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Legislator > Lynn Evans
State Senator
Lynn Evans
(R) - Iowa
Iowa Senate District 03
In Office - Started: 01/03/2023
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General Capitol Building Address
1007 E. Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50319
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone: 515-281-3371
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
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| SF81 | A bill for an act relating to paternity and the obligation of parents for support of children. | This bill amends Code chapter 600B (paternity and obligation for support) to allow an alleged father of a child, the child’s mother, or the child to file a complaint to establish paternity of the child and an obligation for support of the child. Under current law, the proceedings under Code chapter 600B may be brought only by the mother, or other interested person, or if the child is or is likely to be a public charge, by the authorities charged with the child’s support. The bill makes conforming changes throughout the Code chapter to provide that the alleged father may also be the complainant or plaintiff. The bill includes an alleged father as a party that may request blood or genetic testing in a proceeding to establish paternity, and provides that a mother or alleged father requesting the testing shall file an affidavit with the court that alleges or denies paternity and contains facts that establish the reasonable possibility that there was, or was not, the requisite sexual contact between the mother and the alleged father. | In Committee |
| SF128 | A bill for an act relating to immunization information requested on a medical examiner report used for investigations. | This bill requires the report used by medical examiners for investigations of infants zero to three years of age shall include a request for information regarding the date and type of the decedent’s last immunization. If the decedent received more than one immunization at the time of the last immunization, the information provided shall include all types of immunizations received. The bill requires the state medical examiner to adopt rules to comply with the bill. | In Committee |
| SF22 | A bill for an act relating to the use of an electronic device in a voice-activated or hands-free mode while driving, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. Effective date: 07/01/2025. | AN ACT RELATING TO THE USE OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE IN A VOICE-ACTIVATED OR HANDS-FREE MODE WHILE DRIVING, PROVIDING PENALTIES, AND MAKING PENALTIES APPLICABLE. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SF57 | A bill for an act requiring the department of health and human services to reimburse a county for the temporary holding of, or confinement of, a sexually violent predator who commits a public offense while subject to an order of civil commitment.(See SF 623.) | This bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to reimburse a county at a rate of $50 per day when a sexually violent predator (SVP) is transferred to the county’s jail after the SVP committed a public offense while subject to an order of civil commitment. If the SVP is subsequently sentenced to confinement at the county jail, HHS must reimburse the jail at a rate of $50 per day for each day the SVP is confined. The bill requires HHS to use funds appropriated to HHS for costs associated with the treatment and commitment of sexually violent predators in the unit located at the state mental health institute at Cherokee, or use funds transferred pursuant to Code section 218.6 for the payment of reimbursements to county jails. | In Committee |
| SF48 | A bill for an act relating to the reporting of serious reportable events, and providing penalties.(See SF 581.) | This bill relates to the reporting of serious reportable events by facilities including hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and pregnancy resource centers. The bill requires each facility to report to the director (director) of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL) the occurrence of an applicable serious reportable event described in the bill as soon as is reasonably and practicably possible, but no later than 15 working days after discovery of the event. Reports shall be filed in a format specified by the director of DIAL and shall identify the facility but shall not include any identifying information for any of the health care professionals, facility employees, or patients involved. Serious reportable events include surgical events, product or device events, patient protection events, care management events, environmental events, potential criminal events, and radiologic events detailed in the bill. The bill requires that following the occurrence of a serious reportable event, a facility shall conduct a root cause analysis of the event and shall either implement a corrective action plan or report to the director any reasons for not taking corrective action. The director shall design the serious reportable event reporting system to allow a facility to file the required reports by electronic means and shall encourage a facility to use the electronic filing option when that option is feasible for the facility. The bill provides that serious reportable events under the bill do not constitute child abuse or dependent adult abuse and are excluded from the child abuse and dependent adult abuse reporting requirements, if the facility makes a determination within 24 hours of discovery of the serious reportable event and files the reports required in a timely fashion. A facility that determines a serious reportable event has occurred must inform persons within the facility who are mandatory reporters of child abuse or dependent adult abuse. A mandatory reporter otherwise required to report child abuse or dependent adult abuse is relieved of the duty to report an event the facility determines to be a serious reportable event. The bill does not affect the protections and immunities applicable to reporting of child abuse and dependent adult abuse. Additionally, if a serious reportable event is reported by a facility, no other state agency or licensing board is required to conduct an investigation of or obtain or create investigative data based upon other reports of the same event. Also, if a facility is required to report a serious reportable event pursuant to another state law that meets the requirements for compliance with the bill, DIAL shall recognize the report in lieu of a report made under the bill if DIAL is provided a copy of the report. Reports of serious reportable events made to the director by a professional licensing board; serious reportable event reports, findings of root cause analyses, and corrective action plans filed by a facility under the bill; and records created or obtained by the director in reviewing or investigating the reports, findings, and corrective action plans are confidential records under Code section 22.7. The director shall establish a serious reportable event reporting system requiring certain information as detailed in the bill. The director shall take action relating to serious reportable events as described in the bill. The director may collaborate with the department of health and human services to administer the director’s duties and responsibilities. The bill requires the boards of medicine, physician assistants, nursing, pharmacy, and podiatry to maintain a record of complaints that come to the attention of the respective board and are determined to qualify as serious reportable events. Within 30 working days of making a determination that an event qualifies as a serious reportable event, the respective board shall forward a report of the event to the director. The director shall then forward the report to the facility named in the report and the facility shall determine whether the event has been previously reported and shall notify the director. The bill requires the director to report the list of serious reportable events to the national quality forum. The director shall monitor amendments to the national quality forum’s list of serious reportable events, monitor efforts in other states, and report any modification to the list to the general assembly. | In Committee |
| SF246 | A bill for an act relating to interest on state moneys invested in depository time certificates of deposit. | Under current law, state moneys invested in a depository time certificate of deposit (CD) must earn interest at no less than the rate established by the treasurer of state for state moneys placed in a time deposit. This bill requires that such a CD interest rate be at least one-half of the effective federal funds rate, as published by the federal reserve bank of New York. By operation of law, this applies to investments in CDs by a public body or officer other than the treasurer of state (Code section 12C.6(3)). | In Committee |
| SF294 | A bill for an act relating to temporary orders of child custody in dissolution proceedings.(See SF 514.) | This bill relates to temporary orders of child custody during dissolution proceedings. The bill provides that unless a rebuttable presumption exists against awarding physical care to one of the parties, the court shall award temporary joint physical care of the child to both parties during the pendency of the custody proceeding. If the court finds, by a preponderance of the evidence, that joint physical care is inappropriate, the court is required to cite the reasons for its decision. | In Committee |
| SJR6 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa by repealing the natural resources and outdoor recreation trust fund, and dedicating a portion of state revenue from sales and use taxes imposed for the benefit of property tax relief. | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa by repealing the natural resources and outdoor recreation trust fund, and dedicating a portion of state revenue from sales and use taxes imposed for the benefit of property tax relief. | In Committee |
| SF366 | A bill for an act requiring school employees to be put on administrative leave in certain specified circumstances.(See SF 518.) | This bill requires school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to immediately place an employee on administrative leave if the employee has a case pending before the board of educational examiners (BOEE) related to the abuse of a child with a finding of probable cause, or if, while employed by the school, the employee was involved in any criminal or civil action in which a court found that the employee was negligent and the school is investigating the employee’s actions. An employee placed on administrative leave pursuant to the bill’s provisions must remain on administrative leave until the case before the BOEE or the school’s investigation is complete. | In Committee |
| SF138 | A bill for an act relating to elective social studies courses emphasizing religious scripture that school districts may offer and teach.(See SF 510.) | This bill directs the state board of education to adopt rules establishing course standards for elective social studies courses on the Hebrew Scriptures or the Old or New Testament of the Bible. The bill authorizes a school district to offer and teach such a course to students in grades 9 through 12 if the district’s school improvement advisory committee recommends, and the board of directors of the school district approves, the course. The purpose of the course must be to provide students with knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, and to familiarize students with the contents, history, literary style and structure, and influence of the Hebrew Scriptures or the Old or New Testament of the Bible. The state board’s rules must include practitioner preparation and professional development requirements for practitioners employed by a school district to teach such a course. Under the bill, the state board and school districts are prohibited from violating any provision of law in complying with the provisions of the bill. A course offered under the bill is subject to federal and state guidelines regarding religious neutrality, and shall recognize and accommodate the diverse religious views, traditions, and the perspectives of students enrolled in the school district. Such a course shall not endorse, favor, promote, or disfavor, or be hostile toward, any particular religion, faith, or nonreligious perspective. If a school improvement advisory committee recommends such a course, the school board must consider the recommendation. To offer and teach such a course, the school board must approve the recommendation by majority vote of its membership. A student enrolled in such a course shall not be required to use a specific translation as the sole text for the Hebrew Scriptures or the Old or New Testament of the Bible. A school improvement advisory committee or the principal of a school offering such a course may authorize the display of historic artifacts, monuments, symbols, and texts, including religious materials, in conjunction with the course if such display is appropriate to the overall educational purpose of the course and does not require a child to read religious books contrary to the wishes of the child’s parent or guardian. Under current law, religious text books such as the Bible, the Torah, and the Koran shall not be excluded from any public school. | In Committee |
| SF321 | A bill for an act prohibiting the expenditure of certain public moneys for dues or membership fees to high school organizations that do not use required enrollment calculations when determining school classifications for extracurricular interscholastic activities. | This bill relates to the expenditure of public moneys for dues or membership fees to high school organizations that do not use required enrollment calculations when determining school classifications for extracurricular interscholastic activities. The bill defines “extracurricular interscholastic activity” as a contest or competition for sports between different schools and outside the regular scope of a school’s curriculum. The bill defines “organization” as a corporation, association, or organization which has as one of its primary purposes the sponsoring or administration of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, but does not include an agency of this state, a public or private school or school board, or an athletic conference or other association whose interscholastic contests or competitions do not include more than 24 schools. The bill prohibits a school district or charter school from expending any moneys to pay dues or membership fees to a high school organization, or be a member of, participate in activities associated with, or receive services from such an organization after January 1, 2027, unless the organization, for the purposes of an extracurricular interscholastic activity, classifies each school participating in an extracurricular interscholastic activity for each school year beginning on or after July 1, 2026, based on enrollment, as adjusted for nonpublic schools that accept payment from an education savings account. Adjusted enrollment is calculated by multiplying the total number of students enrolled in the nonpublic school by 1.5. However, an organization cannot move a nonpublic school up more than one classification. Each nonpublic school must give its enrollment numbers to an organization prior to the beginning of a school calendar. The bill does not apply to eight-person football. For the school year beginning July 1, 2025, the bill provides that an organization may classify schools according to the methodology described in the bill, and school districts, charter schools, and nonpublic schools may expend moneys to pay dues or membership fees to an organization that does so. | In Committee |
| SF365 | A bill for an act providing for a monument to Martin Treptow on the capitol complex grounds. | This bill requires the department of administrative services, in consultation with the capitol planning commission, to authorize the placement of a monument to Martin Treptow on the capitol complex grounds. The bill requires the department to solicit and approve an application for the monument, which must include the poem “My Pledge” by Martin Treptow. If more than one application is submitted, the department, in consultation with the capitol planning commission, shall approve the application that can best meet the requirements for construction and maintenance of the monument. | In Committee |
| SF320 | A bill for an act creating a capital murder offense by establishing the penalty of death for murder in the first degree of a peace officer on duty, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | This bill amends the Iowa criminal code to provide for punishment by death for capital murder committed by a person age 18 or older if the trial jury, or the judge if there is no jury, makes specific findings and if the jury believes the defendant should be put to death in a separate penalty proceeding held after the close of the initial trial proceeding. Under the bill, a death sentence could be imposed if the murder would constitute murder in the first degree. The bill provides that in order to receive a sentence of death, the defendant must be at least 18 years of age at the time the murder in the first degree of a peace officer on duty was committed, must not be mentally ill or intellectually disabled, and must have been a major participant in the commission of the crime or must have shown a manifest indifference to human life. The bill amends Code section 707.2, murder in the first degree, to include when a person intentionally kills a peace officer, with knowledge that the person killed is a peace officer. The bill specifies that the attorney general may prosecute all actions and proceedings involving capital murder, when in the attorney general’s judgment the interest of the state requires the attorney general to intervene on behalf of the county attorney, or upon request by the county attorney. If a person is indigent and is charged with capital murder, payment of costs for two attorneys is authorized. The supreme court is required to establish standards for the competency of counsel in death penalty cases. The state public defender is charged with establishing teams of qualified lead and cocounsel for death penalty cases, as well as conducting or sponsoring specialized training programs for attorneys representing persons who may be executed. If a capital murder case proceeds to trial and a notice of intent to seek the death penalty has been filed, in addition to any other defenses that may be presented to the charge, the defendant may raise the issue of intellectual disability or mental illness during the time of filing pretrial motions. Once the evidence is submitted to the jury, the court will instruct the jury, at the defendant’s request, that in considering whether a sentence of death is justified, the race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, sex, or other protected classes under Code chapter 216 of the defendant or of any victim is not to be considered. The supreme court shall collect evidence relating to whether the death sentences imposed are excessive, disproportionate, or imposed under the influence of prejudice at trial, which will be available to litigants. The sentence of death is imposed only when the trier of fact (the jury or the court if the defendant has waived the right to a jury trial) unanimously answers two questions affirmatively: (1) whether aggravating circumstances established beyond a reasonable doubt outweigh any mitigating circumstances that may exist; and (2) whether the defendant should be sentenced to death. Mitigating factors the trier of fact may consider include the following: the defendant was under the influence of an extreme mental or emotional disturbance; the age of the defendant; the defendant’s ability to appreciate the wrongfulness of the conduct due to mental disease but not to a degree to constitute a defense; the defendant has no significant prior criminal history; the defendant was under extreme duress; the defendant did not directly commit the murder; and the defendant’s character or record or the circumstances of the offense. The sentencing proceeding is conducted separately from the finding of guilt or innocence by the same trier of fact. For the sentencing proceeding, the trier of fact (the jury or the court if the defendant has waived the right to have the jury hear the proceedings) is to weigh any aggravating circumstances established beyond a reasonable doubt by the state against any of the enumerated mitigating circumstances that may be presented by the defendant. Evidence of certain juvenile delinquency adjudications is not admissible in any proceeding to determine the sentence. The supreme court shall automatically review a death penalty sentence. The supreme court shall review the trial and judgment separately from the sentencing proceeding. If the supreme court finds error in the sentencing proceeding, the supreme court may remand the case back to district court for a new sentencing hearing. The bill requires the supreme court to examine whether the sentence is excessive or disproportionate to penalties in similar cases. If affirmed by the supreme court, the penalty would be accomplished by lethal injection. The bill requires the board of corrections to adopt rules pertaining to executions, including rules pertaining to the witnessing of executions. A person who is sentenced to death, but who is pregnant when the warrant of execution is issued, is not to be executed until the person is no longer pregnant. The bill also provides a procedure to stay execution of a condemned inmate who becomes insane after conviction but before execution. An employee of the state shall not be required to perform or assist in any execution and shall not be discriminated against for refusing to participate. The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code section 25B.3. The bill makes inapplicable Code section 25B.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a political subdivision from complying with a state mandate if funding for the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified. Therefore, political subdivisions are required to comply with any state mandate included in the bill. The bill contains severability provisions, takes effect January 1, 2026, and applies only to offenses committed on or after that date. | In Committee |
| SF64 | A bill for an act relating to budget adjustments by school districts affected by a natural disaster. | This bill relates to budget adjustments by school districts affected by a natural disaster. Currently, a school district is eligible for a budget adjustment in an amount equal to the difference between the regular program district cost for the budget year and 101 percent of the regular program district cost for the base year. The bill provides for an additional year of budget adjustment if, during the base year or the budget year preceding the base year, a natural disaster impacts the school district for which a major disaster has been declared to exist by the president of the United States or for which the governor has proclaimed a state of disaster emergency. The amount of such additional year of budget adjustment shall be equal to the amount of the school district’s budget adjustment for the base year. | In Committee |
| SF120 | A bill for an act providing an exception to a minor's legal capacity to consent to the provision of medical care or services for a sexually transmitted disease or infection.(See SF 304.) | This bill relates to the legal capacity of a minor to consent to the provision of medical care or services to the minor for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a sexually transmitted disease or infection. Under Code section 139A.35, a minor has the legal capacity to act and give consent to provision of medical care or services to the minor for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a sexually transmitted disease or infection. Under the bill, a minor does not have the legal capacity to consent to the provision of vaccinations for a sexually transmitted disease or infection. | In Committee |
| SF117 | A bill for an act relating to the prescribing, ordering, dispensing, and administering authority of pharmacists and practitioners.(See SF 313.) | This bill relates to the prescribing, ordering, dispensing, and administering authority of practitioners and pharmacists. The bill prohibits the board of pharmacy and any health-related professional board under Code chapter 147 (general provisions, health-related professions) (boards) that license a pharmacist or practitioner and any employer of a pharmacist or practitioner from restricting the prescribing, ordering, dispensing, or administering authority of a pharmacist or practitioner, consistent with the pharmacist’s or practitioner’s scope of practice, in a way that acts as a deterrent for the pharmacist or practitioner to use a medication or treatment in accordance with the pharmacist’s or practitioner’s best professional judgment. The bill also provides that any restriction by an employer of a pharmacist or practitioner that is prohibited under the bill, whether or not documented by the employer as part of a contract, agreement, or employee handbook, by an amendment to any such document, or by any other means, is unenforceable and shall not be the basis for any disciplinary action by the employer. The bill also provides that a pharmacist or practitioner who uses a medication or treatment in accordance with the pharmacist’s or practitioner’s best professional judgment and consistent with the pharmacist’s or practitioner’s scope of practice under the bill, shall not be subject to licensee discipline. Code section 155A.3 defines “pharmacist” as a person licensed by the board of pharmacy to practice pharmacy; and “practitioner” as a physician, dentist, podiatric physician, prescribing psychologist, veterinarian, optometrist, physician assistant, advanced registered nurse practitioner, or other person licensed or registered to prescribe, distribute, or dispense a prescription drug or device in the course of professional practice in this state or a person licensed by another state in a health field in which, under Iowa law, licensees in this state may legally prescribe drugs. | In Committee |
| SF118 | A bill for an act relating to powers and duties applicable to state of disaster emergencies and public health disasters. | This bill relates to duties and powers relative to emergency situations including a state of disaster emergency and a public health disaster. The bill amends provisions relating to the proclamation of a state of disaster emergency by the governor under Code chapter 29C (emergency management and security). Current law provides that a state of disaster emergency shall continue for 30 days unless terminated or extended by the governor and that the general assembly, by concurrent resolution when in session or through the legislative council by majority vote if not in session, may rescind the proclamation. Under the bill, a state of disaster emergency shall continue for 60 days unless rescinded, extended, or amended by the general assembly, not the governor, and any initial extension of the proclamation by the general assembly shall not exceed 60 days, and any subsequent extension shall not exceed 60-day increments. The bill also provides that if the general assembly is not in session, the legislative council may, by majority vote, rescind, extend, or amend this proclamation only once and the extension shall not exceed 60 days. As described in the bill, a measure dictated in a state of disaster emergency proclamation shall have certain restrictions relating to constitutional rights, religious rights, patient rights, surveillance, health-related profession licensing and prescribing authority, and disease contraction monitoring. The bill amends the duties of the department of health and human services (HHS or the department) relative to a public health disaster under Code chapter 135 (department of health and human services —— public health). The bill provides that the reasonable measures taken by HHS to prevent the transmission of infectious disease and to ensure that all cases of communicable disease are properly identified, controlled, and treated shall not include requiring identification and monitoring of a person at risk of contracting a contagious or infectious disease through contact with a contagious person or requiring a person to comply with such identification and monitoring efforts. The department may recommend, but not order, physical examinations, testing, and the collection of specimens necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of individuals. An affected individual has the ultimate authority to determine whether to submit to the department’s recommendations, and shall not be subject to undue pressure or compulsion to submit. The department may isolate infected individuals who refuse a physical examination or testing and who pose a danger to the public health. The length of isolation shall not exceed the longest usual incubation period for the specific communicable disease. The department may recommend a vaccine approved by the United States food and drug administration as safe and effective, but not vaccinate or order that individuals be vaccinated against an infectious disease or to prevent the spread of communicable or potentially communicable disease. Prior to administration of a vaccine, an adult or the parent or legal representative of a minor receiving the vaccine shall be provided with the federal vaccine information statement and verbally informed of the known and potential benefits and risks of the vaccine. Vaccination shall not be recommended if it is reasonably likely to lead to serious harm. An affected individual has the ultimate authority to determine whether to submit to the recommended vaccination, and shall not be subject to undue pressure or compulsion to submit. The department may isolate infected individuals. The department may recommend, but not treat or order, individuals infected with disease receive treatment or prophylaxis. Treatment or prophylaxis shall not be recommended if the treatment or prophylaxis is reasonably likely to lead to serious harm. The infected individual has the ultimate authority to determine whether to submit to the recommendation, and shall not be subject to undue pressure or compulsion to submit. The department may isolate individuals infected with disease who are unable or unwilling to undergo treatment or prophylaxis. The department may isolate infected individuals or groups of individuals in accordance with Code chapter 139A (communicable and infectious diseases and poisonings) and the subchapter of Code chapter 135 relating to disaster preparedness. The bill requires the department to provide a link on the department’s internet site for qualified individuals to submit evidence-based information regarding a public health emergency or public health disaster and for members of the public to share their experiences. The department shall adopt rules to administer this provision, including the criteria a qualified individual must meet to participate. The bill provides that the type and length of isolation or quarantine imposed for a specific communicable disease shall be in accordance with rules adopted by the department, and that the length of the isolation or quarantine shall not exceed the longest usual incubation period for the specific communicable disease. Under current law, immunization is not required for enrollment in an elementary or secondary school or licensed child care center if a person, or, if the person is a minor, the minor’s parent or guardian, submits an affidavit stating that the immunization conflicts with the tenets and practices of a recognized religious denomination of which the person or the minor’s parent or guardian is an adherent or member. Under the bill, the submitted affidavit shall be accepted if it states the immunization conflicts with the sincerely held religious beliefs of the person or, if the person is a minor, the beliefs of the minor’s parent or guardian. The bill provides that if a child is exempt from vaccination, the exemption applies during times of emergency or epidemic. | In Committee |
| SF55 | A bill for an act authorizing the issuance of fire fighter special registration plates for vehicles owned by certain revocable trusts. | Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) is authorized to issue fire fighter special registration plates to an owner who is a current or retired member of a fire department (fire fighter plates). An application for fire fighter plates must be approved by the DOT in consultation with representatives designated by the Iowa fire fighters’ associations. For purposes of Code chapter 321 (motor vehicles and law of the road), “owner” means a person who holds the legal title of a vehicle, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of a security agreement with an immediate right of possession vested in the debtor, then such debtor is deemed the owner. A person is considered to be retired from a fire department if the person is recognized on record, by the chief of the fire department where the individual served, as officially retired from the fire department. This bill authorizes the DOT to issue fire fighter plates to a vehicle owner that is a revocable trust if the grantor is a current or retired member of a fire department. The special fee for fire fighter plates is $25 (plus $5 for personalized plates), in addition to the regular registration fee. The treasurer of state is required to transfer moneys, equal to the amount the road use tax fund receives from special fees for fire fighter plates, each month from the statutory allocations fund to the Paul Ryan memorial fire fighter safety training fund. When used in the bill, “revocable trust” means a trust which provides that the grantor retains the power to amend, modify, or revoke the trust at any time prior to the death of the grantor, regardless of whether, subsequent to the execution of the revocable trust and at any time prior to death, the grantor is legally competent to exercise the power to amend, modify, or revoke the trust and regardless of when the trust is created; and “grantor” means a natural person, other than a nonresident alien as defined under Code section 9H.1, who is the creator of a revocable trust or a trust. | In Committee |
| SF115 | A bill for an act relating to human growth and development course enrollment at school districts and to pupil attendance at educational conferences or seminars in which human growth and development information is provided. | This bill prohibits a school district from enrolling a pupil in a course of instruction in human growth and development, and from facilitating a pupil’s attendance at an educational conference or seminar that includes information on human growth and development, unless the pupil’s parent or guardian files written informed consent with the appropriate principal. The bill also requires the board of directors of a school district to annually provide to a parent or guardian of a pupil enrolled in the district information about human growth and development that may be provided to pupils at an educational conference or seminar for which the school district facilitates pupil attendance. The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code section 25B.3. The bill requires that the state cost of any state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid received by the school district under Code section 257.16. The specification is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state mandate funding-related requirements of Code section 25B.2. The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state mandates included in the bill. | In Committee |
| SF116 | A bill for an act relating to obscenity, including the exposure of a minor to an obscene performance and admittance of a minor to a premises with obscene performances, establishing a private civil cause of action, and providing penalties. | This bill relates to obscenity, including the exposure of a minor to an obscene performance and admittance of a minor to a premises with obscene performances, and establishes a private civil cause of action. The bill defines “obscene performance” as a visual performance by a person, whether compensated or uncompensated, that exposes the person’s genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast, including prosthetics and artificial sexual organs or substitutes therefor, or involves the person engaging in a sex act, masturbation, excretory function, or sadomasochistic abuse, which the average person, viewing the performance as a whole and applying contemporary community standards with respect to what is suitable to be viewed by minors, would find appeals to the prurient interest and is patently offensive, and the performance taken as a whole lacks serious artistic, literary, political, or scientific value. The bill provides that the office of attorney general or the county attorney of the county in which a violation occurs shall enforce the provisions of Code chapter 728 (obscenity). The bill provides that any person who knowingly exposes a minor to an “obscene performance” is guilty of a public offense and shall upon conviction be guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. The bill provides that a person who knowingly sells, gives, delivers, or provides a minor who is not a child a pass or admits the minor to premises where an obscene performance is performed is guilty of a serious misdemeanor. A person who knowingly sells, gives, delivers, or provides a child a pass or admits the minor to premises where an obscene performance is performed is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. A minor is a person under 18 years of age, and a child is a person under 14 years of age. The bill establishes a private civil cause of action for a parent or guardian of a minor, or a minor upon reaching 18 years of age, to whom obscene material has been knowingly disseminated or exhibited, or who was exposed to an obscene performance. A cause of action may be brought against any person that has knowingly disseminated or exhibited obscene material to the minor or who engaged in or caused or allowed a person to knowingly engage in an obscene performance in the presence of the minor for any of the following remedies: a declaratory judgment; injunctive relief; actual, incidental, and consequential damages; punitive damages, if appropriate; and any other equitable relief that the court deems appropriate. The minimum award of damages shall be $10,000. An action may be commenced by a parent or guardian within two years of a violation. An action for a violation brought by a person who was a minor at the time of a violation shall be found within 10 years after the person upon whom the offense is committed attains 18 years of age. The bill provides that no public institution, public facility, public equipment, or other physical asset that is owned, leased, or controlled by this state or a political subdivision of this state shall be used for a show, exhibition, or performance that includes obscene material or obscene performances. No public institution or facility shall lease, sell, or permit the subleasing of its facilities or property for the purpose of shows, exhibitions, or performances that include obscene material or obscene performances. No public funds made available by the state or a political subdivision of this state that are distributed by an institution, board, commission, department, agency, official, or an employee of the state or political subdivision shall be used for the purpose of shows, exhibitions, or performances that include obscene material or obscene performances. The bill does not apply to obscene materials that are sent or received as part of a law enforcement investigation or are authorized by law to be sent or received. The bill provides that any public officer or employee, or any person acting under color of such office or employment, who knowingly allows a public institution or funds to be used for the purpose of shows, exhibitions, or performances that include obscene material or obscene performances commits a serious misdemeanor. The bill repeals Code section 728.7 (exemptions for public libraries and educational institutions), which provides that nothing in Code chapter 728 prohibits the use of appropriate material for educational purposes in any accredited school, or any public library, or in any educational program in which the minor is participating and nothing in Code chapter 728 prohibits the attendance of minors at an exhibition or display of art works or the use of any materials in any public library. | In Committee |
| SF126 | A bill for an act relating to parole eligibility for a person under the age of twenty convicted of a class "A" felony and making penalties applicable. | This bill relates to parole eligibility for a person under the age of 20 convicted of a class “A” felony. Current law provides that a person under the age of 18 convicted of first degree murder, a class “A” felony, shall receive one of the following sentences: commitment to the department of corrections for the rest of the defendant’s life with no possibility of parole unless the governor commutes the sentence to a term of years; commitment to the department of corrections for the rest of the defendant’s life with the possibility of parole after serving a minimum term of confinement as determined by the court; or commitment to the department of corrections for the rest of the defendant’s life with the possibility of parole. The bill increases the age limit from 18 years to 20 years. Current law provides that a defendant convicted of a class “A” felony, other than murder in the first degree, and who was under the age of 18 at the time the offense was committed shall receive one of the following sentences: commitment to the department of corrections for the rest of the defendant’s life with the possibility of parole after serving a minimum term of confinement as determined by the court; or commitment to the department of corrections for the rest of the defendant’s life with the possibility of parole. The bill increases the age limit from 18 years to 20 years. | In Committee |
| SF112 | A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a transactional currency based on gold and silver held in a bullion depository approved by the treasurer of state, and providing fees. | This bill requires the treasurer of state to issue specie and establish a transactional currency that are usable as legal tender and readily transferable. The bill permits the treasurer of state to contract with a private vendor to perform the treasurer of state’s duties and requires the treasurer of state to exclusively authorize an approved bullion depository as the state’s issuer of specie. The bill requires the treasurer of state to hold all specie and bullion owned or purchased for such purposes in trust for the transactional currency holders and to maintain enough specie or bullion to allow for the redemption of all units of the transactional currency issued. The bill requires the treasurer of state to create an account in the approved bullion depository for all the specie and bullion. Once a person or state pays the treasurer of state for specie or bullion or designates specie or bullion held on account in the depository for being represented by transactional currency and pays a fee, the bill requires the treasurer of state to issue transactional currency to that person or state and to buy specie or bullion in the number of troy ounces of precious metal equal to the number of units of transactional currency issued to the purchaser, deposit the specie or bullion into the pooled depository account for the purchaser, and issue a depository account to the purchaser or update an existing depository account to reflect the purchase. The bill allows a person with transactional currency to redeem the currency for United States dollars, specie, or bullion by presenting the currency to the treasurer of state. To redeem the currency for the person, the bill requires the treasurer of state to sell the equivalent amount of specie or bullion from the pooled depository account and provide the amount received from the sale in United States dollars to the person or to withdraw the specie or bullion from the depository. The bill requires the treasurer of state to determine the value of a unit of transactional currency whenever transactional currency is issued or redeemed and requires that the value of a unit of transactional currency be equal to the appropriate fraction of a troy ounce of gold or silver at the time of that transaction as published by the approved bullion depository. The bill requires that specie and bullion purchased and deposited into the pooled depository account and money received in exchange for transactional currency or for the sale of specie or bullion in response to a request for redemption be held by the treasurer of state outside the state treasury and provides that it is not available for appropriation by the general assembly. The bill allows the treasurer of state to set a fee for issuing or redeeming transactional currency. The treasurer of state retains the fees to administer the bill and cover costs of industry standard merchant fees, with any excess to be deposited in the general fund of the state. | In Committee |
| SF136 | A bill for an act relating to hazardous liquid pipelines, including the establishment of setbacks and safety regulations, specified utility construction project requirements, pipeline project investor disclosures, voluntary easement negotiation requirements, and provisions for land surveys in connection with hazardous liquid pipeline construction projects, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | This bill relates to hazardous liquid pipelines, including the establishment of setbacks and safety regulations, easement requirements for utilities and landowner rights regarding pipeline construction, voluntary easement negotiation requirements, surveys in connection with hazardous liquid pipeline projects, pipeline project investor disclosures, and provisions relating to entry of land. Division I of the bill allows counties to adopt setback and safety requirements for hazardous liquid pipeline projects that exceed the protections afforded in state and federal laws. Division II of the bill provides that the Iowa utilities commission (commission) shall not issue a permit for a liquefied carbon dioxide pipeline until the federal pipeline and hazardous materials safety administration provides new rules updating the safety standards for liquefied carbon dioxide pipelines. The bill also provides that the commission shall not grant a permit to construct a liquefied carbon dioxide pipeline unless the permit is conditioned upon the pipeline company (company) burying the pipeline with at least eight feet of cover to allow for future drainage and obtaining all other applicable permits, including federal and state regulatory permits, state and local highway and road crossing permits, and local zoning permits. The company must release the results of any plume modeling studies upon applying for a permit that vests the company with the power of eminent domain. The bill requires a company seeking to use eminent domain to first acquire at least 90 percent of the affected parcels and 90 percent of the pipeline project’s total distance through voluntary easements or through preexisting easements. The bill prohibits the commission from granting a company the right of eminent domain for an interstate hazardous liquid pipeline project unless the company first acquires all applicable pipeline construction and zoning permits from the other states the project will be constructed in. The bill allows a landowner to file a complaint with the commission and to notify the relevant county board of supervisors of a violation of land restoration standards. The bill expands the meaning of “landowner” under Code section 479B.20 to include a farm tenant. The bill expands damages that constitute compensable loss under Code section 479B.29 to include soil compaction, damage to soil or water conservation structures, and damage to irrigation or drainage systems, and adds “farm tenant” to the definition of “landowner”. The bill expands the claims a landowner can bring and receive compensation for to include any identifiable compensable loss resulting from pipeline activity. A landowner may file an action for relief in small claims or district court against a company for a violation of Code section 479B.29. The bill modifies the definition of damages for purposes of construction damages under Code section 479B.30 to include compensable losses listed under Code section 479B.29. The bill requires a company applying for a permit and negotiating a voluntary easement to first acquire signed, witnessed, and notarized written permission from an affected landowner. Upon consent being granted, a company or company’s agents shall not exceed two communications per month with a landowner unless the landowner waives the restriction through written permission. Violations of the bill shall be reported to the commission, which shall set a public hearing. If the commission finds a violation has occurred, the commission shall fine the company $1,000 per violation and collect and deliver the amount to the affected landowner. The bill provides an affected landowner a cause of action against a company in violation of the provisions of the bill. The bill provides that a company seeking eminent domain rights shall include investor information in the application for a permit submitted to the commission. The permit application shall include the names and home addresses of all planned pipeline investors and the range of planned investment per investor as indicated in the bill. The bill removes a provision allowing a company to enter upon private land for the purpose of surveying and examining the land by giving 10 days’ written notice to a landowner. Division II of the bill takes effect upon enactment. Division II of the bill applies retroactively to all applications for a permit to construct a pipeline pursuant to Code chapter 479B filed with the commission on or after July 1, 2021. Division II of the bill also applies to permits issued by the commission on or after the effective date of the division. | In Committee |
| SF95 | A bill for an act relating to common carriers and including effective date and applicability provisions. | This bill defines a common carrier for purposes of Code chapters 6A (eminent domain law) and 6B (procedure under eminent domain) as a commercial enterprise that transports goods or passengers for hire as a public employment. A carrier that transports hazardous liquid only qualifies as a common carrier if the carrier transports for one or more shippers that are unaffiliated with the carrier and will not sell the hazardous liquid to the carrier. The federal energy regulatory commission’s determination on whether a carrier qualifies as a common carrier is controlling. Under current law, when a property owner or an acquiring agency seeks judicial review of an exercise of eminent domain, an acquiring agency must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the definition of public use, public purpose, or public improvement is met. The bill provides that an acquiring agency seeking to use eminent domain pursuant to a grant under Code chapter 479B (hazardous liquid pipelines and storage facilities) must prove by clear and convincing evidence that the exercise of eminent domain meets the definition of a public use, public purpose, or public improvement. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to condemnation proceedings for which the application is filed on or after the effective date of the bill. | In Committee |
| SF92 | A bill for an act relating to the exercise of eminent domain for the construction of hazardous liquid pipelines and including effective date and applicability provisions. | This bill relates to a utility's right to condemn agricultural land. The bill provides that the construction of hazardous liquid pipelines for the transportation or transmission of liquefied carbon dioxide is not a public use, public purpose, or public improvement for purposes of condemnation of agricultural land by a utility unless the owner of the agricultural land consents to the condemnation. Under current law, a utility is excluded from the requirement to receive the consent of the owner of agricultural land prior to using eminent domain to condemn the agricultural land for private development purposes. The bill defines a utility as a person or business that provides gas, electricity, communications services, water, or sanitary sewage or storm water drainage disposal to the public for compensation, and also includes waterworks, joint water utilities, rural water districts, cooperative water associations, and electric transmission owners primarily providing service to public utilities. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to condemnation proceedings for which the application is filed on or after the effective date of the bill. | In Committee |
| SF3 | A bill for an act designating certain county flood mitigation activities as an essential county purpose. | This bill amends the portion of the definition of “essential county purpose” relating to the protection of property from floodwaters to include the reconnection of floodplains and wetland and oxbow lake restoration. Under Code chapter 331, a county board of supervisors may generally contract indebtedness and approve the issuance of general obligation bonds to carry out an essential county purpose without approval by voters at an election, while the issuance of general obligation bonds to carry out a general county purpose generally requires approval by voters at an election. | In Committee |
| SF74 | A bill for an act repealing provisions for land surveys in connection with hazardous liquid pipeline construction projects and including effective date provisions. | This bill repeals provisions relating to entry for land surveys in connection with hazardous liquid pipeline projects. The bill removes a provision allowing a pipeline company to enter upon private land for the purpose of surveying and examining the land by giving 10 days’ written notice to a landowner. The bill takes effect upon enactment. | In Committee |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
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| HF189 | A bill for an act relating to the eligibility of students enrolled in nonpublic schools to compete in extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or competitions provided by public schools, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 1.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 08/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| HF711 | A bill for an act relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, including establishment training programs, schools of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, and course of study. (Formerly HF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SF607 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | 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–3186 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–3185 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–3184 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| SF612 | A bill for an act relating to state and local taxation and regulations by changing certain tax credits, cigarette and tobacco-related regulations, and certain city budget certification deadlines, providing for penalties, and including retroactive applicability and effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1153.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HF1002 | A bill for an act authorizing length of service award programs for volunteer fire fighters, volunteer emergency medical care providers, and reserve peace officers, and making appropriations. (Formerly HF 755, HSB 197.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF1039 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund and technology reinvestment fund, providing for related matters including county payment for district court furnishings, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 334.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF1038 | A bill for an act relating to the opioid settlement fund, making appropriations and disbursements, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 331.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2024. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HF1049 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, and related provisions and appropriations, including aging and disability services; behavioral health, public health, community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; sex reassignment surgeries or associated procedures; family well-being and protection; state-operat | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF659 | A bill for an act relating to state government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers; authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds; providing for properly related matters including crystalline polymorph psilocybin, medical residency and fellowship positions, state membership in the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, student abuse by school employees, modified supplemental amounts f | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF660 | A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1240.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF660 | A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1240.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HF976 | A bill for an act relating to the administration of the tax by the department of revenue by modifying provisions related to personal income, property, sales and use, motor fuel, and inheritance taxes, changing tax expenditure reviews, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 89.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2024, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | 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 | Yea |
| SF626 | A bill for an act relating to federal moneys and regulations, including the appropriation of federal moneys made available from federal block grants and other nonstate sources, the allocation of portions of federal block grants, the procedures if federal moneys or federal block grants are more or less than anticipated, and the authorization of certain city regulations when required under federal law, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1216.) Effe | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HF1037 | A bill for an act modifying economic development provisions relating to housing and residential development in urban renewal areas.(Formerly HF 617.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | 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 | Yea |
| SF644 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing for properly related matters including indigent defense and representation, the corrections capital reinvestment fund, and a corrections federal receipts fund, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1232.) Effective date: 06/11/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2023. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF648 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch including judicial officer salaries and interpreter or translator fees, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1233.) Effective date: 06/20/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF657 | A bill for an act related to state taxation and finance and other related matters, by creating, modifying, and eliminating tax credits and tax incentive programs, providing for penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1205.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025, 12/31/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2017, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | 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 | Yea |
| 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.) Vetoed 6-11-25. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| 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.) Vetoed 6-11-25. | 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| SF647 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1231.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF856 | A bill for an act prohibiting public entities from engaging in certain activities relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 155.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/09/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SF474 | A bill for an act relating to services and support for youth, including treatment, physical assessments, and behavioral health evaluations for youth involved in juvenile delinquency and child in need of assistance proceedings; the licensing and certification of certain residential facilities; the provision of home and community-based services and habilitation services to certain youth by residential programs; administration and supervision of juvenile court services; and the suspension of Hawki | Shall the bill pass? | 04/29/2025 | 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SF146 | A bill for an act relating to the use or creation of bots to purchase event tickets on the internet, and providing civil penalties. (Formerly SF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/28/2025 | 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 | Yea |
| SF288 | A bill for an act relating to students who are pregnant or who recently gave birth who attend state institutions of higher education governed by the board of regents and community colleges. (Formerly SF 12.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/28/2025 | 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| HF710 | A bill for an act relating to roofs on private docks and required insurance. (Formerly HSB 163.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HF933 | A bill for an act relating to pediatric palliative care centers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 267.) Effective date: 05/27/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SF628 | A bill for an act relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund, the primary road fund, and the statutory allocations fund. (Formerly SSB 1219.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HF644 | A bill for an act relating to the delegation of custodial rights and duties with respect to a child. (Formerly HF 374.) Effective Date: Conditional, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| HF890 | A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, the national board certification pilot project, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and the employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 43.) Effective date: 06/06/202 | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| SF565 | A bill for an act providing for the continuation of health insurance in certain circumstances for the surviving spouse and each surviving child of employees of the state of Iowa and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1039.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2024. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/22/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SF297 | A bill for an act relating to contracts entered into by state agencies and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1090.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/21/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SF301 | A bill for an act relating to county hospital operation of a child care facility. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/21/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SF626 | A bill for an act relating to federal moneys and regulations, including the appropriation of federal moneys made available from federal block grants and other nonstate sources, the allocation of portions of federal block grants, the procedures if federal moneys or federal block grants are more or less than anticipated, and the authorization of certain city regulations when required under federal law, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1216.) Effe | Shall the bill pass? | 04/21/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HF706 | A bill for an act relating to open meetings and open records, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 416.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/17/2025 | Yea |
| HF706 | A bill for an act relating to open meetings and open records, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 416.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment S–3110 be adopted? | 04/17/2025 | Yea |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Iowa Joint Area Education Agency Task Force | 2 | |
| Detail | Iowa Senate Education Committee | Chair | 1 |
| Detail | Iowa Senate Ethics Committee | Vice Chair | 2 |
| Detail | Iowa Senate Government Oversight Committee | Vice Chair | 2 |
| Detail | Iowa Senate Judiciary Committee | 8 | |
| Detail | Iowa Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee | 7 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IA | Iowa Senate District 03 | Senate | Republican | In Office | 01/03/2023 |