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League of Women Voters of Iowa
Support

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

House Floor

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

House Public Safety Committee

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

House Education Committee

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

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

House Health & Human Services Committee

Reestablishes the tax levy for a public library.

House Ways & Means Committee

Repeals the education savings account program.

House Education Committee

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

House Health & Human Services Committee

Imposes campaign contribution limits for political committees.

House State Government Committee

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

House State Government Committee

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

House Ways & Means Committee

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 prompt responses to public records requests.

House State Government Committee

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

House Public Safety Committee

Makes provisions related to the criminal offense of grooming.

House Public Safety Committee

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

House State Government Committee

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

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

House Commerce Committee

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

House Commerce Committee

Allows the state auditor to investigate state departments.

House State Government Committee

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

House Appropriations Committee

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

Creates an individual tax credit for purchasing firearm safety devices.

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Creates a pilot program allowing voters with disabilities that prevent them from marking ballots by hand to complete absentee ballots using assistive technology.

House State Government Committee

Allows victims of certain crimes to terminate their rental agreements early.

House Floor

Repeals the state's 'fetal heartbeat' abortion restrictions.

House Judiciary Committee

Establishes human trafficking prosecution units.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Regulates the use of synthetic media in campaign materials.

Senate State Government Committee

Establishes an affordable housing task force.

House Floor

Establishes a process for victims of human trafficking to petition the court for expungement of their criminal history records for offenses committed or reported while they were victims.

Senate Floor

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

House Judiciary Committee

Expands bottle bill 'beverage' definition.

House Natural Resources Committee

Allows pharmacists to dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Requires HHS to establish a health equity program.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Creates a state-run paid family leave and medical leave insurance program.

Senate Workforce Committee

Makes changes related to human growth and development instruction.

Senate Education Committee

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

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Changes the preschool budget enrollment used to determine funding.

Senate Education Committee

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

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

Senate Commerce Committee

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

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires Medicaid MCOs to cover maternity care.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

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

Makes several provisions related to wage collection.

Senate Workforce Committee

Prohibits employers from requiring criminal history disclosure for certain applicants.

Senate Workforce Committee

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

Senate Education Committee

Makes changes to current law regarding animal feeding operations.

Senate Natural Resources & Environment Committee

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

Establishes additional unfair or discriminatory wage practices.

Senate Workforce Committee

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

Senate Commerce Committee

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

Senate Commerce Committee

Appropriates an additional $1 million to the Double Up Food Bucks program.

Senate Appropriations 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

Prohibits a diminished capacity defense in certain circumstances.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Requires Medicaid to coverage standard fertility preservation services.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Affirms the right to contraception for individuals and the right for healthcare providers to offer contraceptives and related information.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Makes several provisions related to firearm regulation.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Extends REAP funding beyond June 30, 2028.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Creates a framework for extreme risk protective orders.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Requires firearm owners to report lost or stolen firearms to local law enforcement within 48 hours of discovery.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Requires that an applicant for a permit to acquire pistols or revolvers must complete the same safety training as is currently required for an initial permit to carry weapons.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Expands the products included under Iowa's beverage container deposit law.

Senate State Government Committee

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

Senate State Government Committee

Proposes an amendment to the Iowa Constitution explicitly barring corporations from contributing financially or otherwise participating in election activity or ballot-issue activity.

Senate State Government Committee

Expands eligibility for paid parental leave for state employees.

Senate State Government Committee

Makes provisions related to the use of synthetic media in campaigns.

Senate State Government Committee
Opposed

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

House State Government Committee

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

House Judiciary Committee

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

Senate Education Committee

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

House Education Committee

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

House State Government Committee

Makes it a crime to prescribe or sell abortifacient drugs.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Creates the second amendment preservation act.

House Judiciary Committee

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

House Judiciary Committee

Creates sales tax exemption period for firearms.

House Ways & Means Committee

Sets initial appearance minimum bonds for certain criminal offenses.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Places requirements on voting in a primary election or caucus.

House State Government Committee

Allows firearms on school property in certain circumstances.

House Floor

Places restrictions on medication abortion providers.

House Health & Human Services Committee

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

House Public Safety Committee

Changes library eligibility for funding through the Enrich Iowa Program.

House Education Committee

Allows schools to employ chaplains or use volunteer chaplains.

Senate Unfinished Business Calendar

Makes changes to several education laws.

House Education Committee

Requires all law enforcement agencies and officers to cooperate and work with ICE and other federal immigration agencies when requested.

House Public Safety Committee

Allows schools to use SAVE funds to pay for insurance costs associated with hiring armed personnel.

House Education Committee

Makes provisions related to mandatory minimum sentences for certain criminal offenses.

House Judiciary Committee

Changes requirements related to public library standards and performance measures.

House Education Committee

Prohibits the distribution, sale, or administration of any vaccine in Iowa unless the manufacturer waives any legal immunity from lawsuits for injuries resulting from design defects.

House Judiciary Committee

Imposes strict rules on public libraries regarding materials classified as 'harmful to minors.'

House Judiciary Committee

Prohibits schools from entering into certain agreements with public libraries and mobile libraries.

House Floor

Creates new prohibitions on elective abortion.

House Judiciary Committee

Prohibits schools from discriminating against students for engaging in religious, political, or ideological speech and expression on equal terms with other students.

Senate Floor with Companion

Prohibits schools from providing any program or instruction relating to gender theory or sexual orientation to students in grades K-12.

House Floor

Prohibits businesses, schools, and government entities from requiring or discriminating against individuals based on their receipt of medical interventions.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Allows individuals holding a valid carry permit to bring firearms onto school grounds under certain circumstances.

House Public Safety Committee

Allows schools to authorize individuals to carry, transport, or possess firearms, other weapons, or ammunition in school vehicles transporting pupils.

House Public Safety Committee

Prohibits private institutions participating the Iowa Tuition Grant Program from having DEI offices.

Senate Education Committee

Requires the Board of Educational Examiners revoke or deny educator licenses or certificates for publicly celebrating acts of politically motivated violence.

House Floor

Prohibits DNR from placing any state water on the impaired waters list under certain circumstances.

House Floor

Clarifies that actions taken to raise, guide, or instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex do not constitute child abuse or child endangerment.

Senate Floor

Eliminates the Iowa smart planning principles.

Senate Floor

Makes several provisions related to public library regulation.

House Floor

Establishes the anti-red flag gun seizure act.

Senate Judiciary 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

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

Senate Education Committee

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

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

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

Senate State Government Committee

Allows the death penalty for certain first degree murders.

Senate Judiciary Committee

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

Senate Local Government Committee

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

Prohibits ranked choice and instant runoff voting.

House State Government Committee

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

Senate Education Committee

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

Senate State Government Committee

Expands the permissible uses of SAVE fund moneys.

Senate Education Committee

Raises the required minimum portion of a sentence that must be served before parole eligibility for several criminal offenses.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Establishes the Nonpublic School Safety Infrastructure Fund.

Senate Education Committee

Requires county commissioners of elections label every ballot cast in primary and general elections with the method by which it was cast.

Senate State Government Committee

Requires that absentee ballots must be received by 5:00 p.m. on the day before election day.

Senate State Government Committee

Requires individuals registering to vote on election day to cast a provisional ballot.

Senate State Government Committee

Repeals current law related to obscenity exemptions.

Senate Education Committee

Classifies abortifacients as schedule III controlled substances.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Requires libraries and their third-party contractors to block minors from accessing certain content.

Senate Technology Committee

Requires the use the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) to verify the citizenship status of all registered voters and new voter registrants.

House State Government Committee

Changes criteria for firearm eligibility and related legal processes.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes several substantive changes to Iowa's weapons laws.

Senate Floor, Second Time

Expands prohibitions on teaching, advocating, or promoting stereotyping and scapegoating based on demographic group membership or identity.

Senate Floor

Sets up a process for continuing appropriations if the Iowa General Assembly does not pass an annual budget by July 1. This is an appropriations committee bill, so is exempt from funnel deadlines.

Senate Floor

Proposes a state constitutional amendment restricting certain tax law changes.

House Ways & Means Committee

Amends the Iowa Constitution to prohibit Iowa courts from exercising judicial review to determine whether laws passed by the General Assembly are consistent with the Constitution.

Senate State Government Committee

Makes provisions related to homelessness.

Senate Local Government Committee

Requires all law enforcement officers to cooperate with ICE and other federal immigration-related agencies.

Senate Workforce Committee

Places requirements on abortions. 

Senate Judiciary Committee
Undecided

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

House Public Safety Committee

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

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

House Judiciary Committee

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

House Public Safety 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

Makes Election Day a legal public holiday.

House State Government Committee

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

House Higher Education 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 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

Makes changes related to campaign reporting and related requirements.

Senate Unfinished Business Calendar

Makes the office of consumer advocate an independent agency.

Senate Commerce 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

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

Applies open records law to any instrumentality of a county, city or township.

Senate Floor with Companion

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

Increases funding for the Double Up Food Bucks by $1 million but restricts SNAP purchases to "health food options."

Senate Appropriations Committee

Mandates that school districts implement policies to address students who disrupt the educational process or violate the student handbook.

House Education Committee

Allows political parties to satisfy legal notice requirements for precinct caucuses by publishing the date, time, and place on an official social media account.

House Floor

Changes Iowa's election law regarding ballot content.

House State Government Committee

Requires additional oversight, training, and accountability regarding curriculum, educational materials, and training in schools.

House Education Committee

Expands the list of individuals who may request redaction of their names from electronic public documents displayed by county assessors and recorders.

Senate Floor

Creates a new exception to Iowa's public records law.

House State Government Committee

Doubles the capacity for inpatient psychiatric treatment at each state mental health institute.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires undergraduate students complete courses in American history and American government.

Senate Floor with Companion

Requires school district bond elections be held on the same date as the general election.

House State Government Committee

Expands the list of individuals who may request the redaction of their personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed by county assessors and recorders.

House Judiciary Committee

Authorizes reimbursement for the installation and operation of home security systems for each legislator and certain statewide elected officials.

House Floor

Creates a groundwater monitoring pilot program.

House Appropriations Committee

Makes changes to public assistance program requirements.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires the state court administrator to collect and publish annual performance information for judges.

Senate Judiciary 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.

Senate Appropriations 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

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

Provides for regulation of artificial intelligence.

House Floor

Overhauls Iowa's property tax and local government finance framework.

House Ways & Means Committee

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

Senate Local Government Committee

Modifies calculation for school foundation aid. 

Senate Education Committee

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

Senate Judiciary 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

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

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

Senate Commerce Committee

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

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

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

House State Government Committee

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

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

House Judiciary Committee

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

Establishes the school security personnel grant program.

Senate Appropriations 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 State Government Committee

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

Senate State Government Committee

Modifies provisions related to electric power.

Senate Appropriations Committee

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

House Ways & Means Committee

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

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Creates an income tax deduction for legislators for certain unreimbursed mileage expenses.

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Makes provisions related to voter record creation and retention.

Senate State Government Committee

Creates a system for distributing unique serial numbers or identification marks for firearms and certain firearm parts.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Establishes a private cause of action against firearm owners who fail to secure their firearms under certain circumstances.

Senate Judiciary Committee

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

House Local Government Committee

Requires election communication that contains synthetic media to include a clear disclosure stating such.

Senate State Government Committee

Requires governmental subdivisions and certified public accountants to cooperate with the state auditor in investigating suspected embezzlement, theft, or other significant financial irregularities.

House State Government Committee

Requires state universities, community colleges, and public schools to complete annual antisemitism reports.

Senate & House Floors

Reduces the number of calendar days members of the Iowa General Assembly receive per diem payments while in session, in essence cutting the legislative session in half.

Senate Floor

Sets up a pilot program to allow a school district to set up a separate school for students with behavioral needs and students needing special education.

House Education Committee

Makes changes to local government approval of actions by ordinance and posting of public notices.

House Floor

Appropriates funding for HHS and veterans affairs for FY2026-20027.

Withdrawn

Creates a maternity group home tax credit.

Senate Floor

Abolishes townships as a form of local government.

House Ways & Means Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment allowing citizen initiatives.

Senate State Government Committee

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

Senate Local Government Committee

Institutes wide-ranging reforms across health, nutrition, and tax policy.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Requires public entities to post all statutorily required public notices on an online portal.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Changes salaries for state elected officials.

Senate Appropriations Committee
Watch

Allows surgical castration for certain sex offenses.

House Judiciary Committee

Establishes a regulatory relief program.

House Economic Growth & Technology Committee

Makes changes to continuing education requirements.

House State Government Committee

Creates the Syllabus Transparency Act.

House Higher Education Committee

Prohibits placing campaign signs on certain property.

House State Government 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

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

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

House State Government Committee

Provides for the repeal of existing tax credits.

House Ways & Means Committee

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

House Appropriations Committee

Creates the human life protection act.

House Judiciary 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

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

House State Government 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.

Senate Judiciary 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

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

Prohibits minors from attending drag shows.

House Education Committee

Prohibits the intentional emission of air contaminants.

House Environmental Protection Committee

Makes changes regarding school district requirements to publish certain information.

House Education Committee

Allows residents to open a catastrophic savings account.

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Modifies the child and dependent care credit.

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Requires a review of the state's prekindergarten-12th grade public education system.

House Education Committee

Establishes the rural emergency response enhancement program.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Changes the process for nominating candidates for school district offices.

House Local Government Committee

Establishes a standardized process for claim submission and reimbursement for managed care medical assistance services.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Prohibits the intentional use of artificial intelligence to recreate an individual's audio or visual likeness without their consent in specified contexts.

House Economic Growth & Technology Committee

Revises procedures and obligations in paternity proceedings for children born out of wedlock

House Health & Human Services Committee

Requires professionals to report if they learn that a newborn's biological parent previously lost parental rights due to child abuse.

House Judiciary Committee

Establishes mandatory consequences for state entities and school districts that violate existing prohibitions on DEI offices or officers and on certain concepts in educational curricula and trainings.

House Education Committee

Allows the parent or guardian of a minor to access the minor's library records upon request.

House Local Government Committee

Places requirements and prohibitions concerning the use of artificial intelligence in election-related materials and communications by candidates, committees, and public officials.

House Economic Growth & Technology Committee

Eliminates the state tuition organization tax credit.

House Education Committee

Allows candidates and their committees to use campaign funds to pay for personal and home security expenses.

House State Government Committee

Eliminates same-day voter registrants to cast a regular ballot.

House State Government Committee

Establishes a vegetative buffer strip program.

House Agriculture Committee

Makes provisions related to surrogacy agreements.

House Judiciary Committee

Raises the threshold for passing school district bond proposals.

House Ways & Means Committee

Allows courts to order a pretrial risk assessment for bailable defendants charged with offenses suggesting their release might endanger others.

House Public Safety Committee

Makes changes to local and state government finances related to tax credits and rebates.

House Ways & Means Committee

Creates an individual income tax credit for certain recent graduates of Iowa Board of Regents institutions.

House Ways & Means Committee

Creates a legislative interim study committee regarding the affordability of transportation, housing, energy, health care, and food in Iowa.

House Economic Growth & Technology Committee

Requires each political party to hold a congressional district convention with specified duties.

House State Government Committee

Imposes a new annual tax on endowment values exceeding $500 million for colleges and universities.

House Ways & Means Committee

Requires expanded instruction in civics and United States government for students in grades 7-12.

Senate Floor with Companion

Revises current law regarding the commitment of defendants found incompetent to stand trial.

House Public Safety Committee

Changes eligibility requirements for the state's Education Savings Account program.

House Education Committee

Extends the period in which a person may file a complaint for alleged violations of open meetings or open records.

Senate State Government Committee

Creates new responsibilities for school district teachers and staff who work with students with individualized education programs or Section 504 plans.

House Education Committee

Recognizes unborn children as persons for purposes of damages in wrongful death cases and as victims in homicide and assault statutes.

House Labor & Workforce Committee

Changes requirements for distributing the state employee salary report.

Senate Floor with Companion

Makes changes to public records request procedures.

Senate State Government Committee

Repeals a wide range of existing state tax credits on a rolling basis.

House Ways & Means Committee

Expands requirements for public health agencies, schools, and licensed child care centers to include information about immunization exemptions in all communications.

House Floor

Suspends legislative salaries if the General Assembly does not enact the state percent of growth and categorical state percent of growth within a certain timeframe.

House Education Committee

Appropriates $2 million to expand the Iowa return to community program and makes provisions for provider reimbursement rates.

House Health & Human Services Committee

Makes it illegal to knowingly and intentionally making materially false representations about polling or survey data.

House Judiciary Committee

Exempts certain public officials from mandatory open meetings training.

House State Government Committee

Classifies certain donations to a candidate or candidate's committee as illegal campaign contributions. 

House State Government Committee

Requires health insurers to offer a special enrollment period for pregnant women.

House Floor

Prohibits any courses or requirements containing DEI or CRT-related content from being included in undergraduate curricula at regents institutions.

Senate Floor

Makes changes to laws related to forfeited weapons use and reporting.

House Floor

Makes changes relating to elections to fill vacancies in elective county and city offices.

Senate State Government Committee

Allows townships to use reserve account funds to build a fire station.

House Ways & Means Committee

Makes it illegal to shoot a rifle, shotgun with a slug load, pistol, or revolver from any road.

House Floor

Moves regular school district and city elections from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years.

Senate State Government Committee

Expands the scope of individuals required to submit DNA samples.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes changes related to disciplinary investigations and actions against peace officers, 

House Floor

Requires schools install video recording systems in each special education classroom. 

House Floor

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

House Floor

Makes modifications for school districts and entities supported by taxation.

Senate Education Committee

Makes changes related to executive branch functions. 

Senate Floor with Companion

Establishes a new water quality practice program for farmers.

House Ways & Means Committee

Appropriates funds and establishes new programs to improve water quality. 

House Ways & Means Committee

Creates the Iowa rural health transformation fund. This is an appropriations bill, so is exempt from the funnel deadlines.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Makes changes to local government property tax, budgets, and bonding.

House Ways & Means Committee

Creates a sales and use tax exemption for certain nonprofit corporations that construct regional water trail systems.

House Ways & Means Committee

Requires the Secretary of State to set up a 'red tape reduction' internet site.

House Floor

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 an amendment to the Iowa Constitution to restrict members of the General Assembly from being the lead sponsor of more than ten bills introduced per session.

House State Government Committee

Proposes an amendment to the Iowa Constitution to change the terms of office for House of Representatives members from two years to four years.

House State Government Committee

Requests Congress to convene a constitutional convention to enact federal government reform.

House Floor

Proposes an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that the U.S. Supreme Court should be fixed at nine justices.

House Judiciary Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment requiring nonpartisan redistricting procedures.

House State Government Committee

Proposes a state constitutional amendment affirming every person's fundamental right to clean water and clean air.

House Environmental Protection Committee

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

House Health & Human Services Committee

Creates a formula for judicial officer salaries.

House Judiciary Committee

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

Allows community-based providers to implement and receive state funding for the statewide preschool program for four-year-old children.

House Education Committee

Requires colleges and universities to remove all DEI, SEL, or behavior conditioning models from coursework.

House Environmental Protection Committee

Creates a state-based health insurance exchange.

House Floor

Creates new procedures for state agencies seeking to apply for or accept high-impact federal grants.

House Appropriations Committee

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

House Floor with Companion

Requires background check for law enforcement officers.

Senate Judiciary Committee

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

Senate Education Committee

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

Makes changes related to consumer data protection laws.

Senate Technology 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

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

Senate Education Committee

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

Senate Judiciary Committee

Prohibits certain provisions in state contracts.

Senate Floor, Second Time

Allows a county hospital to establish a child care facility.

House Health & Human Services Committee

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

Senate Education Committee

Establishes the school security personnel grant program.

Senate Appropriations Committee

Imposes taxes on vape and alternative nicotine products.

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Requires nonpublic schools receiving ESA tuition payments to comply with the same requirements as public schools.

Senate Education Committee

Shifts the obligation of providing special education services for students enrolled in accredited nonpublic schools from public school districts and AEAs to the nonpublic schools.

Senate Education Committee

Requires any pipeline company applying for a permit with eminent domain powers must disclose the names, home addresses, and investment ranges of all project investors.

Senate Commerce Committee

Creates new water usage reporting requirements for certain large facilities.

Senate Natural Resources & Environment Committee

Prohibits peace officers from wearing facial coverings that conceal their identity while on duty, except for certain protective or safety-related purposes.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Requires voter registration forms be available where hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses are sold.

Senate Natural Resources & Environment Committee

Changes the ways governmental entities can satisfy statutory public notice requirements

Senate State Government Committee

Makes members of the General Assembly eligible for professional permits to carry weapons.

Senate Judiciary Committee

Establishes new restrictions and regulatory requirements for gene-based vaccine manufacturers and distributors.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Imposes new legal duties on commercial entities and individuals regarding the publication, distribution, and facilitation of access to materials considered harmful to minors, obscene, or constituting child sexual abuse material.

Senate Technology Committee

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

Senate Education Committee

Prohibits discrimination, requirements, or penalties based on a person's status regarding medical interventions, and repeals/amends laws mandating or tracking immunizations.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Makes changes related to school district funding.

Senate Education Committee

Makes provisions related to public records.

Senate State Government Committee

Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of "trigger crank" devices.

House Floor

Consolidates and updates the legal framework for charter schools by eliminating provisions for innovation zone schools and making significant operational, funding, and service changes for charter schools. 

Senate Unfinished Business Calendar

Makes provisions related to certain rights and privileges, including state employment, professional licensure, voter registration, and bail.

House Floor with Companion

Eliminates city health departments and requires county public health boards to contract with each county hospital to maximize resources.

House Floor

Excludes school district foundation property taxes from automatic division and redirection into municipal special funds for urban renewal projects.

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Prohibits the expenditure or use of school district foundation property taxes for certain urban renewal projects.

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Appropriates funds for FY 2026-2027 to a range of justice-related agencies, including the departments of Justice, Corrections, Public Defense, Public Safety, Homeland Security, the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy, the Office of the State Public Defender, the Board of Parole, and associated programs.

Withdrawn

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 constitutional amendments that limit the authority and jurisdiction of the federal government, establish fiscal restraints, and impose term limits on federal officials and members of Congress.

Senate State Government Committee

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

Senate Commerce Committee

 Makes provisions related to electric transmission lines.

Senate Commerce Committee

Overhaul of the Iowa Property Tax system

Senate Ways & Means Committee

Changes authorized dates for political subdivisions to hold special elections concerning the issuance of bonds or other indebtedness.

Senate State Government Committee

Makes changes to the statewide voluntary preschool program.

Senate Education Committee

Raises taxes on tobacco products and imposes a new tax on vape and hemp products.

Senate Health & Human Services Committee

Implements a range of administrative and procedural changes for county officers.

Senate State Government Committee
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