State Senator Claire Celsi

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Claire Celsi

(D) - Iowa

Iowa Senate District 16

In Office - Started: 01/03/2023

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1007 E. Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50319

Phone: 515-281-3371

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Bill	Bill Name	Summary	Progress
SF436	A bill for an act removing the maximum annual amount of real estate transfer tax receipts that may be transferred into the housing trust fund.	The housing trust fund (HTF) was established for the development and preservation of affordable housing for low-income people in the state and for the Iowa mortgage help initiative. Each month county recorders remit 82.75 percent of the real estate transfer tax (RETT) receipts to the department of revenue (DOR), and deposit the remaining 17.25 percent of the RETT receipts in the county general fund. Of the RETT receipts transferred to DOR, DOR transfers 65 percent to the state general fund, 30 percent to the HTF, and 5 percent to the shelter assistance fund. Currently, DOR may deposit a maximum of $7 million of RETT receipts into the HTF per year. Any amounts in excess of $7 million are deposited into the state general fund. This bill removes the $7 million annual maximum that may be deposited into the HTF. The bill also strikes outdated phase-in language in Code section 428A.8(2).	In Committee
SF526	A bill for an act relating to nursing facility revenue requirements.	This bill relates to nursing facility revenue requirements. Beginning January 1, 2026, the bill prohibits the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL) from approving a new license or renewing a license for a nursing facility unless the nursing facility spends a certain percentage of the nursing facility’s gross revenue for the immediately preceding calendar year on goods and services directly related to resident care as detailed in the bill, and remits the nursing facility’s gross revenue in excess of 105 percent of its expenditures to DIAL. The bill creates an aging Iowans care fund (fund) and requires DIAL to deposit all moneys received under the bill into the fund. The general assembly may appropriate moneys from the fund as the general assembly deems appropriate. The bill allows a nursing facility to apply with DIAL and the office of the long-term care ombudsman (ombudsman) for a waiver of the bill’s requirements due to an unexpected or exceptional circumstance which prevents the nursing facility from complying with the bill (exceptional circumstances). The bill requires DIAL and the ombudsman to make a determination if exceptional circumstances exist as alleged by the nursing facility. If both DIAL and the ombudsman determine exceptional circumstances exist, DIAL must grant the nursing facility a waiver of the bill’s requirements to the extent the exceptional circumstances prevented the nursing facility’s compliance. If DIAL, the ombudsman, or both, determine that exceptional circumstances do not exist, DIAL shall not grant a waiver to the nursing facility. The bill requires DIAL to adopt rules to implement the bill.	In Committee
SF532	A bill for an act relating to health care facilities, providing penalties, making an appropriation, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.	This bill relates to health care facilities and the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL). The bill requires that the administrative rules and standards to be adopted and enforced by DIAL as part of the rule relating to equipment essential to the health and welfare of the resident, require a facility that receives state funding annually adopt and provide to the department the facility’s policies regarding competitive procurement for supplies and equipment. Additionally, the rules and standards shall include policies and procedures regarding the use of arbitration agreements. Specifically, the rules shall prohibit any facility that accepts state funding from offering a resident, or requiring a resident to sign, an arbitration agreement that limits the resident’s inalienable right to seek full judicial review of a dispute as a precondition for being admitted to the facility. The bill requires that, on average, DIAL perform at least one general unannounced inspection of a health care facility within a 12-month period not to exceed a period of 15 months, rather than the current 30-month period. The bill increases the monetary amount for the bottom of the range of the penalty for a class I violation by a health care facility from $2,000 to $5,000, and maintains the upper part of the range at $10,000. The bill also increases the penalty for repeated class I violations in a 12-month period for which a penalty is assessed by quadrupling rather than tripling the amount. The bill adds as a class I violation for a health care facility any confirmed instance of a facility retaliating against a resident or employee for filing a complaint or otherwise cooperating with the department or the office of long-term care ombudsman. The bill amends the required time period within which DIAL must respond upon receipt of a complaint. Under the bill, for nursing facilities, an on-site inspection shall be initiated within one working day rather than the current two working days if a complaint is determined to be an alleged immediate jeopardy situation; and within five rather than the current 10 working days if a complaint is determined to be an alleged high-level, nonimmediate jeopardy situation. Under the bill for all other types of health care facilities, an on-site inspection shall be initiated within one working day rather than two working days if a complaint is determined to be an alleged immediate jeopardy situation; and within five working days rather than 20 working days if a complaint is determined be an alleged high-level, nonimmediate jeopardy situation. The bill provides that a member of the general assembly or an employee of the legislative or executive branch shall not attempt to influence a decision of DIAL during the course of an investigation, inspection, or appeal. An allegation of a violation shall be investigated by the office of ombudsman. If the office of ombudsman determines a violation has occurred, the office shall report the recommendations, including disciplinary action, to an agency. A person who is recommended for disciplinary action for a violation is subject to a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per violation. A civil penalty collected shall be credited to DIAL, considered appropriated receipts, and used by DIAL to enforce Code chapter 135C. DIAL shall assess the civil penalty for violations committed by an employee of the executive branch, and a civil penalty for violations committed by a member or employee of the general assembly shall be assessed pursuant to a resolution or by the legislative council if the general assembly is not in session at the time a recommendation is received from the office of ombudsman. The bill amends the appropriation for FY 2023-2024 to DIAL for health facilities to provide for an increase of $600,000 and 30.00 additional full-time equivalent positions. The appropriated funds, in addition to the federal matching funds, shall be used for additional nursing facility inspectors and assisted living program monitors to perform additional safety inspections. This provision takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2023.	In Committee
SF536	A bill for an act relating to the office of long-term care ombudsman and making an appropriation.	This bill relates the office of long-term care ombudsman and makes an appropriation. The bill appropriates funds from the general fund of the state to the office of long-term care ombudsman for FY 2025-2026 to be used to increase the number of local long-term care ombudsmen. The funding appropriated is in addition to any other funds appropriated from the general fund of the state and any other full-time equivalent positions authorized for local long-term care ombudsmen during the same fiscal year. The funding shall be used to support local ombudsmen in fulfilling their duties including to provide the resources necessary to complete site visits and to carry out other duties to protect and improve the health, safety, welfare, and rights of residents and tenants. The office of long-term care ombudsman shall use the funding to prioritize site visits of nursing facilities that have changed ownership, especially site visits of those that have transitioned to private equity ownership.	In Committee
SF537	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, as applicable, 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 notification to the nursing facility; the notification and consent form requirements; the responsibility for costs and installation relating to the electronic monitoring; notice to visitors; prohibited obstruction of electronic monitoring devices; immunity from liability, and licensee discipline; resident protections; and reporting requirements. The bill also directs the department of inspections and appeals 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
SF530	A bill for an act relating to support of direct care services and the direct care workforce, establishing a state minimum hourly wage for direct care workers under the Medicaid program, and including a contingent effective date.	This bill includes measures to support direct care services and the direct care workforce. DIVISION I. Division I of the bill includes provisions relating to support of the direct care workforce. Beginning January 1, 2027, and each odd-numbered year thereafter, Iowa workforce development shall replicate the survey entitled “Direct Care Workers of Iowa 2019 Wage & Benefit Survey”, released in June 2019, to survey wages and benefits for direct care workers, and publish the results of the survey on Iowa workforce development’s internet site no later than December 15. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to review the funding appropriated for the fiscal period beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025, for rebasing of case-mix nursing facilities to identify how the additional funding was utilized, and the extent to which direct care worker wages were increased as a result of the additional funding. HHS must report initial and final findings and recommendations to the governor and the general assembly. HHS is also required to review the outcomes of initiatives funded through the federal American Rescue Plan Act to support the health care workforce and report findings and recommendations to the governor and the general assembly by December 15, 2025. DIVISION II. Division II of the bill requires Medicaid providers to comply with direct care worker minimum wage requirements. The bill provides that notwithstanding Code section 91D.1 (minimum wage requirements —— exceptions), the state hourly wage for an employee employed as a direct care worker, as defined in the bill, by a Medicaid provider shall be at least $15.00 beginning July 1, 2026, and the minimum shall increase by $1.00 per year to at least $20.00 beginning July 1, 2031. The bill does not authorize a Medicaid provider who is paying a direct care worker an hourly wage above the required minimum to decrease the direct care worker’s current hourly wage. On or after July 1, 2032, this state hourly wage shall be increased by a cost-of-living adjustment amount as determined by applying the percent change in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, United States city average, as published annually in October in the federal register by the federal department of labor, bureau of labor statistics. This division of the bill takes effect upon the effective date of an increased appropriation to HHS for the Medicaid program to provide a reimbursement rate increase to Medicaid providers who are subject to payment of the required minimum wage for direct care workers in an amount that offsets the increase in the required minimum wage paid by such Medicaid providers.	In Committee
SF539	A bill for an act relating to oversight for long-term care facilities.	This bill provides for oversight for long-term care facilities (facilities). The bill creates a long-term care facility safety council (safety council) under the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL) to: determine and approve standards for long-term care facilities; conduct informal conferences and reviews of health care facility applicants and licensees that have been issued three or more class I violations (a violation which presents an imminent danger or a substantial probability of death or physical harm to the residents of the facility in which the violation occurs) within a 12-month period for which a penalty was assessed, and of assisted living program applicants or certificate holders that have been issued notice of three violations in a 12-month period which presented imminent danger or a substantial probability of resultant death or physical harm to a tenant and for which a penalty was assessed, and make recommendations to DIAL for departmental action; review and make recommendations to DIAL regarding violations and penalties; make recommendations to DIAL regarding the adoption or amendment of administrative rules; review the operation of long-term care facilities for which the department has referred a complaint received by the department to the office of long-term care ombudsman; receive recommendations from the state long-term care ombudsman and submit an annual report to the general assembly with recommendations for changes in law to better protect residents and tenants, and a summary of recommendations made by long-term care facilities in informal conferences; and review change of ownership applications of previously licensed nursing facilities. The voting members of the safety council include the director of health and human services, or the director’s designee; the state long-term care ombudsman, or the ombudsman’s designee; the director of an area agency on aging, or the director’s designee; the state director of AARP, or the state director’s designee; three public members, appointed by the governor, and subject to confirmation by the senate; and two health care professions, appointed by the governor, and subject to confirmation by the senate. The safety council also includes the director of DIAL, or the director’s designee as a nonvoting member. The members shall annually elect a public member as the chairperson of the council. The safety council shall hold an organizational meeting in July each year and hold other meetings as necessary to enable the safety council to expeditiously discharge its duties. The bill provides that at the time DIAL serves notice on an applicant or licensee of a health care facility for denial, suspension, or revocation of a license, DIAL shall also notify the safety council. The safety council shall hold an informal conference with the applicant or licensee within 10 working days of the mailing or service of notice to review the applicant’s or licensee’s history of violations for which a penalty was assessed, and the response by the applicant or licensee in correcting such violations. Following the informal conference and review, the council shall report its findings to DIAL including recommendations for departmental action, in accordance with which DIAL shall proceed. A facility may subsequently request a formal hearing. The bill also requires that at the time DIAL effects delivery of notice on an assisted living program applicant or certificate holder, based on the assisted living program having been issued notice of three violations in a 12-month period which presented imminent danger or a substantial probability of resultant death or physical harm to a tenant, and for which a penalty was assessed, DIAL shall also notify the long-term care facility safety council. As with health care facilities, the safety council shall hold an informal conference with the applicant or certificate holder within 10 working days of the mailing or service of notice to review the applicant’s or certificate holder’s history of violations for which a penalty was assessed, and the response by the applicant or certificate holder in correcting such violations. Following the informal conference and review, the safety council shall report its findings to DIAL, including any recommendations for departmental action, with which DIAL shall proceed. An assisted living program may subsequently request a contested case hearing. The bill also requires DIAL to adopt and enforce administrative rules that set minimum standards for facilities with the approval of the safety council, rather than the approval of the council on health and human services. Additionally, the rules and standards must be formulated in consultation with the state long-term care ombudsman. The bill includes, as a duty of the state long-term care ombudsman, making recommendations to the long-term care facility safety council. The bill requires the long-term care facility safety council to study the feasibility of creating a special focus list for long-term care facilities in the state based on a review of special focus lists in other states, and to submit a report to the general assembly by February 1, 2026, including specific descriptions of successful special focus lists in other states, and recommendations for the creation of a special focus list in Iowa including necessary Code changes and the potential framework for the special focus list.	In Committee
SF535	A bill for an act relating to nursing facility change of ownership applications.	This bill relates to nursing facility (facility) change of ownership applications. The bill requires the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL), during review of an application to change the ownership of a facility, to determine the potential impact on the health, safety, welfare, and rights of the residents, and to ensure that a new owner will guarantee the safety of and attain the highest practicable physical, mental, and social well-being for each resident. The bill requires an applicant for a facility change of ownership (applicant) to provide information and documentation as detailed in the bill to verify the applicant’s financial state and history of compliance with state, federal, and other jurisdictions’ laws and regulations. Under current law, DIAL may require an applicant to create an escrow account sufficient to sustain financial operations of the applicant’s nursing facility for a period of not less than two months. The bill changes this requirement to a period of not less than four months. The bill requires DIAL to review the information provided in an application for change of ownership of a facility to determine whether the terms of the sale or lease of a facility would weaken the facility’s financial state long-term, or present a public health risk. The bill prohibits DIAL from approving to a change of ownership application that DIAL determined would weaken the facility’s financial state long-term, or present a public health risk. The bill requires DIAL, upon completion of a review of a change of ownership application, to publish a report on DIAL’s internet site that explains the rationale for DIAL’s decision. The report must, at a minimum, include a comparative analysis of past decisions.	In Committee
SF533	A bill for an act prohibiting certain changes of ownership of a previously licensed nursing facility.	Under current law, any change in ownership of a previously licensed nursing facility is subject to approval by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL). This bill prohibits DIAL from approving any change of ownership of a nursing facility if the person seeking to obtain ownership is, is owned in majority by, or is an affiliate of, a private equity fund or a real estate investment trust.	In Committee
SF538	A bill for an act establishing a working group on nursing home Medicaid payment recovery following the closure or sale of a nursing home.	This bill establishes a working group on nursing home Medicaid payment recovery (working group). The working group shall review the discrepancy between nursing home residents who are subject to Medicaid estate recovery after receiving care from a nursing home, and nursing homes that are not subjected to Medicaid payment recovery following closure or sale of a nursing home. The working group shall consist of members as detailed in the bill. The department of health and human services shall provide administrative support for the working group and the director of health and human services, or the director’s designee, shall serve as the chairperson for the working group. The working group shall submit a report to the general assembly on or before February 28, 2026, containing recommendations to address potential issues with recovering a portion of Medicaid payments following the sale or closure of a nursing home, and any legislation to provide public accountability following sale or closure of a nursing home. The working group shall dissolve upon the submission of the report to the general assembly and the director of health and human services no later than March 1, 2026.	In Committee
SF534	A bill for an act relating to options for long-term care, and making appropriations.	This bill relates to options for long-term living and funding of long-term care services. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to establish a rate structure for reimbursement of the transportation costs of home health care providers by incorporating an increased reimbursement amount for travel time into the per visit reimbursement. The department shall submit a report of the rate structure and the projected cost of application of the reimbursement rate structure to the governor and the general assembly by December 1, 2025. The bill requires that pursuant to Code section 231.58 (long-term living coordination) and considering the intent of the general assembly for the long-term living system in Iowa pursuant to Code section 231F.1 (intent for Iowa’s long-term living system), including maximizing independence, choice, and dignity for consumers, the director of HHS shall convene a study group that includes members specified in the bill to perform a focused review of the alternatives for long-term living options in the state. The review shall include a survey of existing approaches utilized in other states and innovative approaches to provide Iowans with access to an extensive range of high-quality, affordable, and cost-effective long-term living options. The review shall also consider how the state may assist nursing facilities not at full occupancy by incorporating other sectors. The study group shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the governor and the general assembly by December 15, 2025. The bill provides that for FY 2025-2026, Medicaid reimbursement rates for adult day care providers who provide services to Medicaid home and community-based services waiver recipients shall be increased by 5 percent over the rates in effect on June 30, 2025. The bill makes an appropriation to HHS for FY 2025-2026 from the general fund of the state to be used in collaboration with affected stakeholders to continue to expand the Iowa return to community program. The bill requires HHS to submit to the governor and the general assembly by December 15, 2025, an estimate of the cost to fund an expansion of the Iowa return to community program to provide access to all interested consumers. The bill makes an appropriation to HHS for FY 2025-2026 from the general fund of the state to be used by HHS to employ a statewide dementia care coordinator within HHS to provide coordination services related to statewide dementia care as described in the bill.	In Committee
SF531	A bill for an act relating to nursing facilities and submission of the financial and statistical report.	This bill relates to reimbursable costs submitted by nursing facilities for the financial and statistical report (report). The bill requires the department of health and human services to adopt rules to amend 441 IAC 81.6(11)(o), the reimbursable costs a nursing facility is allowed to submit in the report. A nursing facility shall not include certain expenses in the report that are related to association dues, lobbying costs, retainers, employees, and certain legal fees as detailed in the bill. Certain professional fees and certain legal fees that are directly related to patient-related care may be included in the report as described in the bill.	In Committee
SF528	A bill for an act relating to the personal needs allowance for residents of certain facilities under the Medicaid program, and providing an appropriation.	This bill provides for an increase, from $50 to $85, in the personal needs allowance under Medicaid retained by a person who is a resident of a nursing facility, an intermediate care facility for persons with an intellectual disability, or an intermediate care facility for persons with mental illness, or a person who is a resident of a psychiatric medical institution for children. A resident who has income of less than $85 per month shall receive a supplement from the state as necessary to receive a personal needs allowance of $85. The bill provides for an annual appropriation from the general fund of the state to the department of health and human services an amount sufficient to provide the supplementation specified in the bill.	In Committee
SF529	A bill for an act relating to nursing facilities and cost reports.	This bill relates to cost reports submitted by nursing facilities to the department of health and human services. The bill requires a nursing facility to include in the annual cost report an affidavit signed by the owner or chief executive officer of the nursing facility stating that the costs in the report are accurate and that the Medicaid claims have been submitted in good faith.	In Committee
SF527	A bill for an act relating to nursing facility staffing requirements.	This bill relates to nursing facility (facility) staffing requirements. The bill defines “certified nurse aide training program”, “nurse aide”, “physician”, “registered nurse”, “resident assessment”, and “resident care plan”. The bill requires facilities to have sufficient staff with the appropriate competencies and skill sets to provide nursing care and related services to ensure resident safety and attain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident, as determined by resident assessments and individual resident care plans and considering the number, acuity, and diagnoses of the nursing facility’s residents. The bill requires facilities to provide nursing care on a 24-hour basis to all residents in accordance with each resident care plan. The bill details the types of employees and types of care a facility must provide. The bill requires facilities to provide a minimum of 3.48 hours per resident per day for total nurse staffing, including a minimum of 0.55 hours per resident per day for registered nurses and a minimum of 2.45 hours per resident per day for nurse aides. The minimum hours requirements are not to be construed as setting minimum staffing levels. The bill requires facilities to have a registered nurse on site 24 hours per day that is available to provide direct resident care. If the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL) waives the requirement for an on-site registered nurse for a facility, the facility must have a registered nurse, physician assistant, or physician available to respond immediately to telephone calls from the facility. The bill requires facilities to designate a registered nurse to serve as the director of nursing on a full-time basis. The director of nursing may serve as a charge nurse only when the nursing facility has an average daily occupancy of 60 or fewer residents. The bill requires facilities to employ or contract with at least one physician that will evaluate each resident for wounds and infections on a weekly basis. The physician shall treat or recommend a treatment for each of a resident’s identified wounds and infections. The bill requires facilities to ensure that nurse aides are able to demonstrate competency in skills and techniques necessary to care for residents’ needs as identified through resident assessments and described in each resident care plan. Before employing an individual as a nurse aide, a facility must verify that the individual has met competency evaluation requirements unless the individual is a full-time employee in a training and competency evaluation program, or the individual can prove that they recently completed a certified nurse aide training program and have not yet been included in DIAL’s nurse aide registry. The facility must ensure that the individual actually becomes included in the nurse aide registry. Before employing an individual as a nurse aide, the bill requires a facility to obtain information from every state registry established under section 1819(e)(2)(A) or 1919(e)(2)(A) of the federal Social Security Act that the facility has reason to believe will include information on the individual. The bill requires an individual to complete another training and competency evaluation program if the individual has not provided nursing care or related services for monetary compensation for the most recent 24 consecutive months. The bill requires facilities to conduct a performance review of every nurse aide at least once every 12 months, and provide regular in-service education based on the outcome of these reviews. In-service training must comply with the requirements of 42 C.F.R. §483.95(g). The bill authorizes DIAL to waive the certain staffing and hours of care per resident per day requirements for a facility if the facility demonstrates certain conditions exist. The bill details a facility’s duties and DIAL’s duties related to such waivers. The bill details when a facility is not eligible for a waiver due to hardship. A facility may apply to extend a waiver due to hardship each time the facility renews its license. All other waivers are subject to DIAL’s annual review. The bill requires facilities to post data detailed in the bill on a daily basis at the beginning of each shift, in a clear and readable format, and in a prominent place readily accessible to residents, staff, and visitors. Facilities must, upon oral or written request, make the data available to the public for review at a reasonable cost. Facilities must maintain the posted data for a minimum of 18 months. The bill directs DIAL to adopt administrative rules to implement the bill.	In Committee
SF485	A bill for an act establishing requirements related to nonpublic schools that receive tuition payments from parents or guardians whose students are participating in the education savings account program.	This bill establishes requirements related to nonpublic schools that receive tuition payments from parents or guardians whose students are participating in the education savings account program. Current Code section 257.11B establishes the education savings account program, which allows for payments to be made to parents and guardians for the payment of qualified educational expenses. Current law defines “qualified educational expenses” to include tuition and fees at a nonpublic school. The bill modifies the definition of “qualified educational expenses” for purposes of the education savings account program to provide that the nonpublic school must adhere to all of the following: the accountability and transparency requirements applicable to the boards of directors of school districts, the data reporting requirements applicable to school districts, the accreditation standards applicable to school districts, and the teacher employment and teacher licensing requirements applicable to school districts. The bill strikes a provision of Code section 257.11B that prohibits the Code section from being construed to authorize the state or any political subdivision of the state to require a nonpublic school to modify the nonpublic school’s educational program in order to receive payment from a parent or guardian using funds from a pupil’s account in the education savings account fund.	In Committee
SF439	A bill for an act allowing cities to certify taxes for a general fund levy for libraries.	2023 Iowa Acts, chapter 71 (HF 718), amended Code section 384.12 (additional taxes) to eliminate several taxes a city may levy subject to voter approval at an election. In lieu thereof, HF 718 allowed cities to levy the same amounts the eliminated taxes could have levied as a part of the general fund levy under Code section 384.1. This bill reestablishes the tax levy for a public library eliminated by HF 718 in an amount not to exceed 27 cents per $1,000. The tax imposed under the bill is subject to the same voter approval and notice requirements that existed prior to the enactment of HF 718.	In Committee
SF438	A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a 988 emergency service fund, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions.	This bill relates to the establishment of a 988 emergency service fund (988 fund). The bill defines “988 service” as a service which provides the user of a public telephone system the ability to reach a suicide and crisis lifeline by dialing or texting the digits 9-8-8, or using an internet site chat function. The bill creates a 988 fund in the state treasury under the control of the department of health and human services (HHS). For FY 2025-2026, and each fiscal year thereafter, the bill transfers $3 million to the 988 fund from the general fund of the state. Moneys in the 988 fund are appropriated to HHS for distribution to persons operating a 988 service in this state in the event that federal funding for 988 services terminates, becomes delayed, or is otherwise impacted in such a way that interrupts 988 service in this state. The bill is effective upon enactment.	In Committee
SF434	A bill for an act relating to the creation of a child care solutions fund, and making an appropriation.	This bill relates to the creation of a child care solutions fund (fund) under the control of the department of health and human services (HHS). The bill defines “child care worker” as a person employed by a child care provider and whose primary duties involve the provision of child care to children in this state. The bill defines “community” as a geographic area designated by HHS. The bill also defines “fund”. The fund consists of moneys appropriated by the general assembly for the purposes detailed in the bill; interest attributable to the investment of moneys in the fund; and moneys from gifts, devises, donations, and grants that are intended to be used for the fund’s purposes. Moneys in the fund are appropriated to HHS for distributions to communities. Distributions must be used to provide a state match of $2 for every $1 of private investment a community obtains to increase the wages of child care workers. The bill requires HHS to establish eligibility requirements for a geographic area to be designated as a community, and for the geographic area to maintain the community designation. HHS must continue to designate communities until the entire geographic area of the state is within a community. The bill requires HHS, on or before January 1 of each year, to submit a report, as detailed in the bill, for the immediately preceding fiscal year to the general assembly relating to the fund, and the impact on communities who received money from the fund. The bill requires HHS to adopt rules to administer the fund. The bill requires HHS to use the moneys in the fund to continue to provide state matching moneys to communities that received funds due to the community’s participation in HHS’s child care wage enhancement project during FY 2024-2025. The bill appropriates $6 million to HHS for FY 2025-2026 for deposit in the fund.	In Committee
SF440	A bill for an act imposing fines for hazardous conditions caused by a person having control over a hazardous substance, providing penalties, and making appropriations.	This bill imposes fines for hazardous conditions caused by a person having control over a hazardous substance. Under current law, a person having control over a hazardous substance is strictly liable for costs and damages resulting from a hazardous condition caused by the person. In addition to the person’s liability under current law, the bill adds a fine in the amount of 10 percent of the total costs and damages. The bill requires moneys collected from the fine to be deposited into the natural resources account of the natural resources and outdoor recreation trust fund and used in a manner permitted for the account. The natural resources account supports the establishment, restoration, or enhancement of state parks, state preserves, state forests, wildlife areas, wildlife habitats, native prairies, and wetlands; wildlife diversity, recreational purposes, technical assistance and financial incentives to private landowners to promote the management of forests, fisheries, wetlands, and wildlife; the improvement of water trails, rivers, and streams; and education and outreach that provide instruction regarding natural history and the outdoors.	In Committee
SF441	A bill for an act relating to the payment of dependent care expenses from campaign funds, and making penalties applicable.	This bill relates to the payment of dependent care expenses with campaign funds. The bill permits a candidate to pay for dependent care expenses using campaign funds if the expense is incurred as a direct result of a campaign activity or official duty if the candidate wins election, the candidate would not have needed the dependent care but for the candidate’s candidacy or election, the payment to the dependent care provider is reasonable, and the dependent care provider is not the spouse or dependent child of the candidate. The bill requires the candidate to keep logs relating to payment for any such services, which shall be provided to the Iowa ethics and campaign disclosure board upon request during the course of an audit. The bill requires the candidate’s committee to preserve a dependent care log for five years following the submission of a report relating to the log, or for three years following the dissolution of the committee. A person who violates a provision of Code chapter 68A is subject to civil penalties imposed by the Iowa ethics and campaign disclosure board, including remedial action, a reprimand, and a civil penalty up to $2,000. In addition, a person who willfully violates a provision of Code chapter 68A is guilty of a serious misdemeanor. A serious misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than one year and a fine of at least $430 but not more than $2,560.	In Committee
SF435	A bill for an act relating to surface water quality by requiring the establishment and maintenance of riparian protection measures, providing for financing, and providing penalties.	GENERAL. This bill amends Code chapter 466B, which provides for a number of programs to protect surface water and provide for flood mitigation and watershed management. The bill creates a new Code subchapter which requires a landowner having an interest in property adjoining a public water source (e.g., a watercourse such as a river, stream, or drainage ditch; or body of water such as a pond, lake, or reservoir) to establish and maintain a riparian protection measure (measure) in compliance with a riparian protection compliance plan (plan). The plan is derived from a riparian protection inventory and map developed by the department of natural resources (DNR). ADMINISTRATION. The plan must be prepared by the landowner and approved by the division of soil conservation and water quality (division) created within the department of agriculture and land stewardship. The division must act in partnership with commissioners of soil and water conservation districts (commissioners), and in cooperation with a number of other government entities, including the state soil conservation and water quality committee, the water resources coordinating council, and DNR. REQUIREMENTS. Under an approved plan, a landowner must establish and maintain a measure which is either a riparian protection buffer consisting of perennial vegetation, or an alternative riparian protection practice (e.g., erosion control practice or soil and water conservation practice) alone or in combination with a modified riparian protection buffer. The landowner must establish and maintain the measure after the division completes a riparian protection inventory and map which identifies the land subject to riparian protection. A landowner may apply for financial assistance to establish a measure under a number of programs, including cost-share moneys awarded under the authority of the division. EXCEPTIONS. The bill creates a number of exceptions that excuse compliance, including if (1) there is only one riparian landowner; (2) other regulations apply, including storm water outlets regulated by DNR, or a conservation program regulated by the federal or state government; (3) the land is covered by another object or structure; (4) the land is used to produce a designated crop; (5) the land is part of an environmentally designated area (e.g., a forest); (6) the land contains unique geological characteristics; or (7) the land is subject to construction. The division may also create other exceptions if it determines that the exception would not interfere with the bill’s purposes. ENFORCEMENT. The division is to take enforcement action against a landowner who violates a term or condition of a plan, unless the division allows the commissioners to take an enforcement action in court for the landowner’s violation of the terms of an administrative order (e.g., for violating the terms of a cost-share agreement). If the division enforces the plan, if must first issue a compliance order listing items that the landowner must complete within a specified time but not more than one year after the compliance order has been issued. The bill also prohibits a landowner or another person from engaging in any work to remove or degrade a riparian protection measure, unless the person has obtained authorization. The bill provides a range of civil penalties based on the number of parcels included in the plan and the period that the violation continues after the compliance order was delivered. The amounts of the civil penalties range from $100 to $500 per parcel.	In Committee
SF414	A bill for an act relating to the review and approval by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing of housing and health care facility acquisitions by private equity firms.	This bill requires the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL) to review any acquisition of housing or health care facilities by a private equity firm. The bill prohibits a private equity firm from completing an acquisition without approval from DIAL and requires a private equity firm to give notice to DIAL of the intended acquisition 60 days before the intended acquisition. The bill prohibits DIAL from approving an acquisition unless DIAL determines that the acquisition is in the public interest, which means the acquisition must not be likely to reduce access to quality, affordable housing or health care services. The bill requires a private equity firm to provide information concerning the acquisition to DIAL upon request. The bill provides that DIAL must post notice of any pending acquisition on DIAL’s internet site and allow for public comment. DIAL may also hold public forums on a pending acquisition. The bill allows DIAL to seek an injunction to enforce the bill’s provisions.	In Committee
SJR8	A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to citizen initiatives to amend the Constitution of the State of Iowa.	A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to citizen initiatives to amend the Constitution of the State of Iowa.	In Committee
SF437	A bill for an act relating to certain persons who leave legislative or executive branch service, including prohibiting certain employment, lobbying activities, and use of influence, and making penalties applicable.	This bill relates to former statewide elected officials, heads and deputy heads of an agency, members of the general assembly, persons who served as an official, employees of a state agency, and legislative employees. Under current law, former statewide elected officials, heads and deputy heads of an agency, and members of the general assembly are prohibited from becoming a lobbyist within two years after the termination of service or employment. The bill also prohibits such persons from directly authorizing or permitting lobbying by another individual as part of such person’s employment. Under current law, a person who has served as an official, state employee of a state agency, member of the general assembly, or legislative employee is prohibited from receiving compensation for any services rendered on behalf of any person, firm, corporation, or association in relation to any case, proceeding, or application with respect to which the person was directly concerned and personally participated within a period of two years after the termination of service or employment. The bill also prohibits such persons from obtaining employment in which the person will take direct advantage, unavailable to others. Such persons are also prohibited from being interested in a contract with Iowa or a political subdivision of Iowa if, during the legislative session in which the person ends service or employment, the contract was authorized by an enacted law or order made by any board of which the person was a member. The bill prohibits a state agency or local government agency from entering into a contract with or taking any action favorably selecting any business or person represented by a person who served as a statewide elected official, the executive or administrative head of an agency of state government, the deputy executive or administrative head of an agency of state government, or a member of the general assembly within the preceding year if the value of the contract or action is over $1,000 and the contract is a direct result of an official act by the person. By operation of law, a person who knowingly and intentionally violates Code section 68B.5A, 68B.7, or 68B.9, including as amended or enacted by the bill, as applicable, is guilty of a serious misdemeanor and may be reprimanded, suspended, or dismissed from the person’s position or otherwise sanctioned. A serious misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than one year and a fine of at least $430 but not more than $2,560.	In Committee
SF419	A bill for an act relating to the regulation of confinement feeding operations, including by providing for partially roofed structures and prohibiting the construction, including expansion, of structures, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.	GENERAL. This bill amends Code chapter 459 (the “Animal Agriculture Compliance Act”) (Code section 459.101) which regulates confinement feeding operations. The bill revises the definition of a confinement feeding operation to include an operation that is partially roofed (amended Code section 459.102(15)). The bill also prohibits the construction, including expansion, of a confinement feeding operation structure. Such a structure includes a confinement building, a manure storage structure, or an egg washwater structure. The bill provides an exception that allows construction if the new structure is part of a small animal feeding operation. The bill does not prohibit a person from completing construction if the person had begun construction prior to the effective date of the bill. BACKGROUND —— ENFORCEMENT AND APPLICABLE CIVIL PENALTIES. Compliance with a statutory regulation under Code chapter 459 includes compliance with a rule adopted by the department of natural resources (Code section 459.103). A person violating air quality regulations under Code chapter 459, subchapter II, is subject to an administrative assessment of a civil penalty of up to $10,000 (Code sections 459.602 and 455B.109). A person violating a water quality regulation under Code chapter 459, subchapter III, is subject to the administrative assessment of a civil penalty of up to $10,000 (Code sections 459.603 and 455B.109) or a judicially assessed civil penalty of up to $5,000 (Code sections 459.603 and 455B.191). EFFECTIVE DATE. The bill takes effect upon enactment.	In Committee
SF417	A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for annual lung cancer screenings for at-risk individuals.	This bill relates to insurance coverage and medical assistance program (Medicaid) coverage for annual lung cancer screenings for at-risk individuals. The bill defines “at-risk individual” as a recipient or covered person 50 years of age or older that either has smoked cigarettes regularly or experienced secondhand smoke regularly, has an immediate family member diagnosed with lung cancer, or has been regularly exposed to asbestos, radon, arsenic, nickel, chromium, tar, or soot in the individual’s home or workplace. The bill defines “lung cancer screening” as a scan of the lungs using low-dose computed tomography. Under the bill, the department of health and human services shall seek any federal waiver necessary for Medicaid to provide coverage for an annual lung cancer screening for at-risk individuals. Contingent on receiving approval of, and effective immediately upon receiving approval of, a federal waiver, Medicaid shall provide coverage for annual lung cancer screenings for at-risk individuals. The bill requires a policy, contract, or plan providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses to provide coverage for an annual lung cancer screening for an at-risk individual. Cost-sharing shall not be imposed by a health carrier for coverage required under the bill. Coverage required under the bill shall not be less favorable than coverage a health carrier offers for screening mammograms. The bill applies to third-party payment providers enumerated in the bill, and the commissioner of insurance may adopt rules to administer the requirements of the bill applying to such third-party payment providers. The bill specifies the types of specialized health-related insurance which are not subject to the coverage requirements of the bill.	In Committee
SF401	A bill for an act relating to the defenses of justification and diminished capacity for certain violent crimes.	This bill specifies that the defenses of justification and diminished capacity are not available when a person who is the subject of a nonviolent sexual advance commits a violent crime or an assault upon another person as the result of that sexual advance or solely as a result of the person’s discovery of, knowledge about, or potential disclosure of the victim’s sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Code section 915.10 defines “violent crime” as a forcible felony, as defined in Code section 702.11, and includes any other felony or aggravated misdemeanor which involved the actual or threatened infliction of physical or emotional injury on one or more persons. Code section 708.1 defines assault. A person commits an assault when, without justification, the person does any of the following: any act which is intended to cause pain or injury to, or which is intended to result in physical contact which will be insulting or offensive to another, coupled with the apparent ability to execute the act; any act which is intended to place another in fear of immediate physical contact which will be painful, injurious, insulting, or offensive, coupled with the apparent ability to execute the act; intentionally points any firearm toward another, or displays in a threatening manner any dangerous weapon toward another; and intentionally points a laser toward a person or aircraft.	In Committee
SF381	A bill for an act relating to youth employment and providing penalties.	This bill relates to youth employment. The bill generally strikes statutory changes made by 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 542, and restores statutory language in effect prior to the enactment of 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 542. The elimination of the work categories of street occupations and migratory labor, a prohibition on persons under 18 years of age working in occupations in establishments where nude or topless dancing is performed, and a prohibition on sexually violent predators or sex offenders employing persons under 18 years of age, enacted by 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 542, are retained. The bill requires a permit for a person under 18 years of age to work in most circumstances and provides procedures relating to such work and such permits under Code chapter 92, the state child labor law. The bill modifies permitted and prohibited work that can be performed by minors at various age levels, as well as hours in which permitted work can be performed. The bill strikes language providing for waiver of civil penalties under Code chapter 92 and a grace period before such penalties can be imposed. The bill strikes exceptions to and limitations on the applicability of certain provisions of Code chapter 92 for certain work-based learning programs. The bill strikes an exceptions to Code chapter 92 for performing in motion pictures, theatrical productions, or musical performances and modifies an exception for modeling. The bill strikes limitations on civil liability for businesses for injury, sickness, or death resulting from student participation in work-based learning programs. The bill provides penalties for certain actions taken in violation of Code chapter 92 to procure employment for oneself or of another person. Under current law, a violation of Code chapter 92 is a serious misdemeanor. A serious misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than one year and a fine of at least $430 but not more than $2,560. Under current law, an employer violating Code chapter 92 is subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000. The bill changes terminology referring to “occupations” to instead refer to “work activities”. The bill strikes language allowing a person 16 to 17 years of age to be employed in the sale or serving of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption under Code section 123.49 in specified circumstances if specified procedures are followed. The bill reflects the transfer of administration of Code chapter 92 from the labor commissioner to the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing by 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 514.	In Committee
SF353	A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance income eligibility requirements, and child care provider reimbursement rates.	This bill relates to the state child care assistance (CCA) program income eligibility requirements and child care provider (provider) reimbursement rates. Under current law, for a child to be eligible for entry into the CCA program, the child’s family must have income below 160 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) applicable to a family’s size for a child needing basic care, or 200 percent of the FPL for a child needing special needs care. The bill increases the CCA program income eligibility limit for children needing basic care to 170 percent of the FPL for FY 2025-2026; 180 percent of the FPL for FY 2026-2027; 190 percent of the FPL for FY 2027-2028; and 200 percent of the FPL on or after July 1, 2028. The bill increases the CCA program income eligibility limit for children needing special needs care to 210 percent of the FPL for FY 2025-2026; 220 percent of the FPL for FY 2026-2027; 230 percent of the FPL for FY 2027-2028; and 240 percent of the FPL on or after July 1, 2028. The reimbursement rates paid to providers under the CCA program are based on statewide reimbursement rate surveys that the department of health and human services (HHS) conducts at least every two years to collect data on providers’ private pay rates. Under current law, CCA reimbursement rates must be set at rates no less than the 65th percentile, but no more than the 80th percentile, of rates child care providers charge private pay customers as reported in the 2020 statewide reimbursement rate survey. The bill requires HHS to base CCA reimbursement rates on the most recently completed statewide reimbursement rate survey.	In Committee
SF352	A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance program benefits.	This bill relates to state child care assistance (CCA) program benefits. Under current law, the CCA program reimburses child care providers (providers) after the department of health and human services (HHS) receives a bill from the provider based on the amount of time a child enrolled in the program actually attended child care with that provider. The bill requires HHS to remit payment to a provider prior to the provider rendering child care to a child enrolled in the CCA program. Payments must be made on a monthly basis and must be based on the amount of hours a child is scheduled to receive child care from the provider and not the number of hours a child actually receives child care services. Any copayment a family participating in the CCA program is required to pay as a condition of participation must be made after the family’s child receives child care. The bill prohibits a child’s CCA benefits from terminating unless HHS sends written notification to the child’s family and the child’s provider explaining the reasons for terminating the child’s benefits, and at least 30 calendar days have passed since the date HHS sent the written notices. The bill temporarily enrolls a child in the CCA program if the child has at least one sibling that is currently enrolled in the CCA program, the provider providing child care to the child’s sibling agreed to provide child care to the child, and the provider notified HHS of the provider’s agreement. HHS must approve a child as temporarily enrolled in the CCA program within one business day of receiving the provider’s notification. HHS must send notification of approval to the provider and the child’s family. The bill provides a temporarily enrolled child’s family 21 calendar days from the date HHS approved the child’s temporary enrollment to submit an application to enroll the child in the CCA program. HHS has five business days from the date HHS receives the application to render a decision. The bill ends a child’s temporary enrollment if the child’s family does not apply for the CCA program within 21 calendar days from the date HHS approves the child’s temporary enrollment or HHS renders a decision on the child’s application for the CCA program. The bill requires HHS to make payment to a provider for child care provided to a temporarily enrolled child within one calendar week of the 21st day after HHS approved the child’s temporary enrollment or when the child’s temporary enrollment ends, whichever is earlier. The bill is not to be construed to require a provider to provide child care to a child prior to HHS approving the child as temporarily enrolled. The bill makes temporarily enrolled children exempt from waiting list requirements for the CCA program.	In Committee
SF357	A bill for an act establishing a neighborhood housing revitalization assistance program within the Iowa finance authority.	This bill requires the Iowa finance authority to establish a neighborhood housing revitalization assistance program for the purpose of providing and fostering lending programs and other services to facilitate targeted neighborhood revitalization in designated urban and rural areas in this state. The bill provides that the program shall include a forgivable loan program for qualifying home improvements, repairs, and renovations for an owner-occupied home. The bill requires the authority to adopt rules governing the loan program. The rules must specify the types of improvements, repairs, and renovation authorized for the program, and the method for determining, if applicable, the portion of a loan that is to be forgiven based on household income. The bill also establishes a neighborhood housing revitalization assistance program fund under the control of the authority. The bill provides that the fund shall consist of any unobligated funds transferred to the fund from a fund described in Code section 15.106A(1)(o), and any other gift, donation, federal or other grant, or appropriation intended to be used for purposes of the fund. The bill provides that all moneys in the fund which remain unexpended or unobligated at the close of a fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available in subsequent fiscal years.	In Committee
SF339	A bill for an act relating to eligibility of pregnant women and infants for the Medicaid program.	This bill amends provisions relating to income eligibility levels for pregnant women and infants under the Medicaid program. Current law provides that an infant or a pregnant woman whose family income is not more than 215 percent of the federal poverty level, if the infant or woman is otherwise eligible, is eligible for Medicaid. The bill amends the income eligibility level to 375 percent. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services (CMS) for approval in accordance with the provisions in federal law to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum eligibility under the Medicaid program to a pregnant woman whose family income while pregnant is at or below 375 percent of the federal poverty level for the household size, beginning January 1, 2026. The bill also requires HHS to submit a children’s health insurance program state plan amendment to CMS to update infant eligibility consistent with the provisions of the bill, beginning January 1, 2026.	In Committee
SF355	A bill for an act relating to overtime pay earned by state employees.	This bill provides that a state employee whose annual salary is under $125,000 and who is not covered by the overtime payment provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act shall be eligible for overtime payment at the rate of one and one-half times the regular rate at which the employee is employed, as though such employee were so covered. The bill provides that salaries for such state employees shall be established on an hourly basis.	In Committee
SF264	A bill for an act relating to prescription drug affordability, including the creation of a prescription drug affordability board.	This bill relates to prescription drug affordability measures, including the creation of a prescription drug affordability board. The bill provides definitions used in the bill. The bill creates the prescription drug affordability board (board) for the purpose of protecting stakeholders within the health care system from the high costs of prescription drug products (product or products). The bill provides for the membership and functioning of the board; the hiring of an executive director and other staff for the board; salaries, per diems, and reimbursement of expenses of the executive director, general counsel, staff, and members; and other provisions that apply to the meetings of the board. The board shall meet in open session at least four times annually to review product information, and may meet in closed session to discuss proprietary data and information. The board shall provide public notice of each board meeting at least two weeks in advance of the meeting, make materials for each meeting available to the public in advance of the meeting, provide an opportunity for public comment at each open meeting of the board, and provide the opportunity for the public to submit written comments on pending decisions of the board. The board may allow expert testimony at its meetings, including when the board meets in closed session. Members of the board shall recuse themselves from decisions related to products if the member, or an immediate family member of the member, has received or could receive certain financial benefits from the work of the board. The bill provides for disclosure of conflicts of interest relative to the work of the board, and prohibits the members of the board, the executive director, the general counsel, board staff, and third-party contractors from accepting certain gifts or donations. The bill provides that, to the extent practicable, the board shall access pricing information for products through various means as described in the bill. The board may enter into a contract with a qualified, independent third party for any service necessary to carry out the powers and duties of the board, and shall adopt rules to administer the bill. The bill requires the board to create a prescription drug affordability stakeholder council (council) to assist the board in making decisions. The council shall consist of 19 members including manufacturers of brand-name and generic prescription drugs, providers that dispense or administer prescription drugs, prescription drug suppliers, and consumers of prescription drugs. Members are appointed by the majority leader of the senate, the minority leader of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the minority leader of the house of representatives, and the governor. The members of the council shall have knowledge in certain areas as specified in the bill. The bill provides for the annual selection of a chairperson and co-chairperson, terms, and reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses of the members. The board is required to identify certain brand-name drugs or biologics, biosimilars, generic drugs, and other products that may create affordability challenges for the state health care system and for patients, including drugs used to address public health emergencies. After identifying the products, the board shall determine whether to conduct an affordability review by seeking council input about the product and considering the average patient cost share of the product. The bill specifies relevant information that may be included in conducting an affordability review. If the board finds that the spending on a product reviewed has led or will lead to an affordability challenge, the board shall submit a report to the general assembly of the board’s findings, including a recommended upper payment limit. The upper pay limit for the product shall be determined by considering the cost of administering the product, the cost of delivering the product to consumers, and other relevant administrative costs related to the product. Any information submitted to the board in accordance with the bill is subject to public inspection only to the extent provided under the state’s open records law. The bill requires the board, on or before December 31, 2025, and annually thereafter, to submit to the general assembly a report that includes price trends for products in the state; and any recommendations regarding further legislation needed to improve prescription drug affordability in the state. On or before July 1, 2026, the board shall submit a report, as described in the bill, to the general assembly on the operation of the generic drug market in the United States.	In Committee
SF209	A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage for prescription insulin drugs.	This bill relates to prescription insulin drugs and coverage by policies, contracts, or plans providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses that provide coverage for prescription drugs. The bill requires a policy, contract, or plan providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses that provides coverage for prescription drugs to cap the total amount of cost-sharing that a covered person is required to pay per prescription filled of an insulin drug to an amount not more than $25 for an up to 31-day supply of at least one type of rapid-acting prescription insulin drugs, short-acting prescription insulin drugs, intermediate-acting prescription insulin drugs, or long-acting prescription insulin drugs. “Prescription insulin drug” is defined in the bill as a prescription drug that contains insulin, is used to treat diabetes, has been prescribed as medically necessary by a covered person’s health care professional, and is a benefit covered by a covered person’s policy, contract, or plan. The bill defines “cost-sharing” as any coverage limit, copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense imposed on a covered person. The bill does not prohibit a policy, contract, or plan providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses from reducing a covered person’s cost-sharing to less than $25 for up to a 31-day supply of a prescription insulin drug. The bill applies to third-party payment provider contracts, policies, or plans delivered, issued for delivery, continued, or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2026, by the third-party payment providers enumerated in the bill. The bill specifies the types of specialized health-related insurance which are not subject to the coverage requirements of the bill. The commissioner of insurance may adopt rules to administer the requirements of the bill.	In Committee
SF183	A bill for an act relating to water quality standards, including by providing for the regulation of animal feeding operations, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable.	BACKGROUND —— STATE LAW. This bill amends provisions regulating animal feeding operations (AFOs) in which agricultural animals are confined and fed and maintained for 45 days or more in any 12-month period, and includes all structures used for the storage of manure from animals in the operation and the discharge of manure or effluent originating from the AFO (Code chapters 459 and 459A). The regulations are administered and enforced by the department of natural resources (DNR) including the environmental protection commission (EPC). State law recognizes several types of AFOs, including confinement feeding operations (CFOs) in which animals are housed (confined) under roof (Code chapter 459). Special provisions govern open feedlots where animals are kept in unroofed or partially roofed structures (Code chapter 459A). In both cases, natural vegetation is not available to feed the animals. In Iowa, a CFO is subject to both air and water protection statutes and rules. Under water quality regulations, the owner or operator of an AFO may be required to obtain authorization from DNR to do business. The authorization takes the form of a construction permit for a CFO (Code section 459.304) or an open feedlot operation (Code section 459A.205) or a manure management plan for a CFO (Code section 459.312) or nutrient management plan for an open feedlot operation (Code section 459A.208). The EPC may by rule require the owner or operator of a CFO to install a water pollution monitoring system as part of an unformed (dirt or clay) manure storage structure (Code section 459.311). The level of regulation sometimes depends upon a formula that calculates the degree to which the AFO presents a threat to water quality measured by: (1) the type of animals maintained and (2) the number of animals maintained. For example, a construction permit is required for a CFO that has an animal unit capacity (AUC) of at least 1,000 animal units (AUs) (Code section 459.303) and each head of butcher or breeding swine weighing more than 55 pounds is assigned a special equivalency factor of 0.4 animal units (Code section 459.102) (0.4 AU x 1,000 AUC = 400 head of such swine). BACKGROUND —— FEDERAL LAW. AFOs are also regulated under federal law by the environmental protection agency (EPA) that administers and enforces the national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) program pursuant to the federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (33 U.S.C. ch. 26, as amended, and 40 C.F.R. pts. 122 and 412). EPA contracts with DNR to administer and enforce the NPDES program. Under the NPDES program, AFOs are referred to as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). A CAFO is classified by its own formula that also factors the type and number of animals kept. The regulations apply to large, medium, and small CAFOs. For example, a small CAFO includes less than 750 head of swine weighing 55 or more pounds, a medium CAFO includes between 750 and 2,499 head, and a large CAFO includes 2,500 or more head. BACKGROUND —— STATE AND FEDERAL REGULATION. The purpose of both state and federal regulation is to prevent manure or effluent from contaminating groundwater and surface water. In compliance with federal law, manure from a CAFO cannot be disposed (discharged) in a manner that will cause surface water or groundwater pollution (Code section 459.311). A CAFO must retain all manure between periods of disposal (i.e., land application). An open feedlot must install structures that filter manure and effluent runoff (Code section 459A.401). However, in all cases involving the treatment of wastewater, and the discharge of manure and effluent originating from an AFO, rules adopted by the EPC can be no more stringent than federal law (Code sections 455B.173, 459.311, and 459A.401). BILL’S PROVISIONS. The bill rewrites the definition of an animal feeding operation based on federal law. It changes the term “medium concentrated animal feeding operation” to “medium animal feeding operation” without changing the meaning. The bill eliminates the provision that prevents EPC rules regulating wastewater, or manure or effluent originating from an AFO, from being more stringent than federal law. The bill provides that statutes regulating AFOs are minimum requirements, and that the EPC is to adopt permitting requirements by rule under the NPDES program, including for those AFOs classified as medium and large CAFOs under federal law. The EPC rules may exceed applicable federal standards applying to a medium or large CAFO. In addition, the owner or operator of a medium or large CAFO must conduct effluent monitoring of pollutants discharged to navigable waters through the groundwater. The owner or operator must report the collected data to DNR which must publish it on its internet site and submit an annual report to the EPA. CIVIL PENALTIES. Compliance with a statutory regulation includes compliance with a rule adopted by DNR (Code section 459.103). A person violating a water quality regulation under Code chapter 459 is subject to the administrative assessment of a civil penalty by DNR of not more than $10,000 or a judicial assessment of a civil penalty of $5,000 (Code sections 455B.109, 455B.191, and 459.603). Currently, a person violating a water quality regulation applying to an open feedlot is subject to the judicially assessed civil penalty (Code section 459A.502). The bill also provides that the person is subject to the administratively assessed civil penalty.	In Committee
SF157	A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year.	This bill provides that the maximum total amount of unemployment benefits payable to an eligible individual during a benefit year shall not exceed 26 times the individual’s weekly benefit amount, rather than 16 times the weekly benefit amount as provided under current law.	In Committee
SF133	A bill for an act relating to the provision of period products.	This bill requires period products to be available at no cost in certain buildings, institutions, and facilities under the control of the state and in schools. The bill requires that the entity with authority over a state building shall ensure period products are available, at no cost, in the restrooms of the state building. The bill requires institutions controlled by the director of the department of health and human services to make period products available, at no cost, to residents or patients of the institutions in locations and as appropriate to the health care needs of the residents or patients, and to staff and the public, in the restrooms of the institutions. The bill requires the superintendent of the school for the deaf to make period products available, at no cost, to students, staff, and the public in the restrooms of school buildings and of each campus building frequented by students, staff, and the public. The bill requires the board of directors of each public school district and the authorities in charge of each nonpublic school to ensure that period products are available, at no cost, to students, staff, and the public in the restrooms of school buildings. Subject to funding appropriated for this purpose, the department of education shall reimburse each public school for the reasonable cost of providing period products. The bill requires the department of corrections to ensure period products are available to offenders committed to the institutions at no cost and in a quantity and as appropriate to the health care needs of the individual offender. The bill also requires the department of corrections to ensure period products are available, at no cost, to staff and the public, in the restrooms of institutions. For the purposes of the bill, “period products” means tampons and period pads for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.	In Committee
SF122	A bill for an act relating to the eligibility of children of a minor parent for the state child care assistance program.	This bill relates to the eligibility of children of a minor parent for the state child care assistance (CCA) program. The bill allows the children of at least one minor parent to be automatically eligible for CCA irrespective of other eligibility requirements. The bill prohibits the department of health and human services from applying waiting list requirements to the children for the purposes of CCA.	In Committee
SF129	A bill for an act relating to the submission and posting of certain hospital policies.	This bill relates to the submission and posting of certain hospital policies. The bill requires a licensed hospital, no later than September 1, 2025, to submit its policies related to nondiscrimination and reproductive health care to the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL). If the hospital provides labor and delivery services, it must also submit its policies related to certain best practices and safety bundles, as described in the bill. The bill defines “reproductive health care”. The bill requires DIAL to post a copy of the policies on DIAL’s internet site and to develop and implement an interactive online tool that allows the public to compare the policies. If a hospital makes a change to a policy, the hospital must submit a copy of the policy to DIAL within 30 calendar days after the hospital approves the alteration. The bill requires a hospital to post a copy of its policies on the hospital’s internet site where the policies are readily accessible to the public without requiring a login credential or otherwise restricting access.	In Committee
SF132	A bill for an act relating to Medicaid coverage of maternity care including doula care.	This bill relates to maternal and child health improvements under the Medicaid program by directing the department of health and human services (HHS) under both fee-for-service and managed care administration of Medicaid to adopt rules pursuant to Code chapter 17A, amend any contract with a managed care organization, and apply for any Medicaid state plan amendment or waiver as may be necessary to provide maternity care including doula care as defined in the bill. The bill provides that HHS, in collaboration with stakeholders, shall establish a certification and participating provider enrollment process for doulas, and a reimbursement rate for doula services.	In Committee
SF99	A bill for an act relating to the regulation of tanning facilities, and making penalties applicable.	This bill prohibits a tanning facility from allowing a person under 18 years of age to use a tanning device. By operation of law, a person who violates the bill is subject to enforcement actions by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, including a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 and an injunction restraining any violation.	In Committee
SF131	A bill for an act relating to evidence-based maternal and infant home visiting services.	This bill requires the department of health and human services to engage in a cross-agency collaboration with the department of education to identify and leverage funding sources and opportunities, including Medicaid, to expand evidence-based home visiting services for women and infants that promote healthy pregnancies, positive birth outcomes, and healthy infant growth and development. The departments shall involve key stakeholders in designing evidence-based home visiting services for women prenatally, throughout the pregnancy, and postpartum, and shall include mental and physical health, social, educational, and other services and interventions. The departments may conduct a feasibility study to consider options to increase Medicaid coverage and funding of evidence-based home visiting services, either through a state plan amendment or waiver. The department of health and human services shall seek federal approval of any Medicaid state plan amendment or waiver necessary to administer the bill. The department of health and human services shall submit a report to the general assembly by July 1, 2026, with the number of individuals who received evidence-based home visiting services as a result of the funding sources and opportunities identified and leveraged.	In Committee
SF134	A bill for an act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and providing civil penalties.	This bill requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth. The bill requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee based on medical conditions related to the employee’s pregnancy or childbirth if the employee requests reasonable accommodations with the advice of the employee’s health care provider. The bill defines “reasonable accommodations” as actions which would permit an employee with a medical condition relating to the employee’s pregnancy or childbirth to perform in a reasonable manner the activities involved in the employee’s specific occupation and include but are not limited to the provision of an accessible worksite, acquisition or modification of equipment, job restructuring, and a modified work schedule. The bill provides that “reasonable accommodations” does not mean any action that would impose an undue hardship on the business of the employer from whom the action is requested. The bill provides that an employer who violates the bill is subject to a civil penalty of up to $750. The director of the Iowa office of civil rights shall adopt rules to enforce the bill and provide exemptions where reasonable. The director or director’s representative upon presenting appropriate credentials to the person in charge may inspect employment records relating to the total number of employees and pregnant employees or employees recovering from childbirth and the services provided to pregnant employees or employees recovering from childbirth, as well as interview an employer, operator, owner, agent, or employee during working hours or at other reasonable times. The bill provides that compliance with minimum standards required by the bill shall not be subject to or considered in collective bargaining.	In Committee
SF147	A bill for an act relating to wage payment collection issues arising between employers and employees, providing penalties and remedies, and including effective date provisions.	This bill relates to the collection of wages from employers by employees under Code chapter 91A, the “Iowa Wage Payment Collection Law”. The bill provides that an employer has the burden to establish that a deduction from employees’ wages is lawful and that the employer must obtain written authorization for the deduction from the employee in advance. The bill removes the requirement that an employer be notified by the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing before the employer is required to fulfill requirements relating to employee wage and benefit information. The bill requires an employer to notify employees in writing whose wages are determined based on a task, piece, mile, or load basis about the method used to calculate wages and when wages are earned. The bill establishes a rebuttable presumption that an employer did not pay the minimum wage if the employer does not maintain proper payroll records. The bill requires an employer to provide to each employee a statement of the employee’s earnings, deductions made, and as applicable the following: for an employee paid hourly, the number of hours worked during the pay period; for an employee paid on a percentage of sales or revenue generated, a list of sales or amount of revenue during the pay period; and for an employee paid based on the number of miles or loads performed, the applicable number performed during the pay period. The bill provides that when any specified violation of Code chapter 91A occurs, even if unintentional, an employer shall be liable for unpaid wages or expenses plus liquidated damages, court costs, and attorney fees incurred in recovering wages. The bill requires the director to employ wage investigators for the enforcement of Code chapter 91A. The bill requires the director, upon the written complaint of the employee involved, to determine whether wages have not been paid and may constitute an enforceable claim. Under current law, making such a determination is discretionary. The bill increases the period after which the director is prohibited from accepting complaints for unpaid wages and liquidated damages to three years from the date the wages became due and payable. Under current law, the period is one year from that date. Prohibitions on retaliatory actions by employers or others are expanded to cover persons other than employees who act under Code chapter 91A with respect to an employee. A 90-day period is established during which any action against an employee or other person is rebuttably presumed to be retaliatory. The bill allows the director or any injured party to maintain a civil action in any court of proper jurisdiction. An employer who retaliates against an employee or other person shall compensate the injured party an amount set by the director or the court, but not less than $150 for each day of the violation. The bill modifies language relating to procedures for the director to impose civil penalties on an employer for violations of Code chapter 91A by making certain actions by the director mandatory. The bill provides that if an employer inadvertently violates the provisions of Code chapter 91A or the rules adopted pursuant to Code chapter 91A, the employer shall not be subject to certain penalty provisions provided in Code chapter 91A if certain conditions are met. The first condition is that the director determines that the violation was inadvertent and that the employer attempted in good faith to comply with the provisions of Code chapter 91A and the rules adopted pursuant to Code chapter 91A. The second condition is that the director, after considering any history of violations by the employer, determines that the violation was isolated in nature. The third condition is that the employer corrects the violation to the satisfaction of the director within 14 days of the occurrence of the violation. The bill prohibits an employer from requiring an individual to be a current employee to be paid an earned commission. The bill stipulates that a provision of Code chapter 91A shall not apply to any employer or employee if such provision would conflict with federal law or regulation. The bill requires the director to provide for the notification of each employer in Iowa of the requirements for employers provided in the bill by September 1, 2025. Such notification shall include suggested forms and procedures that employers may use for purposes of compliance with the notice and recordkeeping requirements of Code chapter 91A as amended by the bill. An employer who violates Code chapter 91A is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $500 per pay period for each violation. The bill, except for the provision providing for notification of employees in Iowa by the director, takes effect January 1, 2026.	In Committee
SF144	A bill for an act relating to the creation of land redevelopment trusts.	This bill provides for the establishment of land redevelopment trusts. Division I of the bill authorizes one or more municipalities to establish a land redevelopment trust as a method to return dilapidated, abandoned, blighted, and tax-delinquent properties in their communities to economically productive status. An established land redevelopment trust is a public agency for the purpose of joint exercise of governmental powers, a governmental body for purposes of public meetings requirements of Code chapter 21, and a government body for purposes of public records requirements of Code chapter 22. Land redevelopment trusts are subject to periodic examination by the auditor of state under Code chapter 11. The bill requires the board of directors of a land redevelopment trust to establish bylaws addressing matters necessary to govern the conduct of the land redevelopment trust. Division I of the bill also grants a land redevelopment trust various powers and duties, including the authority to acquire properties through certain procedures, including the purchase of tax sale certificates and the foreclosure of properties acquired at a tax sale if not redeemed. However, the bill explicitly prohibits a land redevelopment trust from possessing or exercising the power of eminent domain. The bill establishes financing procedures that govern land redevelopment trusts, including allowing to be remitted to the land redevelopment trust up to 75 percent of real property taxes collected on a real property conveyed or leased by a land redevelopment trust that remains after the division of taxes for an urban renewal area and exclusive of any amount levied by a school district for five consecutive years after the property is again put on the tax rolls. The bill requires a land redevelopment trust to submit annual reports to the governing body that created the land redevelopment trust. The bill provides procedures for disposing of property that is acquired by the land redevelopment trust. The bill also provides procedures for dissolving a land redevelopment trust. Division II of the bill creates a land redevelopment trust tax sale procedure, which allows a land redevelopment trust to acquire abandoned, blighted, or dilapidated properties through an exclusive tax sale. In order to acquire property through a land redevelopment trust tax sale, the land redevelopment trust shall file a verified statement identifying the parcels for which the land redevelopment trust intends to purchase the tax sale certificates and shall pay the delinquent total amounts due on each parcel before May 15. Upon timely receipt of the land redevelopment trust’s verified statement and payment, the county treasurer shall remove the identified parcels from the regular annual tax sale and place those parcels in the land redevelopment trust tax sale. The land redevelopment trust tax sale shall occur before a public nuisance tax sale. Division III of the bill makes changes throughout the Code to conform with land redevelopment trust procedures established in division I of the bill.	In Committee
SF124	A bill for an act relating to the issuance of a subpoena or search warrant for menstrual health data.	This bill relates to the issuance of a subpoena or search warrant for menstrual health data. The bill provides that no subpoena shall be issued or served for the purpose of seeking menstrual health data as defined in Code section 808.2(2). Code section 808.2 currently provides that a search warrant may be issued for property which has been obtained in violation of law; for the unlawful possession of property; for property used or possessed to commit a public offense or to conceal an offense from being discovered; or for any other property relevant and material as evidence in a criminal prosecution. The bill provides that no search warrant shall be issued for the search and seizure of menstrual health data stored on a computer, computer network, or other device containing electronic or digital information. The bill defines “menstrual health data” as any information, recorded in any form or medium, that is created or received by an entity that relates to or is used to determine, predict, or estimate the past, present, or future menstrual health or menstrual status of an individual.	In Committee
SF123	A bill for an act relating to funding of approved local preschool programs and including applicability provisions.	The amount of state funding for each school district’s approved local program under Code chapter 256C is determined using a preschool budget enrollment that is equal to 50 percent of the actual enrollment of eligible students in the preschool programming provided by a school district on October 1 of the base year. This bill changes the preschool budget enrollment used to determine funding to an amount equal to 100 percent of the actual enrollment of eligible students in the preschool programming provided by a school district on October 1 of the base year. The bill also modifies the funding calculation for the initial school year for which a school district is approved to participate in the program. The bill applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2026.	In Committee
SF58	A bill for an act relating to school lunch and breakfast programs provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.	This bill relates to school lunch and breakfast programs provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools (schools). For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2026, the bill requires each school to operate a program under which breakfasts and lunches are served to students in attendance at no charge to the student or the student’s family if the student’s family has a family income that is less than or equal to 300 percent of the federal poverty level. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027, the bill requires each school to operate such a program if the student’s family has a family income that is less than or equal to 400 percent of the federal poverty level. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2027, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the bill requires each school to operate such a program regardless of the income of the student’s family. The bill appropriates from the general fund of the state to the department of education an amount necessary to make the payments to schools necessary to cover the costs of providing free school lunches and school breakfasts that are not covered by any Act of Congress and appropriated to the state of Iowa for use in connection with school breakfast or lunch programs. The bill requires the state board of education to adopt rules to administer these provisions. The bill makes conforming changes. The bill takes effect upon enactment.	In Committee
SF130	A bill for an act relating to health insurance coverage for infertility.	This bill relates to health insurance coverage for the diagnosis of and treatment for infertility, and standard fertility preservation services (preservation services). The bill requires a policy, contract, or plan (plan) providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses to provide coverage for the diagnosis of and treatment for infertility, and for preservation services. “Diagnosis of and treatment for infertility”, “infertility”, and “standard fertility preservation services” are defined in the bill. Required coverage includes up to three completed oocyte retrievals with unlimited embryo transfers, using single embryo transfer if recommended and medically appropriate. Coverage of fertility medications shall not be less favorable than coverage for any other prescription medications under the plan. Deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, benefit maximums, waiting periods, or other limitations on coverage for the diagnosis of and treatment for infertility and preservation services shall not be any less favorable than those imposed on benefits for services covered under the plan that are not related to infertility. The bill provides an exception for a religious employer to request an exclusion from the required coverage and requires the religious employer to provide notice to employees of the exclusion. The bill applies to third-party payment provider contracts, policies, or plans delivered, issued for delivery, continued, or renewed in this state on or after July 1, 2025, by the third-party payment providers enumerated in the bill. The bill specifies the types of specialized health-related insurance not subject to the bill. The commissioner of insurance may adopt rules to administer the bill.	In Committee
SJR1	A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to reproductive care.	A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to reproductive care.	In Committee
SF109	A bill for an act relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers.	This bill relates to a family leave and medical leave insurance program (program), administered by the director of the department of workforce development, that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers. An employee is eligible for family leave and medical leave after working for a covered employer, as defined in the bill, for a minimum of 12 consecutive months and a minimum of 1,250 hours during the 12 consecutive-month period immediately preceding the employee’s request for leave. “Family leave” and “medical leave” are defined in the bill. Family leave includes leave to care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition, to bond with a newborn child or adopted or foster child, or for a qualifying exigency for a family member as permitted under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, as amended (FMLA). Medical leave includes leave due to the employee’s own serious health condition. “Serious health condition” is defined in the bill. The bill provides that an eligible employee may not receive more than 12 weeks of family leave, 12 weeks of medical leave, or 16 weeks of combined family and medical leave in a defined consecutive 12-month period. The defined consecutive 12-month period begins on the date of the birth of a child or placement of a child for adoption or foster care with an eligible employee, or on the first date that an eligible employee takes either family leave or medical leave. The minimum duration of leave an eligible employee may take is eight consecutive hours. The bill disqualifies an employee from family leave and medical leave benefits under circumstances detailed in the bill. An employee must provide a minimum of 30 days’ notice to an employer of the employee’s intent to take leave. If circumstances require an employee’s leave to begin in less than 30 days, the employee must give as much notice as is practicable. If an eligible employee requests medical leave or family leave, the employee must make a reasonable effort to schedule their own, or their family member’s, medical treatment to not unduly disrupt the employer’s operations. The bill requires an eligible employee to file a claim for benefits as required by the director. The employee must consent to the disclosure of private or confidential information to and from the department, and the employee’s employer, for administration of the leave. The bill specifies that such information is not a public record pursuant to Code section 22.1. The employee must attest that the employee has provided notice of intent to take leave to the employee’s employer. The employee must also authorize the employee’s, or the employee’s family member’s health care provider, to complete a certification of a serious health condition. The bill provides for a seven-day waiting period before benefits are payable. There is no waiting period for benefits for leave for the birth of a child or placement of a child for adoption or foster care. The basis for the calculation of the amount of a family leave or medical leave benefit is an eligible employee’s weekly earnings as defined in the bill. The weekly leave benefit amount payable to an employee is detailed in the bill. The department must send the first benefit payment to an eligible employee within 10 days after a properly completed weekly claim for benefits is received by the department. If the employee continues to submit a properly completed weekly claim, subsequent payments are to be made at least biweekly. If an employer, or the department, contests an employee’s eligibility, benefit payments may be made on a conditional basis. The employee is required to pay the benefits back if the department later rules that the employee is ineligible for the benefits. The bill provides that the program shall be funded via employee and employer contributions. Beginning on January 1, 2029, and ending on December 31, 2030, the department must assess a covered employer a premium rate of four-tenths of one percent of an employee’s weekly wages, subject to a maximum as determined by the director based on the maximum wages subject to taxation for social security. One-third of the premium is to be used to fund family leave insurance benefits and two-thirds of the premium is to be used to fund medical leave benefits. A covered employer may deduct up to 45 percent of the medical leave premium and 45 percent of the family leave premium from an employee’s wage. The employer must pay the remaining 55 percent of both the medical leave and family leave premiums, and may elect to pay all or any portion of its employees’ share of such premiums. Beginning January 1, 2031, the premium rate shall be calculated by the director based on the family leave and medical leave insurance account balance ratio as of September 30 of the previous calendar year. The premium rate is adjusted based on the balance ratio as detailed in the bill. On September 30 of each year, the bill requires the department to average the number of employees reported by an employer over the last four completed calendar quarters to determine if the employer is a covered employer for the next calendar year. The bill requires a covered employer to collect all assessed premiums and surcharges from the employer’s employees through payroll deduction and to remit all premiums to the department as required by the director. An employer may apply for, and the director must grant, a waiver of premiums for an employee who is located physically outside of the state and not expected to work in the state for 1,250 or more hours in any consecutive 12-month period. If the employee subsequently works 1,250 or more hours within the state, the employer and employee are responsible for all premiums that should have been collected. Self-employed persons may elect to participate in the program as detailed in the bill. An eligible employee who takes family leave or medical leave is entitled to restoration of employment equal to but not greater than that provided by FMLA. The bill provides that if required under FMLA, an employer must maintain any existing health benefits during an employee’s leave. If the employer and employee normally share the cost of such, the employee is responsible for paying the employee’s share of the costs. A covered employer must submit reports as required by the director and maintain employment records for each employee from which the director may obtain information related to an employee’s leave. Such records must be maintained for 10 years. The bill provides that family leave or medical leave shall be in addition to leave required under state or federal law for sickness or temporary disability due to pregnancy or childbirth. The bill requires family leave or medical leave taken under this program to be taken concurrently with leave taken under FMLA. A covered employer may allow an employee to choose to use either accrued sick or vacation benefits, or family leave and medical leave benefits. An employee cannot receive family or medical leave benefits at the same time the employee is receiving state or federal unemployment, workers’ compensation, or disability benefits. The bill prohibits discrimination on the basis of any state or federally protected category. The bill requires the director to administer the program and to provide outreach to ensure that employers and employees are aware of the program and the benefits available under such. The bill provides that a family leave and medical leave insurance account shall be created in the custody of the treasurer of state. The director shall deposit all premiums collected from employers into such account and the account can only be used for the program as authorized by the director. The bill requires the director to adopt rules to implement and administer the provisions of the bill. The director may take any action under the director’s authority to enforce compliance with the bill. The director is required to analyze the funding of the program and the benefits payable from the program’s account. The director shall determine if the premium rates and the benefit levels are appropriate to fully fund and maintain the solvency of the program. The director must submit the findings to the general assembly no later than January 12, 2026.	In Committee
SF101	A bill for an act increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits.	This bill increases the state minimum hourly wage to $15.00 as of July 1, 2025. The bill increases the state minimum hourly wage for employees employed for less than 90 days to $14.10 as of July 1, 2025. The bill also increases the state minimum hourly wage, including the minimum hourly wage established for employees employed for less than 90 days, annually on July 1, beginning July 1, 2026, by the same percentage as the cost-of-living increase, if any, in social security benefits effective as of the previous December, as authorized by the federal social security administration. In no case shall the state hourly wage be decreased.	In Committee
SF66	A bill for an act relating to testimony by certain witnesses by two-way closed-circuit equipment.	This bill relates to testimony by certain witnesses by two-way closed-circuit equipment. The bill provides that upon its own motion or upon motion of any party, a court may protect a minor up to 18 years of age from trauma caused by testifying in the physical presence of the defendant where it would impair the minor’s ability to communicate, by ordering that the testimony of the minor be taken in a room other than the courtroom and be televised by two-way closed-circuit equipment for viewing in the courtroom. Current law does not specify that the closed-circuit equipment be two-way. Upon a finding of necessity, the court may also allow the testimony of a victim or witness with a mental illness, an intellectual disability, or other developmental disability to be taken by two-way closed-circuit equipment regardless of the age of the victim or witness.	In Committee
SF63	A bill for an act relating to the creation of an Iowa cancer research program, and making an appropriation.	This bill relates to the creation of an Iowa cancer research program. The bill appropriates $4 million from the general fund of the state to the department of health and human services (HHS) for FY 2025-2026 to be used by HHS to create an Iowa cancer research program within the division of public health of HHS to support cancer research projects at public institutions of higher education in the state. Of the funds appropriated, $1.25 million is allocated for each of the following: pediatric cancer research, cancer prevention research, and basic cancer research. HHS shall use requests for proposals to select projects at public institutions of higher education located in the state related to each type of research. The bill includes criteria to be used by HHS in selecting individual projects and authorizes HHS to utilize up to 5 percent of the moneys appropriated for administrative costs associated with the Iowa cancer research program.	In Committee

Bill	Bill Name	Motion	Vote Date	Vote
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
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 amendment S–3176 to amendment S–3171 be adopted?	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
HF767	A bill for an act concerning private sector employee drug testing. (Formerly HSB 26.) Effective date: 07/01/2025	Shall the bill pass?	05/14/2025	Absent
HF889	A bill for an act relating to government employee paid leave. (Formerly HSB 78.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	05/14/2025	Absent
HF876	A bill for an act providing for the disclosure of lead service lines in real estate disclosures and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 442.) Effective date: 01/01/2026.	Shall the bill pass?	05/14/2025	Absent
SF593	A bill for an act providing for the preparation and filing of a district parcel record that identifies all parcels contained within a drainage or levee district that is part of a county. (Formerly SSB 1178.) 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	Nay
SF607	A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall amendment S–3186 be adopted?	05/14/2025	Nay
SF607	A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall amendment S–3185 be adopted?	05/14/2025	Yea
SF607	A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall amendment S–3184 be adopted?	05/14/2025	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?	05/14/2025	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: Enactment, 07/01/2025 Applicability date: 01/01/2025	Shall the bill pass?	05/14/2025	Absent
HF979	A bill for an act relating to vehicles operating with a permit for excessive size or weight, and providing fees. (Formerly HF 696, HSB 202.) Effective date: 07/01/2025	Shall the bill pass?	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
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
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?	05/14/2025	Absent
SF654	A bill for an act relating to wildlife, including the treatment of beaver dams, identification for traps, snares, and tree stands, and maximum fur dealer license fees, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SF 260, SSB 1093.)	Shall the bill pass?	05/14/2025	Absent
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?	05/14/2025	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
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
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?	05/13/2025	Yea
HF972	A bill for an act relating to health care including a funding model for the rural health care system; the elimination of several health care-related award, grant, residency, and fellowship programs; establishment of a health care professional incentive program; Medicaid graduate medical education; the health facilities council; and the Iowa health information network, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 754, HSB 191.) Contingent effective date, effective	Shall the bill pass?	05/13/2025	Nay
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?	05/13/2025	Yea
SF615	A bill for an act relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 599, SF 363.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	05/13/2025	Nay
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
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?	05/13/2025	Nay
SF633	A bill for an act relating to forest and fruit-tree reservations by establishing a program fee and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 219.)	Shall the bill pass?	05/13/2025	Nay
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?	05/13/2025	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
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?	05/13/2025	Nay
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?	05/13/2025	Nay
SF657	A bill for an act related to state taxation and finance and other related matters, by creating, modifying, and eliminating tax credits and tax incentive programs, providing for penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1205.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025, 12/31/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2017, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026.	Shall the bill pass?	05/13/2025	Yea
SF412	A bill for an act relating to property law, including rent, rental agreements, notice requirements, and possession of property. (Formerly SSB 1047.)	Shall the bill pass?	05/12/2025	Nay
HF639	A bill for an act relating to hazardous liquid pipelines, including common carrier requirements, proceedings under the Iowa utilities commission, including commission member attendance at hearings and informational meetings, including allowing certain persons to intervene in such proceedings, including sanctions on intervenors in contested cases, and permit, permit renewal, and operation limitations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 240.)	Shall the bill pass?	05/12/2025	Absent
HF639	A bill for an act relating to hazardous liquid pipelines, including common carrier requirements, proceedings under the Iowa utilities commission, including commission member attendance at hearings and informational meetings, including allowing certain persons to intervene in such proceedings, including sanctions on intervenors in contested cases, and permit, permit renewal, and operation limitations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 240.)	Shall amendment S–3165 to amendment S–3064 be adopted?	05/12/2025	Nay
HF711	A bill for an act relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, including establishment training programs, schools of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, and course of study. (Formerly HF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	05/12/2025	Nay
HF975	A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority and the Iowa finance authority including the strategic infrastructure program, brownfield, grayfield, and redevelopment tax credits, community attraction and tourism, vision Iowa, sports tourism marketing, the historic preservation tax credit, homelessness, the title guaranty board, arts and culture, and the Iowa reinvestment Act and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions. (For	Shall the bill pass?	05/12/2025	Nay
HF975	A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority and the Iowa finance authority including the strategic infrastructure program, brownfield, grayfield, and redevelopment tax credits, community attraction and tourism, vision Iowa, sports tourism marketing, the historic preservation tax credit, homelessness, the title guaranty board, arts and culture, and the Iowa reinvestment Act and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions. (For	Shall amendment S–3161 be adopted?	05/12/2025	Yea
HF1025	A bill for an act relating to certain state highways not designated as part of the interstate road system, including the operation of implements of husbandry on such highways, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 394.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	05/12/2025	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 the bill pass?	05/12/2025	Absent
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?	05/12/2025	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?	05/09/2025	Nay
HF297	A bill for an act relating to certain emergency services provided by a city. (Formerly HSB 98.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/29/2025	Yea
HF299	A bill for an act relating to the provision of information relating to immunization exemptions. (Formerly HF 34.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/29/2025	Nay
HF530	A bill for an act authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or an assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons. (Formerly HSB 166.)	Shall the bill pass?	04/29/2025	Nay
SF474	A bill for an act relating to services and support for youth, including treatment, physical assessments, and behavioral health evaluations for youth involved in juvenile delinquency and child in need of assistance proceedings; the licensing and certification of certain residential facilities; the provision of home and community-based services and habilitation services to certain youth by residential programs; administration and supervision of juvenile court services; and the suspension of Hawki	Shall the bill pass?	04/29/2025	Yea
HF865	A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the harassment or bullying of students enrolled in school districts or accredited nonpublic schools. (Formerly HF 149.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/29/2025	Nay
SF616	A bill for an act relating to the rights and obligations of certain state and local government entities in erecting, rebuilding, or repairing partition fences, including the allocation of moneys from accounts in the Iowa resources enhancement and protection fund.(Formerly SF 597, SF 432.)	Shall the bill pass?	04/29/2025	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?	04/29/2025	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?	04/29/2025	Yea
SF106	A bill for an act relating to the conveyance of firearms in or on certain vehicles. Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	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?	04/28/2025	Yea
SF175	A bill for an act incorporating provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth and development and health curricula provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to students enrolled in grades five through twelve. (Formerly SSB 1028.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	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?	04/28/2025	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?	04/28/2025	Yea
SF383	A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, prescription drugs, and pharmacy services administrative organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1074.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 Applicability date: 07/01/2025	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	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 amendment S–3139 to amendment S–3138 be adopted?	04/28/2025	Yea
SF398	A bill for an act relating to closing costs for a debt secured by an interest in land. (Formerly SSB 1103.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	Yea
SF423	A bill for an act relating to deer hunting, including deer depredation and the purchasing of a youth deer hunting license and tag. (Formerly SF 331.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	Yea
SF491	A bill for an act prohibiting the use of remotely piloted aircraft flying over farm property, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 1191.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	Nay
HF885	A bill for an act relating to deer and wild turkey hunting licenses for disabled veterans. (Formerly HF 692.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	Yea
HF835	A bill for an act relating to school personnel training, including by implementing provisions related to emergency care planning, authorizations for assisting, and limitations of liability concerning students with epilepsy or seizure disorder, and requiring the department of education to convene a health care-related training for school personnel work group. (Formerly HF 102.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	Yea
SF573	A bill for an act relating to motor vehicle glass repair, replacement, and insurance, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1192.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	Yea
SF635	A bill for an act relating to the abatement of property taxes owed on property owned by certain volunteer emergency services providers and including effective date and applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 96.)	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	Yea
SF639	A bill for an act creating a specialty business court, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SF 570, SSB 1203.)	Shall the bill pass?	04/28/2025	Yea
HF440	A bill for an act relating to tuition, degree programs, employment, and related matters pertaining to students enrolled at regents institutions. (Formerly HSB 51.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/23/2025	Absent
HF549	A bill for an act relating to the review of an officer-involved shooting case by a county attorney. (Formerly HF 42.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/23/2025	Absent
SF445	A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations a	Shall the bill pass?	04/23/2025	Absent
SF445	A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations a	Shall amendment S–3136 be adopted?	04/23/2025	Absent
SF445	A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations a	Shall amendment S–3135 be adopted?	04/23/2025	Absent
SF445	A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations a	Shall amendment S–3134 be adopted?	04/23/2025	Absent
SF445	A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations a	Shall amendment S–3133 be adopted?	04/23/2025	Absent
HF649	A bill for an act relating to human trafficking including services and prostitution, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 189.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/23/2025	Absent
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?	04/23/2025	Absent
HF793	A bill for an act relating to fire fighter training and certification. (Formerly HF 265.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/23/2025	Absent
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?	04/23/2025	Absent
HF956	A bill for an act relating to judicial branch administration, including judicial officer residency, judicial officer retirement age, remote proceedings, court reporter supervision and duties, and civil pleadings availability, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 259.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/23/2025	Absent
HF994	A bill for an act concerning quarterly reports on and payments of beer barrel and wine gallonage taxes, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 273.) Effective date: 01/01/2026.	Shall the bill pass?	04/23/2025	Absent
SF628	A bill for an act relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund, the primary road fund, and the statutory allocations fund. (Formerly SSB 1219.) Effective date: 07/01/2025	Shall the bill pass?	04/23/2025	Absent
HF117	A bill for an act establishing the national guard service professional qualification scholarship program. (Formerly HSB 3.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/22/2025	Absent
SF233	A bill for an act relating to the right to try Act. (Formerly SF 56.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/22/2025	Absent
SF426	A bill for an act relating to strict liability for a person in control of hazardous substances. (Formerly SSB 1041.)	Shall the bill pass?	04/22/2025	Absent
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?	04/22/2025	Absent
HF890	A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, the national board certification pilot project, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and the employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 43.) Effective date: Enactment	Shall the bill pass?	04/22/2025	Absent
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?	04/22/2025	Absent
HF248	A bill for an act relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 26.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/21/2025	Absent
HF330	A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage for covered individuals for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 5.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 Applicability date: 01/01/2026	Shall the bill pass?	04/21/2025	Absent
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?	04/21/2025	Absent
HF397	A bill for an act relating to the address confidentiality program. (Formerly HSB 74.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/21/2025	Absent
SF301	A bill for an act relating to county hospital operation of a child care facility.	Shall the bill pass?	04/21/2025	Absent
HF615	A bill for an act relating to the offense of intentional misrepresentation of an animal as a service animal or service-animal-in-training. (Formerly HF 244.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/21/2025	Absent
HF640	A bill for an act concerning self-storage facilities, including acceptances and defaults of rental agreements.(Formerly HSB 184.)	Shall the bill pass?	04/21/2025	Absent
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?	04/21/2025	Absent
HF295	A bill for an act relating to accreditation of postsecondary educational institutions, prohibiting adverse action by accrediting agencies against certain postsecondary educational institutions for compliance with state law, providing remedies, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 57.) Effective date: 05/06/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/17/2025	Absent
HF398	A bill for an act relating to the duties of the director of the department of corrections, the board of corrections, superintendents, and district directors. (Formerly HSB 111.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.	Shall the bill pass?	04/17/2025	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?	04/17/2025	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 amendment S–3110 be adopted?	04/17/2025	Absent

	Committee	Position	Rank
Detail	Iowa Senate Government Oversight Committee	Ranking Member	3
Detail	Iowa Senate Health and Human Services Committee		6
Detail	Iowa Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee		5
Detail	Iowa Senate State Government Committee		9
Detail	Iowa Senate Transportation Committee		6
Detail	Iowa Senate Ways and Means Committee		5

State	District	Chamber	Party	Status	Start Date	End Date
IA	Iowa Senate District 16	Senate	Democrat	In Office	01/03/2023
IA	Iowa Senate District 21	Senate	Democrat	Out of Office	01/14/2019	01/16/2024

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