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State Representative
Jeff Shipley
(R) - Iowa
Iowa House District 087
In Office - Started: 01/01/2023
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State Capitol Building
1007 E. Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50319
1007 E. Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone: 515-281-3221
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
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| HF565 | A bill for an act establishing a partial exemption on property taxes for certain residential properties sold in disaster areas.(See HF 1013.) | A residential property sold by the United States department of housing and urban development (HUD) to an owner who is receiving the homestead tax credit on the residential property shall be partially exempt from taxation if the sale was to provide housing to individuals following a major disaster or disaster emergency and the residential property was located in the major disaster or disaster emergency area. The exemption is for a four-year period beginning with the first full assessment year after the sale. This bill provides an 80 percent exemption on the actual value in the first assessment year, a 60 percent in the second year, a 40 percent in the third year, a 20 percent in the fourth year, and the exemption expires in the fifth year. | In Committee |
| HF966 | A bill for an act exempting the sale of dietary supplements from the sales tax.(See HF 1021.) | This bill exempts the sale of dietary supplements from the sales tax. “Dietary supplement” is defined in Code section 423.3(57)(c), and includes vitamins and minerals. By operation of Code section 423.6, an item exempt from the imposition of the sales tax is also exempt from the use tax imposed in Code section 423.5. | In Committee |
| HF567 | A bill for an act excluding the net capital gain from the sale of gold or silver from the calculations of Iowa net income for purposes of the individual income tax, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. | This bill excludes the net capital gain from the sale of gold or silver from the calculation of Iowa net income for purposes of the individual income tax. The bill defines “gold or silver” to mean bars, coins, ingots, or commemorative medallions of gold or silver, or pure gold or silver in any form. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies retroactively to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. | In Committee |
| HF114 | A bill for an act relating to the therapeutic classroom incentive program by authorizing the expenditure of moneys for certain nutritional items.(See HF 522.) | This bill relates to the therapeutic classroom incentive program by authorizing the expenditure of moneys for certain nutritional items. The therapeutic classroom incentive program, administered by the department of education, provides competitive grants to school districts to establish classrooms that are designed for the purpose of providing support for any student whose emotional, social, or behavioral needs interfere with the student’s ability to be successful in the current educational environment, with or without supports, until the student is able to successfully return to the student’s current education environment, with or without supports, including the general education classroom. The bill provides that the support provided by a therapeutic classroom is required to include supporting student access to micronutrients and vitamins, assessing the macro-nutritional needs of students, providing minimally processed whole foods, restricting the use and availability of certain artificial or synthetic food additives, remediating the negative impacts of excessive use of digital screens, increasing student exposure to natural light or the light emitted by full spectrum lighting fixtures, and carrying out any other scientifically supported initiative that a school district reasonably believes will improve student health. | In Committee |
| HF239 | A bill for an act relating to the office of the consumer advocate.(See HF 578.) | This bill relates to the office of the consumer advocate. The bill changes the office of the consumer advocate from a division of the department of justice to an independent agency. The bill requires the consumer advocate to be appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the senate, from a list of three candidates provided by a committee consisting of the secretary of agriculture, the auditor of state, and the treasurer of state. The consumer advocate shall serve a term of five years and shall regularly report to a committee consisting of the secretary of agriculture, the auditor of state, and the treasurer of state, regarding the activities of the consumer advocate. The bill makes conforming changes, including by removing the authority of the attorney general to set the salary of the consumer advocate and employ staff to support the office of the consumer advocate. The bill terminates the term of office of the person serving as the consumer advocate immediately prior to the effective date of the bill on the effective date of the bill. | In Committee |
| HF34 | A bill for an act relating to the provision of information relating to immunization exemptions.(See HF 299.) | This bill relates to the provision of information relating to immunization exemptions. The bill amends Code section 139A.8 (immunization of children) to require that information regarding exemptions and the requirements for an exemption shall be included in any public communication following the recommendation of an immunization by the department of health and human services, shall be included in any communication regarding immunizations to a parent or legal guardian from a school, and shall be published on the internet sites of and included in registration documentation for all elementary schools, secondary schools, and licensed child care centers. The bill also requires child care centers, child care facilities, child care homes, and child development homes, as such terms are defined in Code chapter 237A (child care facilities), to include such information in communications to parents or guardians. The bill requires the state board of education to adopt rules requiring school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to include information regarding the exemptions and requirements for an exemption in any communication to the parent or guardian of a student that is related to required immunizations. The bill requires community colleges and institutions of higher learning under the control of the state board of regents to adopt a policy that requires the community college or institution to include in any communication to students that is related to immunization requirements information regarding exemptions to such requirements. In addition, the bill requires accredited private institutions and eligible institutions, as each is defined in Code section 256.183 (Iowa tuition grants program), as a condition of participation in the Iowa tuition grants program, to adopt a similar policy. 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 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 |
| HF191 | A bill for an act relating to the intentional emission of air contaminants into the atmosphere.(See HF 927.) | This bill prohibits the intentional emission of air contaminants into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of sunlight, notwithstanding any other law to the contrary. The environmental protection commission currently adopts rules relating to air quality. The bill requires the commission to adopt rules expounding on the bill’s prohibitions. The bill allows the environmental protection commission to adopt emergency rules to implement the bill’s prohibition. | In Committee |
| HF237 | A bill for an act relating to sanctions on intervenors in contested cases before the Iowa utilities commission.(See HF 923.) | This bill relates to sanctions on intervenors in contested cases before the Iowa utilities commission. The bill prohibits the commission from threatening or imposing sanctions on an intervenor unless the commission determines the intervenor was knowingly dishonest or in violation of a criminal statute and caused actual, quantifiable injury to the commission in excess of $500. | In Committee |
| HF419 | A bill for an act exempting from the state sales and use tax the sales price of lodging supplies sold to a lodging provider. | This bill exempts from the state sales and use tax the sales price of lodging supplies sold to a lodging provider. Under the bill, such lodging supplies are exempt if the lodging supplies are consumed or used by the customer of the lodging provider. The bill defines customer, lodging provider, and lodging supplies. By operation of Code section 423.6, an item exempt from the imposition of the sales tax is also exempt from the use tax imposed in Code section 423.5. | In Committee |
| HF463 | A bill for an act establishing human trafficking prosecution units.(See HF 831, HF 1011.) | This bill establishes a human trafficking prosecution unit. The bill provides that two human trafficking prosecution units are established in the department of justice. The attorney general, in cooperation and coordination with the department of public safety, the office to combat human trafficking, and the department of health and human services, shall develop, staff, and equip two multidisciplinary teams to identify, investigate, and prosecute human trafficking cases and provide care and support for the victims of human trafficking. One human trafficking prosecution unit shall serve the western half of the state, and the other shall serve the eastern half of the state, with interstate 35 serving as the bisecting line. The bill provides that a human trafficking prosecution unit shall include but not be limited to: the attorney general, or the attorney general’s designee; criminal investigators from the department of public safety; state and local law enforcement representatives; victim services representatives; health care representatives; community organization representatives; and survivor advocacy group representatives. A human trafficking prosecution unit may also conduct training and provide technical assistance to increase community awareness. The bill defines “human trafficking” to mean the same as defined in Code section 710A.1. | In Committee |
| HF242 | A bill for an act relating to procedures to review the exercise of eminent domain, and providing fees.(See HF 763.) | This bill allows an applicant before the Iowa utilities commission (commission) under Code chapter 476 or a person whose real property is subject to an eminent domain taking claim arising from an application before the commission to file a petition seeking declaratory review from the Polk county district court. Relief by the court is limited to a declaration of the parties’ rights, status, and other legal matters relating to eminent domain. The bill does not limit the commission’s authority to proceed with an application that was under consideration at the time of such a petition. The bill allows a person whose real property is subject to an eminent domain taking claim arising from an application before the commission to commence a new action in a district court of a county other than Polk county with a different district court judge if more than 18 months have passed since the commencement of a prior action or the facts and circumstances presented in the prior proceeding have changed. In such a proceeding, the bill requires the court to review the issues without giving precedential weight to the findings in the prior action. The bill requires a fee of $10 to commence a declaratory action in the bill that must be paid to the clerk of the district court of the county where the action is commenced. The fees collected are deposited in the general fund of the state. The bill prohibits any bond requirements for an appeal of any order entered in an action arising from the bill, or for any injunction to enforce an order entered pursuant to the bill. | In Committee |
| HF241 | A bill for an act relating to utilities commission member attendance at hearings and informational meetings.(See HF 790.) | This bill relates to utilities commission member attendance at hearings and informational meetings. The bill requires all members of the commission to be present for hearings related to public utility regulation or electric transmission lines, pipelines, or hazardous liquid pipelines regulated by the commission. The bill requires the hearings to pause if at any point during the meeting a member of the commission is not available for any reason and the hearing shall not resume until all members return. The bill requires at least one member of the commission to be present for an informational meeting regarding the issuance of an electric transmission line franchise, a pipeline permit, or a hazardous liquid pipeline permit. The bill requires the informational meeting to pause if at any point during the meeting no member of the commission is available for any reason and the meeting shall not resume until at least one member returns. | In Committee |
| HF238 | A bill for an act relating to pipelines transporting liquefied carbon dioxide, including permit renewal and operation limitations.(See HF 780.) | This bill relates to permitting for pipelines transporting liquefied carbon dioxide. The bill prohibits the Iowa utilities commission from renewing permits for pipelines that transport liquefied carbon dioxide. Additionally, the bill prohibits liquefied carbon dioxide pipelines from operating for longer than 25 years. Under current law, the commission may not grant pipeline permits for longer than 25 years. | In Committee |
| HR8 | A resolution to recognize Archie and Nancy Martin and the contributions of the Martin family to the education of Black students in Iowa. | A resolution to recognize Archie and Nancy Martin and the contributions of the Martin family to the education of Black students in Iowa. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HF563 | A bill for an act relating to property assessment standards and litigation. | This bill relates to property assessment standards and litigation. The international association of assessing officers (IAAO) is a nonprofit professional membership organization of government assessment officials and others interested in the administration of the property tax. The IAAO regularly publishes standards related to property assessments with the goal of advancing more equitable property appraisals, assessment administration, and property tax policies. Current law requires the director of the department of revenue (director) to prepare and issue a state appraisal manual which each county and city assessor must use to assess and value all classes of property. The bill requires the director to adopt real estate property assessment standards for the state appraisal manual in conformance with the standards developed and published by the IAAO. Such standards must include the use of the coefficient of dispersion (COD) and price-related differentials (PRD). COD is the measure of the spread of values about the median value of a class of properties. When the difference between the median value of a class of properties and the actual value to sales value ratio of a property increases, the COD will increase as well. CODs above a certain percentage are seen as inequitable. The bill requires assessors to maintain a COD of less than 15.99 percent unless there is good cause for a variance. PRD, or analysis of assessment bias, is used in order to determine whether higher-valued properties are overvalued or undervalued in relation to lower-valued properties. The bill requires assessors to maintain a PRD between .98 and 1.03 unless there is good cause for a variance. The bill requires the COD and PRD of a class of property to be calculated based on comparisons of the actual value of property in the same class. The bill defines, for the purposes of protesting an assessment, “like property” as all property within a given class of property. The bill limits the employment of special counsel to assist a city legal department or county attorney in litigation dealing with assessments to cases where the opposing party is a legal business entity, including a nonprofit entity. Under current law, a city legal department or county attorney may employ special counsel to assist the city legal department or county attorney in any litigation dealing with assessments. The bill allows a property owner to appeal the assessment of any other property provided that the property with the assessment to be appealed is located in a taxing district to which the property owner appealing the assessment owns property of the same class. The bill requires such appeals to be made in accordance with Code section 441.37 (protest of assessment —— grounds). | In Committee |
| HF709 | A bill for an act relating to local civil rights agencies and commissions. | This bill removes the requirement that a city with a population of 29,000 people or greater maintain an independent local civil rights agency or commission. | In Committee |
| HF458 | A bill for an act establishing a grant program for a nonprofit organization providing sexual assault forensic examination centers.(See HF 705.) | This bill establishes a grant program in the department of justice for a nonprofit organization providing sexual assault forensic examination centers. The bill requires that the attorney general contract with an eligible nonprofit organization to operate and maintain sexual assault forensic examination centers in the state. The contract may be terminated by the attorney general after a hearing upon written notice and for good cause. The bill provides that a nonprofit organization must comply with all of the following to be eligible for a contract under this section: be a nonprofit organization incorporated in the state; employ or otherwise retain services from sexual assault nurse examiners; and maintain, or be in the process of establishing, one or more treatment facilities in the state that are primarily dedicated to providing a diverse range of services to sexual assault survivors, including but not limited to medical forensic services; provide services for sexual assault survivors, including providing sexual assault care and related trainings, as the overall primary purpose of the organization. The bill provides that a contracting nonprofit organization shall: provide services, including medical forensic services, to sexual assault survivors including adults, children, persons with disabilities, rural Iowans, and other underserved populations; provide or facilitate trainings to medical practitioners regarding the provision of medical forensic services; provide or facilitate trainings to law enforcement officers and prosecuting attorneys regarding sexual assault services; provide or facilitate trainings to members of the public regarding sexual assault services and sexual assault prevention; provide a cooperative team approach regarding sexual assault services and establish an approach that emphasizes the best interests of the sexual assault survivor; involve or consult with persons from various professional disciplines who have training and expertise in addressing special types of sexual assault; and submit an annual report to the attorney general describing the services and trainings that have been provided. The bill provides that a contracting nonprofit organization may seek funding or reimbursement from other sources including but not limited to charging for attendance at trainings. The contract shall provide general funding as reimbursement toward the contracting nonprofit organization’s overall operating expenditures. The bill provides that a contracting nonprofit organization is not a state agency for the purposes of Code chapter 8A, subchapter IV, or Code chapter 20 or 669. | In Committee |
| HF664 | A bill for an act relating to the requirements for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities, and providing penalties. | This bill provides for authorized electronic monitoring in nursing facilities. The bill provides that a nursing facility resident or a resident representative may conduct electronic monitoring of the resident’s room through the use of electronic monitoring devices placed in the resident’s room pursuant to the bill. The bill specifies the consents that must be obtained for a resident to conduct electronic monitoring in the resident’s room, including from any roommate; the process to be followed if a roommate refuses to consent; the provision of notice to the nursing facility; the notification and consent form requirements; the responsibility for the cost and installation relating to the electronic monitoring; penalties for obstruction of electronic monitoring devices; the dissemination of recordings created through electronic monitoring; the admissibility of evidence created through electronic monitoring; liability and penalties for violations of the bill; resident protections; and reporting requirements. The bill also directs the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing to prescribe the notification and consent form described in the bill and to make the form available on the department’s internet site. | In Committee |
| HF625 | A bill for an act providing for the future repeal of tax credits. | This bill provides for the future repeal of certain existing state income and property tax credits, and provides for the future repeal of tax credits enacted by the general assembly in the future. DIVISION I —— FUTURE REPEAL OF EXISTING TAX CREDITS. Division I repeals tax credits on a rolling basis over a five-year period beginning January 1, 2027, through January 1, 2031. The bill repeals the following tax credits that currently have no repeal date: the accelerated career education program job tax credit; the beginning farmer tax credit; the assistive device corporate tax credit; the sales and use tax refund, corporate tax credit for certain sales taxes paid by third-party developers, investment tax credit, insurance premiums tax credit, and supplemental research activities tax credit available under the high quality jobs program; the school tuition organization tax credit; the solar energy system tax credit; the innovation fund investment tax credit; the tax credit for investments in a qualifying business; the wind energy production tax credit; the charitable conservation contribution tax credit; the new jobs credits from withholding available under the Iowa industrial new job training program; the research activities credits; the renewable energy tax credit; the targeted jobs withholding tax credit; employer child care tax credit; endow Iowa tax credit; historic preservation tax credit; new jobs tax credit; emergency personnel and tuition textbook tax credits; adoption tax credit; earned income tax credit; child and dependent care or early childhood development tax credit; geothermal heat pump tax credit; public safety officer moving expense tax credit; homestead tax credit; elderly and disabled property tax credit or reimbursement; and the agricultural land credit. The bill amends the repeal date of the renewable chemical production tax credit from January 1, 2039, to January 1, 2031. The bill provides that the repeal of a tax credit shall not affect tax credits issued, awarded, or allowed prior to January 1, 2031, or affect a taxpayer’s ability to claim or redeem such tax credits, including but not limited to any tax credit carryforward amount, and further provides that the bill shall not constitute grounds for rescission or modification of agreements entered into for a tax credit, and that such agreements shall remain in effect until they expire under their own terms and shall be governed by the applicable provisions of law as they existed immediately prior to January 1, 2031. The bill provides that additional legislation is required to fully implement the repeal of these tax credits and requires the director of the department of revenue to prepare draft legislation in compliance with Code section 2.16 for submission to the legislative services agency to implement the repeal of the tax credits. DIVISION II —— FUTURE REPEAL OF FUTURE TAX CREDIT PROGRAMS. Division II provides that any tax credit program available against the individual or corporate income tax, the franchise tax, the insurance premiums tax, or the moneys and credits tax, enacted by the general assembly on or after January 1, 2026, is repealed after five years, unless another provision of law provides for an earlier repeal date. The bill provides that the repeal of a tax credit program pursuant to this provision shall not affect the tax credits or tax credit agreements entered into prior to the repeal of the tax credit program in the same manner as described above for the repeal of the existing tax credits. | In Committee |
| HF668 | A bill for an act relating to immunity from criminal or civil liability in cases involving the justifiable use of reasonable force. | This bill relates to immunity from criminal or civil liability in cases involving the justifiable use of reasonable force. Under current law, a person who is justified in using reasonable force against an aggressor in defense of the person’s self, another person, or property is immune from criminal or civil liability for all damages incurred. The bill provides that there shall be a presumption that the person reasonably believed that such use of force was necessary to defend the person, another person, or property from what the person reasonably believed to be the use of or imminent use of unlawful force by another person. A law enforcement agency may investigate the use or threatened use of force, but the law enforcement agency shall not arrest the person for using or threatening to use force unless law enforcement determines that there is probable cause to believe that the force that was used or was threatened to be used was unlawful. The bill provides that in a criminal prosecution or civil action, once a justified use of force immunity has been raised by a person at a pretrial immunity hearing, the burden of proof, to be carried by clear and convincing evidence, is on the party seeking to overcome the immunity. The court shall hold a pretrial immunity hearing within 14 days of the person filing a motion to dismiss on the grounds of immunity. The bill provides that a probable cause determination by the court that the person committed the crime and that the person should stand trial for the criminal offense must include a determination that the person’s use of force was not justified. | In Committee |
| HF666 | A bill for an act relating to the Iowa human life protection Act, providing for civil actions and civil penalties, and including effective date provisions. | This bill creates the Iowa human life protection Act in new Code chapter 146F, and provides for civil actions and civil penalties. The bill includes findings relating to human life and abortion. New Code section 146F.2 provides definitions used in the new Code chapter including “abortion fund”, “abortion-inducing drug”, “abortion provider”, “affiliate”, “aiding or abetting”, “attempt” or “attempts”, “elective abortion”, “fertilization”, “governmental entity”, “information content provider”, “interactive computer service”, “major bodily function”, “medical emergency”, “medically indicated separation procedure”, “perform”, “performance”, “performed”, “performs”, or “performing” relative to an elective abortion, “person”, “policy”, “political subdivision”, “pregnant”, “taxpayer resource transaction”, “unborn child”, and “woman” or “women”. New Code section 146F.3 prohibits a person from knowingly using, employing, or administering any drug, instrument, device, means, or procedure upon a pregnant woman with the specific intent to cause an elective abortion, or from aiding or abetting such conduct. The prohibition applies if any portion of the prohibited conduct or elective abortion occurs in the state or within the jurisdiction of the state. The requirements of new Code section 146F.3 shall be enforced exclusively through the qui tam actions described in the bill; direct or indirect enforcement shall not be taken or threatened; and a violation of the Code section shall not be used to justify or trigger the enforcement of any other law or any type of adverse consequence under any other law, except as provided in the provisions of the bill relating to qui tam actions. However, the Code section does not preclude or limit the enforcement of any other law or regulation against conduct that is independently prohibited by such other law or regulation and that would remain prohibited by such other law or regulation. The prohibition does not apply to speech or conduct protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States; conduct the state is forbidden to regulate under federal law or the Constitution of the United States; the provision of basic public services by a governmental entity or a common carrier to an abortion provider, an abortion fund, or an affiliate of an abortion provider or abortion fund in the same manner those services are provided to the general public; or conduct taken at the behest of a federal agency, contractor, or employee that is carrying out duties under federal law, if a prohibition on that conduct would violate the doctrine of preemption or intergovernmental immunity. New Code section 146F.4 provides for liability for wrongful death and personal injuries related to an elective abortion. The Code section provides that a person who violates new Code section 146F.3 shall be subject to joint and several liability for the wrongful death of an unborn child who dies from the elective abortion; and strict, and joint and several liability for the wrongful death of a pregnant woman or formerly pregnant woman who dies from the elective abortion and any personal injuries suffered by an unborn child or pregnant woman or formerly pregnant woman from the elective abortion. A surviving parent of an unborn child who was aborted in violation of the bill may maintain an action for wrongful death against a person who knowingly violated the bill resulting in the wrongful death of the unborn child. The bill prohibits a lawsuit under new Code section 146E.4 against and by certain people including: against a pregnant woman or formerly pregnant woman who aborted or attempted to abort the pregnant woman’s unborn child; against a person that acted at the behest of a federal agency, contractor, or employee that is carrying out duties under federal law, if the imposition of liability would violate the doctrine of preemption or intergovernmental immunity; by a person who through an act of sexual assault or incest impregnated the pregnant woman or formerly pregnant woman; and against a provider or user of an interactive computer service if such a lawsuit would be preempted by federal law. A prevailing plaintiff is entitled to recover compensatory damages, court costs and reasonable attorney fees, and punitive damages of not less than $100,000. Under new Code section 146F.4, if a plaintiff brings suit in response to a drug-induced abortion and is unable to identify the specific manufacturer of the abortion-inducing drug that caused the death or injury, liability is apportioned among all manufacturers of abortion-inducing drugs in proportion to each manufacturer’s share of the market for abortion-inducing drugs. A person may bring an action no later than six years from the date the cause of action accrues. Waiver of the right to sue is void as against public policy and shall not be enforceable in any court. The Code section shall not be construed to impose liability on constitutionally protected speech or conduct. New Code section 146F.5 relates to prohibitions related to abortion-inducing drugs and qui tam enforcement. The Code section provides that it is unlawful for a person to manufacture, possess, or distribute abortion-inducing drugs in the state; mail, transport, deliver, or provide abortion-inducing drugs in any manner to or from a person or location in the state; or engage in any conduct that constitutes aiding and abetting the manufacture, possession, distribution, mailing, transporting, delivery, or provision of abortion-inducing drugs. The bill does not prohibit constitutionally protected speech or conduct; conduct that the state is forbidden to regulate under federal law or the Constitution of the United States; conduct taken at the behest of a federal agency, contractor, or employee that is carrying out duties under federal law, if a prohibition on that conduct would violate the doctrine of preemption or intergovernmental immunity; conduct taken by a pregnant woman or formerly pregnant woman who aborts or seeks to abort the woman’s unborn child; the manufacture, possession, distribution, mailing, transporting, delivery, or provision of abortion-inducing drugs for a purpose that does not include termination of a pregnancy; the possession of abortion-inducing drugs related to an effort to entrap persons that violate the Code section; or any of the conduct described under the section of the bill relating to interactive computer services. New Code section 146F.5 shall only be enforced as a qui tam action as provided under the bill and direct or indirect enforcement of the Code section shall not be taken or threatened. However, the Code section does not preclude or limit the enforcement of any other law or regulation against conduct that is independently prohibited by such other law or regulation, and that would remain prohibited by such other law or regulation. New Code section 146F.6 relates to liability for wrongful death and personal injuries related to the manufacture, mailing, distribution, transportation, delivery, or provision of abortion-inducing drugs. The Code section provides that a person who manufactures, mails, distributes, transports, delivers, or provides abortion-inducing drugs; or who aids or abets the manufacture, mailing, distribution, transportation, delivery, or provision of abortion-inducing drugs shall be strictly, and jointly and severally liable for the wrongful death of an unborn child or pregnant woman who dies from the use of abortion-inducing drugs, and for any personal injuries suffered by an unborn child or pregnant woman or formerly pregnant woman from the use of abortion-inducing drugs. The surviving parents of an unborn child who was aborted in violation of the Code section of the bill relating to elective abortion prohibitions may maintain an action for wrongful death against a person who knowingly violated the Code section resulting in the wrongful death of the unborn child. New Code section 146F.6 prohibits a lawsuit from being brought against a pregnant woman or formerly pregnant woman who used or sought to obtain abortion-inducing drugs to abort or attempt to abort her unborn child; against a person that acted at the behest of a federal agency, contractor, or employee that is carrying out duties under federal law, if the imposition of liability would violate the doctrine of preemption or intergovernmental immunity; by a person who, through an act of sexual assault or incest, impregnated the woman who used abortion-inducing drugs; or against a provider or user of an interactive computer service if such a lawsuit would be preempted by federal law. A prevailing plaintiff under new Code section 146E.6 is entitled to recover compensatory damages, court costs and reasonable attorney fees, and punitive damages of not less than $100,000. If a plaintiff brings suit in response to a drug-induced abortion and is unable to identify the specific manufacturer of the abortion-inducing drug that caused the death or injury, liability shall be apportioned among all manufacturers of abortion-inducing drugs in proportion to each manufacturer’s share of the market for abortion-inducing drugs. A person may bring an action no later than six years from the date the cause of action accrues. Waiver of the right to sue is void as against public policy and shall not be enforceable in any court. It is an affirmative defense if a person sued under this Code section was unaware that the person was engaged in the conduct described in this Code section, and took every reasonable precaution to ensure that the person would not manufacture, mail, distribute, transport, deliver, provide, or aid or abet the manufacture, mailing, distribution, transportation, delivery, or provision of abortion-inducing drugs. The defendant has the burden of proving an affirmative defense by a preponderance of the evidence. The Code section shall not be construed to impose liability on constitutionally protected speech or conduct. New Code section 146F.7 provides for qui tam enforcement for certain violations under the bill. A person, other than a governmental entity or an officer or employee of a governmental entity, has standing to bring and may bring a qui tam action against any person that violates any provision of new Code section 146F.3 (elective abortion prohibitions), 146F.4 (abortion-inducing drugs prohibitions), or 146F.14 (government contractors and grant recipients); or any person who intends to violate any provision of those Code sections. A civil action shall not be brought under the Code section against the pregnant woman or formerly pregnant woman upon whom an elective abortion was performed or induced or attempted to be performed or induced or against a pregnant woman who intends or who seeks an elective abortion in violation of the new Code chapter; against any person that performs, aids or abets, or attempts to perform or aid or abet an elective abortion at the behest of a federal agency, contractor, or employee that is carrying out duties under federal law, if a prohibition on that elective abortion would violate the doctrine of preemption or intergovernmental immunity; against a common carrier that transports a pregnant woman to an abortion provider, if the common carrier is unaware that the pregnant woman intends to abort the pregnant woman’s unborn child; against a provider or user of an interactive computer service if such a lawsuit would be preempted by federal law; or by a person who, through an act of sexual assault or incest, impregnated a woman who is seeking an elective abortion or a person who acts in concert or participation with the person who impregnated the woman. An action shall be brought in the name of the person and of the state. A plaintiff who prevails in an action under this Code section shall be awarded injunctive relief, nominal and compensatory damages if the plaintiff has suffered injury or harm from the defendant’s conduct, civil penalties of not less than $10,000 for each violation, and court costs and reasonable attorney fees. A person may bring an action no later than six years from the date the cause of action accrues. It is an affirmative defense if a person sued was unaware that the person was engaged in the specified conduct and took every reasonable precaution to ensure that the person would not be in violation of the specified provisions of the bill. The Code section shall not be construed to impose liability on constitutionally protected speech or conduct. A court shall not award court costs or reasonable attorney fees to a defendant. A person bringing an action is entitled to receive 25 percent of the civil penalties recovered, with the remaining civil penalties paid to the state. The state is not liable for expenses that a person incurs in bringing an action. New Code section 146F.8 provides for qui tam enforcement for violations relating to interactive computer services. The Code section provides that a person, other than a governmental entity or an officer or employee of a governmental entity, has standing to bring and may bring a qui tam action against a person that provides or maintains an interactive computer service that allows Iowa residents to access information or material that assists or facilitates efforts to obtain elective abortions or abortion-inducing drugs; provides or maintains a platform for downloading any application or software for use on a computer or electronic device that is designed to assist or facilitate efforts to obtain elective abortions or abortion-inducing drugs; or provides or maintains a platform that allows or enables those who provide or aid or abet elective abortions, or those who manufacture, mail, distribute, transport, deliver, or provide abortion-inducing drugs, to collect money, digital currency, resources, or any other thing of value in exchange for such services. An action under new Code section 146F.8 shall be brought in the name of the person and the state. A prevailing plaintiff shall only be awarded declaratory and injunctive relief, not damages. Relief shall not be awarded if the action is brought in response to the exercise of state or federal constitutional rights that belong personally to the defendant; conduct taken at the behest of a federal agency, contractor, or employee that is carrying out duties under federal law, if the relief would violate the doctrine of preemption or intergovernmental immunity; or conduct taken by a pregnant woman or formerly pregnant woman who aborted or attempted to abort such woman’s unborn child, if such woman is the named defendant in the civil action. Under new Code section 146F.8, it is an affirmative defense if a person who sued was unaware that the person’s interactive computer service or platform was being used to assist or facilitate efforts to obtain elective abortions or abortion-inducing drugs; and upon discovering that the person’s interactive computer service or platform was being used to assist or facilitate such efforts, the person took prompt action to block access to any information, material, application, or software and to block those who provide or aid or abet elective abortions and those who manufacture, mail, distribute, transport, deliver, or provide abortion-inducing drugs, from collecting money, digital currency, resources, or any other thing of value in exchange for such services through its interactive computer service or platform. The defendant has the burden of proving an affirmative defense by a preponderance of the evidence. A person who engages in the violative conduct shall not be held vicariously liable for any nominal, statutory, or compensatory damages incurred by another information content provider; held liable or legally responsible for the conduct of any publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider; or treated as the speaker or publisher of any information provided by another information content provider under any provision of state law. New Code section 146F.8 shall be enforced exclusively through the qui tam action and direct or indirect enforcement of this Code section shall not be taken or threatened. However, the Code section does not preclude or limit the enforcement of any other law or regulation against conduct that is independently prohibited by such other law or regulation, and that would remain prohibited by such other law or regulation in the absence of the Code section. Under new Code section 146F.8, a provider or user of an interactive computer service shall have absolute and nonwaivable immunity from liability or suit on account of an action taken to restrict access to or availability of information or material that assists or facilitates access to elective abortions or abortion-inducing drugs, whether or not such information or material is constitutionally protected; an action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to information or material described in the Code section; or a denial of service to those who provide or aid or abet elective abortions, or those who manufacture, mail, distribute, transport, deliver, or provide abortion-inducing drugs. The state is not liable for expenses that a person incurs in bringing an action under the Code section. New Code section 146F.9 provides affirmative defenses for a defendant against whom an action is brought under new Code section 146F.6 (liability for wrongful death and personal injury —— abortion-inducing drugs), 146F.7 (qui tam enforcement for certain violations), or 146F.8 (qui tam enforcement —— interactive computer services). The defendant must prove the affirmative defense by a preponderance of the evidence. The Code section does not limit or preclude a defendant from asserting the unconstitutionality of any provision or application of state law as a defense or from asserting any other defense that might be available under any other source of law. A court shall not apply the law of another state or jurisdiction to any civil action brought under the specified Code sections, unless otherwise required by law. New Code section 146F.10 specifies the defenses that are not applicable to an action brought under Code section 146F.4 (liability for wrongful death and personal injury —— elective abortion), 146F.6, or 146F.7. New Code section 146F.11 includes venue provisions and provides that if an action is brought under new Code section 146F.6, 146F.7, or 146F.8, the action shall not be transferred to a different venue without the written consent of all parties. New Code section 146F.12 includes provisions relating to personal jurisdiction, choice of law, and class action lawsuits. The Code section provides that the courts of this state shall have personal jurisdiction over any defendant sued under Code section 146F.4, 146F.6, 146F.7, or 146F.8; Iowa law shall apply to these actions, and such civil actions shall not be litigated on behalf of a plaintiff class or a defendant class, and a court shall not certify a class in any civil action brought under these Code sections. New Code section 146F.13 provides protection from counter lawsuits by providing that when a lawsuit has been brought or a judgment entered against a person in any state or federal court in which the lawsuit or liability in whole or in part is based on that person’s decision or threat to bring an action under Code section 146F.6, 146F.7, or 146F.8, that person may recover damages from any party that brought the action, obtained the judgment, or sought to enforce the judgment. Recoverable damages include compensatory damages; court costs, expenses, and reasonable attorney fees incurred in bringing an action to recover the costs; and additional statutory damages in an amount of not less than $100,000. New Code section 146F.14 relates to government contractors and grant recipients and qui tam libability. The Code section provides that a person that enters into a contract with a governmental entity or a subcontract with a contractor of a governmental entity, or that receives any grant or funding from a governmental entity shall not pay for, reimburse, or subsidize in any way the costs associated with an elective abortion including by providing coverage of elective abortions as an employee benefit; paying for, reimbursing, or subsidizing the travel costs associated with obtaining an elective abortion, or covering those costs as an employee benefit; donating or lending money, digital currency, resources, or any other thing of value to an abortion provider, abortion fund, or an affiliate of an abortion provider, either directly or by laundering the donation or loan through an intermediary; offering, providing, or lending money, digital currency, resources, or any other thing of value with the knowledge that the thing of value will be used to pay for, offset, or reimburse the costs of an elective abortion or the costs associated with procuring an elective abortion; performing or providing any type of work or service for an abortion provider, abortion fund, or an affiliate of an abortion provider, regardless of whether such work or service is done on a paid, contract, or volunteer basis, except for the provision of basic public services in the same manner as the governmental entity or common carrier provides the services to the general public; paying, offering to pay, or providing insurance that covers legal expenses, court judgments, or settlements of those who violate the abortion laws of the United States, or the abortion laws of any state, local, or foreign jurisdiction; or engaging in any conduct that would constitute aiding and abetting an elective abortion. Additionally, a person shall not enter into the specified contracts or receive any grant or funding from a governmental entity, unless the person certifies in writing that the person complies with the requirements. A person who violates this Code section is subject to qui tam liability as provided in new Code section 146F.7. New Code section 146F.15 relates to internet service providers. The Code section provides that an internet service provider that provides service in the state shall make all reasonable and technologically feasible efforts to block access to child pornography as defined in federal law and information or material that is intended to assist or facilitate efforts to obtain elective abortions or abortion-inducing drugs. A person who becomes aware that information or material described is accessible through internet service provided by an entity that provides internet service in the state may notify that internet service provider and request that the internet service provider block access to the information or material through any means specified in the bill. While direct or indirect enforcement shall not be taken or threatened by a governmental entity or by any officer or employee of a governmental entity, the state, its political subdivisions, and officers and employees of the state and its political subdivisions may ask or encourage internet service providers to comply with the provisions of the Code section. An internet service provider shall have absolute and nonwaivable immunity from liability or suit on account of an action taken as described in the Code section. If a lawsuit is brought or a judgment entered against an internet service provider in any state or federal court based on the internet service provider’s compliance with the Code section, the internet service provider may recover costs related to the action as well as compensatory damages and statutory damages of not less than $100,000. New Code section 146F.16 relates to internet service in publicly owned buildings, public libraries, school district locations, and institutions of higher education relative to access to certain information. A publicly owned building in the state that provides internet service shall be equipped to operate a technology protection measure with respect to each of the computers with internet access in the publicly owned building that protects against access through those computers to child pornography as defined in federal law and information or material that is intended to assist or facilitate efforts to obtain elective abortions or abortion-inducing drugs, including through interactive computer services. A person who becomes aware that information or material described in the Code section is accessible through internet service provided by a government-owned building, public library, school district location, or location of an institution of higher education governed by the state board of regents may notify an authority with control over the building and request that the authority block access to that information or material. The authority may disable a technology protection measure that blocks the information specified under subsection 1 to enable access for bona fide research or other lawful purposes. New Code section 146F.17 relates to governmental entities and political subdivisions and prohibitions relating to elective abortion and taxpayer resource transactions. A political subdivision may enact and enforce ordinances regulating, restricting, or prohibiting elective abortion and conduct that aids or abets elective abortion. A provision of state law shall not be construed to limit a political subdivision from enacting or enforcing ordinances regulating, restricting, or prohibiting elective abortion and conduct that aids or abets elective abortion, unless it clearly and explicitly does so with specific reference to the Code section. The Code section also prohibits a governmental entity from entering into a taxpayer resource transaction with certain entities unless required to do so by federal law or as a condition of receiving federal funds. A person has standing to bring and may bring a qui tam action against any person that enacts, issues, enforces, or attempts to enforce any ordinance, order, rule, directive, requirement, or written or unwritten policy described in the Code section or that enters into a taxpayer resource transaction described in the Code section. An action under the Code section shall be brought in the name of the person and the state. A plaintiff who prevails in a qui tam action brought under the Code section shall recover and be granted declaratory and injunctive relief, nominal and compensatory damages if the plaintiff has suffered injury or harm from the defendant’s conduct, civil penalties in an amount of not less than $10,000 for each policy that violates the Code section and for each prohibited taxpayer resource transaction, and court costs and reasonable attorney fees. Sovereign immunity, governmental immunity, and official immunity are waived and abrogated in any lawsuit brought under the Code section and shall not be asserted as a defense. A person bringing an action under the Code section is entitled to receive 25 percent of the civil penalties recovered, with the remainder paid to the state. The state is not liable for expenses that a person incurs in bringing an action under the Code section. New Code section 146F.18 relates to persons qualified to perform services under the Medicaid program. The Code section provides that certain persons are not deemed persons qualified to perform the service or services as described in federal law under the Medicaid program. The state and its officers and employees have sovereign immunity in any lawsuit brought to restrain the state and its officers and employees from enforcing the Code section. An attorney representing the state, its political subdivisions, or any officer or employee of the state or a political subdivision shall not waive the immunity described in the Code section or take any action that would result in a waiver of that immunity, and any such action or purported waiver shall be a legal nullity and an ultra vires act. New Code section 146F.19 relates to the costs of lawsuits for injunctive or declaratory relief relating to restrictions on elective abortions. The bill provides that a person that seeks declaratory or injunctive relief to prevent certain persons from enforcing or bringing suit to enforce certain actions, is jointly and severally liable to pay the court costs and reasonable attorney fees of the prevailing party, including the court costs and reasonable attorney fees that the prevailing party incurs in the prevailing party’s efforts to recover such court costs and reasonable attorney fees. The Code section specifies what constitutes a prevailing party, limitations on the costs that may be recovered, allows for an action to recover the costs not later than three years from the date on which the dismissal or judgment becomes final on the conclusion of appellate review or from the time for seeking appellate review expires. The Code section provides the forum in which action may be brought and prohibits any contractual choice-of-forum provision. New Code section 146F.20 relates to immunity from suit and limits on state court jurisdiction. The state, its political subdivisions, an officer and employee of the state or a political subdivision shall have sovereign immunity, governmental immunity, and official immunity as described in the bill. Under new Code section 146F.20, any judicial relief issued by a court of this state that disregards the immunities conferred or the jurisdictional limitations specified shall be a legal nullity due to lack of jurisdiction, and shall not be enforced or obeyed by any officer or employee of this state or a political subdivision, judicial or otherwise. Any injunction, declaratory judgment, or writ issued by a court of this state that purports to restrain the state, its political subdivisions, an officer or employee of this state or a political subdivision, or any person from hearing, adjudicating, docketing, or filing a civil action brought under new Code section 146F.6, 146F.7, or 146F.8, shall be a legal nullity and a violation of the due process clause and shall not be enforced or obeyed by any officer or employee of this state or a political subdivision, judicial or otherwise. Any officer or employee of this state or a political subdivision, judicial or otherwise, who issues, enforces, or obeys an injunction, declaratory judgment, or writ described shall be subject to suit by any person who is prevented from or delayed in bringing a civil action, and a plaintiff who prevails in such an action shall be awarded and recover injunctive relief, compensatory damages, punitive damages of not less than $100,000, and court costs and reasonable attorney fees. New Code section 146F.20 provides that a person who violates the provisions relating to immunities conferred or the jurisdictional limitations specified is prohibited from asserting and being entitled to any type of immunity defense, being indemnified for any award of damages or court costs and reasonable attorney fees entered against the person or for the costs of the person’s legal defense, and receiving or obtaining legal representation from the attorney general in any action brought under the Code section. Any person who sues and seeks any injunction, declaratory judgment, or writ that would restrain any person from hearing, adjudicating, docketing, or filing a civil action brought under new Code section 146F.6, 146F.7, or 146F.8 shall pay the court costs and reasonable attorney fees of the person sued. New Code section 146F.21 relates to the application of the Code chapter to pregnant women by providing that the Code chapter shall not be construed to subject a pregnant woman or formerly pregnant woman on whom an elective abortion was performed or attempted to be performed to any civil or criminal action or any type of criminal or civil penalty or liability under the new Code chapter. The bill provides severability provisions. The bill takes effect upon enactment. | In Committee |
| HF240 | A bill for an act relating to insurance requirements for the granting of a hazardous liquid pipeline permit.(See HF 639.) | This bill relates to insurance requirements for the granting of a hazardous liquid pipeline permit. The bill requires an applicant for a hazardous liquid pipeline permit to submit evidence to the Iowa utilities commission of a surety or insurance policy that ensures payment of all damages that may result from the construction or operation of the hazardous liquid pipeline before a permit may be granted by the commission. The surety or insurance policy must be sufficient to cover losses and injury resulting from construction of the hazardous liquid pipeline and from any discharge of content from the pipeline. The surety or insurance policy must also be sufficient to cover any person’s increased insurance costs, or the person’s inability to obtain insurance, due to the construction or presence of the pipeline. The bill requires the pipeline company to either purchase insurance on behalf of or reimburse any person who experiences increased insurance premiums or the inability to obtain insurance due to the construction or presence of the pipeline. | In Committee |
| HF325 | A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a transactional currency based on gold and silver held in a bullion depository approved by the treasurer of state, and providing fees. | This bill requires the treasurer of state to issue specie and establish a transactional currency that are usable as legal tender and readily transferable. The bill permits the treasurer of state to contract with a private vendor to perform the treasurer of state’s duties and requires the treasurer of state to exclusively authorize an approved bullion depository as the state’s issuer of specie. The bill requires the treasurer of state to hold all specie and bullion owned or purchased for such purposes in trust for the transactional currency holders and to maintain enough specie or bullion to allow for the redemption of all units of the transactional currency issued. The bill requires the treasurer of state to create an account in the approved bullion depository for all the specie and bullion. Once a person or state pays the treasurer of state for specie or bullion or designates specie or bullion held on account in the depository for being represented by transactional currency and pays a fee, the bill requires the treasurer of state to issue transactional currency to that person or state and to buy specie or bullion in the number of troy ounces of precious metal equal to the number of units of transactional currency issued to the purchaser, deposit the specie or bullion into the pooled depository account for the purchaser, and issue a depository account to the purchaser or update an existing depository account to reflect the purchase. The bill allows a person with transactional currency to redeem the currency for United States dollars, specie, or bullion by presenting the currency to the treasurer of state. To redeem the currency for the person, the bill requires the treasurer of state to sell the equivalent amount of specie or bullion from the pooled depository account and provide the amount received from the sale in United States dollars to the person or to withdraw the specie or bullion from the depository. The bill requires the treasurer of state to determine the value of a unit of transactional currency whenever transactional currency is issued or redeemed and requires that the value of a unit of transactional currency be equal to the appropriate fraction of a troy ounce of gold or silver at the time of that transaction as published by the approved bullion depository. The bill requires that specie and bullion purchased and deposited into the pooled depository account and money received in exchange for transactional currency or for the sale of specie or bullion in response to a request for redemption be held by the treasurer of state outside the state treasury and provides that it is not available for appropriation by the general assembly. The bill allows the treasurer of state to set a fee for issuing or redeeming transactional currency. The treasurer of state retains the fees to administer the bill and cover costs of industry standard merchant fees, with any excess to be deposited in the general fund of the state. | In Committee |
| HF609 | A bill for an act relating to the use of certain psychoactive substances under the religious freedom restoration Act. | This bill relates to the use of certain psychoactive substances under the religious freedom restoration Act (Code chapter 675). The bill provides that the “exercise of religion” includes the use of psychoactive substances, including but not limited to psilocybin and peyote, in religious or spiritual ceremonies. The bill provides that state action shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, including but not limited to Code chapter 124 concerning controlled substances, unless the government demonstrates that applying the burden to that person’s exercise of religion is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest. | In Committee |
| HF326 | A bill for an act establishing a veterans recovery pilot program and fund for the reimbursement of expenses related to providing hyperbaric oxygen treatment to eligible veterans and making appropriations.(See HF 518.) | This bill establishes a veterans recovery pilot program, administered by the department of veterans affairs for the reimbursement of expenses related to providing hyperbaric oxygen treatment to eligible veterans. New Code section 35E.1 establishes definitions applicable to the new Code chapter, including definitions for “commission”, “department”, “health care practitioner”, “hyperbaric oxygen treatment”, “traumatic brain injury”, “treatment facility”, and “veteran”. Specifically, the bill defines “hyperbaric oxygen treatment” as treatment, including diagnostic testing and other related medical treatments, for diabetic foot ulcers, traumatic brain injury, or post-traumatic stress disorder prescribed by a health care practitioner that utilizes a United States food and drug administration-approved hyperbaric chamber or hyperbaric oxygen device. New Code section 35E.2 establishes the veterans recovery pilot program, subject to sufficient moneys to operate the program, requires the department of veterans affairs to adopt rules to implement and administer the program, and includes a reporting requirement for the department of veterans affairs concerning the operation of the pilot program. New Code section 35E.3 creates a veterans recovery fund in the state treasury under the control of the department of veterans affairs. The new Code section provides that moneys in the fund are appropriated to the department of veterans affairs to be expended for expenses incurred in operating the program and for expenses authorized to be reimbursed for hyperbaric oxygen treatment and any related travel and living expenses incurred by the veteran. The new Code section provides that moneys in the fund shall not revert but shall remain available for use until June 30, 2031. Any moneys remaining in the fund as of June 30, 2031, shall be transferred for deposit in the veterans trust fund. New Code section 35E.4 provides for the process for a treating facility to seek reimbursement from the veterans recovery fund for providing hyperbaric oxygen treatment. The bill provides that a treating facility may submit a proposed treatment plan to the department of veterans affairs and the commission of veterans affairs for their approval. The treatment plan shall include the prescription order for the treatment, information verifying the eligibility of the veteran to receive and the treatment facility to provide the treatment, the estimated costs for providing the treatment and for reimbursing the veteran for any associated travel and living expenses, and any other information required by the department of veterans affairs. The new Code section provides that the treatment plan shall not be approved if sufficient moneys to reimburse the estimated costs are not available in the veterans recovery fund. The new Code section also establishes a process for submitting a modified treatment plan if the estimated costs for providing the treatment are anticipated to exceed the cost estimate in the initial treatment plan. New Code section 35E.5 provides for requirements relative to providing hyperbaric oxygen treatment and provides for the manner in which treatment-related expenses are to be reimbursed. The Code section provides that a treatment facility shall not be reimbursed for providing treatment unless a treatment plan has been approved. If a treatment facility elects to provide hyperbaric oxygen treatment under the pilot program, the facility shall provide the treatment without charge to a veteran and shall submit regular reports to the department of veterans affairs concerning the efficacy of the treatment and whether the treatments have been concluded. The new Code section also provides for a process for a treatment facility and a veteran to receive reimbursement for expenses incurred. The new Code sections require the department of veterans affairs to provide written notification to the treatment facility and veteran after treatment has concluded, which notice shall indicate when any additional requests for reimbursement may be made. Code section 35E.6 provides that the new Code chapter is repealed July 1, 2031. The bill further directs the department of veterans affairs to submit a notice of intended action to the administrative rules coordinator and the administrative code editor not later than January 1, 2026, for the adoption of rules necessary to implement and administer the new Code chapter. | In Committee |
| HF430 | A bill for an act relating to the seizure of firearms without the adjudication of a contested court case, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. | This bill establishes the “Anti-Red Flag Gun Seizure Act” related to the seizure of firearms without the adjudication of a contested court case. For purposes of the bill, “red flag law” is defined as any firearm control law, order, or measure that directs the seizure of any firearm of an individual without the adjudication of a contested court case; or any federal or state rule, statute, or judicial order that prohibits a resident from owning or receiving any firearm, or any order for the removal or surrender of any firearm, unless such resident is convicted of a violent felony or is otherwise disqualified pursuant to Code section 724.8B. The bill provides that any red flag law that directs the confiscation of any firearm from any law-abiding citizen within Iowa will not be enforced within Iowa. The bill prohibits any state agency, political subdivision, or state or local law enforcement agency from receiving any federal funds for the purpose of enforcing any federal law, order, or judicial finding or for the purpose of enforcing any state statute, rule, order, or judicial finding that would have the effect of enforcing a red flag law against a resident. The bill prohibits any person, including a state entity or employee thereof, or political subdivision or employee thereof, from enforcing or attempting to enforce a red flag law regardless of the red flag law’s origin or the authority of the issuing entity, except that this prohibition shall not apply to any agent of the federal government enforcing a federal law or federal order. The bill provides that any political subdivision or state or local law enforcement agency that employs a law enforcement officer that knowingly violates the provisions of the bill is liable to the party against whom a red flag law was enforced and additionally will be subject to a civil penalty of $50,000 per occurrence. In any action brought under the provisions of the bill, a court may order injunctive or other equitable relief, recovery of damages, other legal remedies, and payment of reasonable attorney fees, costs, and expenses of the party. Such relief must not be exclusive and additional relief or remedies may be awarded as otherwise permitted by law. The bill is effective upon enactment. | In Committee |
| HF423 | A bill for an act prohibiting certain actions relating to abortifacient drugs in the state, and providing penalties. | This bill provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, sell, or transfer generic or nongeneric abortifacient drugs in the state. A person who violates the bill is guilty of a class “C” felony. A class “C” felony is punishable by confinement for no more than 10 years and a fine of at least $1,370 but not more than $13,660. The bill shall not be construed to impose civil or criminal liability on a woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted in which an abortifacient drug otherwise prohibited under the bill is used. Additionally, the bill shall not be construed to prohibit the sale, use, prescription, or administration of any contraceptive agent administered prior to conception or before a pregnancy can be confirmed through conventional medical testing. The bill makes a conforming change in the Code to eliminate a reference to an abortifacient drug prohibited under the bill. | In Committee |
| HF429 | A bill for an act relating to circumstances necessary prior to deployment of state military units in active combat or hazardous service related to conflict in a foreign state. | This bill prohibits the army national guard, the air national guard, and the civil air patrol from being released from this state into active combat or into hazardous service relating to an armed conflict in a foreign state unless the United States has officially declared war for the express purpose of repelling an invasion, suppressing an insurrection, or executing the laws of the United States. The bill does not limit the authority of the governor to consent to the deployment of troops for defense support of civil authorities. The bill makes legislative findings related to United States congressional abdication of powers to declare war. | In Committee |
| HF428 | A bill for an act creating the second amendment preservation Act, and providing penalties. | This bill creates the second amendment preservation Act. The bill defines the terms “law-abiding citizen”, “material aid”, “political subdivision”, “public office”, and “public officer”. The bill places a duty on courts and law enforcement agencies of this state to protect the rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms within the borders of this state and to protect these rights from the infringements defined in the bill. The bill holds liable a political subdivision or law enforcement agency that employs a law enforcement officer who acts knowingly to violate the provisions of the bill while acting under color of any state or federal law. The bill also provides that if a political subdivision or law enforcement agency knowingly employs an individual acting or who previously acted as an official, agent, employee, or deputy of the federal government or otherwise acted under the color of federal law within the borders of this state who knowingly enforced, attempted to enforce, participated in, or gave material aid and support to the efforts of another to enforce or attempt to enforce, an infringement identified in the bill, the political subdivision or law enforcement agency is subject to a civil penalty of $50,000 for each such person employed. In an action for injunctive relief, the court may hold a political subdivision or law enforcement agency that is found to have violated the bill responsible for paying reasonable attorney fees and costs. | In Committee |
| HF351 | A bill for an act removing psilocybin and psilocyn from the list of substances classified as schedule I controlled substances under Iowa's uniform controlled substances Act. | This bill removes psilocybin and psilocyn from the list of substances classified as schedule I controlled substances under Iowa’s uniform controlled substances Act (Code chapter 124). Under Code section 124.203, a substance that has a high potential for abuse and has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or lacks accepted safety for use in treatment under medical supervision may be classified as a schedule I controlled substance under Code chapter 124. | In Committee |
| HF280 | A bill for an act relating to the regulation of places and practices of worship by the governor. | This bill prohibits the governor from closing, placing a mandate on, or otherwise regulating a place or practice of worship for any reason, including through the proclamation of a disaster emergency or public health disaster. The bill defines “place of worship” as a building in which an active congregation is devoted to worship. | In Committee |
| HF279 | A bill for an act relating to powers and duties applicable to state of disaster emergencies and public health disasters. | This bill relates to duties and powers relative to emergency situations including a state of disaster emergency and a public health disaster. The bill amends provisions relating to the proclamation of a state of disaster emergency by the governor under Code chapter 29C (emergency management and security). Current law provides that a state of disaster emergency shall continue for 30 days unless terminated or extended by the governor and that the general assembly, by concurrent resolution when in session or through the legislative council by majority vote if not in session, may rescind the proclamation. Under the bill, a state of disaster emergency shall continue for 60 days unless rescinded, extended, or amended by the general assembly, not the governor, and any initial extension of the proclamation by the general assembly shall not exceed 60 days, and any subsequent extension shall not exceed 60-day increments. The bill also provides that if the general assembly is not in session, the legislative council may, by majority vote, rescind, extend, or amend this proclamation only once and the extension shall not exceed 60 days. As described in the bill, a measure dictated in a state of disaster emergency proclamation shall have certain restrictions relating to constitutional rights, religious rights, patient rights, surveillance, health-related profession licensing and prescribing authority, and disease contraction monitoring. The bill amends the duties of the department of health and human services (HHS or the department) relative to a public health disaster under Code chapter 135 (department of health and human services —— public health). The bill provides that the reasonable measures taken by HHS to prevent the transmission of infectious disease and to ensure that all cases of communicable disease are properly identified, controlled, and treated shall not include requiring identification and monitoring of a person at risk of contracting a contagious or infectious disease through contact with a contagious person or requiring a person to comply with such identification and monitoring efforts. The department may recommend, but not order, physical examinations, testing, and the collection of specimens necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of individuals. An affected individual has the ultimate authority to determine whether to submit to the department’s recommendations, and shall not be subject to undue pressure or compulsion to submit. The department may isolate infected individuals who refuse a physical examination or testing and who pose a danger to the public health. The length of isolation shall not exceed the longest usual incubation period for the specific communicable disease. The department may recommend a vaccine approved by the United States food and drug administration as safe and effective, but not vaccinate or order that individuals be vaccinated against an infectious disease or to prevent the spread of communicable or potentially communicable disease. Prior to administration of a vaccine, an adult or the parent or legal representative of a minor receiving the vaccine shall be provided with the federal vaccine information statement and verbally informed of the known and potential benefits and risks of the vaccine. Vaccination shall not be recommended if it is reasonably likely to lead to serious harm. An affected individual has the ultimate authority to determine whether to submit to the recommended vaccination, and shall not be subject to undue pressure or compulsion to submit. The department may isolate infected individuals. The department may recommend, but not treat or order, individuals infected with disease receive treatment or prophylaxis. Treatment or prophylaxis shall not be recommended if the treatment or prophylaxis is reasonably likely to lead to serious harm. The infected individual has the ultimate authority to determine whether to submit to the recommendation, and shall not be subject to undue pressure or compulsion to submit. The department may isolate individuals infected with disease who are unable or unwilling to undergo treatment or prophylaxis. The department may isolate infected individuals or groups of individuals in accordance with Code chapter 139A (communicable and infectious diseases and poisonings) and the subchapter of Code chapter 135 relating to disaster preparedness. The bill requires the department to provide a link on the department’s internet site for qualified individuals to submit evidence-based information regarding a public health emergency or public health disaster and for members of the public to share their experiences. The department shall adopt rules to administer this provision, including the criteria a qualified individual must meet to participate. The bill provides that the type and length of isolation or quarantine imposed for a specific communicable disease shall be in accordance with rules adopted by the department, and that the length of the isolation or quarantine shall not exceed the longest usual incubation period for the specific communicable disease. Under current law, immunization is not required for enrollment in an elementary or secondary school or licensed child care center if a person, or, if the person is a minor, the minor’s parent or guardian, submits an affidavit stating that the immunization conflicts with the tenets and practices of a recognized religious denomination of which the person or the minor’s parent or guardian is an adherent or member. Under the bill, the submitted affidavit shall be accepted if it states the immunization conflicts with the sincerely held religious beliefs of the person or, if the person is a minor, the beliefs of the minor’s parent or guardian. The bill provides that if a child is exempt from vaccination, the exemption applies during times of emergency or epidemic. | In Committee |
| HF164 | A bill for an act relating to state sovereignty. | Under current law, state sovereignty is subject to the United States’ rights to public lands or to an establishment of the national government. This bill modifies the limits of state sovereignty to make state sovereignty subject only to the United States’ rights to public lands or to military and naval establishments. | 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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: Enactment, 07/01/2025 Applicability date: 07/01/2023 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Absent |
| 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: Enactment, 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| SF660 | A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1240.) Contingent effective date, effective 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Yea |
| HF890 | A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, the national board certification pilot project, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and the employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 43.) Effective date: 06/06/202 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF628 | A bill for an act relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund, the primary road fund, and the statutory allocations fund. (Formerly SSB 1219.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF626 | A bill for an act relating to federal moneys and regulations, including the appropriation of federal moneys made available from federal block grants and other nonstate sources, the allocation of portions of federal block grants, the procedures if federal moneys or federal block grants are more or less than anticipated, and the authorization of certain city regulations when required under federal law, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1216.) Effe | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | 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 | Yea |
| SF645 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and the state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and extending the repeal date for the housing renewal pilot program. (Formerly SSB 1236.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| SF646 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection. (Formerly SSB 1230.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | 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–1338 be adopted? | 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–1337 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | 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: Conditional, 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: Conditional, 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment H–1345 be adopted? | 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: Conditional, 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 | 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 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 | 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 bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | 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 rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1324? | 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 bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | 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 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 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 | 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–1305 be adopted? | 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–1304 be adopted? | 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–1303 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HF985 | A bill for an act relating to services provided by the secretary of state, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 198, HSB 17.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1017 | A bill for an act relating to the applicability of actions of certain international organizations.(Formerly HSB 233.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1026 | A bill for an act relating to the adoption tax credit available against the individual income tax, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 965.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1033 | A bill for an act making a rural water district a designated exempt entity for purposes of the sales and use tax.(Formerly HSB 226.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1034 | A bill for an act providing for an individual income tax credit for the purchase of firearm safety devices and including retroactive and other applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 132.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1036 | A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 908, HF 452.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1037 | A bill for an act modifying economic development provisions relating to housing and residential development in urban renewal areas.(Formerly HF 617.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF297 | A bill for an act relating to contracts entered into by state agencies and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1090.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SF314 | A bill for an act relating to the license application form for real estate brokers and salespersons, and brokerage agreement requirements. (Formerly SF 15.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| SF462 | A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1125.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1242? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| SF462 | A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1125.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| SF462 | A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1125.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment H–1242 be adopted? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| HF787 | A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the calculation of the teacher salary supplement district cost per pupil, teacher preparation requirements, out-of-state placement of certain specified students requiring special education, the duties of the department of education, and minimum teacher salaries, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 147.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF933 | A bill for an act relating to pediatric palliative care centers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 267.) Effective date: 05/27/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| SF608 | A bill for an act regulating the marketing of grain, by providing for fees paid by grain dealers and warehouse operators into the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund, and the payment of claims to reimburse sellers and depositors for losses covered by the fund, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1131.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 10/24/2022. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF976 | A bill for an act relating to the administration of the tax by the department of revenue by modifying provisions related to personal income, property, sales and use, motor fuel, and inheritance taxes, changing tax expenditure reviews, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 89.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2024, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF1013 | A bill for an act establishing a partial exemption on property taxes for certain residential properties sold in disaster areas.(Formerly HF 565.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| SF632 | A bill for an act providing for programs and regulations related to agriculture, including crop production, animal health, and agricultural processing, providing for powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, providing fees, and providing penalties. (Formerly SF 522, SSB 1160.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF472 | A bill for an act creating a special motion for expedited relief in actions involving the exercise of the right of freedom of speech and of the press, the right to assemble and petition, and the right of association, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 116.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF644 | A bill for an act relating to the delegation of custodial rights and duties with respect to a child. (Formerly HF 374.) Effective Date: Conditional. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF710 | A bill for an act relating to roofs on private docks and required insurance. (Formerly HSB 163.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF862 | A bill for an act relating to the representation of boards of supervisors and county officials by outside counsel, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 414.) Effective date: 05/19/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| SF565 | A bill for an act providing for the continuation of health insurance in certain circumstances for the surviving spouse and each surviving child of employees of the state of Iowa and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1039.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2024. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF986 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of insurance and financial services, the utilities commission, and the department of transportation, including financial literacy and exploitation, tax confidentiality, health insurance rates, health savings accounts, insurer withdrawals, property insurance, service contracts, the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, and the Iowa cemetery Act, motor vehicle financial liability coverage, and including pen | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1023 | A bill for an act relating to benefits and contributions for members of the Iowa public employees' retirement system who are employed in a protection occupation.(Formerly HF 967, HSB 265.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1022 | A bill for an act exempting the sale of laundry soap or detergent from the sales tax.(Formerly HF 963.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1028 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of management, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 756, HSB 72.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1032 | A bill for an act creating a grocer reinvestment program, a local produce processing grant program, and a grocer reinvestment and local food processing fund under the purview of the economic development authority, and modifying the local food and farm program. (Formerly HF 550, HF 59.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1032 | A bill for an act creating a grocer reinvestment program, a local produce processing grant program, and a grocer reinvestment and local food processing fund under the purview of the economic development authority, and modifying the local food and farm program. (Formerly HF 550, HF 59.) | Shall amendment H–1283 be adopted? | 04/24/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| HF1010 | A bill for an act providing for an annual authorization fee to be collected by the college student aid commission from certain postsecondary educational institutions not subject to registration with the commission.(Formerly HF 772, HSB 48.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Absent |
| HF1007 | A bill for an act relating to the disposition of collected criminal case fines and establishing a victim restitution fund.(Formerly HSB 319.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Absent |
| HF1007 | A bill for an act relating to the disposition of collected criminal case fines and establishing a victim restitution fund.(Formerly HSB 319.) | Shall amendment H–1280 be adopted? | 04/23/2025 | Absent |
| HF1019 | A bill for an act exempting the sale of toilet paper from the sales tax.(Formerly HF 964.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Absent |
| HF1021 | A bill for an act exempting the sale of dietary supplements from the sales tax.(Formerly HF 966.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Absent |
| HF1020 | A bill for an act modifying the child and dependent care credit available against the individual income tax, and including retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 962.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Absent |
| HF1027 | A bill for an act relating to radon by establishing radon mitigation requirements, creating a radon mitigation system tax credit available against the individual and corporate income taxes, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 211.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Absent |
| HF303 | A bill for an act relating to prior authorization and utilization review organizations. (Formerly HSB 19.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| SF288 | A bill for an act relating to students who are pregnant or who recently gave birth who attend state institutions of higher education governed by the board of regents and community colleges. (Formerly SF 12.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1251? | 04/22/2025 | Nay |
| SF288 | A bill for an act relating to students who are pregnant or who recently gave birth who attend state institutions of higher education governed by the board of regents and community colleges. (Formerly SF 12.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| HF516 | A bill for an act relating to medical residency and fellowship positions, including priority for admission to the university of Iowa's colleges of medicine and dentistry, and hospitals and clinics. (Formerly HF 137.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| SF474 | A bill for an act relating to services and support for youth, including treatment, physical assessments, and behavioral health evaluations for youth involved in juvenile delinquency and child in need of assistance proceedings; the licensing and certification of certain residential facilities; the provision of home and community-based services and habilitation services to certain youth by residential programs; administration and supervision of juvenile court services; and the suspension of Hawki | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| HF977 | A bill for an act relating to the expansion of the ground emergency medical transportation program.(Formerly HF 941, HSB 249.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| HF988 | A bill for an act creating a catastrophic savings account and modifying individual income taxes for account holders and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 622, HSB 149.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| HF1002 | A bill for an act authorizing length of service award programs for volunteer fire fighters, volunteer emergency medical care providers, and reserve peace officers, and making appropriations. (Formerly HF 755, HSB 197.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1272? | 04/22/2025 | Nay |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IA | Iowa House District 087 | House | Republican | In Office | 01/01/2023 | |
| IA | Iowa House District 082 | House | Republican | Out of Office | 01/14/2019 | 01/22/2024 |