fiscal year 2026.
Appropriates $74,525,590 for state agencies for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $1,584,213.
Appropriates $42 million from the opioid settlement fund.
Distributes anticipated federal block grants for federal fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
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.
Appropriates $40,187,127 for economic development programs in fiscal year 2026, a decrease of $600,000.
Appropriates $45,574,050 for agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection programs and agencies for fiscal year 2026, a decrease of $350,000.
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.
Appropriates $220.7 million for the state's court system (judicial branch) for Fiscal Year 2026, an increase of $500,000.
Appropriates $2.47 billion for Medicaid and other health/human services programs for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $255.4 million.
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).
Makes provisions related to local government property taxes, financial authority, and budgets.
Appropriates $73.5 million for state agencies for fiscal year 2026, an increase of $520,432.
Expands list of child abuse mandatory reporters and makes provisions related to reporting.
Modifies the child and dependent care credit.
Allows a county hospital to establish a child care facility.
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).
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.
Proposes a state constitutional amendment restricting certain tax law changes.
Creates the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act.
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.
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.
Makes it a crime to distribute personal information about a person without a legitimate purpose and without consent.
Increases annual fee for individuals required to register as a sex offender.
Prohibits education accrediting agency from taking action against a higher education public institution for refusing to comply with a state law.
Establishes a school of intellectual freedom at the University of Iowa.
Enacts the Governor's "Math Counts" legislation, making changes to math instruction, civics assessments, and practitioner preparation programs.
Modifies definition of "harassment" and "bullying" of students.
Allows schools to employ chaplains or use volunteer chaplains.
Establishes the state percent of growth for public school funding for FY2026.
Requires pregnancy and fetal development education for students in grades 1-12.
Requires DOE to develop model policy on enforcing compulsory education laws and makes changes to chronically absent provisions.
Makes provisions related to early childhood education and care.
Establishes the school security personnel grant program.
Establishes the school security personnel grant program.
Requires schools to assemble multidisciplinary threat assessment teams to identify students, who are to be flagged for services and other appropriate interventions.
Makes changes to the sports wagering receipts fund and makes appropriations to various tourism, health, and public safety projects.
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.
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.
Creates a new license for pediatric palliative care centers, a new model of care for children with chronic, complex and life-threatening illnesses.
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.
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.
Expands costs eligible for emergency medical services trust fund expenditures.
Prohibits city civil service commissions from establishing a process or board for the purpose of citizen review of conduct of police officer.
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.
Resolution calling upon the president and congress to provide citizenship to certain adoptees.
Creates sales tax exemption period for firearms.
Makes changes related to open meetings/records requirements and violations.
Requires schools to make available free feminine hygiene products for students in grades 6-12.
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.
Allows residents to open a catastrophic savings account.
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.
Allows a person to operate or ride a snowmobile or ATV with a loaded firearm.
Appropriates funds to the Double Up Food Bucks program.
Enhances penalties for assaults against first responders, law enforcement, correctional officers and health care workers, and adds juvenile detention staff.
Makes changes to sex and gender definitions under the Iowa civil rights act, in collecting vital statistics, and school curriculum.
Repeals current law regarding the sharing of information of an individual prohibited from acquiring a firearm by court order.
Requires state universities and community colleges to make reasonable accommodations for students who are pregnant or recently gave birth.
Reestablishes the tax levy for a public library.
Allows a city to impose a tax to support public libraries.
Provides for the repeal of existing tax credits.
Creates an individual tax credit for purchasing firearm safety devices.
Makes provisions related to local government property taxes, financial authority, and budgets.
Makes a number of changes to Tax Increment Financing Law.
Makes changes related to campaign reporting and related requirements.
Reforms the election recount process and sets uniform standards for contesting elections (county auditor's bill).
Makes changes to election law to allow challenges for citizenship, clarifies current law, bans ranked choice voting, and makes changes to nomination deadlines.
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.
Makes changes to paid leave for government employees.