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Iowa Senate Judiciary Committee
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committee members
Tony Bisignano (D)
Ranking Member
Matt Blake (D)
Mike Bousselot (R)
Dan Dawson (R)
Adrian Dickey (R)
Lynn Evans (R)
Vice Chair
Julian Garrett (R)
Jesse Green (R)
Izaah Knox (D)
Mark Lofgren (R)
Janet Petersen (D)
Herman Quirmbach (D)
Jeff Reichman (R)
Dave Rowley (R)
Chair
Jason Schultz (R)
Tom Shipley (R)
Jeff Taylor (R)
Scott Webster (R)
Janice Weiner (D)
Cherielynn Westrich (R)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HF306 | A bill for an act relating to the dissemination and exhibition of obscene material to minors and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 64.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/10/2025 |
| HF310 | A bill for an act relating to assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations including a health care provider, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 9.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/10/2025 |
| HF317 | A bill for an act relating to indigent defense and the appointment of counsel by the court. (Formerly HSB 13.) | Crossed Over | 03/17/2025 |
| HF363 | A bill for an act relating to the final disposition of remains. (Formerly HSB 16.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/12/2025 |
| HF523 | A bill for an act relating to the ability of peace officers to file a petition for emergency protective orders on behalf of persons seeking relief from domestic abuse.(Formerly HF 108.) | Crossed Over | 03/13/2025 |
| HF530 | A bill for an act authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or an assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons. (Formerly HSB 166.) | Crossed Over | 03/13/2025 |
| HF546 | A bill for an act relating to initial appearance minimum bond amounts for certain criminal offenses.(Formerly HSB 124.) | Crossed Over | 03/13/2025 |
| HF549 | A bill for an act relating to the review of an officer-involved shooting case by a county attorney. (Formerly HF 42.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/13/2025 |
| HF570 | A bill for an act relating to probation, including discharge credits, educational credits, and workforce credits, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 140.) | Crossed Over | 03/24/2025 |
| HF572 | A bill for an act establishing the criminal offense of the smuggling of persons, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 15.) | Crossed Over | 03/24/2025 |
| HF573 | A bill for an act relating to filing applications and custody of the respondent in an involuntary commitment proceeding. (Formerly HF 139.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/13/2025 |
| HF602 | A bill for an act relating to testimony by a minor witness using two-way, closed-circuit equipment.(Formerly HSB 38.) | Crossed Over | 03/13/2025 |
| HF649 | A bill for an act relating to human trafficking including services and prostitution, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 189.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/24/2025 |
| HF792 | A bill for an act establishing a cause of action for murder in the first degree by causing the death of another by delivering, dispensing, or providing fentanyl or a fentanyl-related substance, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HF 365.) | Crossed Over | 03/27/2025 |
| HF793 | A bill for an act relating to fire fighter training and certification. (Formerly HF 265.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/18/2025 |
| HF825 | A bill for an act relating to declaration of value and groundwater hazard statement requirements. (Formerly HF 593.) | Crossed Over | 03/27/2025 |
| HF826 | A bill for an act relating to obscene materials involving minors, and providing penalties.(Formerly HF 81.) | Crossed Over | 03/27/2025 |
| HF862 | A bill for an act relating to the representation of boards of supervisors and county officials by outside counsel, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 414.) Effective date: 05/19/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/27/2025 |
| HF869 | A bill for an act providing for the conduct of licensed veterinarians when involved in certain legal matters involving the alleged mistreatment of animals, including by providing for immunity from administrative, civil, or criminal liability when acting in good faith; providing for administrative, civil, or criminal liability when not acting in good faith; and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 245.) | Crossed Over | 03/20/2025 |
| HF871 | A bill for an act relating to the disposition of firearms and ammunition deposited with the department of public safety through seizure or forfeiture proceedings.(Formerly HF 519.) | Crossed Over | 03/25/2025 |
| HF899 | A bill for an act relating to indecent exposure, including the unlawful electronic transmission of sexually explicit visual material, and providing penalties.(Formerly HF 43.) | Crossed Over | 03/31/2025 |
| HF901 | A bill for an act relating to the law enforcement academy, including military veterans with active duty military police experience and former federal law enforcement officers. (Formerly HF 539.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/25/2025 |
| HF924 | A bill for an act relating to the minimum age for acquiring or carrying weapons. (Formerly HSB 262.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/26/2025 |
| HF926 | A bill for an act relating to the expungement of certain criminal history records of victims of human trafficking, and including penalties.(Formerly HF 669.) | Crossed Over | 03/26/2025 |
| HF932 | A bill for an act relating to requirements for a parent to obtain joint physical custody of a child. (Formerly HSB 300.) | Crossed Over | 03/31/2025 |
| HF937 | A bill for an act relating to certain administrative procedures involving law enforcement officers, including the revocation or suspension of law enforcement officer certification and communications in professional confidence, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 264.) | Crossed Over | 03/27/2025 |
| HF940 | A bill for an act relating to civil law, including providing notice to named beneficiaries in probate law, a process for named beneficiaries to obtain ownership of property held by others in probate law, and authorizing spouses to amend premarital agreements, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 713.) | Crossed Over | 03/27/2025 |
| HF945 | A bill for an act providing for a hearing to determine immunity from criminal or civil liability following a use of reasonable force in defense of one's self, others, or property. (Formerly HSB 213.) | Crossed Over | 03/25/2025 |
| HF946 | A bill for an act relating to the enforcement of immigration laws, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 285.) | Crossed Over | 03/27/2025 |
| HF956 | A bill for an act relating to judicial branch administration, including judicial officer residency, judicial officer retirement age, remote proceedings, court reporter supervision and duties, and civil pleadings availability, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 259.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/31/2025 |
| SCR3 | A concurrent resolution relating to the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges . | In Committee | 05/07/2025 |
| SF2 | A bill for an act relating to the statute of repose in medical malpractice claims. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SF5 | A bill for an act relating to invasion of privacy, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 289.) | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| SF18 | A bill for an act relating to excuse from jury service for persons at least seventy-five years of age. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SF22 | A bill for an act relating to the use of an electronic device in a voice-activated or hands-free mode while driving, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/14/2025 |
| SF31 | A bill for an act allowing emergency medical care providers to diagnose and treat severe injuries suffered by police service dogs while on duty.(See SF 296.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SF32 | A bill for an act relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 150.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SF35 | A bill for an act relating to harassment by the dissemination, publication, distribution, or posting of personal information, and making penalties applicable. | Crossed Over | 01/14/2025 |
| SF47 | A bill for an act creating a special motion for expedited relief in actions involving the exercise of the right of freedom of speech and of the press, the right to assemble and petition, and the right of association, and including applicability provisions. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| SF50 | A bill for an act relating to civil liability of sports officials, providing criminal penalties for assault of sports officials, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| SF53 | A bill for an act prohibiting litigation financing contracts, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| SF54 | A bill for an act regulating litigation financing contracts, and including effective date and applicability provisions.(See SF 586.) | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| SF62 | A bill for an act relating to railway special agents. | Crossed Over | 01/16/2025 |
| SF65 | A bill for an act relating to background investigations for certification or recertification as a law enforcement officer. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| SF66 | A bill for an act relating to testimony by certain witnesses by two-way closed-circuit equipment. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| SF67 | A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring certain civil actions, including by victims of sexual abuse, minors, and persons with mental illness, entitling certain cases to a preference in trial order, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| SF69 | A bill for an act relating to confidential records including booking photographs. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| SF77 | A bill for an act relating to tort liability in civil actions involving commercial motor vehicles, including employer liability, noneconomic damages, punitive damages, and exemplary damages. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SF81 | A bill for an act relating to paternity and the obligation of parents for support of children. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SF84 | A bill for an act relating to noneconomic, punitive, and exemplary damage awards against health care providers and hospitals. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SF98 | A bill for an act relating to discharging firearms on public roadways, and making penalties applicable. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SF104 | A bill for an act relating to surgical castration for certain sex offenses. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SF105 | A bill for an act relating to mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon and providing penalties. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SF106 | A bill for an act relating to the conveyance of firearms in or on certain vehicles. Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/22/2025 |
| SF116 | A bill for an act relating to obscenity, including the exposure of a minor to an obscene performance and admittance of a minor to a premises with obscene performances, establishing a private civil cause of action, and providing penalties. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF124 | A bill for an act relating to the issuance of a subpoena or search warrant for menstrual health data. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF126 | A bill for an act relating to parole eligibility for a person under the age of twenty convicted of a class "A" felony and making penalties applicable. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| SF137 | A bill for an act relating to short course law enforcement training requirements. | Crossed Over | 01/23/2025 |
| SF142 | A bill for an act relating to the prohibition of geoengineering activities, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| SF180 | A bill for an act relating to the right to refuse certain medical services for reasons of conscience. | Crossed Over | 02/03/2025 |
| SF182 | A bill for an act relating to consideration of the educational setting of a minor child in a child custody proceeding.(See SF 515.) | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SF184 | A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring civil actions by victims of sexual abuse, human trafficking, or sexual exploitation. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SF189 | A bill for an act relating to medical malpractice by exempting claims involving sexual assault from the limitations on noneconomic damages. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SF190 | A bill for an act establishing certain privileges for communications made regarding incidents of sexual assault, harassment, or discrimination and creating a special motion for expedited relief in such actions. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SF191 | A bill for an act relating to sexual abuse evidence collection kits, including testing, retention, and inventory requirements. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SF192 | A bill for an act relating to authorized uses of moneys in the victim compensation fund. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SF195 | A bill for an act relating to animal torture and providing penalties. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SF208 | A bill for an act providing that sexual attraction to minors is not a protected class for purposes of the Iowa civil rights Act. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SF220 | A bill for an act relating to protections for medical practitioners, health care institutions, and health care payors including those related to the exercise of conscience, whistleblower activities, and free speech, and providing penalties. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| SF241 | A bill for an act prohibiting a court from ordering payment of a postsecondary education subsidy for a child under a dissolution of marriage temporary order or final judgment or decree, and providing for application to existing orders, judgments, and decrees.(See SF 513.) | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| SF266 | A bill for an act relating to theft, forgery, and fraud involving a gift card, and providing penalties. Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/11/2025 |
| SF291 | A bill for an act relating to vexatious litigation and providing penalties. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| SF294 | A bill for an act relating to temporary orders of child custody in dissolution proceedings.(See SF 514.) | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| SF318 | A bill for an act prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's texture or style of hair. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SF320 | A bill for an act creating a capital murder offense by establishing the penalty of death for murder in the first degree of a peace officer on duty, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| SF325 | A bill for an act concerning conflicts of interest involving a county attorney. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| SF328 | A bill for an act relating to controlled substances, including certain controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| SF329 | A bill for an act relating to the delegation of custodial rights and duties with respect to a child.(See SF 554.) | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| SF330 | A bill for an act relating to awarding costs and reasonable attorney fees to a prevailing party in a civil action and including effective date and applicability provisions. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| SF334 | A bill for an act creating a special motion for expedited relief in actions involving the exercise of the right of freedom of speech and of the press, the right to assemble and petition, and the right of association, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| SF337 | A bill for an act relating to a hope card program for plaintiffs granted certain orders in a domestic abuse proceeding, and providing penalties. | In Committee | 02/17/2025 |
| SF340 | A bill for an act relating to no-contact orders and electronic tracking and monitoring systems. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF342 | A bill for an act establishing the criminal offense of unlawful electronic transmission of sexually explicit visual material, and providing penalties. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF343 | A bill for an act establishing a grant program for a nonprofit organization providing sexual assault forensic examination centers. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF349 | A bill for an act relating to the rules of civil procedure, including remedies for the failure to meet discovery deadlines. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF351 | A bill for an act relating to mental health support for corrections officers, and making appropriations. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF362 | A bill for an act relating to administrative investigations under the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, civil service disciplinary hearings and appeals, and communications in professional confidence, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF364 | A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring certain civil actions by victims of sexual abuse and other sexual offenses that occurred when the victim was a minor, entitling certain cases to a preference in trial order, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| SF367 | A bill for an act designating kratom as a schedule I controlled substance, and making penalties applicable. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| SF374 | A bill for an act relating to payment of reasonable attorney fees for contempt relative to a dissolution of marriage proceeding.(See SF 521.) | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| SF400 | A bill for an act relating to schedule III controlled substances, and making penalties applicable. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SF401 | A bill for an act relating to the defenses of justification and diminished capacity for certain violent crimes. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SF407 | A bill for an act relating to the membership of district judicial nominating commissions. | Crossed Over | 02/20/2025 |
| SF408 | A bill for an act relating to creation of transfer on death deeds and to disclaimers of an interest in real property, and including applicability provisions. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SF409 | A bill for an act relating to the recording and redistribution of board of parole interview proceedings, and providing penalties. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SF411 | A bill for an act relating to criminal restitution including pecuniary damages. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SF415 | A bill for an act relating to false accusations of a criminal act, and providing penalties. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| SF418 | A bill for an act relating to sex and gender, including those and related terms for purposes of statutory construction, indications of a person's sex on certain vital records, gender identity under the Iowa civil rights Act, and school curricula related to gender theory. Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/24/2025 |
| SF421 | A bill for an act relating to property law by modifying provisions related to landlord and tenant law and forcible entry and detainer actions, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| SF430 | A bill for an act relating to restitution to the state from certain state employees who commit torts within the scope of office or employment. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| SF451 | A bill for an act relating to the duties of fire officials and reports of fires and emergency responses. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| SF463 | A bill for an act relating to drug paraphernalia. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| SF482 | A bill for an act relating to duties of the attorney general concerning public employees killed as a result of criminal action while in the scope of employment. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| SSB1001 | A bill for an act relating to the place of trial for certain criminal offenses.(See SF 149.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SSB1002 | A bill for an act relating to medical income assistance trust fees.(See SF 284.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SSB1003 | A bill for an act providing for an expedited filing service for filers of business documents administered by the secretary of state, and providing fees.(See SF 285, SF 629.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SSB1004 | A bill for an act establishing the offense of assault by criminal groping, and providing penalties. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SSB1005 | A bill for an act relating to awarding the costs in administrative hearings or court proceedings involving the collection of tax, penalties, and interest by the department of revenue.(See SF 524.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SSB1006 | A bill for an act authorizing the waiver of preplacement investigations and reports in certain adoption proceedings.(See SF 154.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SSB1007 | A bill for an act relating to the placement of a child who is the subject of a pending delinquency petition in a supervised apartment living arrangement pursuant to a consent decree, and the circumstances under which the placement is paid by the state.(See SF 174.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SSB1008 | A bill for an act relating to family interactions during an ongoing child in need of assistance proceeding.(See SF 287.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SSB1009 | A bill for an act relating to discovery and postconviction procedure.(See SF 393.) | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| SSB1051 | A bill for an act relating to pesticides, by providing for tort liability.(See SF 394.) | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| SSB1055 | A bill for an act relating to defense subpoenas in criminal cases, and providing penalties.(See SF 571.) | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| SSB1056 | A bill for an act relating to actions regarding the economic interest of enterprise shareholders and participants in and beneficiaries of public pension benefit plans, and providing penalties. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| SSB1057 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right of an accused to confront children and other witnesses.(See SJR 9.) | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| SSB1058 | A bill for an act relating to assaults, including assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and inmate assaults on department of corrections employees, and providing penalties.(See SF 397.) | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| SSB1096 | A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of grooming and the sex offender registry, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 461.) | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SSB1097 | A bill for an act relating to illegal gaming, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 395.) | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SSB1098 | A bill for an act prohibiting open containers of beverages containing tetrahydrocannabinol in the passenger area of motor vehicles on highways, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 392.) | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SSB1099 | A bill for an act relating to school safety by requiring the creation of threat assessment teams and authorizing information sharing between certain governmental agencies.(See SF 583.) | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| SSB1122 | A bill for an act regulating litigation financing contracts, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SSB1123 | A bill for an act relating to the suspension of child support and medical support in certain circumstances.(See SF 542.) | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SSB1124 | A bill for an act relating to the establishment or modification of legal custody of a child.(See SF 523.) | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SSB1125 | A bill for an act relating to the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order.(See SF 462.) | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SSB1126 | A bill for an act relating to statutory corrections which may adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, remove ambiguities, and provide for Code editor directives.(See SF 396.) | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SSB1127 | A bill for an act relating to the sealing of juvenile court records, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SSB1166 | A bill for an act relating to applications for permits to construct electric transmission lines, pipelines and underground storage facilities, and hazardous liquid pipelines, making penalties applicable, providing fees, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SSB1179 | A bill for an act relating to statutes of limitations in civil actions.(See SF 512.) | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| SSB1199 | A bill for an act creating a study committee on the administration of the court debt system.(See SF 566.) | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| SSB1200 | A bill for an act relating to judicial branch administration, including judicial officer residency, remote proceedings, court reporter supervision and duties, and civil pleadings availability. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| SSB1201 | A bill for an act relating to magistrate judges, and including effective date provisions. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |