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State Representative
Brian Meyer
(D) - Iowa
Iowa House District 029
In Office - Started: 01/01/2023
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State Capitol Building
1007 E. Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50319
1007 E. Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone: 515-281-3221
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| HF394 | A bill for an act relating to certain state highways not designated as part of the interstate road system, including the operation of implements of husbandry on such highways, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 1025.) | Under current law, any kind of vehicle, implement, or conveyance incapable of attaining and maintaining a speed of 40 miles per hour (MPH) is prohibited from using the interstate road system. This bill provides a conditional exception to that prohibition. If an implement of husbandry may be operated on the segment of the highway known as U.S. highway 65, and state highway 5, including where the highway designations overlap (segment), between the highway’s intersection with U.S. highway 6 and the highway’s intersection with U.S. highway 69, prior to the date the segment becomes part of the interstate road system, then the implement of husbandry may continue to be operated on that segment until an alternative route for implements of husbandry is made available. The department of transportation (DOT) may authorize an implement of husbandry to be operated on the segment farther west beyond the intersection with U.S. highway 69. Under current law, an “implement of husbandry” means a vehicle or special mobile equipment manufactured, designed, or reconstructed for agricultural purposes and, except for incidental uses, is exclusively used in the conduct of agricultural operations. To be considered an implement of husbandry, a self-propelled qualifying vehicle must be operated at speeds of 35 MPH or less. The bill prohibits the DOT and the state transportation commission from pursuing an interstate road designation for the segment extending between the segment’s intersections with interstate 35 and interstate 80 unless the U.S. government provides an exemption from federal regulations regarding vehicle weight and size on that segment, as described in the bill. The bill appropriates moneys from the general fund of the state to the DOT to conduct an alternative highway study to develop and implement an accessible alternative highway route suitable for implements of husbandry. The bill applies to the segment on the effective date of the bill, and will continue to apply to the segment regardless of whether the highway’s designation is subsequently changed. | In Committee |
| HR16 | A resolution recognizing and commending the National Conference of State Legislatures on its fiftieth anniversary. | A resolution recognizing and commending the National Conference of State Legislatures on its fiftieth anniversary. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HF914 | A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties and powers of area education agencies, the department of education, and area education agency funding, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | This bill relates to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties and powers of area education agencies, the department of education, and area education agency funding. DIVISION I —— DIVISION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Current law requires the director of the department of education to develop and distribute to school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and area education agencies a list of evidence-based professional development services that an area education agency may provide to a public school or accredited nonpublic school. The bill strikes these provisions. Current law requires the division of special education within the department of education to oversee the operation of each area education agency to ensure the area education agency complies with all applicable federal and state laws related to special education; develop and distribute to school districts and accredited nonpublic schools a process to facilitate the development of individualized education programs and assist individualized education program teams with decisions regarding free appropriate public education and placement for students enrolled in accredited nonpublic schools; provide professional learning and other support materials and tools for individualized education program teams; provide information to individualized education program teams and public agencies that nonpublic schools shall be considered a placement option so long as the individualized education program of a child with a disability does not require some other arrangement; develop and distribute to school districts professional learning and other materials for meaningful consultation for representatives of area education agencies, school districts, and accredited nonpublic schools; establish sustainable accountability and data collection systems related to special education; and develop and distribute to school districts and accredited nonpublic schools an implementation plan related to identifying, evaluating, and promoting strategies and models for providing special education and related services with accredited nonpublic schools. The bill strikes these provisions. DIVISION II —— AREA EDUCATION AGENCIES —— GENERAL PROVISIONS. Current law provides that each area education agency is under the general supervision of the director of the department of education and that the area education agency board of directors serves in an advisory capacity. The bill provides that each area education agency is governed by a board of directors. The bill makes conforming changes. The bill modifies provisions related to students that an area education agency may provide services to. Current law provides that an area education agency may furnish evidence-based professional development services to public or nonpublic schools which are on the list of accredited schools if certain specified requirements are satisfied. The bill strikes this provision. Current law requires area education agencies to prepare a proposed annual budget and submit the proposed budget to the director of the department of education for approval not later than March 1 of each year. Under current law, the director is required to either approve or reject the proposed budget for changes within 10 days after submission. The bill modifies this provision to require area education agencies to prepare a proposed annual budget and post notice of a public hearing on the proposed budget on the area education agency’s internet site and by publication in the newspaper of general circulation in the territory of the area education agency in which the principal place of business of a school district that is part of the area education agency is located. The notice shall specify the date, which shall be not later than March 1 of each year, the time, and the location of the public hearing. Current law requires an area education agency to, on a quarterly basis, prepare and submit to each school district that receives services from the area education agency a report that includes certain specified financial and programmatic information. The bill strikes this provision. Current law requires that the director of special education within each area education agency be an employee of the division of special education of the department of education and not be an employee of the area education agency, receive compensation from the area education agency, supervise or manage employees of the area education agency, or directly provide special education services for the agency. Current law also provides that the director of special education’s primary job duties and responsibilities to the area education agency are to provide oversight of the area education agency’s special education services. The bill strikes these provisions. The bill modifies provisions related to the standards used by the state board of education for the accreditation of area education agencies. The bill repeals certain specified provisions of 2024 Iowa Acts, chapter 1002, related to the accreditation of area education programs that were to take effect July 1, 2025. DIVISION III —— AREA EDUCATION AGENCIES —— FUNDING. The bill modifies provisions related to the calculation of the area education agency professional development supplement state cost per pupil. Current law provides that funds calculated under Code section 257.10(7) (special education support services district cost) and received by a school district are required to be used for special education support services. Current law also provides that for budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2025, not less than 90 percent of funds calculated under Code section 257.10(7) and received by a school district are required to be used by the school district for special education support services contracted from an area education agency. The contract between the school district and the area education agency shall not require the school district to describe the specific special education support services the school district will receive from the area education agency. The special education services provided by the area education agency to the school district pursuant to the contract shall not be limited by the amount of funding the school district provided to the area education agency. The bill strikes these provisions. The bill provides that for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and each fiscal year thereafter, the department of management is required to deduct the amounts calculated for special education support services, media services, area education agency teacher salary supplement district cost, area education agency professional development supplement district costs, and educational services for each school district from the state aid due to the district pursuant to Code chapter 257 and pay the amounts to the respective area education agencies on a monthly basis from September 15 through June 15 during each school year. The bill requires the department of management to notify each school district of the amount of state aid deducted for these purposes and the balance of state aid is required to be paid to the district. If a district does not qualify for state aid under Code chapter 257 in an amount sufficient to cover its amount due to the area education agency as calculated by the department of management, the school district is required to pay the deficiency to the area education agency from other moneys received by the district, on a quarterly basis during each school year. Current law provides that, notwithstanding the deduction and payment called for under Code section 257.35(1), the amounts specified for school districts and area education agencies in Code section 257.35(1)(a) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, and each succeeding fiscal year, shall be reduced by the department of management by $7.5 million. The bill provides that this reduction does not apply to fiscal years after the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024. The bill modifies provisions related to moneys available to school districts and area education agencies for special education support services and the funding and provisions related to the media and educational services provided by school districts or through area education agencies, including by modifying Code section 257.37 (funding media and educational services) to strike a provision that state funds that are not required to be paid to an area education agency may be used by the school district for any school district general fund purpose and by modifying the definition of “enrollment served” in Code section 257.37. The bill modifies Code section 257.37A (area education agency salary supplement funding), including by providing that, if the department of management determines that the unadjusted area education agency professional development supplement district cost of an area education agency for a budget year is less than 100 percent of the unadjusted area education agency professional development supplement district cost for the base year for the area education agency, the area education agency shall receive a budget adjustment for that budget year equal to the difference. The division takes effect upon enactment and applies July 1, 2025, for school budget years beginning on or after that date. | In Committee |
| HF812 | A bill for an act requesting that the legislative council establish an interim study committee to plan an Iowa education summit to be held in 2026. | This bill requests that the legislative council establish an interim study committee to plan an Iowa education summit to be held in 2026. The bill establishes the specific responsibilities of the interim study committee, which include determining a location, time, date, and agenda for the Iowa education summit; studying and determining the educational leaders and presenters who could speak during the Iowa education summit and provide information related to best practices in education; developing a list of prospective guest speakers and keynote speakers; and studying any other issues that the interim study committee determines are relevant to the planning and execution of the Iowa education summit. The interim study committee is authorized to solicit the advice or testimony of any organization or individual with information or expertise relevant to the purpose of the interim study committee. The bill establishes the membership of the interim study committee. The bill requires the interim study committee to, on or before December 18, 2025, submit a report to the general assembly and the governor that includes a proposed agenda, time, date, and location of the Iowa education summit, and potential guest speakers and keynote speakers for the Iowa education summit. | In Committee |
| HF740 | A bill for an act relating to rent increases under residential landlord and tenant rental agreements and in manufactured home communities and mobile home parks. | This bill limits the amount a landlord can increase rent on current tenants under residential landlord and tenant agreements and in manufactured home communities or mobile home parks. The bill provides that if a landlord applies a rent increase to the dwelling unit or mobile home space of a current tenant, the percentage increase shall not be greater than either three times the percentage increase of the consumer price index for all urban consumers in the midwest region over the previous 12 months or the percentage increase of the property value of the premises or the manufactured home community or mobile home park, respectively, as determined by the county assessor for the same period since the last rent increase, whichever is higher. | In Committee |
| HF506 | A bill for an act relating to the penalties for persons who operate a motor vehicle while their operating privileges are denied, canceled, suspended, revoked, or barred. | Under current law, a person who operates a motor vehicle while the person’s driver’s license or operating privilege is denied, canceled, suspended, or revoked under Code chapter 321 (motor vehicles and law of the road) or while the person’s driver’s license is suspended, denied, or revoked under Code chapter 321A (motor vehicle financial responsibility) commits a simple misdemeanor. These simple misdemeanors are punishable by confinement for no more than 30 days and a fine of at least $250 but not more than $1,500 (rather than the default simple misdemeanor fine range between $105 and $855). The sentence imposed for such a violation under Code chapter 321 cannot be suspended. If a person operates a motor vehicle while the person’s driver’s license is suspended, denied, revoked, or barred due to a violation of Code chapter 321J (operating while intoxicated (OWI)), the person commits a serious misdemeanor punishable by confinement for no more than one year and a fine of $1,000 (rather than the default serious misdemeanor fine range between $430 and $2,560). This bill makes a first offense for operating a motor vehicle while the driver’s license is canceled (under Code chapter 321), or denied, suspended, or revoked (under Code chapters 321, 321A, and 321J), or barred (under Code chapter 321J), a scheduled violation under Code section 805.8A. The scheduled fine for such a violation is $250. The bill makes a second violation a simple misdemeanor and a third or subsequent violation a serious misdemeanor. A simple misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than 30 days and a fine of at least $105 but not more than $855. A serious misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than one year and a fine of at least $430 but not more than $2,560. The bill also strikes the prohibition on suspending the sentence under Code section 321.218. In accordance with current law (Code sections 805.6 through 805.11), a uniform citation and complaint, and associated procedures, is authorized for charging traffic violations and other violations which are designated as scheduled violations by Code section 805.8A (motor vehicle and transportation scheduled violations), 805.8B (navigation, recreation, hunting, and fishing scheduled violations), or 805.8C (miscellaneous scheduled violations). The underlying driver’s license sanction of a person convicted for driving while denied, canceled, suspended, revoked, or barred under the bill would be extended in accordance with current law. | In Committee |
| HF727 | A bill for an act relating to the maximum finance charge on a consumer credit sale. | This bill relates to the maximum finance charge for consumer credit sales. Under the bill, for consumer credit sales both pursuant to open-end credit and not pursuant to open-end credit, a finance charge may not exceed 10 percent per year on the unpaid balance of the amount financed. | In Committee |
| HF685 | A bill for an act relating to state agency contracts involving steel. | This bill requires that a state agency contract involving steel must contain a provision requiring any steel purchased with state moneys or tax credits to be manufactured in the United States. | In Committee |
| HF665 | A bill for an act relating to mental health services at public institutions of higher education. | This bill relates to mental health services at public institutions of higher education. The bill defines a “public institution of higher education” as an institution of higher education governed by the state board of regents or a community college. The bill requires public institutions of higher education (institutions) to carry out various specified functions to raise mental health awareness on their campuses. Specified functions include developing and implementing an annual student orientation session aimed at raising awareness about mental health conditions, assessing courses and seminars available to students through their regular academic coursework and implementing mental health awareness curricula where opportunities for integration with such coursework exist, and distributing certain information about mental health resources to students. The bill requires the state board of regents and the board of directors of each community college to designate an expert panel to develop and implement specified policies and procedures relating to mental health. Specified policies and procedures include advising students, faculty, and staff on the proper procedures for identifying and addressing the needs of students exhibiting symptoms of mental health conditions and promoting understanding of the requirements of section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The bill also requires all resident assistants in a student housing facility, advisors, and campus security officers of an institution to participate in a national mental health first aid training course. The bill requires each institution to develop and implement a peer support program utilizing student peers to support students living with mental health conditions on campus. The bill requires peer support programs to utilize best practices for peer support. Such best practices include use of the tenets of the recovery model, as defined in the bill, for mental health, adequate planning and preparation, and clearly articulated policies. The bill requires each institution to establish strategic partnerships with local mental health service providers to improve overall campus mental wellness and augment on-campus capacity. The strategic partnerships shall include linkage agreements, as defined in the bill, with off-campus mental health service providers that establish a process for referrals for students when needs cannot be met on campus due to the limits of on-campus capacity or preference of the student. The bill provides additional functions of such strategic partnerships, including meeting a benchmark ratio of clinical, nonstudent staff members to students and reporting on the ratio to the general assembly and the governor. The bill requires the department of health and human services, in consultation with the state board of regents and the Iowa association for community colleges, to establish a mental health technical assistance center. The bill specifies responsibilities of the center, including developing standardized policies for medical leave related to mental health conditions for students, providing tailored support to institutions in reviewing policies related to students living with mental health conditions and their academic standing, and developing statewide standards and best practices for partnerships between local mental health agencies and institutions. The center also assists institutions with implementation of various provisions of the bill. The bill requires each institution to evaluate the specified programs or functions provided in the bill for effectiveness and quality. The bill specifies monitoring measures to be used for evaluation of each program or function. The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code section 25B.3. The bill makes inapplicable Code section 25B.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a political subdivision from complying with a state mandate if funding for the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified. Therefore, political subdivisions are required to comply with any state mandate included in the bill. | In Committee |
| HF688 | A bill for an act relating to products and materials purchased by state agencies. | Under current law, the department of administrative services must give preference to purchasing American-made products and purchases from American-based businesses if the life cycle costs are comparable to those of products sold by foreign businesses. In addition, as a condition of receiving an annual appropriation relating to state government administration and regulation, an entity receiving the appropriation must give first preference when purchasing a product to an Iowa product or a product produced by an Iowa-based business, and second preference to a United States product or a product produced by a business based in the United States. This bill requires a state agency to purchase American-made products and materials from American-based businesses if it is possible to do so. | In Committee |
| HF676 | A bill for an act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicable. | This bill requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee based on medical conditions related to the employee’s pregnancy or childbirth if the employee requests reasonable accommodations with the advice of the employee’s health care provider. Penalty provisions for discriminatory employment practices are made applicable to a failure to provide such reasonable accommodations to an employee. The bill defines “reasonable accommodations” as actions which would permit an employee with a medical condition relating to the employee’s pregnancy or childbirth to perform in a reasonable manner the activities involved in the employee’s specific occupation and include but are not limited to the provision of an accessible worksite, acquisition or modification of equipment, job restructuring, and a modified work schedule. The bill provides that “reasonable accommodations” does not mean any action that would impose an undue hardship on the business of the employer from whom the action is requested. | In Committee |
| HF658 | A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage for prescription insulin drugs. | This bill relates to prescription insulin drugs and coverage by policies, contracts, or plans providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses that provide coverage for prescription drugs. The bill requires a policy, contract, or plan providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses that provides coverage for prescription drugs to cap the total amount of cost-sharing that a covered person is required to pay per prescription filled of an insulin drug to an amount not more than $25 for an up to 31-day supply of at least one type of rapid-acting prescription insulin drugs, short-acting prescription insulin drugs, intermediate-acting prescription insulin drugs, or long-acting prescription insulin drugs. “Prescription insulin drug” is defined in the bill as a prescription drug that contains insulin, is used to treat diabetes, has been prescribed as medically necessary by a covered person’s health care professional, and is a benefit covered by a covered person’s policy, contract, or plan. The bill defines “cost-sharing” as any coverage limit, copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense imposed on a covered person. The bill does not prohibit a policy, contract, or plan providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses from reducing a covered person’s cost-sharing to less than $25 for up to a 31-day supply of a prescription insulin drug. The bill applies to third-party payment provider contracts, policies, or plans delivered, issued for delivery, continued, or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2026, by the third-party payment providers enumerated in the bill. The bill specifies the types of specialized health-related insurance which are not subject to the coverage requirements of the bill. The commissioner of insurance may adopt rules to administer the requirements of the bill. | In Committee |
| HF681 | A bill for an act establishing a wage and hour division in the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. | This bill establishes a wage and hour division in the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. The division is responsible for the administration of the laws of Iowa under Code chapters 91A (wage payment collection), 91D (minimum wage), and 92 (child labor), and such other duties assigned to the division or director of the department. The bill requires the division to investigate reported violations of the laws it administers and engage in statutorily authorized enforcement activities against violators of such laws. The bill requires the division to prioritize such investigation and enforcement over referral of complaints to the federal department of labor or reliance on the federal department of labor to enforce federal laws governing similar subjects. | In Committee |
| HF662 | A bill for an act appropriating moneys to the department of health and human services for refugee resettlement assistance, and including effective date provisions. | This bill appropriates $2.5 million for FY 2024-2025 from the general fund of the state to the department of health and human services (HHS) to distribute to nonprofit resettlement agencies (agency) participating in the reception and placement assistance program under the United States department of state to provide resettlement assistance to refugees in Iowa. HHS shall distribute the moneys proportionally to each agency based on the number of refugees the agency sponsors under the cooperative agreement. The bill takes effect upon enactment, and HHS shall distribute the moneys no later than seven calendar days after enactment. | In Committee |
| HF672 | A bill for an act relating to mandatory subjects of negotiation for public employee collective bargaining and including applicability provisions. | This bill strikes language providing that mandatory subjects of negotiation in public employee collective bargaining shall be interpreted narrowly and restrictively. The bill applies to collective bargaining procedures pursuant to Code chapter 20 initiated on or after the effective date of the bill. | In Committee |
| HF675 | A bill for an act requiring employers to provide employees with meal periods and rest periods and providing penalties. | This bill requires an employer to provide an employee with appropriate meal periods and appropriate rest periods. The bill states that an appropriate meal period shall be not less than 30 minutes during an employee’s work period of at least seven hours. The meal period is to be taken between the second and fifth hours of the work or, if the employee works more than seven hours, between the third and sixth hours. The bill states that an appropriate rest period shall be a paid period of not less than 10 minutes during every four-hour work period. The rest period is taken in the middle of the work period. The rest period is in addition to the meal period and cannot be added to the meal period or deducted from the work period to reduce the overall length of the total work period. The bill defines an “employee” as a natural person who is employed in this state for wages by an employer. An “employer” is defined as a person, as defined in Code section 4.1, who employs a natural person for wages. The bill provides that an employer is not required to pay for a meal period if an employee is free from work duties during the employee’s entire meal period. The bill allows three exemptions to the meal and rest period requirements. The first exemption is if the meal and rest period requirements are modified by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. However, the exemption is valid only if the collective bargaining agreement entered into by the employees prescribes specific terms concerning meal periods and rest periods. The second exemption states that meal and rest period requirements apply to hourly paid and salary-paid employees. However, management or employees involved in certain agricultural jobs are not required to have breaks or meal breaks. The third exemption is if an employer shows that the ordinary nature and circumstance of the work prevented the employer from establishing and maintaining a regular scheduled meal period. The bill provides civil penalties for violating the new Code chapter. An employer who violates the provisions shall be subject to a penalty of up to $100 for each violation. The director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing may recover the penalties under Code chapter 17A contested case procedures. Any penalties recovered shall be deposited in the general fund of the state. The director may propose that an employer be assessed a penalty by serving the employer with notice of a penalty in the same manner as an original notice is served under the rules of civil procedure. The bill provides the director with the authority to provide further exemptions from the requirements of the bill by rule when reasonable. Also, the director or the director’s designee may inspect employment records relating to rest periods for employees and interview an employer or employee or an agent of the employer or employee, during working hours or at other reasonable times. | In Committee |
| HF659 | A bill for an act relating to housing in the state by establishing an Iowa housing tax credit program, establishing a neighborhood renovation grant program, and increasing first-time homebuyer tax incentives, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | This bill relates to housing in the state by establishing an Iowa housing tax credit program and a neighborhood renovation grant program and by increasing first-time homebuyer tax incentives. DIVISION I —— IOWA HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM. The bill creates an Iowa housing tax credit program available against the individual and corporate income taxes, franchise tax, insurance premium tax, and moneys and credits tax. The bill requires the Iowa finance authority (authority) to develop a system for the application, review, and authorization of Iowa housing tax credits. A tax credit may be claimed by a taxpayer for a “qualified development” defined to mean a qualified low-income housing project under section 42(g) of the Internal Revenue Code that is financed by tax-exempt bonds. An Iowa housing tax credit may be authorized by the authority if all of the following apply: the tax credit is issued to a taxpayer who has an ownership interest in the qualified development; the tax credit amount is allocated pursuant to a qualified allocation plan adopted by the authority; the tax credit is necessary for the financial feasibility of the qualified development; the amount of the tax credit allocated to an owner shall not exceed 30 percent of the qualified basis of the qualified development; and the qualified development is the subject of a recorded restrictive covenant requiring the qualified development be maintained and operated as a qualified development for a certain number of years. The amount of an Iowa housing tax credit award is determined by the authority and may be claimed during the credit period (10 years), and any credit in excess of the taxpayer’s liability for the tax year is not refundable but may be credited to the tax liability for the following five years. In any calendar year, the bill limits the aggregate amount of the tax credit to $15 million plus the sum of the total of unallocated tax credits from the preceding calendar year and the previously allocated tax credits that have been revoked, canceled, or recaptured. A taxpayer shall claim the credit by including one or more tax certificates issued by the authority with the taxpayer’s return. The bill allows a tax credit certificate to be transferred to any person or entity. The bill requires the transferee to submit the transferred tax credit certificate to the authority within 90 days of the transfer, and requires the authority to issue a replacement tax credit certificate within 30 days of receiving the transferred tax credit certificate. The bill allows the authority to recapture tax credit amounts from previously issued tax credits, if on the last day of a taxable year during the compliance period (15 years), if the amount of the qualified basis of a qualified development owned by a taxpayer claiming the credit is less than the amount of the qualified basis as of the last day of the immediately preceding tax year, the amount of the taxpayer’s liability shall be increased by the recapture amount determined using the method under section 42(j) of the Internal Revenue Code. If a recapture event occurs, the bill requires the taxpayer to include the recaptured amount on the return submitted for the tax year in which the recapture event is identified. The bill requires the authority to submit a report to the general assembly by January 31 each year, detailing the Iowa housing tax credit program. The division takes effect January 1, 2026, and applies to tax years beginning on or after that date. DIVISION II —— FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYER SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. The bill makes changes to the income tax benefits related to contributions made to a first-time homebuyer savings account. Under current law, for married persons filing a joint return an account holder is allowed to deduct the first $4,000 of contributions made to an account during the tax year if the account holder also maintains a joint first-time homebuyer savings account, and for any other person the account holder is allowed to deduct for the first $2,000 of contributions made to such an account during the tax year. The first-time homebuyer savings account annual deduction limits are indexed to inflation and are increased each year. For the 2024 tax year the annual deduction limit for married persons filing a joint return is $4,512, and for all other persons the limit is $2,256. The bill increases the annual deduction limit for first-time homebuyer savings account contributions to $10,000 for married persons filing a joint return, and to $5,000 for any other account holder. The new annual deduction limits in the bill are also indexed to inflation and are increased each year. DIVISION III —— NEIGHBORHOOD RENOVATION GRANT PROGRAM. The bill establishes a neighborhood housing renovation grant program (program) and fund (neighborhood fund) to be administered by the authority for purposes of awarding grants to eligible homeowners for qualifying exterior home improvements, repairs, or renovations (exterior work). There is appropriated to the authority for deposit in the neighborhood fund for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, from the general fund of the state, the sum of $50 million. Notwithstanding Code section 12C.7(2), interest or earnings on moneys in the neighborhood fund shall accrue to the authority and shall be used for purposes of the program. Notwithstanding Code section 8.33, moneys in the neighborhood fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to any other fund but shall remain in the neighborhood fund for expenditure for subsequent fiscal years. All repayments or recaptures of the grants awarded under the program shall accrue to the authority and shall be used for purposes of the program. The authority shall not use more than 3 percent of the moneys in the neighborhood fund at the beginning of the fiscal year for purposes of administrative costs, marketing, and other program support. To qualify for the program, a homeowner’s household income shall not exceed $109,000 and the homeowner must occupy the property at which the exterior work will occur. A grant awarded under the program shall not exceed $20,000. Exterior work that qualifies for the program is detailed in the bill. The authority shall adopt rules to administer the division. | In Committee |
| HF661 | A bill for an act relating to child care, including the child and dependent care tax credit, a child care workforce matching grant program, a small business child care tax credit, and state child care assistance, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to child care and is separated into divisions. DIVISION I —— CHILD AND DEPENDENT CARE TAX CREDIT. The Iowa child and dependent care tax credit is a refundable credit calculated as a percentage of the federal child and dependent care tax credit, depending on the Iowa net income of the taxpayer. Currently, there are seven graduated Iowa net income thresholds used to calculate the credit. This division strikes the Iowa net income thresholds, and specifies a taxpayer may claim a tax credit to reduce Iowa net income equal to the amount of the child and dependent care credit of the federal child and dependent care credit provided in section 21 of the Internal Revenue Code, without regard to whether or not the federal credit was limited by the taxpayer’s federal tax liability. The division applies retroactively to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. DIVISION II —— CHILD CARE WORKFORCE MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM. This division establishes a child care workforce matching grant program (program). Moneys appropriated by the general assembly to the department of health and human services (HHS) for the program must be used to raise wages for persons employed by a child care facility; provide health insurance, paid leave, and retirement benefits for persons employed by a child care facility; raise the quality of the work environment at each child care facility; collect data to assess the needs of persons employed by a child care facility; and assist persons employed by a child care facility to identify sources and apply for benefits for which a person may qualify. The division requires HHS to adopt rules to administer the program. DIVISION III —— SMALL BUSINESS CHILD CARE TAX CREDIT. This division creates a small business child care tax credit available against the individual and corporate income taxes, the franchise tax, the insurance premiums tax, and the moneys and credits tax. The division defines “small business” as any enterprise located in this state, which is operated for profit under a single management and which has either fewer than 20 employees or an annual gross income of less than $4 million computed as the average of the three preceding fiscal years. The division allows a small business to receive a tax credit for providing child care employee benefits to employees of the business. The amount of the credit equals the costs to provide the benefit up to $3,000 per employee per year. The aggregate amount of tax credits cannot exceed a total of $2 million per fiscal year and are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. The division requires a small business to provide child care employee benefits to employees through certain methods in order to be eligible for the small business child care tax credit. The division applies retroactively to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. DIVISION IV —— STATE CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE. This division relates to state child care assistance (CCA). Under current law, to be eligible for the CCA program, a family must be described by one of six different circumstances and meet income requirements. One of the six eligibility circumstances is that a child’s parent, guardian, or custodian (parent) is employed a minimum of 32 hours per week or an average of 32 hours per week during the month if the child requires basic care, or 28 hours per week or an average of 28 hours per week during the month if the child is a special needs child. The division changes the work requirements to 28 hours per week or an average of 28 hours per week during the month for parents of any child. Under current law, a family is required to have income at or below 160 percent of the federal poverty level applicable to the family’s size (FPL) for a family of a child needing basic care; 200 percent of the FPL for a family of a special needs child; or 85 percent of the state median gross monthly income, whichever is lower. The division sets initial eligibility at the lesser of 85 percent of the state median gross monthly income, or 250 percent of the FPL for families of children needing basic care or 290 percent of the FPL for families of special needs children. The division requires HHS to reimburse child care providers participating in the CCA program at a rate equal to the rate the provider charges a private-pay family for child care. The division provides that HHS shall pay providers based on the number of hours of child care scheduled for a child enrolled in the CCA program instead of for child care provided. The division makes a child eligible for CCA if the child is in a family with a parent, guardian, or custodian who is employed at a child care facility, a child care home registered with HHS, or an unregistered child care home with an agreement with HHS to accept CCA reimbursements; and who meets certain requirements as detailed in the division (qualified parent). The division provides that a director, co-director, or other administrative staff of a child care facility may qualify as a qualified parent if such person is regularly counted in the minimum child-to-staff ratio established by HHS by rule. The division requires a family who participates in CCA to make copayments for services received from the program, if the family’s eligibility is based on a parent being a qualified parent. The division directs HHS to adopt rules to implement and administer the division’s provisions related to qualified parents. The division prohibits HHS from applying waiting list requirements for CCA on persons deemed eligible for CCA due to eligibility based on a qualified parent. The division makes a conforming change by striking Code section 237A.13(6). | In Committee |
| HF673 | A bill for an act requiring certain weekly workers' compensation benefits to be calculated by including an employee's overtime and premium pay, and to include an annual cost-of-living adjustment. | This bill requires certain weekly workers’ compensation benefits to be calculated by including an employee’s overtime and premium pay, and to include an annual cost-of-living adjustment. The bill requires the calculation of the amount of weekly workers’ compensation benefits to include, not exclude, an employee’s earnings for overtime and premium pay. The bill requires the basis of compensation for weekly workers’ compensation benefits payable for permanent total disability benefits or death benefits to increase on January 1 each year for compensation that becomes due that year, by a percentage equal to the cost-of-living adjustment made to disability benefits payable by the United States social security administration in December of the immediately preceding year. Technical corrections are also made to remove an unnumbered paragraph and for purposes of clarity. | In Committee |
| HF663 | A bill for an act relating to provision of the state family planning services under the Medicaid program, and including effective date and repeal provisions. | This bill relates to state family planning services. Division I of the bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services (CMS) for approval to establish the Iowa family planning network with the same benefits, eligibility requirements, and other provisions included in the Medicaid Iowa family planning network waiver as approved by CMS in effect on June 30, 2017. The section of division I of the bill requiring submission of the state plan amendment takes effect upon enactment. Division II of the bill repeals the state family planning services program. The repeal of the program takes effect upon receipt of approval by HHS from CMS of the Medicaid state plan amendment establishing the Iowa family planning network. | In Committee |
| HF682 | A bill for an act relating to the recapture of tax expenditures and disbursed by departments of the state to businesses that violate child labor laws. | This bill relates to the recapture of tax expenditures disbursed by departments of the state to businesses that violate child labor laws. The bill defines “tax expenditure” to mean the same as defined in Code section 2.48, which includes tax credits, exemptions, deductions, and rebates as well as sales tax refunds. Beginning on or after July 1, 2025, as a condition of authorizing tax incentives to a business under any of the programs administered by a department of the state, the value of the tax expenditure authorized shall be subject to recapture by the department if the business, or a contractor, subcontractor, or other third party of the business providing services to the business in the business’s facility, violated state or federal child labor laws under Code chapter 92 or the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The bill requires the business to notify the administering department of the violation within 30 days of the ending of the time period to contest or appeal the violation. The bill specifies the repayment or recapture of tax expenditures pursuant to the bill shall be accomplished in the same manner as provided in Code section 15.330(2). The repayment of incentives pursuant to that Code section is considered a tax payment due and payable to the department of revenue, and the failure to make such a repayment may be treated by the department of revenue in the same manner as a failure to pay the tax shown due or required to be shown due. In addition, a county may take action to recover the value of property taxes not collected as a result of a tax exemption provided to the business. | In Committee |
| HF684 | A bill for an act relating to the purchase of steel by state agencies. | This bill requires state agencies to exclusively purchase steel that was manufactured in the United States. | In Committee |
| HJR10 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to reproductive care. | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to reproductive care. | In Committee |
| HF687 | A bill for an act relating to projects involving state moneys or tax credits. | Under current law, the department of administrative services must give preference to purchasing American-made products and purchases from American-based businesses if the life cycle costs are comparable to those of products sold by foreign businesses. In addition, as a condition of receiving an annual appropriation relating to state government administration and regulation, an entity receiving the appropriation must give first preference when purchasing a product to an Iowa product or a product produced by an Iowa-based business, and second preference to a United States product or a product produced by a business based in the United States. This bill requires that a contract for a project funded with state moneys or tax credits must include a provision requiring only products and materials manufactured in the United States be purchased for the project if it is possible to do so. | In Committee |
| HF671 | A bill for an act relating to eligible parties to a valid marriage. | This bill provides that a party who otherwise meets the requirements of Code chapter 595 (marriage) for a valid marriage is eligible to marry any other such party regardless of gender. The bill provides for conforming changes in that Code chapter to include provisions relating to void marriages to be gender neutral. The bill also provides that marriage is the legally recognized union of two eligible parties and that terms relating to the marital relationship or familial relationships shall be construed consistently with this provision for all purposes throughout the law, whether in the context of statute, administrative or court rule, government policy, common law, or any other source of civil or criminal law. | In Committee |
| HF607 | A bill for an act relating to eligibility of pregnant women and infants for the Medicaid program. | This bill amends provisions relating to income eligibility levels for pregnant women and infants under the Medicaid program. Current law provides that an infant or a pregnant woman whose family income is not more than 215 percent of the federal poverty level, if the infant or woman is otherwise eligible, is eligible for Medicaid. The bill amends the income eligibility level to 375 percent. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services (CMS) for approval in accordance with the provisions in federal law to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum eligibility under the Medicaid program to a pregnant woman whose family income while pregnant is at or below 375 percent of the federal poverty level for the household size, beginning January 1, 2026. The bill also requires HHS to submit a children’s health insurance program state plan amendment to CMS to update infant eligibility consistent with the provisions of the bill, beginning January 1, 2026. | In Committee |
| HF605 | A bill for an act relating to the prescribing and dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives. | This bill relates to the dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by a pharmacist. The bill defines “self-administered hormonal contraceptive” as a self-administered hormonal contraceptive that is approved by the United States food and drug administration to prevent pregnancy, including an oral hormonal contraceptive, a hormonal vaginal ring, and a hormonal contraceptive patch, but not including any drug intended to induce an abortion. The bill provides that notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a pharmacist may dispense a self-administered hormonal contraceptive to a patient pursuant to a standing order established by the medical director of the department of health and human services (medical director). For an initial dispensing, a pharmacist may dispense up to a 12-month supply at one time of the self-administered hormonal contraceptive, and for any subsequent dispensing of the same self-administered hormonal contraceptive, a 12-month supply at one time. Additionally, the bill prohibits a pharmacist who dispenses a self-administered hormonal contraceptive in accordance with the bill from requiring any other prescription drug order authorized by a practitioner prior to dispensing the self-administered hormonal contraceptive. The bill authorizes the medical director to establish a standing order authorizing the dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by any pharmacist who complies with the standing order and retains and submits the patient’s record to the department of health and human services (HHS). The standing order includes requiring a pharmacist who dispenses a self-administered hormonal contraceptive under the bill to: complete a standardized training program and continuing education requirements related to prescribing the hormonal contraceptives; obtain a completed self-screening risk assessment from each patient and verify the identity of each patient before dispensing the hormonal contraceptives; provide the patient with certain written information; provide the patient with a copy of the record of the pharmacist’s encounter with the patient; and provide patient counseling. The standing order would prohibit a pharmacist who dispenses hormonal contraceptives under the bill from requiring a patient to schedule an appointment with the pharmacist for the prescribing or dispensing of the hormonal contraceptive; and dispensing the hormonal contraceptives to a patient if the results of the patient’s self-screening risk assessment indicate it is unsafe for the pharmacist to dispense the hormonal contraceptives to the patient, in which case the pharmacist shall refer the patient to a practitioner. The bill provides immunity for a pharmacist who dispenses a self-administered hormonal contraceptive and for the medical director who establishes a standing order in compliance with the bill from criminal and civil liability arising from any damages caused by the dispensing, administering, or use of a self-administered hormonal contraceptive or the establishment of the standing order provided the pharmacist acts reasonably and in good faith. Additionally, the medical director shall be considered to be acting within the scope of the medical director’s office and employment for purposes of Code chapter 669 (Iowa tort claims Act) in the establishment of a standing order in compliance with the bill. The bill requires HHS, in collaboration with the boards of pharmacy and medicine, and in consideration of the guidelines established by the American congress of obstetricians and gynecologists, to adopt administrative rules to administer the bill. The bill amends prescription contraceptive coverage provisions to require that a group policy, contract, or plan delivered, issued for delivery, continued, or renewed in the state on or after January 1, 2026, providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses, shall specifically provide for payment of self-administered hormonal contraceptives, prescribed and dispensed as specified in the bill, including those dispensed at one time. The bill also requires HHS to provide prescription contraceptive coverage under the Medicaid program consistent with the coverage under private insurance as provided under the bill. | In Committee |
| HF611 | A bill for an act providing for increased wage rates for required work on certain holidays and making penalties and remedies applicable. | This bill provides that an employer who requires an employee to work on holidays specified in the bill shall pay the employee for such work performed on such day a rate of one and one-half times the regular rate at which the employee is employed. This provision is enforced pursuant to Code chapter 91A, which provides for enforcement by the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, which may include recovery of damages and civil penalties. | In Committee |
| HJR8 | A joint resolution relating to the placement of a statue in the United States capitol honoring Governor Robert D. Ray, and making appropriations. | A joint resolution relating to the placement of a statue in the United States capitol honoring Governor Robert D. Ray, and making appropriations. | In Committee |
| HF554 | A bill for an act relating to public schools, including by modifying provisions related to school district library programs and requests to remove educational materials from classrooms and school libraries. | This bill relates to public schools, including by modifying provisions related to school district library programs and requests to remove educational materials from classrooms and school libraries. Current law requires school districts to employ either a qualified teacher librarian licensed by the board of educational examiners or a person previously employed as a librarian by a public library. The bill modifies this provision to provide that, beginning July 1, 2025, each school district shall employ a qualified teacher librarian licensed by the board of educational examiners. Current law requires each school district to establish a kindergarten through grade 12 library program that contains only age-appropriate materials. Current law also establishes enforcement mechanisms related to this requirement that include the issuance of written warnings by the department of education and hearings before the board of educational examiners. The bill strikes the enforcement mechanisms. The bill strikes a provision of Code section 279.77 (transparency —— publication of school district information) that provides that the identity of a parent or guardian who requests the removal of a book, article, outline, handout, video, or other educational material that is available to students in the classroom or in a library operated by the school district shall be confidential and shall not be a public record subject to disclosure under Code chapter 22 (examination of public records). Current law prohibits school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools from allowing a student to serve on any committee that determines, or provides recommendations related to, whether a material in a library operated by the school should be removed. The bill strikes the provisions implementing these prohibitions. | In Committee |
| HF560 | A bill for an act relating to the rights of parents, guardians, and minors including those relating to gender transition procedure-related activities for minors, and providing effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. | This bill relates to the rights of parents, guardians, and minors. The bill repeals Code section 147.164 (gender transition procedure-related activities —— minors —— prohibitions), and makes a conforming change in the Code. The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to March 22, 2023. | In Committee |
| HF504 | A bill for an act relating to robotics, including by establishing a robotics grant program within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics collaborative initiative and requiring the university of northern Iowa to develop a public-private partnership to support robotics competitions, and making appropriations. | This bill relates to robotics, including by establishing a robotics grant program within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics collaborative initiative and requiring the university of northern Iowa to develop robotics competitions. The bill requires the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics collaborative initiative within the innovation division of the department of education to develop and administer a robotics grant program to provide grants to school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to support robotics programs by offsetting certain specified costs. The collaborative initiative is required to establish the application processes, deadlines, eligibility requirements, and award criteria associated with the robotics grant program. The bill appropriates $400,000 to the department of education for purposes of the robotics grant program for FY 2025-2026. The bill appropriates $100,000 for FY 2025-2026 to the state board of regents for the university of northern Iowa for purposes of developing a public-private partnership with a person or persons who provide matching funds to support the Iowa regional FIRST robotics competition. | In Committee |
| HF462 | A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring civil actions by victims of sexual abuse and including effective date provisions. | This bill provides that there is no time limitation to bring civil actions relating to sexual abuse. Under current Code section 614.1(12), a civil action for damages for injury suffered as result of sexual abuse or sexual exploitation by a counselor, therapist, school employee, or adult providing training or instruction can only be brought within five years after the date that the victim was either last treated by the counselor or therapist or last enrolled in or attended the school. Current Code section 614.8A provides a four-year limitation for civil actions of sexual abuse against a child not discovered until after the injured person is of the age of majority. These provisions are stricken or repealed to the extent they are duplicative or inconsistent with the bill. If an action was previously dismissed before the effective date of the bill on the grounds that it was time-barred or because the party failed to file a petition, the bill provides the party the right to file a revival action. The bill also provides that state tort claims and tort liability of governmental subdivisions statutes of limitations do not apply to sexual abuse actions. The bill takes effect upon enactment. | In Committee |
| HF455 | A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year. | This bill provides that the maximum total amount of unemployment benefits payable to an eligible individual during a benefit year shall not exceed 26 times the individual’s weekly benefit amount, rather than 16 times the weekly benefit amount as provided under current law. | In Committee |
| HF444 | A bill for an act relating to property assessment and property taxation by creating a recreational class of real property for golf courses. | This bill creates a new class of property, recreational property, for purposes of property assessment and taxation, beginning with valuations established on or after January 1, 2026. The bill describes recreational property as a golf course operated as a commercial enterprise and subject to taxation. The bill provides that for valuations established for the assessment year beginning January 1, 2026, and each assessment year thereafter, recreational property shall be assessed at 75 percent of its actual value. | In Committee |
| HF412 | A bill for an act relating to unhoused persons participating in the state child care assistance program. | This bill relates to unhoused persons participating in the state child care assistance (CCA) program. The bill defines “unhoused” as lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and lists circumstances in which a person qualifies as unhoused. Under current law, a person may be eligible for CCA if the person is seeking employment. Eligibility for CCA based on seeking employment is limited to 30 days during a 12-month period. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to extend the 30-day limit if the child is under six years of age and the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian who is seeking employment is unhoused. The bill exempts unhoused children from CCA program waiting list requirements. The bill requires HHS to implement an expedited process to approve an unhoused person for CCA benefits and to grant an extension of the 30-day limit for CCA benefits to unhoused CCA participants seeking employment. | In Committee |
| HF410 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance program reimbursements to certain child care providers. | This bill relates to state child care assistance program (CCA) reimbursements to certain child care providers. The bill directs HHS to set the CCA reimbursement rates for providing child care to an unhoused child equal to the CCA reimbursement rate for providing child care to a child needing special-needs care. The bill defines “unhoused” as lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. The bill lists circumstances in which a person qualifies as unhoused. | In Committee |
| HF411 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance program copayments for unhoused persons. | This bill relates to state child care assistance (CCA) program copayments for unhoused persons. The bill defines “unhoused” as lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and lists several circumstances in which a person is considered unhoused. To be eligible for the CCA program, a participating family is required to make copayments based on the number of the family’s children in a child care provider’s care and the family’s gross monthly income. The bill exempts a family the department of health and human services (HHS) has determined is unhoused from making a CCA copayment, or similar payment to the state, as a condition of CCA program participation. The exemption continues until six months from the date HHS determines the family is no longer unhoused. | In Committee |
| HF343 | A bill for an act relating to the reimbursement of child care providers from the child care assistance program. | This bill relates to the reimbursement of child care providers from the child care assistance program. The bill provides that the department of human services shall pay child care providers based on full-day rates for each day the provider cared for a child enrolled in the state child care assistance program, regardless of whether the child remained in the provider’s care for the full day. Under current law, the department of human services is allowed to pay less than full-day rates if a child care provider cared for a child for less than a full day. | In Committee |
| HF341 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance payments. | This bill provides that the department of human services shall pay child care providers enrolled in the state’s child care assistance program based on the number of hours of child care scheduled for a child enrolled in the program instead of for child care provided. | In Committee |
| HF333 | A bill for an act providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms and making an appropriation. | This bill requires school boards to ensure that feminine hygiene products can be accessed by students without cost in at least half of the restrooms in school buildings in the district where students in grades 6 through 12 are educated and that the supply of feminine hygiene products is refilled regularly. The bill defines “feminine hygiene products” as sanitary napkins, tampons, or other similar items used for feminine hygiene. The bill appropriates an amount necessary to fund the full cost of compliance with the bill by school districts from the general fund of the state to the department of education for the period beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2028. The bill directs the department to establish processes for school districts to submit the documented cost of compliance to the department and for the department to reimburse school districts for such costs. The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code section 25B.3. The bill requires that the state cost of any state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school district from funds appropriated by the bill, and, for school years beginning on or after July 1, 2028, from state school foundation aid received by the school district under Code section 257.16. The specification is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state mandate funding-related requirements of Code section 25B.2. The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state mandates included in the bill. | In Committee |
| HF345 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance family income eligibility requirements. | This bill directs the department of health and human services to provide income eligibility for state child care assistance, according to family size for children needing basic care, to families whose nonexempt gross monthly income does not exceed 185 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) for a child needing basic care, or 240 percent of the FPL for a child needing special-needs care. Under current law, income eligibility for a child needing basic care is 145 percent of the FPL and income eligibility for a child needing special-needs care is 200 percent of the FPL. | In Committee |
| HF357 | A bill for an act relating to the acquisition of certain vehicles by a vehicle recycler, and making penalties applicable. | Under current law, the purchaser or transferee of a motor vehicle sold for scrap or junk is required to surrender the certificate of title, properly endorsed and signed by the previous owner, to a county treasurer, and apply for a junking certificate from the county treasurer, within 30 days after assignment of the certificate of title. However, a vehicle owner may dispose of the vehicle to a vehicle recycler licensed under Code chapter 321H (vehicle recyclers) for scrap or junk without presenting a certificate of title or a junking certificate if the vehicle is 12 model years old or older and is acquired by the vehicle recycler for reasonable consideration equaling less than $1,000. This bill prohibits a licensed vehicle recycler from acquiring such a vehicle unless the recycler verifies that there is not a lienholder who has a security interest in the vehicle. By operation of law, a violation of the bill is a simple misdemeanor punishable by a scheduled fine of $135. | In Committee |
| HF342 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance for children of certain child care personnel. | This bill relates to state child care assistance (CCA) for children of child care employees. The bill makes a child eligible for CCA if the child is in a family with a parent, guardian, or custodian who is employed at a child care facility, a child care home registered with the department of health and human services (HHS), or an unregistered child care home with an agreement with HHS to accept CCA reimbursements; works an average minimum of 32 hours per week during the month in a position with a primary duty of providing child care directly to children, and is regularly counted in the minimum child-to-staff ratio established by HHS by rule; does not provide child care to the parent, guardian, or custodian’s own child if the parent, guardian, or custodian is employed at a child care home or a child development home, though a co-provider at a child development home may qualify for CCA if the co-provider meets all requirements set in Code and by rule; is not a substitute or an assistant at a child development home; and has a need for child care based on HHS’s assessment. The bill provides that a director, co-director, or other administrative staff of a child care facility may qualify for CCA as a child care employee if such person is regularly counted in the minimum child-to-staff ratio established by HHS by rule. The bill requires a person who participates in CCA under the bill to make copayments for services received from the program. The bill directs HHS to adopt rules to implement and administer the bill. The bill prohibits HHS from applying waiting list requirements for CCA on persons deemed eligible for CCA under the bill. | In Committee |
| HF344 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance reimbursement rates. | This bill replaces the ability for child care providers to collect additional fees from families participating in the state child care assistance program (CCA) if the child care provider’s private-pay rate is more than the state’s CCA reimbursement rate with the requirement that the department of health and human services reimburse a child care provider at the rate the child care provider would typically charge a private-pay family for child care. Under current law, child care providers are reimbursed under the CCA at a rate equal to the lesser of the child care provider’s private-pay rate or a rate set by the state varying on the type of child care provider, the age of the child, and the child care provider’s rating under the quality rating system. | In Committee |
| HF348 | A bill for an act prohibiting the misclassification of employees as independent contractors, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions. | This bill prohibits an employer from willfully misclassifying an individual who performs services for the employer in return for remuneration as an independent contractor rather than an employee with the effect of denying the individual eligibility for an employment benefit provided by law or for a government program. Whether an individual performs services as an employee or independent contractor is determined under regulations or guidelines of the federal internal revenue service in effect as of the date of an alleged misclassification. The bill is enforced by the department of workforce development. An employer who violates this prohibition shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per misclassified individual for a first offense, up to $7,500 per misclassified individual for a second offense, and up to $10,000 per misclassified individual for each subsequent offense. The department shall provide written notice to an employer prior to imposition of a civil penalty. An employer may contest and seek judicial review of a determination of the department pursuant to Code chapter 17A. An employer shall bear the burden of proving that the employer did not misclassify an individual. Upon a final determination of the department that a violation occurred and the conclusion of the period for any appeals, the department shall bring an action in district court to collect the civil penalties for deposit in the general fund and refer the violation to a county attorney. A county attorney shall not be bound by any determination of the department. An employer who misclassifies an individual in violation of the bill commits a class “D” felony. A class “D” felony is punishable by confinement for no more than five years and a fine of at least $1,025 but not more than $10,245. The bill applies to misclassification of an individual by an employer occurring on or after the effective date of the bill. | In Committee |
| HF275 | A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the enrollment of eligible children in the statewide preschool program. | This bill modifies provisions related to the enrollment of eligible children in the statewide preschool program. Current law requires the state board of education to adopt rules to define certain specified requirements that are used to determine whether a local preschool program provided by a school district will be considered an approved local program under the statewide preschool program established under Code chapter 256C, including requirements related to maximum and minimum teacher-to-child ratios, student learning standards, and provisions for the integration of children from other state and federally funded preschool programs. The bill adds to the list of requirements the requirement that the local program provide for ensuring that if there is a waiting list for eligible children to enroll in the local program, that the local program gives priority on the waiting list to eligible children who meet the definitional requirements of the term “homeless individual” under federal law. | In Committee |
| HF214 | A bill for an act relating to funding of approved local preschool programs and including applicability provisions. | The amount of state funding for each school district’s approved local program under Code chapter 256C is determined using a preschool budget enrollment that is equal to 50 percent of the actual enrollment of eligible students in the preschool programming provided by a school district on October 1 of the base year. This bill changes the preschool budget enrollment used to determine funding to an amount equal to 100 percent of the actual enrollment of eligible students in the preschool programming provided by a school district on October 1 of the base year. The bill also modifies the funding calculation for the initial school year for which a school district is approved to participate in the program. The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2026. | In Committee |
| HF251 | A bill for an act requiring the state board of education to publish information related to nonpublic schools that are accredited by an approved independent accrediting agency. | This bill requires the state board of education to publish information related to nonpublic schools that are accredited by an approved independent accrediting agency. Under current law, nonpublic schools in Iowa may be accredited by the department of education (DE) or by an independent accrediting agency that has been approved by DE. Also under current law, the state board of education is required to publish a list of the approved independent accrediting agencies on DE’s internet site. The bill requires the list to include each nonpublic school that is accredited by an approved independent accrediting agency, a description of the educational standards that the approved independent accrediting agency required the nonpublic school to meet in order to attain accreditation, and any amendments or waivers to the educational standards that each school received. The state board is required to update the list annually. | In Committee |
| HF217 | A bill for an act relating to prior authorization requirements for the treatment of cancer. | This bill relates to prior authorization requirements for the treatment of cancer. Under the bill, a utilization review organization or a health carrier shall not require prior authorization for health care services that are recommended by a covered person’s health care provider based on the national comprehensive cancer network protocols. | In Committee |
| HF243 | A bill for an act relating to fees for attorneys appointed to provide indigent defense. | This bill relates to fees for attorneys appointed to provide indigent defense. The bill increases the rates paid to attorneys appointed by the court to represent an indigent person. For an attorney representing a defendant in a case involving a class “A” felony, the rate is increased from $86 per hour to $126 per hour. For attorneys representing a defendant in a case involving a class “B” felony, the rate is increased from $81 per hour to $121 per hour. All other cases are increased from $76 per hour to $116 per hour. | In Committee |
| HF218 | A bill for an act to designate March 3 of each year as Triple Negative Breast Cancer Action and Awareness Day. | This bill designates March 3 of each year as Triple Negative Breast Cancer Action and Awareness Day. This designation does not make March 3 a state holiday. | In Committee |
| HF216 | A bill for an act relating to professional liability insurance and child care centers employing unsupervised child care workers under eighteen years of age. | This bill relates to professional liability insurance by child care centers employing unsupervised child care workers under 18 years of age. The bill requires the department of health and human services to promulgate rules to require a child care center that employs a person under 18 years of age who provides child care or substitute child care to school-age children without additional supervision to provide documentation to the department of professional liability insurance coverage for such employees. For the purposes of the bill, “child care” and “child care center” mean the same as defined in Code section 237A.1. | In Committee |
| HF213 | A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, and prescription drug benefits, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to pharmacy benefits managers (PBM), pharmacies, and prescription drug benefits. The bill requires that any amount paid by a covered person for a drug in the circumstances detailed in the bill must be applied to any deductible imposed by the covered person’s health benefit plan in accordance with the plan’s coverage documents. Under the bill, a covered person cannot be prohibited from filling a drug order at any pharmacy located in the state if the pharmacy accepts the same terms and conditions as the covered person’s benefit plan. A PBM cannot impose different cost-sharing or additional fees on a covered person based on the pharmacy at which a covered person fills their prescription. A PBM cannot require a covered person, as a condition of payment or reimbursement, to purchase pharmacy services, including drugs, exclusively through a mail order pharmacy provider. “Mail order pharmacy provider” is defined in the bill. The bill applies to PBMs that manage a health carrier’s prescription drug benefit in the state on or after the effective date of the bill. | In Committee |
| HF263 | A bill for an act relating to physical activity requirements applicable to students enrolled in public schools and accredited nonpublic schools. | This bill relates to physical activity requirements applicable to students enrolled in public schools and accredited nonpublic schools. Current law requires all physically able students in kindergarten through grade five to engage in a physical activity for a minimum of 30 minutes per school day, which may include physical education. The bill provides that physical education shall not be used to meet this physical activity requirement. The bill provides that the physical activity requirement shall not apply when a student is suspended or expelled. The bill also provides that a school shall not prevent a student from engaging in 30 minutes of physical activity per school day unless the student poses a danger to the health or safety of certain specified persons, the school relocates physical activity that was to take place outdoors due to inclement weather, the school dismisses classes early due to unforeseen circumstances, or the student is absent from school, including due to illness or a medical appointment, during the time of the school day that the school provides for the student’s class to engage in physical activity. | In Committee |
| HF267 | A bill for an act concerning benefits associated with cancer diagnoses of members of certain public retirement systems. | This bill concerns benefits relating to members of the public safety peace officers’ retirement, accident, and disability system (PORS), and the municipal fire and police retirement system (411 system). The bill expands the definition of “cancer” by striking references to specific cancers and inserting a more generalized description. By expanding the definition of “cancer” to include more cancer diagnoses, the bill likewise expands the availability of accidental disability and death benefits to members of PORS or the 411 system who have a cancer diagnosis. By operation of law, the bill also expands the definition of “cancer” as used in Code section 97B.50A for purposes of in-service disability retirement allowance for special service members under the Iowa public employees’ retirement system. The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code section 25B.3. The bill makes inapplicable Code section 25B.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a political subdivision from complying with a state mandate if funding for the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified. Therefore, political subdivisions are required to comply with any state mandate included in the bill. | In Committee |
| HF266 | A bill for an act relating to application fees charged by landlords to prospective tenants. | This bill provides that if a person pays an application fee to a landlord and is not selected as a tenant, the landlord must refund the person 50 percent of the application fee. | In Committee |
| HF207 | A bill for an act relating to certain involuntary hospitalization reporting requirements. | This bill relates to certain involuntary hospitalization reporting requirements. After a person has been involuntarily committed for inpatient treatment due to a serious mental impairment, the medical director of the facility or the psychiatrist or psychiatric advanced registered nurse practitioner treating the patient must make a report to the court about the patient’s condition and how much longer the patient will require treatment by the facility. The initial report is due within 60 days of the entry of the order requiring treatment for the involuntarily committed person, and follow-up reports are due in 90-day intervals after the initial report. The bill changes the interval between follow-up reports to a maximum of six months. | In Committee |
| HJR5 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to citizen initiatives to amend the Constitution of the State of Iowa and the Iowa Code and referendums to approve certain bills passed by the general assembly. | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to citizen initiatives to amend the Constitution of the State of Iowa and the Iowa Code and referendums to approve certain bills passed by the general assembly. | In Committee |
| HF152 | A bill for an act relating to the federal summer electronic benefits transfer for children program, making an appropriation, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. | This bill relates to the summer electronic benefits transfer (EBT) for children program made permanent by federal law under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, administered by the United States department of agriculture (USDA) food and nutrition service. The bill includes findings relating to food insecurity in the state including that it is estimated that approximately 240,000 children would be eligible to receive benefits under the summer EBT for children program; that when Iowans are struggling financially, they are more likely to buy less expensive foods, high in calories and low in nutritional value; and that the summer EBT for children program would provide an estimated $29 million to address the food insecurity crisis which not only feeds children but stimulates local economic activity. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS), in coordination with the department of education, to immediately upon the effective date of the bill submit a letter of intent to apply for and participate in the summer EBT program for children during summer 2025, to coordinate with the USDA to develop a successful management and administration plan for the summer EBT program for children, and to submit the plan to the USDA by February 15, 2025. The bill appropriates from the general fund of the state to HHS for fiscal year 2024-2025 a sufficient amount to cover the costs of administering the summer EBT program for children during summer 2025. The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2024. | In Committee |
| HJR3 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right of the people to a clean environment. | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right of the people to a clean environment. | In Committee |
| HF151 | A bill for an act relating to surface water quality by requiring the establishment and maintenance of riparian protection measures, providing for financing, and providing penalties. | GENERAL. This bill amends Code chapter 466B, which provides for a number of programs to protect surface water and provide for flood mitigation and watershed management. The bill creates a new Code subchapter which requires a landowner having an interest in property adjoining a public water source (e.g., a watercourse such as a river, stream, or drainage ditch; or a body of water such as a pond, lake, or reservoir) to establish and maintain a riparian protection measure (measure) in compliance with a riparian protection compliance plan (plan). The plan is derived from a riparian protection inventory and map developed by the department of natural resources (DNR). ADMINISTRATION. The plan must be prepared by the landowner and approved by the division of soil conservation and water quality (division) of the department of agriculture and land stewardship. The division must act in partnership with commissioners of soil and water conservation districts (commissioners), and in cooperation with a number of other government entities, including the state soil conservation and water quality committee, the water resources coordinating council, and DNR. REQUIREMENTS. Under an approved plan, a landowner must establish and maintain a measure which is either a riparian protection buffer consisting of perennial vegetation, or an alternative riparian protection practice (e.g., erosion control practice or soil and water conservation practice) alone or in combination with a modified riparian protection buffer. The landowner must establish and maintain the measure after the division completes a riparian protection inventory and map which identifies the land subject to riparian protection. A landowner may apply for financial assistance to establish a measure under a number of programs, including cost-share moneys awarded under the authority of the division. EXCEPTIONS. The bill creates a number of exceptions that excuse compliance, including if (1) there is only one riparian landowner; (2) other regulations apply, including storm water outlets regulated by DNR, or a conservation program regulated by the federal or state government; (3) the land is covered by another object or structure; (4) the land is used to produce a designated crop; (5) the land is part of an environmentally designated area (e.g., a forest); (6) the land contains unique geological characteristics; or (7) the land is subject to construction. The division may also create other exceptions if it determines that the exception would not interfere with the bill’s purposes. ENFORCEMENT. The division is to take enforcement action against a landowner who violates a term or condition of a plan, unless the division allows the commissioners to take an enforcement action in court for the landowner’s violation of the terms of an administrative order (e.g., for violating the terms of a cost-share agreement). If the division enforces the plan, if must first issue a compliance order listing items that the landowner must complete within a specified time but not more than one year after the compliance order has been issued. The bill also prohibits a landowner or another person from engaging in any work to remove or degrade a riparian protection measure, unless the person has obtained authorization. The bill provides a range of civil penalties based on the number of parcels included in the plan and the period that the violation continues after the compliance order was delivered. The amounts of the civil penalties range from $100 to $500 per parcel. | In Committee |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
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| HF189 | A bill for an act relating to the eligibility of students enrolled in nonpublic schools to compete in extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or competitions provided by public schools, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 1.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 08/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| HF711 | A bill for an act relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, including establishment training programs, schools of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, and course of study. (Formerly HF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF607 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| SF612 | A bill for an act relating to state and local taxation and regulations by changing certain tax credits, cigarette and tobacco-related regulations, and certain city budget certification deadlines, providing for penalties, and including retroactive applicability and effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1153.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF615 | A bill for an act relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 599, SF 363.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| SF615 | A bill for an act relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 599, SF 363.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the House concur in the Senate amendment H–1342? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1320? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1319? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1318? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall amendment H–1323 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall amendment H–1322 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall amendment H–1321 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF1002 | A bill for an act authorizing length of service award programs for volunteer fire fighters, volunteer emergency medical care providers, and reserve peace officers, and making appropriations. (Formerly HF 755, HSB 197.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF644 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing for properly related matters including indigent defense and representation, the corrections capital reinvestment fund, and a corrections federal receipts fund, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1232.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2023. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| HF1039 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund and technology reinvestment fund, providing for related matters including county payment for district court furnishings, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 334.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| HF1038 | A bill for an act relating to the opioid settlement fund, making appropriations and disbursements, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 331.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2024. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF648 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch including judicial officer salaries and interpreter or translator fees, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1233.) Effective date: 06/20/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF657 | A bill for an act related to state taxation and finance and other related matters, by creating, modifying, and eliminating tax credits and tax incentive programs, providing for penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1205.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025, 12/31/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2017, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF657 | A bill for an act related to state taxation and finance and other related matters, by creating, modifying, and eliminating tax credits and tax incentive programs, providing for penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1205.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025, 12/31/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2017, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026. | Shall amendment H–1351 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF659 | A bill for an act relating to state government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers; authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds; providing for properly related matters including crystalline polymorph psilocybin, medical residency and fellowship positions, state membership in the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, student abuse by school employees, modified supplemental amounts f | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF660 | A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1240.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF856 | A bill for an act prohibiting public entities from engaging in certain activities relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 155.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| HF890 | A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, the national board certification pilot project, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and the employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 43.) Effective date: 06/06/202 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF628 | A bill for an act relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund, the primary road fund, and the statutory allocations fund. (Formerly SSB 1219.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF626 | A bill for an act relating to federal moneys and regulations, including the appropriation of federal moneys made available from federal block grants and other nonstate sources, the allocation of portions of federal block grants, the procedures if federal moneys or federal block grants are more or less than anticipated, and the authorization of certain city regulations when required under federal law, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1216.) Effe | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| SF641 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of health and human services, including administrative services organizations, child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, internal audit and examination information, and the region incentive fund in the mental health and disability services regional service fund, health maintenance organization's premium tax, and making appropriations and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF645 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and the state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and extending the repeal date for the housing renewal pilot program. (Formerly SSB 1236.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| SF646 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection. (Formerly SSB 1230.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| SF646 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection. (Formerly SSB 1230.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment H–1338 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF646 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection. (Formerly SSB 1230.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment H–1337 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| HF1040 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and eliminating the repeal of the housing renewal pilot program.(Formerly HSB 336.) | Shall amendment H–1293 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF647 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1231.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| SF647 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1231.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment H–1345 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF647 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1231.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment H–1344 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| HF1044 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for state government administration and regulation, including the department of administrative services, auditor of state, ethics and campaign disclosure board, offices of governor and lieutenant governor, department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, department of insurance and financial services, department of management, Iowa public employees' retirement system, public information board, department of revenue, secretary of state, tr | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1336? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| HF1044 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for state government administration and regulation, including the department of administrative services, auditor of state, ethics and campaign disclosure board, offices of governor and lieutenant governor, department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, department of insurance and financial services, department of management, Iowa public employees' retirement system, public information board, department of revenue, secretary of state, tr | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| HF1049 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, and related provisions and appropriations, including aging and disability services; behavioral health, public health, community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; sex reassignment surgeries or associated procedures; family well-being and protection; state-operat | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1334? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| HF1049 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, and related provisions and appropriations, including aging and disability services; behavioral health, public health, community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; sex reassignment surgeries or associated procedures; family well-being and protection; state-operat | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| SF253 | A bill for an act creating a lifetime fur harvester license for disabled veterans. (Formerly SSB 1079.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF303 | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of consumer fireworks. (Formerly SSB 1104.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1313? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF303 | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of consumer fireworks. (Formerly SSB 1104.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| SF383 | A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, prescription drugs, and pharmacy services administrative organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1074.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1324? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF383 | A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, prescription drugs, and pharmacy services administrative organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1074.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF593 | A bill for an act relating to groundwater hazard statement requirements.(See HF 825.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF449 | A bill for an act relating to digital financial asset transaction kiosks and including penalties, and effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1142.) Effective date: 05/19/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall amendment H–1317 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall amendment H–1316 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall amendment H–1305 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall amendment H–1304 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall amendment H–1303 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF985 | A bill for an act relating to services provided by the secretary of state, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 198, HSB 17.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1017 | A bill for an act relating to the applicability of actions of certain international organizations.(Formerly HSB 233.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1026 | A bill for an act relating to the adoption tax credit available against the individual income tax, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 965.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1033 | A bill for an act making a rural water district a designated exempt entity for purposes of the sales and use tax.(Formerly HSB 226.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1034 | A bill for an act providing for an individual income tax credit for the purchase of firearm safety devices and including retroactive and other applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 132.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1036 | A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 908, HF 452.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1037 | A bill for an act modifying economic development provisions relating to housing and residential development in urban renewal areas.(Formerly HF 617.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF297 | A bill for an act relating to contracts entered into by state agencies and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1090.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| HF395 | A bill for an act relating to approved courses of instruction for school bus drivers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 107.) Effective date: 01/01/2026. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| SF314 | A bill for an act relating to the license application form for real estate brokers and salespersons, and brokerage agreement requirements. (Formerly SF 15.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| SF462 | A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1125.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1242? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| SF462 | A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1125.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| SF462 | A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1125.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment H–1242 be adopted? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| HF787 | A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the calculation of the teacher salary supplement district cost per pupil, teacher preparation requirements, out-of-state placement of certain specified students requiring special education, the duties of the department of education, and minimum teacher salaries, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 147.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF933 | A bill for an act relating to pediatric palliative care centers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 267.) Effective date: 05/27/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| SF608 | A bill for an act regulating the marketing of grain, by providing for fees paid by grain dealers and warehouse operators into the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund, and the payment of claims to reimburse sellers and depositors for losses covered by the fund, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1131.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 10/24/2022. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF976 | A bill for an act relating to the administration of the tax by the department of revenue by modifying provisions related to personal income, property, sales and use, motor fuel, and inheritance taxes, changing tax expenditure reviews, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 89.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2024, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF1013 | A bill for an act establishing a partial exemption on property taxes for certain residential properties sold in disaster areas.(Formerly HF 565.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| SF632 | A bill for an act providing for programs and regulations related to agriculture, including crop production, animal health, and agricultural processing, providing for powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, providing fees, and providing penalties. (Formerly SF 522, SSB 1160.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF472 | 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. (Formerly HSB 116.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF644 | A bill for an act relating to the delegation of custodial rights and duties with respect to a child. (Formerly HF 374.) Effective Date: Conditional, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF710 | A bill for an act relating to roofs on private docks and required insurance. (Formerly HSB 163.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| 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. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| SF565 | A bill for an act providing for the continuation of health insurance in certain circumstances for the surviving spouse and each surviving child of employees of the state of Iowa and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1039.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2024. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF986 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of insurance and financial services, the utilities commission, and the department of transportation, including financial literacy and exploitation, tax confidentiality, health insurance rates, health savings accounts, insurer withdrawals, property insurance, service contracts, the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, and the Iowa cemetery Act, motor vehicle financial liability coverage, and including pen | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1023 | A bill for an act relating to benefits and contributions for members of the Iowa public employees' retirement system who are employed in a protection occupation.(Formerly HF 967, HSB 265.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1022 | A bill for an act exempting the sale of laundry soap or detergent from the sales tax.(Formerly HF 963.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1028 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of management, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 756, HSB 72.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1032 | A bill for an act creating a grocer reinvestment program, a local produce processing grant program, and a grocer reinvestment and local food processing fund under the purview of the economic development authority, and modifying the local food and farm program. (Formerly HF 550, HF 59.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1032 | A bill for an act creating a grocer reinvestment program, a local produce processing grant program, and a grocer reinvestment and local food processing fund under the purview of the economic development authority, and modifying the local food and farm program. (Formerly HF 550, HF 59.) | Shall amendment H–1283 be adopted? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| SF146 | A bill for an act relating to the use or creation of bots to purchase event tickets on the internet, and providing civil penalties. (Formerly SF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| SF150 | A bill for an act relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 32.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF706 | A bill for an act relating to open meetings and open records, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 416.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF991 | A bill for an act placing assessment limitations for property tax purposes on commercial child care facilities, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 316.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1010 | A bill for an act providing for an annual authorization fee to be collected by the college student aid commission from certain postsecondary educational institutions not subject to registration with the commission.(Formerly HF 772, HSB 48.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1007 | A bill for an act relating to the disposition of collected criminal case fines and establishing a victim restitution fund.(Formerly HSB 319.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1007 | A bill for an act relating to the disposition of collected criminal case fines and establishing a victim restitution fund.(Formerly HSB 319.) | Shall amendment H–1280 be adopted? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1019 | A bill for an act exempting the sale of toilet paper from the sales tax.(Formerly HF 964.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1021 | A bill for an act exempting the sale of dietary supplements from the sales tax.(Formerly HF 966.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1020 | A bill for an act modifying the child and dependent care credit available against the individual income tax, and including retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 962.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1027 | A bill for an act relating to radon by establishing radon mitigation requirements, creating a radon mitigation system tax credit available against the individual and corporate income taxes, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 211.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF303 | A bill for an act relating to prior authorization and utilization review organizations. (Formerly HSB 19.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| SF288 | A bill for an act relating to students who are pregnant or who recently gave birth who attend state institutions of higher education governed by the board of regents and community colleges. (Formerly SF 12.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1251? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| SF288 | A bill for an act relating to students who are pregnant or who recently gave birth who attend state institutions of higher education governed by the board of regents and community colleges. (Formerly SF 12.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| HF516 | A bill for an act relating to medical residency and fellowship positions, including priority for admission to the university of Iowa's colleges of medicine and dentistry, and hospitals and clinics. (Formerly HF 137.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Nay |
| SF474 | A bill for an act relating to services and support for youth, including treatment, physical assessments, and behavioral health evaluations for youth involved in juvenile delinquency and child in need of assistance proceedings; the licensing and certification of certain residential facilities; the provision of home and community-based services and habilitation services to certain youth by residential programs; administration and supervision of juvenile court services; and the suspension of Hawki | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| HF977 | A bill for an act relating to the expansion of the ground emergency medical transportation program.(Formerly HF 941, HSB 249.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| HF988 | A bill for an act creating a catastrophic savings account and modifying individual income taxes for account holders and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 622, HSB 149.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| HF1002 | A bill for an act authorizing length of service award programs for volunteer fire fighters, volunteer emergency medical care providers, and reserve peace officers, and making appropriations. (Formerly HF 755, HSB 197.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1272? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Iowa House Administration and Rules Committee | 10 | |
| Detail | Iowa House Agriculture Committee | 17 | |
| Detail | Iowa House Judiciary Committee | 9 | |
| Detail | Iowa House Public Safety Committee | 18 | |
| Detail | Iowa Joint Capital Projects Committee | 4 | |
| Detail | Iowa Joint Legislative Council Committee | 9 | |
| Detail | Iowa Joint Studies Committee | 3 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IA | Iowa House District 029 | House | Democrat | In Office | 01/01/2023 | |
| IA | Iowa House District 033 | House | Democrat | Out of Office | 11/01/2013 | 01/16/2024 |