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State Representative
Austin Baeth
(D) - Iowa
Iowa House District 036
In Office - Started: 01/01/2023
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General Capitol Building Address
State Capitol Building
1007 E. Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50319
1007 E. Grand Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone: 515-281-3221
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR16 | A resolution recognizing and commending the National Conference of State Legislatures on its fiftieth anniversary. | A resolution recognizing and commending the National Conference of State Legislatures on its fiftieth anniversary. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HF830 | A bill for an act concerning the wholesale price of alcoholic liquor offered for sale by the department of revenue. | Under current law, the price of alcoholic liquor sold by the department of revenue (department) to class “E” retail alcohol licensees (licensees) consists of, among other things, the manufacturer’s price and a markup of up to 50 percent of the wholesale price paid by the department for the alcoholic liquor. The department is the sole wholesaler of alcoholic liquor sold to licensees located in this state. Licensees are authorized to sell liquor, wine, and beer in original unopened containers at retail to patrons for consumption off the licensed premises. Licensees may also sell alcoholic liquor, high alcoholic content beer, and limited quantities of beer and wine at wholesale to other retail alcohol licensees. This bill provides that if the minimum unit price of the alcoholic liquor is higher than the manufacturer’s price or, for purposes of the 50 percent markup, higher than the wholesale price paid by the department, the minimum unit price is used to calculate the price of the alcoholic liquor sold by the department. The minimum unit price is an amount equal to 50 cents per 18 milliliters of alcohol in the package of alcoholic liquor, as determined by the department. | In Committee |
| HF812 | A bill for an act requesting that the legislative council establish an interim study committee to plan an Iowa education summit to be held in 2026. | This bill requests that the legislative council establish an interim study committee to plan an Iowa education summit to be held in 2026. The bill establishes the specific responsibilities of the interim study committee, which include determining a location, time, date, and agenda for the Iowa education summit; studying and determining the educational leaders and presenters who could speak during the Iowa education summit and provide information related to best practices in education; developing a list of prospective guest speakers and keynote speakers; and studying any other issues that the interim study committee determines are relevant to the planning and execution of the Iowa education summit. The interim study committee is authorized to solicit the advice or testimony of any organization or individual with information or expertise relevant to the purpose of the interim study committee. The bill establishes the membership of the interim study committee. The bill requires the interim study committee to, on or before December 18, 2025, submit a report to the general assembly and the governor that includes a proposed agenda, time, date, and location of the Iowa education summit, and potential guest speakers and keynote speakers for the Iowa education summit. | In Committee |
| HF740 | A bill for an act relating to rent increases under residential landlord and tenant rental agreements and in manufactured home communities and mobile home parks. | This bill limits the amount a landlord can increase rent on current tenants under residential landlord and tenant agreements and in manufactured home communities or mobile home parks. The bill provides that if a landlord applies a rent increase to the dwelling unit or mobile home space of a current tenant, the percentage increase shall not be greater than either three times the percentage increase of the consumer price index for all urban consumers in the midwest region over the previous 12 months or the percentage increase of the property value of the premises or the manufactured home community or mobile home park, respectively, as determined by the county assessor for the same period since the last rent increase, whichever is higher. | In Committee |
| HF685 | A bill for an act relating to state agency contracts involving steel. | This bill requires that a state agency contract involving steel must contain a provision requiring any steel purchased with state moneys or tax credits to be manufactured in the United States. | In Committee |
| HF688 | A bill for an act relating to products and materials purchased by state agencies. | Under current law, the department of administrative services must give preference to purchasing American-made products and purchases from American-based businesses if the life cycle costs are comparable to those of products sold by foreign businesses. In addition, as a condition of receiving an annual appropriation relating to state government administration and regulation, an entity receiving the appropriation must give first preference when purchasing a product to an Iowa product or a product produced by an Iowa-based business, and second preference to a United States product or a product produced by a business based in the United States. This bill requires a state agency to purchase American-made products and materials from American-based businesses if it is possible to do so. | In Committee |
| HF658 | A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage for prescription insulin drugs. | This bill relates to prescription insulin drugs and coverage by policies, contracts, or plans providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses that provide coverage for prescription drugs. The bill requires a policy, contract, or plan providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses that provides coverage for prescription drugs to cap the total amount of cost-sharing that a covered person is required to pay per prescription filled of an insulin drug to an amount not more than $25 for an up to 31-day supply of at least one type of rapid-acting prescription insulin drugs, short-acting prescription insulin drugs, intermediate-acting prescription insulin drugs, or long-acting prescription insulin drugs. “Prescription insulin drug” is defined in the bill as a prescription drug that contains insulin, is used to treat diabetes, has been prescribed as medically necessary by a covered person’s health care professional, and is a benefit covered by a covered person’s policy, contract, or plan. The bill defines “cost-sharing” as any coverage limit, copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket expense imposed on a covered person. The bill does not prohibit a policy, contract, or plan providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses from reducing a covered person’s cost-sharing to less than $25 for up to a 31-day supply of a prescription insulin drug. The bill applies to third-party payment provider contracts, policies, or plans delivered, issued for delivery, continued, or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2026, by the third-party payment providers enumerated in the bill. The bill specifies the types of specialized health-related insurance which are not subject to the coverage requirements of the bill. The commissioner of insurance may adopt rules to administer the requirements of the bill. | In Committee |
| HF662 | A bill for an act appropriating moneys to the department of health and human services for refugee resettlement assistance, and including effective date provisions. | This bill appropriates $2.5 million for FY 2024-2025 from the general fund of the state to the department of health and human services (HHS) to distribute to nonprofit resettlement agencies (agency) participating in the reception and placement assistance program under the United States department of state to provide resettlement assistance to refugees in Iowa. HHS shall distribute the moneys proportionally to each agency based on the number of refugees the agency sponsors under the cooperative agreement. The bill takes effect upon enactment, and HHS shall distribute the moneys no later than seven calendar days after enactment. | In Committee |
| HF659 | A bill for an act relating to housing in the state by establishing an Iowa housing tax credit program, establishing a neighborhood renovation grant program, and increasing first-time homebuyer tax incentives, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | This bill relates to housing in the state by establishing an Iowa housing tax credit program and a neighborhood renovation grant program and by increasing first-time homebuyer tax incentives. DIVISION I —— IOWA HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM. The bill creates an Iowa housing tax credit program available against the individual and corporate income taxes, franchise tax, insurance premium tax, and moneys and credits tax. The bill requires the Iowa finance authority (authority) to develop a system for the application, review, and authorization of Iowa housing tax credits. A tax credit may be claimed by a taxpayer for a “qualified development” defined to mean a qualified low-income housing project under section 42(g) of the Internal Revenue Code that is financed by tax-exempt bonds. An Iowa housing tax credit may be authorized by the authority if all of the following apply: the tax credit is issued to a taxpayer who has an ownership interest in the qualified development; the tax credit amount is allocated pursuant to a qualified allocation plan adopted by the authority; the tax credit is necessary for the financial feasibility of the qualified development; the amount of the tax credit allocated to an owner shall not exceed 30 percent of the qualified basis of the qualified development; and the qualified development is the subject of a recorded restrictive covenant requiring the qualified development be maintained and operated as a qualified development for a certain number of years. The amount of an Iowa housing tax credit award is determined by the authority and may be claimed during the credit period (10 years), and any credit in excess of the taxpayer’s liability for the tax year is not refundable but may be credited to the tax liability for the following five years. In any calendar year, the bill limits the aggregate amount of the tax credit to $15 million plus the sum of the total of unallocated tax credits from the preceding calendar year and the previously allocated tax credits that have been revoked, canceled, or recaptured. A taxpayer shall claim the credit by including one or more tax certificates issued by the authority with the taxpayer’s return. The bill allows a tax credit certificate to be transferred to any person or entity. The bill requires the transferee to submit the transferred tax credit certificate to the authority within 90 days of the transfer, and requires the authority to issue a replacement tax credit certificate within 30 days of receiving the transferred tax credit certificate. The bill allows the authority to recapture tax credit amounts from previously issued tax credits, if on the last day of a taxable year during the compliance period (15 years), if the amount of the qualified basis of a qualified development owned by a taxpayer claiming the credit is less than the amount of the qualified basis as of the last day of the immediately preceding tax year, the amount of the taxpayer’s liability shall be increased by the recapture amount determined using the method under section 42(j) of the Internal Revenue Code. If a recapture event occurs, the bill requires the taxpayer to include the recaptured amount on the return submitted for the tax year in which the recapture event is identified. The bill requires the authority to submit a report to the general assembly by January 31 each year, detailing the Iowa housing tax credit program. The division takes effect January 1, 2026, and applies to tax years beginning on or after that date. DIVISION II —— FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYER SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. The bill makes changes to the income tax benefits related to contributions made to a first-time homebuyer savings account. Under current law, for married persons filing a joint return an account holder is allowed to deduct the first $4,000 of contributions made to an account during the tax year if the account holder also maintains a joint first-time homebuyer savings account, and for any other person the account holder is allowed to deduct for the first $2,000 of contributions made to such an account during the tax year. The first-time homebuyer savings account annual deduction limits are indexed to inflation and are increased each year. For the 2024 tax year the annual deduction limit for married persons filing a joint return is $4,512, and for all other persons the limit is $2,256. The bill increases the annual deduction limit for first-time homebuyer savings account contributions to $10,000 for married persons filing a joint return, and to $5,000 for any other account holder. The new annual deduction limits in the bill are also indexed to inflation and are increased each year. DIVISION III —— NEIGHBORHOOD RENOVATION GRANT PROGRAM. The bill establishes a neighborhood housing renovation grant program (program) and fund (neighborhood fund) to be administered by the authority for purposes of awarding grants to eligible homeowners for qualifying exterior home improvements, repairs, or renovations (exterior work). There is appropriated to the authority for deposit in the neighborhood fund for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, from the general fund of the state, the sum of $50 million. Notwithstanding Code section 12C.7(2), interest or earnings on moneys in the neighborhood fund shall accrue to the authority and shall be used for purposes of the program. Notwithstanding Code section 8.33, moneys in the neighborhood fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to any other fund but shall remain in the neighborhood fund for expenditure for subsequent fiscal years. All repayments or recaptures of the grants awarded under the program shall accrue to the authority and shall be used for purposes of the program. The authority shall not use more than 3 percent of the moneys in the neighborhood fund at the beginning of the fiscal year for purposes of administrative costs, marketing, and other program support. To qualify for the program, a homeowner’s household income shall not exceed $109,000 and the homeowner must occupy the property at which the exterior work will occur. A grant awarded under the program shall not exceed $20,000. Exterior work that qualifies for the program is detailed in the bill. The authority shall adopt rules to administer the division. | In Committee |
| HF661 | A bill for an act relating to child care, including the child and dependent care tax credit, a child care workforce matching grant program, a small business child care tax credit, and state child care assistance, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to child care and is separated into divisions. DIVISION I —— CHILD AND DEPENDENT CARE TAX CREDIT. The Iowa child and dependent care tax credit is a refundable credit calculated as a percentage of the federal child and dependent care tax credit, depending on the Iowa net income of the taxpayer. Currently, there are seven graduated Iowa net income thresholds used to calculate the credit. This division strikes the Iowa net income thresholds, and specifies a taxpayer may claim a tax credit to reduce Iowa net income equal to the amount of the child and dependent care credit of the federal child and dependent care credit provided in section 21 of the Internal Revenue Code, without regard to whether or not the federal credit was limited by the taxpayer’s federal tax liability. The division applies retroactively to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. DIVISION II —— CHILD CARE WORKFORCE MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM. This division establishes a child care workforce matching grant program (program). Moneys appropriated by the general assembly to the department of health and human services (HHS) for the program must be used to raise wages for persons employed by a child care facility; provide health insurance, paid leave, and retirement benefits for persons employed by a child care facility; raise the quality of the work environment at each child care facility; collect data to assess the needs of persons employed by a child care facility; and assist persons employed by a child care facility to identify sources and apply for benefits for which a person may qualify. The division requires HHS to adopt rules to administer the program. DIVISION III —— SMALL BUSINESS CHILD CARE TAX CREDIT. This division creates a small business child care tax credit available against the individual and corporate income taxes, the franchise tax, the insurance premiums tax, and the moneys and credits tax. The division defines “small business” as any enterprise located in this state, which is operated for profit under a single management and which has either fewer than 20 employees or an annual gross income of less than $4 million computed as the average of the three preceding fiscal years. The division allows a small business to receive a tax credit for providing child care employee benefits to employees of the business. The amount of the credit equals the costs to provide the benefit up to $3,000 per employee per year. The aggregate amount of tax credits cannot exceed a total of $2 million per fiscal year and are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. The division requires a small business to provide child care employee benefits to employees through certain methods in order to be eligible for the small business child care tax credit. The division applies retroactively to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025. DIVISION IV —— STATE CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE. This division relates to state child care assistance (CCA). Under current law, to be eligible for the CCA program, a family must be described by one of six different circumstances and meet income requirements. One of the six eligibility circumstances is that a child’s parent, guardian, or custodian (parent) is employed a minimum of 32 hours per week or an average of 32 hours per week during the month if the child requires basic care, or 28 hours per week or an average of 28 hours per week during the month if the child is a special needs child. The division changes the work requirements to 28 hours per week or an average of 28 hours per week during the month for parents of any child. Under current law, a family is required to have income at or below 160 percent of the federal poverty level applicable to the family’s size (FPL) for a family of a child needing basic care; 200 percent of the FPL for a family of a special needs child; or 85 percent of the state median gross monthly income, whichever is lower. The division sets initial eligibility at the lesser of 85 percent of the state median gross monthly income, or 250 percent of the FPL for families of children needing basic care or 290 percent of the FPL for families of special needs children. The division requires HHS to reimburse child care providers participating in the CCA program at a rate equal to the rate the provider charges a private-pay family for child care. The division provides that HHS shall pay providers based on the number of hours of child care scheduled for a child enrolled in the CCA program instead of for child care provided. The division makes a child eligible for CCA if the child is in a family with a parent, guardian, or custodian who is employed at a child care facility, a child care home registered with HHS, or an unregistered child care home with an agreement with HHS to accept CCA reimbursements; and who meets certain requirements as detailed in the division (qualified parent). The division provides that a director, co-director, or other administrative staff of a child care facility may qualify as a qualified parent if such person is regularly counted in the minimum child-to-staff ratio established by HHS by rule. The division requires a family who participates in CCA to make copayments for services received from the program, if the family’s eligibility is based on a parent being a qualified parent. The division directs HHS to adopt rules to implement and administer the division’s provisions related to qualified parents. The division prohibits HHS from applying waiting list requirements for CCA on persons deemed eligible for CCA due to eligibility based on a qualified parent. The division makes a conforming change by striking Code section 237A.13(6). | In Committee |
| HF663 | A bill for an act relating to provision of the state family planning services under the Medicaid program, and including effective date and repeal provisions. | This bill relates to state family planning services. Division I of the bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services (CMS) for approval to establish the Iowa family planning network with the same benefits, eligibility requirements, and other provisions included in the Medicaid Iowa family planning network waiver as approved by CMS in effect on June 30, 2017. The section of division I of the bill requiring submission of the state plan amendment takes effect upon enactment. Division II of the bill repeals the state family planning services program. The repeal of the program takes effect upon receipt of approval by HHS from CMS of the Medicaid state plan amendment establishing the Iowa family planning network. | In Committee |
| HF684 | A bill for an act relating to the purchase of steel by state agencies. | This bill requires state agencies to exclusively purchase steel that was manufactured in the United States. | In Committee |
| HJR10 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to reproductive care. | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to reproductive care. | In Committee |
| HF687 | A bill for an act relating to projects involving state moneys or tax credits. | Under current law, the department of administrative services must give preference to purchasing American-made products and purchases from American-based businesses if the life cycle costs are comparable to those of products sold by foreign businesses. In addition, as a condition of receiving an annual appropriation relating to state government administration and regulation, an entity receiving the appropriation must give first preference when purchasing a product to an Iowa product or a product produced by an Iowa-based business, and second preference to a United States product or a product produced by a business based in the United States. This bill requires that a contract for a project funded with state moneys or tax credits must include a provision requiring only products and materials manufactured in the United States be purchased for the project if it is possible to do so. | In Committee |
| HF671 | A bill for an act relating to eligible parties to a valid marriage. | This bill provides that a party who otherwise meets the requirements of Code chapter 595 (marriage) for a valid marriage is eligible to marry any other such party regardless of gender. The bill provides for conforming changes in that Code chapter to include provisions relating to void marriages to be gender neutral. The bill also provides that marriage is the legally recognized union of two eligible parties and that terms relating to the marital relationship or familial relationships shall be construed consistently with this provision for all purposes throughout the law, whether in the context of statute, administrative or court rule, government policy, common law, or any other source of civil or criminal law. | In Committee |
| HF607 | A bill for an act relating to eligibility of pregnant women and infants for the Medicaid program. | This bill amends provisions relating to income eligibility levels for pregnant women and infants under the Medicaid program. Current law provides that an infant or a pregnant woman whose family income is not more than 215 percent of the federal poverty level, if the infant or woman is otherwise eligible, is eligible for Medicaid. The bill amends the income eligibility level to 375 percent. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services (CMS) for approval in accordance with the provisions in federal law to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum eligibility under the Medicaid program to a pregnant woman whose family income while pregnant is at or below 375 percent of the federal poverty level for the household size, beginning January 1, 2026. The bill also requires HHS to submit a children’s health insurance program state plan amendment to CMS to update infant eligibility consistent with the provisions of the bill, beginning January 1, 2026. | In Committee |
| HF605 | A bill for an act relating to the prescribing and dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives. | This bill relates to the dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by a pharmacist. The bill defines “self-administered hormonal contraceptive” as a self-administered hormonal contraceptive that is approved by the United States food and drug administration to prevent pregnancy, including an oral hormonal contraceptive, a hormonal vaginal ring, and a hormonal contraceptive patch, but not including any drug intended to induce an abortion. The bill provides that notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a pharmacist may dispense a self-administered hormonal contraceptive to a patient pursuant to a standing order established by the medical director of the department of health and human services (medical director). For an initial dispensing, a pharmacist may dispense up to a 12-month supply at one time of the self-administered hormonal contraceptive, and for any subsequent dispensing of the same self-administered hormonal contraceptive, a 12-month supply at one time. Additionally, the bill prohibits a pharmacist who dispenses a self-administered hormonal contraceptive in accordance with the bill from requiring any other prescription drug order authorized by a practitioner prior to dispensing the self-administered hormonal contraceptive. The bill authorizes the medical director to establish a standing order authorizing the dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by any pharmacist who complies with the standing order and retains and submits the patient’s record to the department of health and human services (HHS). The standing order includes requiring a pharmacist who dispenses a self-administered hormonal contraceptive under the bill to: complete a standardized training program and continuing education requirements related to prescribing the hormonal contraceptives; obtain a completed self-screening risk assessment from each patient and verify the identity of each patient before dispensing the hormonal contraceptives; provide the patient with certain written information; provide the patient with a copy of the record of the pharmacist’s encounter with the patient; and provide patient counseling. The standing order would prohibit a pharmacist who dispenses hormonal contraceptives under the bill from requiring a patient to schedule an appointment with the pharmacist for the prescribing or dispensing of the hormonal contraceptive; and dispensing the hormonal contraceptives to a patient if the results of the patient’s self-screening risk assessment indicate it is unsafe for the pharmacist to dispense the hormonal contraceptives to the patient, in which case the pharmacist shall refer the patient to a practitioner. The bill provides immunity for a pharmacist who dispenses a self-administered hormonal contraceptive and for the medical director who establishes a standing order in compliance with the bill from criminal and civil liability arising from any damages caused by the dispensing, administering, or use of a self-administered hormonal contraceptive or the establishment of the standing order provided the pharmacist acts reasonably and in good faith. Additionally, the medical director shall be considered to be acting within the scope of the medical director’s office and employment for purposes of Code chapter 669 (Iowa tort claims Act) in the establishment of a standing order in compliance with the bill. The bill requires HHS, in collaboration with the boards of pharmacy and medicine, and in consideration of the guidelines established by the American congress of obstetricians and gynecologists, to adopt administrative rules to administer the bill. The bill amends prescription contraceptive coverage provisions to require that a group policy, contract, or plan delivered, issued for delivery, continued, or renewed in the state on or after January 1, 2026, providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses, shall specifically provide for payment of self-administered hormonal contraceptives, prescribed and dispensed as specified in the bill, including those dispensed at one time. The bill also requires HHS to provide prescription contraceptive coverage under the Medicaid program consistent with the coverage under private insurance as provided under the bill. | In Committee |
| HF489 | A bill for an act providing a standing appropriation for pediatric cancer research at the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics. | This bill provides a standing appropriation from the general fund of the state to the state board of regents each fiscal year in a dollar amount equal to the population of the state on July 1 of the same fiscal year, to be used for pediatric cancer research at the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics. The bill requires the board of regents to report to the governor and the general assembly by October 1 of each year on the expenditure of the moneys in the prior fiscal year. | In Committee |
| HF504 | A bill for an act relating to robotics, including by establishing a robotics grant program within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics collaborative initiative and requiring the university of northern Iowa to develop a public-private partnership to support robotics competitions, and making appropriations. | This bill relates to robotics, including by establishing a robotics grant program within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics collaborative initiative and requiring the university of northern Iowa to develop robotics competitions. The bill requires the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics collaborative initiative within the innovation division of the department of education to develop and administer a robotics grant program to provide grants to school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to support robotics programs by offsetting certain specified costs. The collaborative initiative is required to establish the application processes, deadlines, eligibility requirements, and award criteria associated with the robotics grant program. The bill appropriates $400,000 to the department of education for purposes of the robotics grant program for FY 2025-2026. The bill appropriates $100,000 for FY 2025-2026 to the state board of regents for the university of northern Iowa for purposes of developing a public-private partnership with a person or persons who provide matching funds to support the Iowa regional FIRST robotics competition. | In Committee |
| HF462 | A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring civil actions by victims of sexual abuse and including effective date provisions. | This bill provides that there is no time limitation to bring civil actions relating to sexual abuse. Under current Code section 614.1(12), a civil action for damages for injury suffered as result of sexual abuse or sexual exploitation by a counselor, therapist, school employee, or adult providing training or instruction can only be brought within five years after the date that the victim was either last treated by the counselor or therapist or last enrolled in or attended the school. Current Code section 614.8A provides a four-year limitation for civil actions of sexual abuse against a child not discovered until after the injured person is of the age of majority. These provisions are stricken or repealed to the extent they are duplicative or inconsistent with the bill. If an action was previously dismissed before the effective date of the bill on the grounds that it was time-barred or because the party failed to file a petition, the bill provides the party the right to file a revival action. The bill also provides that state tort claims and tort liability of governmental subdivisions statutes of limitations do not apply to sexual abuse actions. The bill takes effect upon enactment. | In Committee |
| HF455 | A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year. | This bill provides that the maximum total amount of unemployment benefits payable to an eligible individual during a benefit year shall not exceed 26 times the individual’s weekly benefit amount, rather than 16 times the weekly benefit amount as provided under current law. | In Committee |
| HF431 | A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring civil actions by victims of sexual abuse, human trafficking, or sexual exploitation, and including effective date provisions. | This bill provides that there is no time limitation to bring civil actions relating to sexual abuse, human trafficking, or exploitation of a minor regardless of the theory of liability in the action. Under current Code section 614.1(12), a civil action for damages for injury suffered as result of sexual abuse or sexual exploitation by a counselor, therapist, school employee, or adult providing training or instruction can only be brought within five years after the date that the victim was either last treated by the counselor or therapist or last enrolled in or attended the school. Current Code section 614.8A provides a four-year limitation for civil actions of sexual abuse against a child not discovered until after the injured person is of the age of majority. These provisions are stricken or repealed to the extent they are duplicative or inconsistent with the bill. If an action was previously dismissed before the effective date of the bill on the grounds that it was time-barred or because the party failed to file a petition, the bill provides the party the right to file a revival action. The bill also provides that state tort claims and tort liability of governmental subdivisions statutes of limitations do not apply to sexual abuse, human trafficking, or exploitation of a minor actions. The bill takes effect upon enactment. | In Committee |
| HF376 | A bill for an act limiting campaign contributions to certain candidates, and making penalties applicable. | This bill imposes campaign contribution limits on candidates for statewide elected office and candidates for state senator or representative. In an election campaign cycle for statewide elected office, a political committee shall not contribute more than $4,000 to one candidate; a national political party, state statutory political committee, or county statutory political committee shall not contribute more than $40,000; and any other natural person shall not contribute more than $4,000. For a candidate for state senator or representative, a political committee shall not contribute more than $1,000; a national political party, state statutory political committee, or county statutory political committee shall not contribute more than $10,000; and any other natural person shall not contribute more than $1,000. A person who violates the bill is subject to penalties pursuant to Code section 68B.32D. A person who willfully violates the bill is guilty of a serious misdemeanor (Code section 68A.701). 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. A variety of civil remedies are also available in Code section 68B.32D for a violation of Code chapter 68A or rules of the ethics and campaign disclosure board, ranging from a reprimand to a civil penalty of not more than $2,000. | In Committee |
| HF412 | A bill for an act relating to unhoused persons participating in the state child care assistance program. | This bill relates to unhoused persons participating in the state child care assistance (CCA) program. The bill defines “unhoused” as lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and lists circumstances in which a person qualifies as unhoused. Under current law, a person may be eligible for CCA if the person is seeking employment. Eligibility for CCA based on seeking employment is limited to 30 days during a 12-month period. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to extend the 30-day limit if the child is under six years of age and the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian who is seeking employment is unhoused. The bill exempts unhoused children from CCA program waiting list requirements. The bill requires HHS to implement an expedited process to approve an unhoused person for CCA benefits and to grant an extension of the 30-day limit for CCA benefits to unhoused CCA participants seeking employment. | In Committee |
| HF410 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance program reimbursements to certain child care providers. | This bill relates to state child care assistance program (CCA) reimbursements to certain child care providers. The bill directs HHS to set the CCA reimbursement rates for providing child care to an unhoused child equal to the CCA reimbursement rate for providing child care to a child needing special-needs care. The bill defines “unhoused” as lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. The bill lists circumstances in which a person qualifies as unhoused. | In Committee |
| HF403 | 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 |
| HF411 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance program copayments for unhoused persons. | This bill relates to state child care assistance (CCA) program copayments for unhoused persons. The bill defines “unhoused” as lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and lists several circumstances in which a person is considered unhoused. To be eligible for the CCA program, a participating family is required to make copayments based on the number of the family’s children in a child care provider’s care and the family’s gross monthly income. The bill exempts a family the department of health and human services (HHS) has determined is unhoused from making a CCA copayment, or similar payment to the state, as a condition of CCA program participation. The exemption continues until six months from the date HHS determines the family is no longer unhoused. | In Committee |
| HF333 | A bill for an act providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms and making an appropriation. | This bill requires school boards to ensure that feminine hygiene products can be accessed by students without cost in at least half of the restrooms in school buildings in the district where students in grades 6 through 12 are educated and that the supply of feminine hygiene products is refilled regularly. The bill defines “feminine hygiene products” as sanitary napkins, tampons, or other similar items used for feminine hygiene. The bill appropriates an amount necessary to fund the full cost of compliance with the bill by school districts from the general fund of the state to the department of education for the period beginning July 1, 2025, and ending June 30, 2028. The bill directs the department to establish processes for school districts to submit the documented cost of compliance to the department and for the department to reimburse school districts for such costs. The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code section 25B.3. The bill requires that the state cost of any state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school district from funds appropriated by the bill, and, for school years beginning on or after July 1, 2028, from state school foundation aid received by the school district under Code section 257.16. The specification is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state mandate funding-related requirements of Code section 25B.2. The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state mandates included in the bill. | In Committee |
| HF338 | A bill for an act relating to the administration of local anesthesia by dental assistants. | This bill strikes a provision prohibiting the dental board from adopting rules to delegate to a dental assistant the administration of local anesthesia. | In Committee |
| HF324 | A bill for an act relating to domestic abuse threat evaluation and deterrence. | This bill relates to domestic abuse threat evaluation and deterrence. The bill requires that, when a peace officer has reason to believe that domestic abuse has occurred but no arrest has been made, a peace officer shall perform a threat evaluation of the person the peace officer has determined to be the primary physical aggressor, based on a checklist adopted by the department of justice, to evaluate the potential threat a primary physical aggressor poses to an abused person. Once a threat evaluation has been completed, if the peace officer finds the primary physical aggressor is described by two or more factors from the checklist, the peace officer must provide to the primary physical aggressor informational materials created by the department of justice for the purpose of addressing root causes of domestic abuse the peace officer believes may be relevant to the situation. The bill requires that if a person has been arrested for committing domestic abuse assault, prior to the release of the person, the police department or sheriff’s office responsible for the person’s arrest shall perform a threat evaluation of the person based on a checklist adopted by the department of justice. Upon completion of the threat evaluation, the police department or sheriff’s office shall transmit the threat evaluation to the appropriate judicial district department of correctional services. Under current law, judicial district departments of correctional services provide mandatory treatment and training to a person convicted of, or receiving a deferred judgment for, domestic abuse assault. The bill requires the department of justice to adopt rules, that will be considered a checklist, to create a threat evaluation classification system in order to evaluate the potential threat a primary physical aggressor identified by a peace officer poses to an abused person. Evaluations of threat shall be established based on the number of the primary physical aggressor’s previous and current domestic abuse assault convictions; the number of times the primary physical aggressor has violated a temporary, emergency, or protective order issued pursuant to Code chapter 236 (domestic abuse); whether the primary physical aggressor has been convicted of a felony; whether the primary physical aggressor has been convicted of illegally using, carrying, or possessing a dangerous weapon; and the number of offenses committed by the primary physical aggressor in other jurisdictions that are substantially similar to the offenses listed in the bill. The bill also requires rules adopted by the department of justice to require that a peace officer or law enforcement agency make reasonable efforts to obtain information from other state jurisdictions that may be pertinent in performing a threat evaluation. The bill directs the department of justice to prepare, for the purpose of dissemination to a domestic abuse victim, informational materials intended to address root causes of domestic abuse, deter further domestic abuse, and offer support. Information contained in the materials shall include but not be limited to financial assistance that may be available to a victim and general application information; mental health services that may be available to a victim and contact information for those services; victim abuse and rehabilitation services and contact information for those services; information pertaining to Iowa legal aid and contact information for Iowa legal aid; and general information regarding services and benefits that may be available to a victim through the department of health and human services. The bill also requires the department of justice to adopt rules that determine when a victim shall receive informational materials. The bill directs the department of justice to prepare, for the purpose of dissemination to a domestic abuse primary physical aggressor identified by a peace officer, informational materials intended to address root causes of domestic abuse and deter further domestic abuse. Information contained in the materials shall include but not be limited to financial assistance that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and general application information; employment services and work programs that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and contact information for those services and programs; mental health and substance abuse services that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and a general explanation of how to request those services; housing assistance that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and general application information; family counseling services that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and contact information for those services; community mentoring services that may be available to a primary physical aggressor and contact information for those services; and a summary of the consequences a primary physical aggressor may face for violating any temporary, emergency, or protective order. The bill also requires the department of justice to adopt rules that determine when a primary physical aggressor shall receive informational materials. The bill also requires, if a primary physical aggressor was arrested by a peace officer based on the peace officer’s belief that the primary physical aggressor committed domestic abuse assault, that the primary physical aggressor report to a judicial district department of correctional services after release to receive informational materials. The bill requires the department of justice to establish a system of best practices for enhanced precautions based on a primary physical aggressor’s threat evaluation. The bill directs the department of justice to consult and cooperate with all public and private agencies to provide training, education, and guidance to a primary physical aggressor for the purpose of identifying and resolving possible causes of domestic abuse and deterring further abuse. | In Committee |
| HF251 | A bill for an act requiring the state board of education to publish information related to nonpublic schools that are accredited by an approved independent accrediting agency. | This bill requires the state board of education to publish information related to nonpublic schools that are accredited by an approved independent accrediting agency. Under current law, nonpublic schools in Iowa may be accredited by the department of education (DE) or by an independent accrediting agency that has been approved by DE. Also under current law, the state board of education is required to publish a list of the approved independent accrediting agencies on DE’s internet site. The bill requires the list to include each nonpublic school that is accredited by an approved independent accrediting agency, a description of the educational standards that the approved independent accrediting agency required the nonpublic school to meet in order to attain accreditation, and any amendments or waivers to the educational standards that each school received. The state board is required to update the list annually. | In Committee |
| HF152 | A bill for an act relating to the federal summer electronic benefits transfer for children program, making an appropriation, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. | This bill relates to the summer electronic benefits transfer (EBT) for children program made permanent by federal law under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, administered by the United States department of agriculture (USDA) food and nutrition service. The bill includes findings relating to food insecurity in the state including that it is estimated that approximately 240,000 children would be eligible to receive benefits under the summer EBT for children program; that when Iowans are struggling financially, they are more likely to buy less expensive foods, high in calories and low in nutritional value; and that the summer EBT for children program would provide an estimated $29 million to address the food insecurity crisis which not only feeds children but stimulates local economic activity. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS), in coordination with the department of education, to immediately upon the effective date of the bill submit a letter of intent to apply for and participate in the summer EBT program for children during summer 2025, to coordinate with the USDA to develop a successful management and administration plan for the summer EBT program for children, and to submit the plan to the USDA by February 15, 2025. The bill appropriates from the general fund of the state to HHS for fiscal year 2024-2025 a sufficient amount to cover the costs of administering the summer EBT program for children during summer 2025. The bill takes effect upon enactment and is retroactively applicable to July 1, 2024. | In Committee |
| HF111 | A bill for an act creating an advanced registered nurse practitioner preceptor tax credit available against the individual income tax, and including applicability provisions. | This bill creates an advanced registered nurse practitioner preceptor tax credit available against the individual income tax. The bill defines preceptor to mean an advanced registered nurse practitioner who is currently licensed as a registered nurse under Code chapter 152 or Code chapter 152E, and who is licensed by the board as an advanced registered nurse practitioner. The bill defines clinical preceptorship to mean a mentoring experience under the direction of a nursing program where a preceptor is used to provide a clinical learning experience for a student who is a resident enrolled in the nursing program. In order to be eligible for the tax credit under the bill, a preceptor must provide uncompensated instruction and supervision during a clinical preceptorship, be employed at the clinical facility where the preceptorship occurs, be selected by the nursing program in collaboration with the clinical facility to participate in the clinical preceptorship, and have at least one year of experience in the preceptor role. The amount of the tax credit equals $500 per clinical preceptorship where at least 100 hours of clinical learning experience is provided, not to exceed $2,000 in the aggregate. Any credit in excess of the tax liability is not refundable and shall not be credited to a following tax year or carried back to a previous tax year. The bill requires the preceptor to accurately document the student’s experience including the name of the student, the name of the nursing program, the hours of supervision, and the year of the student’s expected graduation. The department of revenue is required to adopt rules to administer the bill. The bill applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. | In Committee |
| 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: Enactment, 08/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| HF711 | A bill for an act relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, including establishment training programs, schools of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, and course of study. (Formerly HF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF607 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| SF612 | A bill for an act relating to state and local taxation and regulations by changing certain tax credits, cigarette and tobacco-related regulations, and certain city budget certification deadlines, providing for penalties, and including retroactive applicability and effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1153.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2025 Applicability date: 01/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Absent |
| SF615 | A bill for an act relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 599, SF 363.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| SF615 | A bill for an act relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 599, SF 363.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2025 | Shall the House concur in the Senate amendment H–1342? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1320? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1319? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1318? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall amendment H–1323 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall amendment H–1322 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF980 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.(Formerly HSB 315.) | Shall amendment H–1321 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF1002 | A bill for an act authorizing length of service award programs for volunteer fire fighters, volunteer emergency medical care providers, and reserve peace officers, and making appropriations. (Formerly HF 755, HSB 197.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Absent |
| SF644 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing for properly related matters including indigent defense and representation, the corrections capital reinvestment fund, and a corrections federal receipts fund, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1232.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2025 Applicability date: 07/01/2023 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| HF1039 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund and technology reinvestment fund, providing for related matters including county payment for district court furnishings, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 334.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| HF1038 | A bill for an act relating to the opioid settlement fund, making appropriations and disbursements, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 331.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2024. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF648 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch including judicial officer salaries and interpreter or translator fees, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1233.) Effective date: 06/20/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF657 | A bill for an act related to state taxation and finance and other related matters, by creating, modifying, and eliminating tax credits and tax incentive programs, providing for penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1205.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2025, 12/31/2025, 01/01/2026 Applicability date: 01/01/2017, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF657 | A bill for an act related to state taxation and finance and other related matters, by creating, modifying, and eliminating tax credits and tax incentive programs, providing for penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1205.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2025, 12/31/2025, 01/01/2026 Applicability date: 01/01/2017, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026 | Shall amendment H–1351 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF659 | A bill for an act relating to state government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers; authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds; providing for properly related matters including crystalline polymorph psilocybin, medical residency and fellowship positions, state membership in the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, student abuse by school employees, modified supplemental amounts f | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF660 | A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1240.) Contingent effective date, effective 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| HF856 | A bill for an act prohibiting public entities from engaging in certain activities relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 155.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| HF890 | A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, the national board certification pilot project, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and the employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 43.) Effective date: Enactment | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF628 | A bill for an act relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund, the primary road fund, and the statutory allocations fund. (Formerly SSB 1219.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF626 | A bill for an act relating to federal moneys and regulations, including the appropriation of federal moneys made available from federal block grants and other nonstate sources, the allocation of portions of federal block grants, the procedures if federal moneys or federal block grants are more or less than anticipated, and the authorization of certain city regulations when required under federal law, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1216.) Effe | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF641 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of health and human services, including administrative services organizations, child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, internal audit and examination information, and the region incentive fund in the mental health and disability services regional service fund, health maintenance organization's premium tax, and making appropriations and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF645 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and the state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and extending the repeal date for the housing renewal pilot program. (Formerly SSB 1236.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| SF646 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection. (Formerly SSB 1230.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| SF646 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection. (Formerly SSB 1230.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall amendment H–1338 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF646 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection. (Formerly SSB 1230.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall amendment H–1337 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| HF1040 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and eliminating the repeal of the housing renewal pilot program.(Formerly HSB 336.) | Shall amendment H–1293 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| SF647 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1231.) Effective Date: Conditional, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| SF647 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1231.) Effective Date: Conditional, 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment H–1345 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | 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: Conditional, 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment H–1344 be adopted? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| HF1044 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for state government administration and regulation, including the department of administrative services, auditor of state, ethics and campaign disclosure board, offices of governor and lieutenant governor, department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, department of insurance and financial services, department of management, Iowa public employees' retirement system, public information board, department of revenue, secretary of state, tr | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1336? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| HF1044 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for state government administration and regulation, including the department of administrative services, auditor of state, ethics and campaign disclosure board, offices of governor and lieutenant governor, department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, department of insurance and financial services, department of management, Iowa public employees' retirement system, public information board, department of revenue, secretary of state, tr | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| HF1049 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, and related provisions and appropriations, including aging and disability services; behavioral health, public health, community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; sex reassignment surgeries or associated procedures; family well-being and protection; state-operat | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1334? | 05/13/2025 | Yea |
| HF1049 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, and related provisions and appropriations, including aging and disability services; behavioral health, public health, community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; sex reassignment surgeries or associated procedures; family well-being and protection; state-operat | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Nay |
| HSB90 | A bill for an act relating to cigarette and tobacco product regulations including vapor products by requiring the electronic filing of returns and other related matters, and providing penalties.(See HF 1052.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF253 | A bill for an act creating a lifetime fur harvester license for disabled veterans. (Formerly SSB 1079.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF303 | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of consumer fireworks. (Formerly SSB 1104.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1313? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF303 | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of consumer fireworks. (Formerly SSB 1104.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| SF383 | A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, prescription drugs, and pharmacy services administrative organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1074.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 Applicability date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1324? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF383 | A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, prescription drugs, and pharmacy services administrative organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1074.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 Applicability date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HSB237 | A bill for an act relating to fuel taxation by extending tax credits for E-85 and E-15 gasoline, and biodiesel, and extending sales tax refunds for biodiesel production.(See HF 1053.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HSB238 | A bill for an act relating to the assessment of property containing certain aboveground storage tanks and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(See HF 1050.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HF593 | A bill for an act relating to groundwater hazard statement requirements.(See HF 825.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Absent |
| SF449 | A bill for an act relating to digital financial asset transaction kiosks and including penalties, and effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1142.) Effective date: 05/19/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Absent |
| HF760 | A bill for an act authorizing cities to establish self-supported entertainment areas.(Formerly HF 38; See HF 1051.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HSB305 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the Iowa economic development authority, including tax credit limits, targeted jobs tax credits, and the major economic growth attraction program; creation of the business incentives for growth program, the seed investor tax credit program, the Iowa film production incentive program, the research and development tax credit program, and the sustainable aviation fuel production tax credit program; elimination of the high quality jobs progr | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall amendment H–1317 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall amendment H–1316 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall amendment H–1305 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall amendment H–1304 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF974 | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 525, HSB 144.) | Shall amendment H–1303 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF985 | A bill for an act relating to services provided by the secretary of state, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 198, HSB 17.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1017 | A bill for an act relating to the applicability of actions of certain international organizations.(Formerly HSB 233.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1026 | A bill for an act relating to the adoption tax credit available against the individual income tax, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 965.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1033 | A bill for an act making a rural water district a designated exempt entity for purposes of the sales and use tax.(Formerly HSB 226.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1034 | A bill for an act providing for an individual income tax credit for the purchase of firearm safety devices and including retroactive and other applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 132.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1036 | A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 908, HF 452.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| HF1037 | A bill for an act modifying economic development provisions relating to housing and residential development in urban renewal areas.(Formerly HF 617.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF469 | A bill for an act creating an emeritus license to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery.(Formerly SSB 1121.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/09/2025 | Nay |
| HF1014 | 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 | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 05/09/2025 | Yea |
| SF297 | A bill for an act relating to contracts entered into by state agencies and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1090.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| HF395 | A bill for an act relating to approved courses of instruction for school bus drivers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 107.) Effective date: 01/01/2026 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| SF314 | A bill for an act relating to the license application form for real estate brokers and salespersons, and brokerage agreement requirements. (Formerly SF 15.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| SF462 | A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1125.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–1242? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| SF462 | A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1125.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| SF462 | A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1125.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment H–1242 be adopted? | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| HF787 | A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the calculation of the teacher salary supplement district cost per pupil, teacher preparation requirements, out-of-state placement of certain specified students requiring special education, the duties of the department of education, and minimum teacher salaries, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 147.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF933 | A bill for an act relating to pediatric palliative care centers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 267.) Effective date: 05/27/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| SF608 | A bill for an act regulating the marketing of grain, by providing for fees paid by grain dealers and warehouse operators into the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund, and the payment of claims to reimburse sellers and depositors for losses covered by the fund, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1131.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 10/24/2022. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF976 | A bill for an act relating to the administration of the tax by the department of revenue by modifying provisions related to personal income, property, sales and use, motor fuel, and inheritance taxes, changing tax expenditure reviews, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 89.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2024, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF1013 | A bill for an act establishing a partial exemption on property taxes for certain residential properties sold in disaster areas.(Formerly HF 565.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| SF632 | A bill for an act providing for programs and regulations related to agriculture, including crop production, animal health, and agricultural processing, providing for powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, providing fees, and providing penalties. (Formerly SF 522, SSB 1160.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| HF472 | A bill for an act creating a special motion for expedited relief in actions involving the exercise of the right of freedom of speech and of the press, the right to assemble and petition, and the right of association, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 116.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF644 | A bill for an act relating to the delegation of custodial rights and duties with respect to a child. (Formerly HF 374.) Effective Date: Conditional. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF710 | A bill for an act relating to roofs on private docks and required insurance. (Formerly HSB 163.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF862 | A bill for an act relating to the representation of boards of supervisors and county officials by outside counsel, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 414.) Effective date: 05/19/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Nay |
| SF565 | A bill for an act providing for the continuation of health insurance in certain circumstances for the surviving spouse and each surviving child of employees of the state of Iowa and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1039.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2024. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF986 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of insurance and financial services, the utilities commission, and the department of transportation, including financial literacy and exploitation, tax confidentiality, health insurance rates, health savings accounts, insurer withdrawals, property insurance, service contracts, the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, and the Iowa cemetery Act, motor vehicle financial liability coverage, and including pen | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1023 | A bill for an act relating to benefits and contributions for members of the Iowa public employees' retirement system who are employed in a protection occupation.(Formerly HF 967, HSB 265.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1022 | A bill for an act exempting the sale of laundry soap or detergent from the sales tax.(Formerly HF 963.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1028 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of management, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 756, HSB 72.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1032 | A bill for an act creating a grocer reinvestment program, a local produce processing grant program, and a grocer reinvestment and local food processing fund under the purview of the economic development authority, and modifying the local food and farm program. (Formerly HF 550, HF 59.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF1032 | A bill for an act creating a grocer reinvestment program, a local produce processing grant program, and a grocer reinvestment and local food processing fund under the purview of the economic development authority, and modifying the local food and farm program. (Formerly HF 550, HF 59.) | Shall amendment H–1283 be adopted? | 04/24/2025 | Yea |
| HF132 | A bill for an act providing for an individual income tax credit for the purchase of firearm safety devices and including retroactive and other applicability provisions.(See HF 1034.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| SF146 | A bill for an act relating to the use or creation of bots to purchase event tickets on the internet, and providing civil penalties. (Formerly SF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| SF150 | A bill for an act relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 32.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HSB226 | A bill for an act making a rural water district a designated exempt entity for purposes of the sales and use tax.(See HF 1033.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF617 | A bill for an act modifying public improvements relating to housing and residential development in urban renewal areas, and including effective date and applicability provisions.(See HF 1037.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF706 | A bill for an act relating to open meetings and open records, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 416.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HSB321 | A bill for an act relating to the regulation and taxation of tobacco products and heated tobacco products.(See HF 1035.) | House Committee On Appropriations Report | 04/23/2025 | Nay |
| HF991 | A bill for an act placing assessment limitations for property tax purposes on commercial child care facilities, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 316.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1010 | A bill for an act providing for an annual authorization fee to be collected by the college student aid commission from certain postsecondary educational institutions not subject to registration with the commission.(Formerly HF 772, HSB 48.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1007 | A bill for an act relating to the disposition of collected criminal case fines and establishing a victim restitution fund.(Formerly HSB 319.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1007 | A bill for an act relating to the disposition of collected criminal case fines and establishing a victim restitution fund.(Formerly HSB 319.) | Shall amendment H–1280 be adopted? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| HF1019 | A bill for an act exempting the sale of toilet paper from the sales tax.(Formerly HF 964.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Iowa House Economic Growth and Technology Committee | Ranking Member | 3 |
| Detail | Iowa House Government Oversight Committee | 4 | |
| Detail | Iowa House Health and Human Services Committee | 5 | |
| Detail | Iowa House Ways and Means Committee | 25 | |
| Detail | Iowa Joint Health Policy Oversight Committee | 2 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IA | Iowa House District 036 | House | Democrat | In Office | 01/01/2023 |