Bill Tracker
Realigns the health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services.
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).
Allows parents, legal guardians, or custodians to commit a minor for substance use or mental health treatment without requiring judicial approval.
Removes barriers to accessing subacute mental health treatment facilities, adds subacute beds to the psychiatric bed tracking system, and removes restrictive limits.
Revises the Iowa Rules of Criminal Procedure regarding commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity.
Realigns the health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services.
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.
Appropriates $222.3 million to Iowa's judicial branch (courts) for fiscal year 2027, which begins July 1, 2026. This is a status quo budget (no change from current year).
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.
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.
Appropriates $38.9 million for fiscal year 2027, which begins on July 1, 2026. This is decrease of $1.4 million.
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.
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.
Sets budget for the Iowa Department of Transportation at $495.3 million for fiscal year 2027, which begins on July 1, 2026. This is a decrease of $18.2 million and is funded through gas taxes.
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.
Prohibits granting deferred or suspended sentences to individuals convicted of sexual exploitation of a child in certain circumstances.
Revises Iowa law regarding how interviews and observations of children are conducted following reports of child abuse.
Prohibits local governments from enacting any civil rights ordinance or law that are broader than those established under the Iowa Civil Rights Act of 1965.
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.
Prohibits granting deferred or suspended sentences to individuals convicted of sexual exploitation of a child in certain circumstances.
Revises the Iowa Rules of Criminal Procedure regarding commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity.
Establishes a grant program to fund a nonprofit sexual assault forensic examination center (SAFE Center).
Implements the Attorney General's recommendations to enhance victim rights.
Creates a new section mandating minimum pretrial bond amounts for class 'A' and various classes of forcible felonies in Iowa, with annual adjustments for inflation, and requires courts to provide written justification if bail is set below these minimums.
Modifies which city utility projects are excluded from the definition of 'public improvement' under public construction bidding law.
Requires that thoroughbred and quarter horse racing seasons be conducted as separate, non-overlapping meets under certain circumstances.
Revises Iowa's open meetings law to require that public notice of governmental body meetings be provided in three specific ways.
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).
Realigns the health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services.
Sets budget for the Iowa Department of Transportation at $495.3 million for fiscal year 2027, which begins on July 1, 2026. This is a decrease of $18.2 million and is funded through gas taxes.
Prohibits local governments from issuing county- or city-specific identification cards to residents.
Revises Iowa's open meetings law to require that public notice of governmental body meetings be provided in three specific ways.
Mandates that all counties and cities in Iowa must divest themselves of any mineral rights they own.
Requires counties and cities to permit at least one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the same lot as a single-family residence in zoning districts where such residences are principal uses.
Makes changes related to the display of the U.S. and Iowa state flags on public buildings.
Requires individuals applying for a commercial driver’s license complete human trafficking prevention training.
Establishes licensure requirements for massage therapy establishments.
Establishes a Statewide Urban Design and Specifications Board.
Expands the regulation of mining activities by addressing subsidence — the collapse, settling, or sinking of land — that occurs at or above underground mines located on public land or within public rights-of-way.
Changes the distribution formula for the juvenile detention home fund.
Allows nonresidents who own real property in Iowa and use their vehicles primarily at that property to provide alternative information when applying for vehicle registration and a certificate of title.
Requires public corporations provide written notice of the date of final acceptance of a public improvement to specific parties no later than 14 calendar days after such acceptance.
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.
Establishes a new Early Childhood and Family Services system under the Department of Health and Human Services.
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).
Denies minors the right to consent to vaccinations for a sexually transmitted disease or infection.
Exempts property taxes levied for emergency medical services from being diverted into urban renewal (TIF) special funds.
Requires DOT to verify the citizenship and immigration status of all applicants for driver's licenses or nonoperator identification cards who do not provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
Sets budget for the Iowa Department of Transportation at $495.3 million for fiscal year 2027, which begins on July 1, 2026. This is a decrease of $18.2 million and is funded through gas taxes.
Implements the Attorney General's recommendations to enhance victim rights.
Makes changes to state election administration, including the removal of the ability to attest for another voter's identity if they have misplaced their ID.
Prohibits the use of school property as a satellite absentee voting in certain elections.