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Accessibility

Amends definition of "human trafficking" and "victim." 

House Judiciary Committee
Alcohol/Drugs/Tobacco

Changes the penalty for the manufacture, possession, or delivery of crack cocaine.

House Public Safety Committee

Adds misoprostol, mifepristone, and methotrexate as schedule III controlled substances.

Senate Judiciary Committee
Broadband/Technology

Provides for regulation of artificial intelligence.

House Floor

Makes changes related to consumer data protection laws.

Senate Technology Committee
Budgets

Governor's administration and regulation budget for fiscal year 2026 (July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026).

Senate Appropriations Committee

Governor's Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund (RIIF) budget for fiscal year 2026 (July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026. 

Senate Appropriations Committee

Governor's agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection budget for fiscal year 2026 (July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026).

Senate Appropriations Committee

Education budget for FY2025-2026.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Justice system budget for FY2025-2026.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs budget for FY2025-FY2026.

Senate Appropriations Committee
Childcare/Child Welfare

Creates a feasibility study committee to establish a state training school for females under age 18.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Allows the children of at least one minor parent to be automatically eligible for state child care assistance.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires DOE to develop model guidelines on child sexual abuse awareness and prevention instruction.

Senate Floor
Constitutional Amendments

Makes provisions related to the appointment and regulation of commissioners to a US constitutional convention.

House Appropriations Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment providing that every person has a right to a clean environment.

House Environmental Protection Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment creating a process to allow qualified electors to submit petitions to amend the state constitution and state code.

House State Government Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment stating the right to reproductive care.

House Judiciary Committee

Calls for a US constitutional convention to propose amendments to impose federal fiscal restraints, limit federal jurisdiction and power, and limit terms of office.

House State Government Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment to limit years of service for elected officials.

House State Government Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment relating to the right to reproductive care.

Senate State Government Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment striking a prohibition that withholds voting rights from individuals convicted of an infamous crime. 

Senate State Government Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment to repeal the natural resources and outdoor recreation trust fund.

Senate State Government Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment allowing citizen initiatives.

Senate State Government Committee
Crime/Courts

Allows surgical castration for certain sex offenses.

House Judiciary Committee

Increases criminal offense for crimes committed by a person who intentionally conceals their identify.

House Public Safety Committee

Extends the number of days within which a criminal defendant must be brought to trial.

House Judiciary Committee

Provides that a person who purchases sex from a person who is a victim of human trafficking commits a class C felony.

House Public Safety Committee

Sets initial appearance minimum bonds for certain criminal offenses.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes provisions related to the criminal offense of grooming.

House Public Safety Committee

Makes changes to probation requirements.

House Floor

Allows two-way remote/video court testimony for children and individuals with disabilities.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes changes to current law regarding liability in cases involving the justifiable use of reasonable force.

House Judiciary Committee

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

House Public Safety Committee

Amends definition of "human trafficking" and "victim." 

House Judiciary Committee

Requires juvenile courts and HHS to screen a child for exploitation in certain circumstances.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Allows the expungement of criminal records for victims of human trafficking.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Allows for a hearing to determine immunity from liability following a use of reasonable force in certain circumstances.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes changes to criminal investigation procedures.

House Judiciary Committee

Requires a court to seal eviction action court records within three days under certain circumstances.

House Judiciary Committee

Creates a formula for judicial officer salaries.

House Judiciary Committee

Modified statute of limitations for certain civil actions relating to minors and individuals with mental illness.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes changes to mandatory minimum sentences related to possession of firearms by a felon.

Senate Unfinished Business Calendar

Prohibits issuing a subpoena or search warrant seeking menstrual health data.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Increases parole eligibility age limit for a person convicted of a class A felony.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Allows civil actions relating to sexual abuse, human trafficking, or exploitation of a minor to be brought at any time.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes provisions related to collecting, storing, and testing sexual abuse evidence kits.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Appropriates money from the victim compensation fund to cover care for victims of sexual assault.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Allows the death penalty for certain first degree murders.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Places limitations on discovery and procedure related to a claim for post conviction relief. 

House Judiciary Committee

Prohibits a diminished capacity defense in certain circumstances.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes changes to the definition of "pecuniary damages" relating to criminal restitution.

Senate Judiciary Committee
Education

Makes changes to continuing education requirements.

House State Government Committee

Repeals the education savings account program.

House Education Committee

Prohibits certain DEI and critical race theory requirements for students and faculty at Regents' institutions.

Senate Education Committee

Creates the Syllabus Transparency Act.

House Higher Education Committee

Requires students complete a course in American history and civil government to receive a baccalaureate degree. 

House Higher Education Committee

Requires students to complete one unit of US government instruction.

House Education Committee

Requires the legislative council to conduct a review of the state's public education system.

House Education Committee

Requires higher education institutions to adopt a policy relating to certain expressions of support for terrorist activities or organizations by non-immigrant visa holders at the institutions.

House Higher Education Committee

Requires DOE to develop gun safety courses for K-12 students. 

House Public Safety Committee

Prohibits certain higher education private institutions from establishing or sustaining a diversity, equity, and inclusion office.

House Higher Education Committee

Prohibits community colleges from establishing a diversity, equity, and inclusion office.

House Higher Education Committee

Makes changes to several education laws.

House Education Committee

Makes changes regarding school district requirements to publish certain information.

House Education Committee

Modifies calculation for school foundation aid. 

Senate Education Committee

Requires schools to adopt policies related to excusing student absences for civic or political events.

Senate Education Committee

Makes changes related to human growth and development instruction.

Senate Education Committee

Prohibits schools from enrolling a pupil in human growth and development classes without parental consent.

Senate Education Committee

Changes the preschool budget enrollment used to determine funding.

Senate Education Committee

Requires school districts to comply with current law allowing individuals to examine public records.

Senate Education Committee

Prohibits schools and libraries from providing digital materials to students under certain circumstances.

Senate Education Committee

Modifies current law regarding prohibited education on sexual orientation and gender identify, and prohibits DIE efforts.

Senate Education Committee

Allows schools to offer elective religion classes to grades 9-12.

Senate Unfinished Business Calendar
Energy/Utility

 Makes provisions related to electric transmission lines.

Senate Commerce Committee
Environment/Water Quality

Requires a landowner having an interest in property adjoining a public water source to establish and maintain a riparian protection measure.

House Environmental Protection Committee

Prohibits Iowa Utility Commission from considering climate change when determining hazardous liquid pipeline permits.

House Education Committee

Prohibits the intentional emission of air contaminants.

House Environmental Protection Committee

Makes changes to current law regarding animal feeding operations.

Senate Natural Resources & Environment Committee
Government

Establishes a regulatory relief program.

House Economic Growth & Technology Committee

Makes the office of consumer advocate an independent agency.

Senate Commerce Committee

Allows the state auditor to investigate state departments.

House State Government Committee

Automatically resigns a member of Congress if Congress fails to pass a budget by Oct. 31 each year.

House State Government Committee

Increases salaries for state elected officials.

Senate Floor
Health Care

Prohibits policies providing third-party payment or prepayment of health expenses from imposing cost-sharing for supplemental and diagnostic breast exams that are less favorable than screening mammograms. 

Senate Commerce Committee

Requires University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to offer an interview for available medical residency positions to certain individuals.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Makes it a crime to prescribe or sell abortifacient drugs.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Allows pharmacists to dispense a 12-month supply of self-administered hormonal contraceptives. 

House Commerce Committee

Prohibits a vaccine from being administered unless the manufacturer waives any immunity for an injury arising from a vaccine design defect.

House Judiciary Committee

Places restrictions on medication abortion providers.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Creates the Compassion and Care for Medically Challenging Pregnancies Act.

House Health & Human Services Committee

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

House Health & Human Services Committee

Allows schools to employ an athletic trainer to provide health services to students.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Requires HHS to establish a health equity program.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Requires hospitals to submit nondiscrimination and reproductive health care policies to DIALS.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires HHS and DOE to expand evidence-based home visiting services for women and infants.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires Medicaid to coverage standard fertility preservation services.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Allows local officials and employees to receive monetary donations from other local officials and employees for medical or health care expenses.

Senate Floor

Prohibits health insurance providers from imposing cost-sharing for supplemental diagnostic breast exams.

Senate Commerce Committee
Housing, Childcare & Quality of Life

Requires HHS to participate in the summer EBT program for children during summer 2025.

House Health & Human Services Committee
Immigration/Refugees

Requires all law enforcement agencies to participate in the federal immigration and national act enforcement.

House Judiciary Committee

Requires schools to cooperate with federal immigration officers. 

House Education Committee
Insurance

Prohibits policies providing third-party payment or prepayment of health expenses from imposing cost-sharing for supplemental and diagnostic breast exams that are less favorable than screening mammograms. 

Senate Commerce Committee

Requires third party health insurers to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant women.

House Commerce Committee

Requires health insurers to provide coverage for the diagnosis of and treatment for infertility and preservation services.

Senate Commerce Committee

Requires certain health insurance providers to cover contraceptive drugs and devices.

Senate Commerce Committee
Law Enforcement

Removes current requirement for law enforcement officers to complete annual training on de-escalation techniques and prevention of bias.

House Judiciary Committee

Makes provisions to revoke or suspend a law enforcement officer or reserve peace officer's certification.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Requires background check for law enforcement officers.

Senate Judiciary Committee
Local Government

Requires a local emergency management commission budget to be fully funded and prohibits other entities from changing the budget. 

Senate Local Government Committee

Allows local officials and employees to receive monetary donations from other local officials and employees for medical or health care expenses.

Senate Floor
Medicaid

Requires Medicaid MCOs to cover maternity care.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires HHS to establish the Iowa family planning network in the Medicaid waiver.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Increases Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women and infants.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires Medicaid to coverage standard fertility preservation services.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee
Other

Expands current law on sexual exploitation of a student by a school employee to charter and non-public schools.

House Education Committee

Provides mandatory minimum sentences for felons in possession of a firearm or weapon. 

House Public Safety Committee

Requires prompt responses to public records requests.

House State Government Committee

Creates the second amendment preservation act.

House Judiciary Committee

Establishes the anti-red flag gun seizure act.

House Judiciary Committee

Makes changes to penalties for a driver operating a vehicle while their license is canceled, suspended, revoked, or barred.

House Public Safety Committee

Repeals current law related to obscenity exemptions.

House Education Committee

Requires legislative bills to retain the number assigned to them when introduced.

House State Government Committee

Allows firearms on school property in certain circumstances.

House Education Committee

Creates the human life protection act.

House Judiciary Committee

Increases the number of days to file a complaint with the Iowa public information board.

House Unfinished Business Calendar

Repeals the beverage container control program.

House Commerce Committee

Amends current law regarding interpretation of law in administrative and judicial proceedings under the Iowa Administrative Procedure Act.

House Floor

Requires DPS to sell seized or forfeited firearms and ammunition through public auction.

House Floor

Changes library eligibility for funding through the Enrich Iowa Program.

House Education Committee

Prohibits minors from attending drag shows.

House Education Committee

Prohibits schools from providing instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation to students in grades 7-12.

House Education Committee

Eliminates certain affirmative action and equal opportunity efforts in state entities.

House Judiciary Committee

Removes certain restrictions on a person's eligibility to receive a permit to carry a weapon.

House Public Safety Committee

Makes provision for family leave and medical leave insurance program.

Senate Workforce Committee

Requires a newspaper to comply with subscription cancellation requirements to be designated as a newspaper for the official publication of public notices.

Senate Floor

Requires medical examiner reports for infants to include date of last immunization.

Senate Floor

Requires period products be available at no cost in certain state buildings and schools.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Prohibits an individual from entering a private space on state property designated for use by individuals of the opposite biological sex.

Senate State Government Committee

Establishes additional unfair or discriminatory wage practices.

Senate Workforce Committee

Prohibits libraries from making materials with a description of a sex act available to minors. 

Senate Local Government Committee

Applies open records law to an instrumentality of a city or township.

Senate Unfinished Business Calendar

Makes provisions related to homelessness.

Senate Local Government Committee
Pharmacy/Prescriptions

Requires private insurance cover prescription drugs for the treatment of metastatic cancer.

Senate Commerce Committee
Professional Licensing/Scope of Practice

Makes changes to continuing education requirements.

House State Government Committee
Reproductive Rights

Allows all causes of action related to the death of an unborn child to remain.

House Judiciary Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment stating the right to reproductive care.

House Judiciary Committee
Voting/Elections

Requires an employer to give an employee who is a candidate for election 30 days off before the election. 

House State Government Committee

Makes changes to the duties of the Secretary of State.

House State Government Committee

Requires voter ID cards, driver's licenses, and IDs to include citizenship status.

House State Government Committee

Imposes campaign contribution limits for political committees.

House State Government Committee

Makes Election Day a legal public holiday.

House State Government Committee

Limits campaign contributions for candidates identical to federal campaign finance regulations.

House State Government Committee

Prohibits placing campaign signs on certain property.

House State Government Committee

Places requirements on candidates and voters related to political party affiliation.

House State Government Committee

Makes provisions related to elections.

House State Government Committee

Allows eligible electors of a city to submit a petition to fill a vacancy by special election in certain circumstances.

Senate State Government Committee

Requires date of birth and address be deleted from a registered voters list upon the voter's request.

House State Government Committee

Places requirements on voting in a primary election or caucus.

House State Government Committee

Changes the filing deadline for nominations by nonparty political organizations for certain offices.

 

Senate State Government Committee

Changes the definition of "political party."

Senate State Government Committee

Prohibits the use of school property as a satellite absentee voting in certain elections.

House State Government Committee

Requires certain individuals to cast a provisional ballot.

Senate State Government Committee

Makes provisions related to voter records created and retained by state and county elections commissioners.

 

Senate State Government Committee

Strikes requirement to use optical scan voting systems and automatic tabulating equipment.

House State Government Committee

Prohibits the use of certain documents as applications for voter registration. 

Senate State Government Committee

Prohibits ranked choice and instant runoff voting.

House State Government Committee

Makes provisions related to election administration, including investigating election misconduct, us of automatic tabulating equipment, use of an electronic election register, and recounts.

Senate Floor

Makes changes related to election administration, including absentee ballots, electronic transmission of results, and maintenance of election records.

Senate Floor

Allows the state to contract with an external entity for voter verification and requires DOT to provide list of non-citizens.

Senate Floor

Proposes a state constitutional amendment striking a prohibition that withholds voting rights from individuals convicted of an infamous crime. 

Senate State Government Committee

Requires candidates for certain local elections to be nominated at a partisan primary.  

Senate Local Government Committee
Workforce

Makes several provisions related to wage collection.

Senate Workforce Committee

Prohibits employers from requiring criminal history disclosure for certain applicants.

Senate Workforce Committee
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