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State Representative
Timi Brown-Powers
(D) - Iowa
Iowa House District 061
In Office - Started: 01/12/2015
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1007 E. Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50319
1007 E. Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone: 515-281-3221
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
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| 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 |
| HR9 | A resolution honoring Ron Steele for his distinguished career of over fifty years in Iowa broadcast journalism. | A resolution honoring Ron Steele for his distinguished career of over fifty years in Iowa broadcast journalism. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HF838 | A bill for an act requiring a food establishment to post a routine inspection report card. | BACKGROUND. Generally, the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL), or a local authority under contract with DIAL, provides for the licensing and inspection of a number of businesses where food is processed or prepared for human consumption (Code chapter 137F). DIAL and a local authority are referred to as a regulatory authority (Code section 137F.1). After a food establishment is inspected, it must post an inspection report at a location visible to the public. The food establishment is subject to reinspection. BILL’S PROVISIONS. This bill provides that after conducting a routine inspection of a food establishment that serves food to the public for on-premises consumption (e.g., a restaurant), a regulatory authority must complete a routine inspection report card (report card). A completed report card assigns the inspected food establishment a letter grade based on a percentage rating, including “A” (90 percent to 100 percent), “B” (80 percent to 89 percent) and “C” (75 percent to 79 percent). The food establishment’s license must be suspended if a food establishment is assigned a rating of less than 75 percent. The food establishment is required to post the most recent report card near each entrance to the food establishment or another conspicuous place selected by the regulatory authority. | In Committee |
| HF839 | A bill for an act relating to the publication of candidates' and elected officers' home addresses. | This bill provides that upon the request of a member of the general assembly, a county board of supervisors, a city council, or a board of directors of a school district, the governmental entity the individual serves must exclude the individual’s home address from official publications. The bill requires that an affidavit of candidacy for a partisan nomination, a nomination by a nonparty political organization, or a nomination by petition include a statement that the candidate is aware of the contents of Code section 70A.40, and prohibits the state commissioner of elections from publishing the home address of a candidate in any publicly available publication associated with the certification of nominations. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HF368 | A bill for an act relating to water quality standards, including by providing for the regulation of animal feeding operations, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. | BACKGROUND —— STATE LAW. This bill amends provisions regulating animal feeding operations (AFOs) in which agricultural animals are confined and fed and maintained for 45 days or more in any 12-month period, and includes all structures used for the storage of manure from animals in the operation and the discharge of manure or effluent originating from the AFO (Code chapters 459 and 459A). The regulations are administered and enforced by the department of natural resources (DNR) including the environmental protection commission (EPC). State law recognizes several types of AFOs, including confinement feeding operations (CFOs) in which animals are housed (confined) under roof (Code chapter 459). Special provisions govern open feedlots where animals are kept in unroofed or partially roofed structures (Code chapter 459A). In both cases, natural vegetation is not available to feed the animals. In Iowa, a CFO is subject to both air and water protection statutes and rules. Under water quality regulations, the owner or operator of an AFO may be required to obtain authorization from DNR to do business. The authorization takes the form of a construction permit for a CFO (Code section 459.304) or an open feedlot operation (Code section 459A.205) or a manure management plan for a CFO (Code section 459.312) or nutrient management plan for an open feedlot operation (Code section 459A.208). The EPC may by rule require the owner or operator of a CFO to install a water pollution monitoring system as part of an unformed (dirt or clay) manure storage structure (Code section 459.311). The level of regulation sometimes depends upon a formula that calculates the degree to which the AFO presents a threat to water quality measured by: (1) the type of animals maintained and (2) the number of animals maintained. For example, a construction permit is required for a CFO that has an animal unit capacity (AUC) of at least 1,000 animal units (AUs) (Code section 459.303) and each head of butcher or breeding swine weighing more than 55 pounds is assigned a special equivalency factor of 0.4 animal units (Code section 459.102) (0.4 AU x 1,000 AUC = 400 head of such swine). BACKGROUND —— FEDERAL LAW. AFOs are also regulated under federal law by the environmental protection agency (EPA) that administers and enforces the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) program pursuant to the federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. ch. 26, as amended, and 40 C.F.R. pts. 122 and 412). EPA contracts with DNR to administer and enforce the NPDES program. Under the NPDES program, AFOs are referred to as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). A CAFO is classified by its own formula that also factors the type and number of animals kept. The regulations apply to large, medium, and small CAFOs. For example, a small CAFO includes less than 750 head of swine weighing 55 or more pounds, a medium CAFO includes between 750 and 2,499 head, and a large CAFO includes 2,500 or more head. BACKGROUND —— STATE AND FEDERAL REGULATION. The purpose of both state and federal regulation is to prevent manure or effluent from contaminating groundwater and surface water. In compliance with federal law, manure from a CAFO cannot be disposed (discharged) in a manner that will cause surface water or groundwater pollution (Code section 459.311). A CAFO must retain all manure between periods of disposal (i.e., land application). An open feedlot must install structures that filter manure and effluent runoff (Code section 459A.401). However, in all cases involving the treatment of wastewater, and the discharge of manure and effluent originating from an AFO, rules adopted by the EPC can be no more stringent than federal law (Code sections 455B.173, 459.311, and 459A.401). BILL’S PROVISIONS. The bill rewrites the definition of an animal feeding operation based on federal law. It changes the term “medium concentrated animal feeding operation” to “medium animal feeding operation” without changing the meaning. The bill eliminates the provision that prevents EPC rules regulating wastewater, or manure or effluent originating from an AFO, from being more stringent than federal law. The bill provides that statutes regulating AFOs are minimum requirements, and that the EPC is to adopt permitting requirements by rule under the NPDES program, including for those AFOs classified as medium and large CAFOs under federal law. The EPC rules may exceed applicable federal standards applying to a medium or large CAFO. In addition, the owner or operator of a medium or large CAFO must conduct effluent monitoring of pollutants discharged to navigable waters through the groundwater. The owner or operator must report the collected data to DNR which must publish it on its internet site and submit an annual report to the EPA. CIVIL PENALTIES. Compliance with a statutory regulation includes compliance with a rule adopted by DNR (Code section 459.103). A person violating a water quality regulation under Code chapter 459 is subject to the administrative assessment of a civil penalty by DNR of not more than $10,000 or a judicial assessment of a civil penalty of $5,000 (Code sections 455B.109, 455B.191, and 459.603). Currently, a person violating a water quality regulation applying to an open feedlot is subject to the judicially assessed civil penalty (Code section 459A.502). The bill also provides that the person is subject to the administratively assessed civil penalty. | 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 |
| 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 |
| HF338 | A bill for an act relating to the administration of local anesthesia by dental assistants. | This bill strikes a provision prohibiting the dental board from adopting rules to delegate to a dental assistant the administration of local anesthesia. | In Committee |
| HF324 | A bill for an act relating to domestic abuse threat evaluation and deterrence. | This bill relates to domestic abuse threat evaluation and deterrence. The bill requires that, when a peace officer has reason to believe that domestic abuse has occurred but no arrest has been made, a peace officer shall perform a threat evaluation of the person the peace officer has determined to be the primary physical aggressor, based on a checklist adopted by the department of justice, to evaluate the potential threat a primary physical aggressor poses to an abused person. Once a threat evaluation has been completed, if the peace officer finds the primary physical aggressor is described by two or more factors from the checklist, the peace officer must provide to the primary physical aggressor informational materials created by the department of justice for the purpose of addressing root causes of domestic abuse the peace officer believes may be relevant to the situation. The bill requires that if a person has been arrested for committing domestic abuse assault, prior to the release of the person, the police department or sheriff’s office responsible for the person’s arrest shall perform a threat evaluation of the person based on a checklist adopted by the department of justice. Upon completion of the threat evaluation, the police department or sheriff’s office shall transmit the threat evaluation to the appropriate judicial district department of correctional services. Under current law, judicial district departments of correctional services provide mandatory treatment and training to a person convicted of, or receiving a deferred judgment for, domestic abuse assault. The bill requires the department of justice to adopt rules, that will be considered a checklist, to create a threat evaluation classification system in order to evaluate the potential threat a primary physical aggressor identified by a peace officer poses to an abused person. Evaluations of threat shall be established based on the number of the primary physical aggressor’s previous and current domestic abuse assault convictions; the number of times the primary physical aggressor has violated a temporary, emergency, or protective order issued pursuant to Code chapter 236 (domestic abuse); whether the primary physical aggressor has been convicted of a felony; whether the primary physical aggressor has been convicted of illegally using, carrying, or possessing a dangerous weapon; and the number of offenses committed by the primary physical aggressor in other jurisdictions that are substantially similar to the offenses listed in the bill. The bill also requires rules adopted by the department of justice to require that a peace officer or law enforcement agency make reasonable efforts to obtain information from other state jurisdictions that may be pertinent in performing a threat evaluation. The bill directs the department of justice to prepare, for the purpose of dissemination to a domestic abuse victim, informational materials intended to address root causes of domestic abuse, deter further domestic abuse, and offer support. Information contained in the materials shall include but not be limited to financial assistance that may be available to a victim and general application information; mental health services that may be available to a victim and contact information for those services; victim abuse and rehabilitation services and contact information for those services; information pertaining to Iowa legal aid and contact information for Iowa legal aid; and general information regarding services and benefits that may be available to a victim through the department of health and human services. The bill also requires the department of justice to adopt rules that determine when a victim shall receive informational materials. The bill directs the department of justice to prepare, for the purpose of dissemination to a domestic abuse primary physical aggressor identified by a peace officer, informational materials intended to address root causes of domestic abuse and deter further domestic abuse. Information contained in the materials shall include but not be limited to financial assistance that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and general application information; employment services and work programs that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and contact information for those services and programs; mental health and substance abuse services that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and a general explanation of how to request those services; housing assistance that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and general application information; family counseling services that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and contact information for those services; community mentoring services that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and contact information for those services; and a summary of the consequences a primary physical aggressor may face for violating any temporary, emergency, or protective order. The bill also requires the department of justice to adopt rules that determine when a primary physical aggressor shall receive informational materials. The bill also requires, if a primary physical aggressor was arrested by a peace officer based on the peace officer’s belief that the primary physical aggressor committed domestic abuse assault, that the primary physical aggressor report to a judicial district department of correctional services after release to receive informational materials. The bill requires the department of justice to establish a system of best practices for enhanced precautions based on a primary physical aggressor’s threat evaluation. The bill directs the department of justice to consult and cooperate with all public and private agencies to provide training, education, and guidance to a primary physical aggressor for the purpose of identifying and resolving possible causes of domestic abuse and deterring further abuse. | 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 |
| HF273 | A bill for an act relating to student access to personal electronic devices in schools. | This bill relates to student access to personal electronic devices in schools. On or before December 31, 2025, the bill requires school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to adopt a policy that prohibits student use of personal electronic devices during classroom instructional time. The bill defines “personal electronic device” as a cellular phone or any electronic device that combines a cellular phone with a hand-held computer and that offers internet access, and text or electronic mail capabilities. The bill establishes what the policy is to include. The bill requires school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to make the policy available to the public, provide the department of education with copies of the policy, include the policy in the school district’s or accredited nonpublic school’s student handbook, and provide the parent or guardian of each student with notice of the policy or a copy of the policy. | In Committee |
| HF222 | A bill for an act allocating hotel and motel taxes to schools that begin school calendar years after Labor Day, creating an alternate school start date fund, and making appropriations. | This bill allocates hotel and motel taxes to schools that begin the school calendar year after Labor Day. The bill provides that a school district or accredited nonpublic school may move the school start date to after Labor Day. The school calendar of the school district or accredited nonpublic school must satisfy the day and hour requirement under Code section 279.10(1). The bill provides that if the school district or accredited nonpublic school has set the hours of required attendance, the school district or accredited nonpublic school shall fulfill the 1,080 hours of instruction requirement during the calendar year as if the year started on August 23, except for any days that may be added to the school calendar due to inclement weather. The bill requires the department of revenue to remit the state-imposed hotel and motel tax collected from August 23 through Labor Day of any year to the alternate school start date fund established in the bill. The bill creates an alternate school start date fund as a separate fund in the state treasury. The fund shall be under the control of and administered by the department of education and shall be used to provide support to a school district or accredited nonpublic school whose school calendar began after Labor Day. The moneys in the fund shall be allocated to each school district and accredited nonpublic school on a pro rata basis. The moneys provided to a school district pursuant to the bill shall be deposited into the general fund of the school district and shall be considered miscellaneous income as defined in Code section 257.2. However, the bill specifies that such moneys shall not be included in district cost. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HF223 | A bill for an act relating to mental health resources for students enrolled in public schools. | This bill relates to mental health resources for students enrolled in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools. The bill requires schools to publish on the school’s internet site the mental health resources created by your life Iowa, or a link to where such mental health resources may be accessed on your life Iowa’s internet site, and to partner with students enrolled in the school in order to find additional ways to increase student awareness of mental health resources and information related to mental health. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HF111 | A bill for an act creating an advanced registered nurse practitioner preceptor tax credit available against the individual income tax, and including applicability provisions. | This bill creates an advanced registered nurse practitioner preceptor tax credit available against the individual income tax. The bill defines preceptor to mean an advanced registered nurse practitioner who is currently licensed as a registered nurse under Code chapter 152 or Code chapter 152E, and who is licensed by the board as an advanced registered nurse practitioner. The bill defines clinical preceptorship to mean a mentoring experience under the direction of a nursing program where a preceptor is used to provide a clinical learning experience for a student who is a resident enrolled in the nursing program. In order to be eligible for the tax credit under the bill, a preceptor must provide uncompensated instruction and supervision during a clinical preceptorship, be employed at the clinical facility where the preceptorship occurs, be selected by the nursing program in collaboration with the clinical facility to participate in the clinical preceptorship, and have at least one year of experience in the preceptor role. The amount of the tax credit equals $500 per clinical preceptorship where at least 100 hours of clinical learning experience is provided, not to exceed $2,000 in the aggregate. Any credit in excess of the tax liability is not refundable and shall not be credited to a following tax year or carried back to a previous tax year. The bill requires the preceptor to accurately document the student’s experience including the name of the student, the name of the nursing program, the hours of supervision, and the year of the student’s expected graduation. The department of revenue is required to adopt rules to administer the bill. The bill applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. | In Committee |
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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 | Nay |
| 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 |
| 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. | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 |
| HSB333 | A bill for an act relating to prison infrastructure.(See HF 1047.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 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 |
| HSB339 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing for properly related matters including indigent defense and representation, certain administrative procedures involving law enforcement officers, the corrections capital reinvestment fund, and a corrections federal receipts fund, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 1046.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HSB340 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch, including juror compensation and judicial officer salaries, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 1048.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HSB342 | 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; reimbursement rates; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care, administratio | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HSB337 | 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.(See HF 1045.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/09/2025 | Nay |
| HSB338 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, food regulation, natural resources, and environmental protection, and providing penalties.(See HF 1043.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/09/2025 | Nay |
| HSB343 | 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 | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/09/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | 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 amendment H–1242 be adopted? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| 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 |
| 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. | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/01/2025 | 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 | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
| HSB330 | A bill for an act relating to sports wagering receipts, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 1041.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
| HSB331 | A bill for an act relating to the opioid settlement fund, creating an opioid reserve account, requiring a report to the general assembly, and making appropriations.(See HF 1038.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
| HSB334 | 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.(See HF 1039.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
| HSB336 | 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.(See HF 1040.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/01/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 |
| HF908 | 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 making appropriations.(Formerly HF 452; See HF 1036.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 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 |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
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| Detail | Iowa House Appropriations Committee | Ranking Member | 3 |
| Detail | Iowa House Environmental Protection Committee | 4 | |
| Detail | Iowa House Ethics Committee | 4 | |
| Detail | Iowa House Health and Human Services Committee | 8 | |
| Detail | Iowa House Public Safety Committee | 5 | |
| Detail | Iowa Joint Fiscal Committee | 2 | |
| Detail | Iowa Joint Legislative Council Committee | 4 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
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| IA | Iowa House District 061 | House | Democrat | In Office | 01/12/2015 |