Bill Tracker
Gives health care providers and institutions the right to not participate in a health care service that violates the provider's or institution's conscience.
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.
Replaces the term "pregnant person" with "pregnant female" throughout multiple statutory sections dealing with the termination of pregnancy, feticide, and related offenses.
Revises Iowa's open meetings law to require that public notice of governmental body meetings be provided in three specific ways.
Expands the definition of children eligible for the statewide preschool program to include younger five-year-olds.
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.
Makes state employees eligible for paid parental leave, even if they are not covered by the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
Allows parents, legal guardians, or custodians to commit a minor for substance use or mental health treatment without requiring judicial approval.
Limits liability for damages or injuries allegedly caused by the effects on climate from greenhouse gas emissions, specifically those from agricultural or renewable fuel sources.
Repeals the Board of Regents’ minority and women educators enhancement program.
Makes sweeping changes to Iowa's habitual offender laws - and requires significant capital outlay for new prison build/operations.
Removes barriers to accessing subacute mental health treatment facilities, adds subacute beds to the psychiatric bed tracking system, and removes restrictive limits.
Allows certain pregnant minors to give consent to prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care.
Revises the Iowa Rules of Criminal Procedure regarding commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity.
Requires individuals applying for a commercial driver’s license complete human trafficking prevention training.
Prohibits foreign nationals from contributing to or influencing ballot issue campaigns, either directly or indirectly.
Makes significant changes to Iowa's educational requirements, including new social studies assessments and removal of all mandates that curriculum be multicultural, gender-fair and global.
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).
Strikes numerous provisions from Iowa law that require or reference affirmative action, race, gender, or citizenship in state employment, contracting, and educational programs.
Makes changes to HMO taxation and makes supplemental appropriations to HHS.
Overhauls Iowa's education statutes with major changes to charter school governance, funding, and oversight, expands preschool program participation to community-based providers, revises rules for private and independent instruction, updates the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS) eligibility, and creates new funding mechanisms for charter school facilities.
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.
Appropriates $1.042 billion to the Department for the Blind, Department of Education, Board of Regents, and Department of Workforce Development for fiscal year 2027, which begins July 1, 2026. This is an increase of $10.5 million.
Makes changes in the process for Iowans accessing medications that induce an abortion (mifepristone, misoprostol), creates private cause of action for violations, and repeals the fetal heartbeat law.
Establishes a grant program to fund a nonprofit sexual assault forensic examination center (SAFE Center).
Makes provisions relating to matters under the purview of Economic Development Authority, Utilities Commission, and Department of Education.
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.
Prohibits the use of school property as a satellite absentee voting in certain elections.
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.
Changes definition of 'qualified education expenses' for the Iowa Education Savings Plan.
Mandates use of federal e-verify and SAVE systems for employment and professional licensure eligibility verification across multiple sectors, including education, public employment, and professional licensing.
Requires the Department of Education and schools to distribute and train staff on federal guidance about constitutionally protected prayer and religious expression.
Expands the list of professions eligible for professional permits to carry weapons, clarifying permit procedures, and standardizing permit validity.
Implements the Attorney General's recommendations to enhance victim rights.
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.
Requires commercial drivers demonstrate sufficient English language proficiency to receive or renew a CDL or CLP.
Makes changes related to taxation and regulation of alternative nicotine and vape products.
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.
Establishes a new Early Childhood and Family Services system under the Department of Health and Human Services.