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Legislator > Mike Zimmer
State Senator
Mike Zimmer
(D) - Iowa
Iowa Senate District 35
In Office - Started: 02/10/2025
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Capitol 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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| SF505 | A bill for an act codifying a firsthome program administered by the Iowa finance authority. | This bill codifies the firsthome program administered by the Iowa finance authority and requires that the program be administered by the authority to provide down payment and closing cost assistance grants, second loans, free Iowa title guaranty owner’s certificates, or other assistance to eligible first-time homebuyers. “First-time homebuyer” and “second loan” are defined in the bill. The requirements for an individual to qualify for the program are detailed in the bill. The maximum assistance that may be provided in the form of a grant to an individual under the firsthome program is $10,000. The Iowa finance authority shall adopt rules as necessary to implement and administer the bill. | In Committee |
| SJR10 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa limiting years of service for members of the general assembly. | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa limiting years of service for members of the general assembly. | In Committee |
| SF560 | A bill for an act relating to participation in the electronic registration information center. | This bill requires the state registrar of voters to use certain information from the electronic registration information center to update information in the statewide voter registration system. The electronic registration information center is a nonprofit entity comprised of state election officials, with 24 member states. | In Committee |
| SF557 | A bill for an act relating to transactions involving covered financial instruments by members of the general assembly, legislative staff, and their immediate family, based on nonpublic information, and providing penalties. | This bill relates to trading transactions involving covered financial instruments by members of the general assembly, legislative staff persons, and the immediate family of either based on nonpublic information. The bill prohibits a member of the general assembly, a legislative staff person, and the immediate family of either from directly or indirectly buying, selling, or otherwise engaging in a transaction involving a covered financial instrument if the transaction is based on information derived from the member’s position or official duties, that has not been made publicly available, and that could reasonably be expected to affect the market value of the covered financial instrument, subject to limited exceptions. Current law requires members of, and candidates for, the general assembly to file personal financial disclosure statements with the member’s chamber. The bill requires members of the general assembly to report transactions involving covered financial instruments to the Iowa ethics and campaign disclosure board (board). The board must disclose the reports to the public on the board’s internet site. The board is required to investigate alleged violations of the bill and may refer cases of suspected violations to other appropriate authorities for further investigation and action. The board must submit an annual report to the general assembly including information regarding the effectiveness of the bill, the number of transactions reported, any penalties imposed, and any recommendations for further legislative action. A violation of the bill is a class “C” felony. A class “C” felony is punishable by confinement for no more than 10 years and a fine of at least $1,370 but not more than $13,660. In addition, a person who violates the bill is subject to financial penalties, including disgorgement of any profits resulting from a prohibited transaction, tax liability relating to prohibited transactions, and a member or legislative staff person may face disciplinary action by the applicable ethics committee. The bill does not prohibit a federal authority from imposing additional penalties, if applicable. | In Committee |
| SF561 | A bill for an act allowing the use of ranked choice and instant runoff voting in local government elections in this state. | This bill allows ranked choice and instant runoff voting, defined in the bill, to be used to cast or tabulate ballots in elections for local government offices, defined in the bill. | In Committee |
| SF562 | A bill for an act relating to utilization review organizations, prior authorizations and exemptions, medical billing, and independent review organizations. | This bill relates to utilization review organizations, prior authorizations and exemptions, medical billing, and independent review organizations. Under the bill, a health carrier (carrier) that uses an artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tool (artificial intelligence) for the purpose of utilization review, or that contracts with or works through an entity that uses an artificial intelligence for the purpose of utilization review, shall ensure that (1) the artificial intelligence bases its determination on the information described in the bill; (2) the artificial intelligence does not base its determination solely on a group dataset; (3) the artificial intelligence’s criteria and guidelines comply with Code chapter 514F and applicable state and federal law; (4) the artificial intelligence does not supplant health care provider (provider) decision making; (5) the use of the artificial intelligence does not discriminate against covered persons; (6) the artificial intelligence is fairly and equitably applied; (7) the artificial intelligence is open to inspection for audit or compliance reviews by the insurance division (division) and the department of health and human services; (8) disclosures pertaining to the use and oversight of the artificial intelligence are contained in written policies and procedures; (9) the artificial intelligence’s performance, use, and outcomes are periodically reviewed and revised; (10) patient data is not used beyond its intended and stated purpose; and (11) the artificial intelligence does not cause harm to a covered person. “Artificial intelligence” is defined in the bill. The artificial intelligence shall not deny, delay, or modify health care services (services) based on medical necessity, and a determination of medical necessity shall be made only by a competent provider. The bill requires a utilization review organization (organization) to respond to a request for prior authorization (authorization) from a provider within 48 hours after receipt for urgent requests or within 10 calendar days for nonurgent requests, unless there are complex or unique circumstances, or the organization is experiencing an unusually high volume of authorization requests, then an organization must respond within 15 calendar days. Within 24 hours after receipt of an authorization request, the organization shall notify a provider of, or make available, a receipt for the authorization request. The bill requires an organization to annually review all services for which authorization is required and to eliminate authorization requirements for services for which authorization requests are so routinely approved that the authorization requirement is not justified as it does not promote health care quality or reduce health care spending. Complaints regarding an organization’s compliance with the bill may be directed to the division, and the division shall notify an organization of all complaints. Complaints received under the bill shall not be considered public records. Under the bill, a carrier that utilizes authorization shall make statistics available regarding authorization approvals and denials on the carrier’s internet site in a readily accessible format. Following each calendar year, the statistics shall be updated annually by March 31, and shall include all of the information detailed in the bill. Under the bill, carriers, hospital and medical service corporations, health maintenance organizations, and providers shall comply with the requirements of Tit. I of the federal No Surprises Act, Pub. L. No. 116-260, Division BB, as may be amended, and the commissioner of insurance (commissioner) shall enforce such compliance. The commissioner may refer cases of noncompliance to the federal department of health and human services under the terms of a collaborative enforcement agreement, or to the attorney general. Under current law, an independent review organization (IRO) required to maintain written records shall submit a report to the commissioner upon request. Under the bill, an IRO required to maintain written records shall annually submit a report to the commissioner. The commissioner shall make the IRO reports publicly accessible on the division’s internet site. Under current law, each carrier required to maintain written records of requests for external review shall submit a report to the commissioner upon request. Under the bill, each carrier required to maintain written records of requests for external review shall annually submit a report to the commissioner. The commissioner shall make the carrier reports publicly accessible on the division’s internet site. The bill requires, on or before January 15, 2026, all carriers that deliver, issue for delivery, continue, or renew a health benefit plan (plan) in this state on or after January 1, 2026, to implement an authorization exemption pilot program (program) that exempts a subset of participating providers, including primary providers, from certain authorization requirements. Each carrier shall make available for each plan details about the plan’s authorization exemption requirements on the carrier’s internet site, including the carrier’s criteria for a provider to qualify for the program, the health care services that are exempt from authorization requirements, the estimated number of providers who are eligible for the program, including the providers’ specialties and the percentage of the providers that are primary care providers, and contact information for consumers and providers to contact the plan about the program or a provider’s eligibility for the program. On or before January 15, 2027, each carrier required to implement a program under the bill shall submit a report to the commissioner containing the results of the program, including an analysis of the costs and savings of the program, the plan’s recommendations for continuing or expanding the program, feedback received by each plan, and an assessment of the administrative costs incurred by each of the carrier’s plans to administer and implement authorization requirements under the program. | In Committee |
| SF558 | A bill for an act relating to Medicaid program improvements, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. | This bill relates to the Medicaid program. Division I of the bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to adopt administrative rules to ensure that services are provided to the Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS) population in a conflict-free manner. Specifically, the bill requires that case management services shall be provided by independent providers and that the supports intensity scale assessments are performed by independent assessors. Division II of the bill directs HHS to require each Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) with whom HHS executes a contract, to provide the option to LTSS population members to enroll in or transition to fee-for-service Medicaid program administration rather than managed care administration. The department shall amend any contract, request any Medicaid state plan amendment, and adopt administrative rules, as necessary, to administer this provision. The rules shall include the process for transitioning a current LTSS population member to fee-for-service program administration. Division III of the bill directs HHS to require each MCO with whom HHS executes a contract to maintain an authorized member’s LTSS unless the member’s health care provider determines a change in the LTSS is medically necessary for the member. The inability of a member who is authorized for LTSS to utilize all approved service hours, including respite care, shall not result in a reduction in authorized services unless there is medical evidence that the services are medically unnecessary for the member. Division IV of the bill requires HHS to contractually require any Medicaid MCO to collaborate with HHS and stakeholders to develop and administer a workforce recruitment, retention, and training program to provide adequate access to appropriate services, including but not limited to services to older Iowans. The department shall ensure that any such program developed is administered in a coordinated and collaborative manner across all contracting MCOs and shall require the MCOs to submit quarterly progress and outcomes reports to HHS. Division V of the bill establishes an external independent third-party review process for Medicaid providers for the review of final adverse determinations of the MCOs’ internal appeals processes. The division provides that a final decision of an external independent third-party reviewer may be reviewed in a contested case proceeding pursuant to Code chapter 17A, and ultimately is subject to judicial review. The bill provides a civil penalty for an MCO that does not comply with the written response requirements relating to an adverse determination. Division VI of the bill relates to member disenrollment for good cause during the 12 months of closed enrollment between open enrollment periods. The bill requires HHS to contractually require all Medicaid MCOs to issue a decision in response to a member’s request for disenrollment for good cause within 10 days of the date the member submits the request to the MCO utilizing the MCO’s grievance process and to adopt administrative rules to administer the division. Division VII of the bill requires the HHS to develop uniform authorization criteria for, and to utilize a request for proposals process to procure, a single credentialing verification organization to be utilized in credentialing and recredentialing providers for the Medicaid managed care and fee-for-service payment and delivery systems. The bill requires HHS to contractually require all Medicaid MCOs to apply the uniform authorization criteria, to accept verified information from the single credentialing verification organization procured by HHS, and to contractually prohibit the MCOs from requiring additional credentialing information from a provider in order to participate in the Medicaid MCO’s provider network. Division VIII of the bill relates to the office of long-term care ombudsman (OLTCO) and the Medicaid managed care ombudsman program (MCOP). For fiscal year 2025-2026, the bill appropriates $300,000 from the general fund of the state, in addition to any other funds appropriated from the general fund of the state to, and authorizes 2.50 FTEs in addition to any other full-time equivalent (FTE) positions authorized for, HHS for the OLTCO for the purposes of the MCOP. The funding appropriated and the FTE positions authorized under the bill are in addition to any other funds appropriated from the general fund of the state and actually expended, and any other FTE positions authorized and actually filled as of July 1, 2025, for the MCOP. The bill requires that any funds appropriated to and any full-time equivalent positions authorized for the OLTCO for the MCOP for fiscal year 2025-2026 shall be used exclusively for the MCOP. The additional FTE positions authorized in the bill for the MCOP shall be filled no later than September 1, 2025. The bill requires the OLTCO to include in the MCOP report, on a quarterly basis, the disposition of resources for the MCOP including expenditures and an FTE positions summary for the prior quarter. Division IX amends the provision regarding the meetings of the health policy oversight committee (HPOC) of the legislative council. Current law provides that HPOC may meet annually. The bill provides that HPOC shall meet, and further requires that HPOC meet at least two times, annually, during the legislative interim. Division X of the bill directs HHS to require each MCO with whom HHS executes a contract to annually submit a report by March 1 to HHS detailing the profit the MCO received from administering Medicaid care during the immediately preceding calendar year, and the methodology the MCO used to calculate the profit. HHS may select an independent auditor to verify each MCO’s report. HHS shall make each MCO’s report publicly available on HHS’s internet site. | In Committee |
| SF559 | A bill for an act relating to speech language pathologist assistants and the medical assistance program, and including effective date provisions. | This bill directs the department of health and human services (HHS) to adopt rules that permit a speech language pathologist assistant practicing under a licensed speech pathologist to be reimbursed for speech language pathologist assistant services provided to recipients of the medical assistance program, subject to limitations and exclusions HHS finds necessary. The bill also directs HHS to submit any necessary federal waiver or amendment for the medical assistance program to include a speech language pathologist assistant practicing under a licensed speech pathologist to participate as a provider under the medical assistance program. HHS shall include speech language pathologist assistants as providers under the medical assistance program upon HHS’s receipt of federal approval. | In Committee |
| SF556 | A bill for an act relating to eligibility requirements for pregnant women, postpartum women, and infants under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. | This bill relates to eligibility requirements for pregnant women, postpartum women, and infants under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC). The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to submit a request to the food and nutrition service of the United States department of agriculture (USDA) for approval of a waiver to provide, for purposes of WIC, continuous eligibility during a woman’s pregnancy for a pregnant woman whose family income does not exceed 375 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL), 12 months of continuous postpartum eligibility for a postpartum woman whose family income does not exceed 375 percent of the FPL, and 12 months from the date of an infant’s birth of continuous eligibility for an infant whose family income does not exceed 375 percent of the FPL. The bill requires HHS to implement the waiver not fewer than 30 calendar days from the receipt of approval from the USDA food and nutrition service. If the USDA food and nutrition service does not approve the waiver, HHS shall submit a report to the general assembly on or before December 31, 2025, containing the cost of HHS providing the expanded eligibility under WIC without the assistance of additional federal moneys. On July 1, 2026, if the USDA fails to approve the waiver to expand eligibility for pregnant women, postpartum women, and infants under WIC, and the general assembly appropriates moneys for the purpose of expanding eligibility for pregnant women, postpartum women, and infants under WIC, HHS shall provide continuous eligibility during a woman’s pregnancy for a pregnant woman whose family income that does not exceed 375 percent of the FPL, 12 months of continuous postpartum eligibility for a postpartum woman whose family income does not exceed 375 percent of the FPL, and 12 months from the date of an infant’s birth of continuous eligibility for an infant whose family income does not exceed 375 percent of the FPL. | In Committee |
| SF485 | A bill for an act establishing requirements related to nonpublic schools that receive tuition payments from parents or guardians whose students are participating in the education savings account program. | This bill establishes requirements related to nonpublic schools that receive tuition payments from parents or guardians whose students are participating in the education savings account program. Current Code section 257.11B establishes the education savings account program, which allows for payments to be made to parents and guardians for the payment of qualified educational expenses. Current law defines “qualified educational expenses” to include tuition and fees at a nonpublic school. The bill modifies the definition of “qualified educational expenses” for purposes of the education savings account program to provide that the nonpublic school must adhere to all of the following: the accountability and transparency requirements applicable to the boards of directors of school districts, the data reporting requirements applicable to school districts, the accreditation standards applicable to school districts, and the teacher employment and teacher licensing requirements applicable to school districts. The bill strikes a provision of Code section 257.11B that prohibits the Code section from being construed to authorize the state or any political subdivision of the state to require a nonpublic school to modify the nonpublic school’s educational program in order to receive payment from a parent or guardian using funds from a pupil’s account in the education savings account fund. | In Committee |
| SF434 | A bill for an act relating to the creation of a child care solutions fund, and making an appropriation. | This bill relates to the creation of a child care solutions fund (fund) under the control of the department of health and human services (HHS). The bill defines “child care worker” as a person employed by a child care provider and whose primary duties involve the provision of child care to children in this state. The bill defines “community” as a geographic area designated by HHS. The bill also defines “fund”. The fund consists of moneys appropriated by the general assembly for the purposes detailed in the bill; interest attributable to the investment of moneys in the fund; and moneys from gifts, devises, donations, and grants that are intended to be used for the fund’s purposes. Moneys in the fund are appropriated to HHS for distributions to communities. Distributions must be used to provide a state match of $2 for every $1 of private investment a community obtains to increase the wages of child care workers. The bill requires HHS to establish eligibility requirements for a geographic area to be designated as a community, and for the geographic area to maintain the community designation. HHS must continue to designate communities until the entire geographic area of the state is within a community. The bill requires HHS, on or before January 1 of each year, to submit a report, as detailed in the bill, for the immediately preceding fiscal year to the general assembly relating to the fund, and the impact on communities who received money from the fund. The bill requires HHS to adopt rules to administer the fund. The bill requires HHS to use the moneys in the fund to continue to provide state matching moneys to communities that received funds due to the community’s participation in HHS’s child care wage enhancement project during FY 2024-2025. The bill appropriates $6 million to HHS for FY 2025-2026 for deposit in the fund. | In Committee |
| SF440 | A bill for an act imposing fines for hazardous conditions caused by a person having control over a hazardous substance, providing penalties, and making appropriations. | This bill imposes fines for hazardous conditions caused by a person having control over a hazardous substance. Under current law, a person having control over a hazardous substance is strictly liable for costs and damages resulting from a hazardous condition caused by the person. In addition to the person’s liability under current law, the bill adds a fine in the amount of 10 percent of the total costs and damages. The bill requires moneys collected from the fine to be deposited into the natural resources account of the natural resources and outdoor recreation trust fund and used in a manner permitted for the account. The natural resources account supports the establishment, restoration, or enhancement of state parks, state preserves, state forests, wildlife areas, wildlife habitats, native prairies, and wetlands; wildlife diversity, recreational purposes, technical assistance and financial incentives to private landowners to promote the management of forests, fisheries, wetlands, and wildlife; the improvement of water trails, rivers, and streams; and education and outreach that provide instruction regarding natural history and the outdoors. | In Committee |
| SF439 | A bill for an act allowing cities to certify taxes for a general fund levy for libraries. | 2023 Iowa Acts, chapter 71 (HF 718), amended Code section 384.12 (additional taxes) to eliminate several taxes a city may levy subject to voter approval at an election. In lieu thereof, HF 718 allowed cities to levy the same amounts the eliminated taxes could have levied as a part of the general fund levy under Code section 384.1. This bill reestablishes the tax levy for a public library eliminated by HF 718 in an amount not to exceed 27 cents per $1,000. The tax imposed under the bill is subject to the same voter approval and notice requirements that existed prior to the enactment of HF 718. | In Committee |
| SF454 | A bill for an act relating to standards for determination of loss or permanent impairment for purposes of permanent partial disability under workers' compensation and including applicability provisions. | Under current law, determinations of extent of loss or percentage of permanent impairment for purposes of permanent partial disability under workers’ compensation use the guides to the evaluation of permanent impairment published by the American medical association, as adopted by the workers’ compensation commissioner by rule. This bill specifies that the most recent annual update to the most recent edition of the guides shall be used. The bill strikes the requirement that the workers’ compensation commissioner adopt the guides by rule. The workers’ compensation commissioner has adopted the fifth edition of the guides, published in 2001, by rule. The most recent annual update to the most recent edition of the guides is currently the 2024 update to the sixth edition. The bill applies to determinations of extent of loss or percentage of permanent impairment for purposes of permanent partial disability under workers’ compensation occurring on or after the effective date of the bill. | In Committee |
| SF456 | A bill for an act relating to the choice of doctor to treat injured employees under workers' compensation laws and including effective date and applicability provisions. | This bill relates to the choice of a physician to treat an injured employee under the state’s workers’ compensation laws. The bill allows the employer to choose care unless the employee has predesignated a physician as provided in the bill. The bill gives an employee the right to predesignate a physician who is a primary care provider, who has previously provided treatment to the employee and has retained the employee’s medical records, to provide treatment for a work-related injury. The employer is required to provide written notice to employees of this right upon hire, and periodically during employment, and upon receiving notice of an injury from an employee who has not yet predesignated a physician of the employee’s right to do so, in a manner prescribed by the workers’ compensation commissioner. An employer or an employer’s insurer shall not coerce or otherwise attempt to influence an injured employee’s choice of a physician. If the employer fails to provide such notification, an injured employee has the right to choose any physician to provide treatment for the work-related injury and that treatment shall be considered authorized care. If the employer or employee is dissatisfied with the care chosen by the other party, the dissatisfied party should communicate the basis of dissatisfaction to the other party, in writing if requested, and the parties may agree to alternate care reasonably suited to treat the injury. If the parties cannot agree to such alternate care, the dissatisfied party may make an application for alternate care to the commissioner. The bill provides procedures for proceedings on such applications. The bill provides that if the employee has chosen care, when it is medically indicated that no significant improvement from an injury is anticipated, the employee may obtain a medical opinion regarding the extent of the employee’s permanent disability. If the employer believes that the evaluation of permanent disability obtained by the employee is too high, the employer has the right to obtain another medical opinion from a physician of the employer’s choosing. The bill takes effect and applies to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2026. | In Committee |
| SF455 | A bill for an act requiring certain weekly workers' compensation benefits to be calculated by including an employee's overtime and premium pay, and to include an annual cost-of-living adjustment. | This bill requires certain weekly workers’ compensation benefits to be calculated by including an employee’s overtime and premium pay, and to include an annual cost-of-living adjustment. The bill requires the calculation of the amount of weekly workers’ compensation benefits to include, not exclude, an employee’s earnings for overtime and premium pay. The bill requires the basis of compensation for weekly workers’ compensation benefits payable for permanent total disability benefits or death benefits to increase on January 1 each year for compensation that becomes due that year, by a percentage equal to the cost-of-living adjustment made to disability benefits payable by the United States social security administration in December of the immediately preceding year. Technical corrections are also made to remove an unnumbered paragraph and for purposes of clarity. | In Committee |
| SF414 | A bill for an act relating to the review and approval by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing of housing and health care facility acquisitions by private equity firms. | This bill requires the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (DIAL) to review any acquisition of housing or health care facilities by a private equity firm. The bill prohibits a private equity firm from completing an acquisition without approval from DIAL and requires a private equity firm to give notice to DIAL of the intended acquisition 60 days before the intended acquisition. The bill prohibits DIAL from approving an acquisition unless DIAL determines that the acquisition is in the public interest, which means the acquisition must not be likely to reduce access to quality, affordable housing or health care services. The bill requires a private equity firm to provide information concerning the acquisition to DIAL upon request. The bill provides that DIAL must post notice of any pending acquisition on DIAL’s internet site and allow for public comment. DIAL may also hold public forums on a pending acquisition. The bill allows DIAL to seek an injunction to enforce the bill’s provisions. | In Committee |
| SF420 | A bill for an act relating to Native American mascots in schools. | This bill relates to Native American mascots in schools. The bill prohibits a public or nonpublic school from having or adopting a name, symbol, or image that depicts or refers to a Native American tribe, individual, custom, or tradition to be used as a mascot, nickname, logo, letterhead, or team name of the school on or after January 1, 2027. This prohibition does not apply to a school under the control of a Native American tribe and under the purview of the bureau of Indian education. | In Committee |
| SJR8 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to citizen initiatives to amend the Constitution of the State of Iowa. | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to citizen initiatives to amend the Constitution of the State of Iowa. | In Committee |
| SF381 | A bill for an act relating to youth employment and providing penalties. | This bill relates to youth employment. The bill generally strikes statutory changes made by 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 542, and restores statutory language in effect prior to the enactment of 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 542. The elimination of the work categories of street occupations and migratory labor, a prohibition on persons under 18 years of age working in occupations in establishments where nude or topless dancing is performed, and a prohibition on sexually violent predators or sex offenders employing persons under 18 years of age, enacted by 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 542, are retained. The bill requires a permit for a person under 18 years of age to work in most circumstances and provides procedures relating to such work and such permits under Code chapter 92, the state child labor law. The bill modifies permitted and prohibited work that can be performed by minors at various age levels, as well as hours in which permitted work can be performed. The bill strikes language providing for waiver of civil penalties under Code chapter 92 and a grace period before such penalties can be imposed. The bill strikes exceptions to and limitations on the applicability of certain provisions of Code chapter 92 for certain work-based learning programs. The bill strikes an exceptions to Code chapter 92 for performing in motion pictures, theatrical productions, or musical performances and modifies an exception for modeling. The bill strikes limitations on civil liability for businesses for injury, sickness, or death resulting from student participation in work-based learning programs. The bill provides penalties for certain actions taken in violation of Code chapter 92 to procure employment for oneself or of another person. Under current law, a violation of Code chapter 92 is a serious misdemeanor. A serious misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than one year and a fine of at least $430 but not more than $2,560. Under current law, an employer violating Code chapter 92 is subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000. The bill changes terminology referring to “occupations” to instead refer to “work activities”. The bill strikes language allowing a person 16 to 17 years of age to be employed in the sale or serving of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption under Code section 123.49 in specified circumstances if specified procedures are followed. The bill reflects the transfer of administration of Code chapter 92 from the labor commissioner to the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing by 2023 Iowa Acts, Senate File 514. | In Committee |
| SF327 | A bill for an act relating to dental provider reimbursement under the dental wellness plan and the dental wellness plan kids. | This bill requires that a provider participating in the dental wellness plan or the dental wellness plan kids shall be reimbursed for services at the percentage of the usual, customary, and reasonable fee or at the percentage of the commercial dental insurance billed charges, whichever is higher, to align dental provider reimbursement rates under the dental wellness plan and the dental wellness plan kids with those under the healthy and well kids in Iowa (Hawki) program, in order to maximize dental provider participation in and member access under the dental wellness plan and the dental wellness plan kids. | In Committee |
| SF324 | A bill for an act relating to provision of the state family planning services under the Medicaid program, and including effective date 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. Subject to an appropriation by the general assembly, HHS is required to adopt rules to allocate moneys to increase awareness of the family planning network and the network’s services to locations identified as having increased rates of sexually transmitted infections. Division I 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. HHS shall notify the Code editor of the date approval is received from CMS. | In Committee |
| SF336 | A bill for an act relating to the ordering and dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by a pharmacist pursuant to statewide protocols. | This bill relates to the authority of pharmacists to order and dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives. The bill authorizes a pharmacist, pursuant to statewide protocols developed by the board of pharmacy in consultation with the department of health and human services and consistent with requirements for maintenance of records, notification of health care providers or provision of a written record to the patient, and continuing education, order and dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives to patients. The bill defines “self-administered hormonal contraceptive”. | In Committee |
| SF339 | A bill for an act relating to eligibility of pregnant women and infants for the Medicaid program. | This bill amends provisions relating to income eligibility levels for pregnant women and infants under the Medicaid program. Current law provides that an infant or a pregnant woman whose family income is not more than 215 percent of the federal poverty level, if the infant or woman is otherwise eligible, is eligible for Medicaid. The bill amends the income eligibility level to 375 percent. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services (CMS) for approval in accordance with the provisions in federal law to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum eligibility under the Medicaid program to a pregnant woman whose family income while pregnant is at or below 375 percent of the federal poverty level for the household size, beginning January 1, 2026. The bill also requires HHS to submit a children’s health insurance program state plan amendment to CMS to update infant eligibility consistent with the provisions of the bill, beginning January 1, 2026. | In Committee |
| SF352 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance program benefits. | This bill relates to state child care assistance (CCA) program benefits. Under current law, the CCA program reimburses child care providers (providers) after the department of health and human services (HHS) receives a bill from the provider based on the amount of time a child enrolled in the program actually attended child care with that provider. The bill requires HHS to remit payment to a provider prior to the provider rendering child care to a child enrolled in the CCA program. Payments must be made on a monthly basis and must be based on the amount of hours a child is scheduled to receive child care from the provider and not the number of hours a child actually receives child care services. Any copayment a family participating in the CCA program is required to pay as a condition of participation must be made after the family’s child receives child care. The bill prohibits a child’s CCA benefits from terminating unless HHS sends written notification to the child’s family and the child’s provider explaining the reasons for terminating the child’s benefits, and at least 30 calendar days have passed since the date HHS sent the written notices. The bill temporarily enrolls a child in the CCA program if the child has at least one sibling that is currently enrolled in the CCA program, the provider providing child care to the child’s sibling agreed to provide child care to the child, and the provider notified HHS of the provider’s agreement. HHS must approve a child as temporarily enrolled in the CCA program within one business day of receiving the provider’s notification. HHS must send notification of approval to the provider and the child’s family. The bill provides a temporarily enrolled child’s family 21 calendar days from the date HHS approved the child’s temporary enrollment to submit an application to enroll the child in the CCA program. HHS has five business days from the date HHS receives the application to render a decision. The bill ends a child’s temporary enrollment if the child’s family does not apply for the CCA program within 21 calendar days from the date HHS approves the child’s temporary enrollment or HHS renders a decision on the child’s application for the CCA program. The bill requires HHS to make payment to a provider for child care provided to a temporarily enrolled child within one calendar week of the 21st day after HHS approved the child’s temporary enrollment or when the child’s temporary enrollment ends, whichever is earlier. The bill is not to be construed to require a provider to provide child care to a child prior to HHS approving the child as temporarily enrolled. The bill makes temporarily enrolled children exempt from waiting list requirements for the CCA program. | In Committee |
| SF357 | A bill for an act establishing a neighborhood housing revitalization assistance program within the Iowa finance authority. | This bill requires the Iowa finance authority to establish a neighborhood housing revitalization assistance program for the purpose of providing and fostering lending programs and other services to facilitate targeted neighborhood revitalization in designated urban and rural areas in this state. The bill provides that the program shall include a forgivable loan program for qualifying home improvements, repairs, and renovations for an owner-occupied home. The bill requires the authority to adopt rules governing the loan program. The rules must specify the types of improvements, repairs, and renovation authorized for the program, and the method for determining, if applicable, the portion of a loan that is to be forgiven based on household income. The bill also establishes a neighborhood housing revitalization assistance program fund under the control of the authority. The bill provides that the fund shall consist of any unobligated funds transferred to the fund from a fund described in Code section 15.106A(1)(o), and any other gift, donation, federal or other grant, or appropriation intended to be used for purposes of the fund. The bill provides that all moneys in the fund which remain unexpended or unobligated at the close of a fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available in subsequent fiscal years. | In Committee |
| SF353 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance income eligibility requirements, and child care provider reimbursement rates. | This bill relates to the state child care assistance (CCA) program income eligibility requirements and child care provider (provider) reimbursement rates. Under current law, for a child to be eligible for entry into the CCA program, the child’s family must have income below 160 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) applicable to a family’s size for a child needing basic care, or 200 percent of the FPL for a child needing special needs care. The bill increases the CCA program income eligibility limit for children needing basic care to 170 percent of the FPL for FY 2025-2026; 180 percent of the FPL for FY 2026-2027; 190 percent of the FPL for FY 2027-2028; and 200 percent of the FPL on or after July 1, 2028. The bill increases the CCA program income eligibility limit for children needing special needs care to 210 percent of the FPL for FY 2025-2026; 220 percent of the FPL for FY 2026-2027; 230 percent of the FPL for FY 2027-2028; and 240 percent of the FPL on or after July 1, 2028. The reimbursement rates paid to providers under the CCA program are based on statewide reimbursement rate surveys that the department of health and human services (HHS) conducts at least every two years to collect data on providers’ private pay rates. Under current law, CCA reimbursement rates must be set at rates no less than the 65th percentile, but no more than the 80th percentile, of rates child care providers charge private pay customers as reported in the 2020 statewide reimbursement rate survey. The bill requires HHS to base CCA reimbursement rates on the most recently completed statewide reimbursement rate survey. | In Committee |
| SF358 | A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year to an individual laid off due to an employer going out of business. | This bill provides that the maximum total amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year to an eligible individual laid off due to the individual’s employer going out of business at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the individual was last employed shall not exceed 39 times the individual’s weekly benefit amount, rather than 26 times the weekly benefit amount as provided under current law. | In Committee |
| SF264 | A bill for an act relating to prescription drug affordability, including the creation of a prescription drug affordability board. | This bill relates to prescription drug affordability measures, including the creation of a prescription drug affordability board. The bill provides definitions used in the bill. The bill creates the prescription drug affordability board (board) for the purpose of protecting stakeholders within the health care system from the high costs of prescription drug products (product or products). The bill provides for the membership and functioning of the board; the hiring of an executive director and other staff for the board; salaries, per diems, and reimbursement of expenses of the executive director, general counsel, staff, and members; and other provisions that apply to the meetings of the board. The board shall meet in open session at least four times annually to review product information, and may meet in closed session to discuss proprietary data and information. The board shall provide public notice of each board meeting at least two weeks in advance of the meeting, make materials for each meeting available to the public in advance of the meeting, provide an opportunity for public comment at each open meeting of the board, and provide the opportunity for the public to submit written comments on pending decisions of the board. The board may allow expert testimony at its meetings, including when the board meets in closed session. Members of the board shall recuse themselves from decisions related to products if the member, or an immediate family member of the member, has received or could receive certain financial benefits from the work of the board. The bill provides for disclosure of conflicts of interest relative to the work of the board, and prohibits the members of the board, the executive director, the general counsel, board staff, and third-party contractors from accepting certain gifts or donations. The bill provides that, to the extent practicable, the board shall access pricing information for products through various means as described in the bill. The board may enter into a contract with a qualified, independent third party for any service necessary to carry out the powers and duties of the board, and shall adopt rules to administer the bill. The bill requires the board to create a prescription drug affordability stakeholder council (council) to assist the board in making decisions. The council shall consist of 19 members including manufacturers of brand-name and generic prescription drugs, providers that dispense or administer prescription drugs, prescription drug suppliers, and consumers of prescription drugs. Members are appointed by the majority leader of the senate, the minority leader of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the minority leader of the house of representatives, and the governor. The members of the council shall have knowledge in certain areas as specified in the bill. The bill provides for the annual selection of a chairperson and co-chairperson, terms, and reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses of the members. The board is required to identify certain brand-name drugs or biologics, biosimilars, generic drugs, and other products that may create affordability challenges for the state health care system and for patients, including drugs used to address public health emergencies. After identifying the products, the board shall determine whether to conduct an affordability review by seeking council input about the product and considering the average patient cost share of the product. The bill specifies relevant information that may be included in conducting an affordability review. If the board finds that the spending on a product reviewed has led or will lead to an affordability challenge, the board shall submit a report to the general assembly of the board’s findings, including a recommended upper payment limit. The upper pay limit for the product shall be determined by considering the cost of administering the product, the cost of delivering the product to consumers, and other relevant administrative costs related to the product. Any information submitted to the board in accordance with the bill is subject to public inspection only to the extent provided under the state’s open records law. The bill requires the board, on or before December 31, 2025, and annually thereafter, to submit to the general assembly a report that includes price trends for products in the state; and any recommendations regarding further legislation needed to improve prescription drug affordability in the state. On or before July 1, 2026, the board shall submit a report, as described in the bill, to the general assembly on the operation of the generic drug market in the United States. | In Committee |
| SF263 | A bill for an act relating to employment matters involving public employees including collective bargaining, educator employment matters, and city civil service requirements, and including effective date, applicability, and transition provisions. | This bill relates to employment matters involving public employees including collective bargaining, educator employment matters, and city civil service requirements. The bill generally strikes statutory changes made by divisions I, II, and VI of 2017 Iowa Acts, House File 291, and restores statutory language in effect prior to the enactment of those divisions of 2017 Iowa Acts, House File 291. DIVISION I —— PUBLIC EMPLOYEE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. This division makes a variety of changes to Code chapter 20, the public employment relations Act, as well as other Code provisions relating to collective bargaining by public employees. ELIMINATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND TRANSIT EMPLOYEE CATEGORIES. The division eliminates public safety employees and transit employees as separate categories of employees for the purposes of public employee collective bargaining, making affected provisions of Code chapter 20 applicable to all public employees governed by Code chapter 20. SCOPE OF NEGOTIATIONS. The division makes changes to subjects which are negotiated through collective bargaining between public employers and public employees under Code section 20.9. The division provides that the scope of negotiations for all public employees shall consist of wages, hours, vacations, insurance, holidays, leaves of absence, shift differentials, overtime compensation, supplemental pay, seniority, transfer procedures, job classifications, health and safety matters, evaluation procedures, procedures for staff reduction, in-service training, dues checkoff, grievance procedures for resolving any questions arising under the agreement, and other matters mutually agreed upon. The division provides that retirement systems shall be excluded from the scope of negotiations. The division strikes language providing that mandatory subjects of negotiation under Code section 20.9 shall be interpreted narrowly and restrictively. The division strikes language limiting the term of a collective bargaining agreement entered into pursuant to Code chapter 20 to a maximum of five years. ARBITRATION PROCEDURES. The division makes changes to the procedures for arbitration of impasses in collective bargaining between public employers and public employees under Code section 20.22. The division modifies the factors that an arbitrator is required to consider in addition to any other relevant factors in making a final determination on an impasse item. The division requires an arbitrator to consider past collective bargaining contracts between the parties including the bargaining that led up to such contracts; comparison of wages, hours, and conditions of employment of the involved public employees with those of other public employees doing comparable work, giving consideration to factors peculiar to the area and the classifications involved; the interests and welfare of the public, the ability of the public employer to finance economic adjustments, and the effect of such adjustments on the normal standard of services; and the power of the public employer to levy taxes and appropriate funds for the conduct of its operations. The division strikes language permitting the parties to agree to change the four-day deadline to serve final offers on impasse items after a request for arbitration is received. The division strikes language prohibiting the parties to an arbitration from introducing, and the arbitrator from accepting or considering, any direct or indirect evidence regarding any subject excluded from negotiations pursuant to Code section 20.9. The division strikes language providing for a maximum increase in base wages in an arbitrator’s award. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE ELECTIONS. The division makes changes to public employee elections conducted pursuant to Code section 20.15. The division strikes language providing for retention and recertification elections and requires the employment appeal board (EAB) to cancel any such elections scheduled or in process. The division requires the EAB to consider a petition for certification of an employee organization as the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit for which an employee organization was not retained and recertified as the exclusive representative of that bargaining unit regardless of the amount of time that has elapsed since the retention and recertification election, notwithstanding prior requirements prohibiting such consideration for two years. The division provides that the outcome of a certification or decertification election is determined by a majority vote of the members of the bargaining unit voting, rather than the total membership of the bargaining unit. The division provides for a runoff election if none of the choices on the ballot in a certification election receives a majority vote of the members of the bargaining unit voting. The division lowers the required percentage of support from employees in a bargaining unit required for an employee organization that did not submit a petition for certification as the exclusive bargaining representative of a bargaining unit to be listed on the ballot for a certification election from 30 percent to 10 percent. The division strikes language prohibiting the EAB from considering a petition for certification as the exclusive bargaining representative of a bargaining unit unless a period of two years has elapsed from the date of the last certification election in which an employee organization was not certified as the exclusive representative of that bargaining unit or of the last decertification election in which an employee organization was decertified as the exclusive representative of that bargaining unit. The division prohibits the EAB from considering a petition for certification as the exclusive bargaining representative of a bargaining unit for one year after the employee organization is not certified in a certification election. The division makes additional changes relating to the scheduling of decertification elections. EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION DUES. The division strikes a prohibition on public entities authorizing or administering a deduction from the salaries or wages of its employees for membership dues to an employee organization. The division provides procedures for administering such dues deductions. EAB DUTIES. The division provides that the EAB may interpret and apply, as well as administer, Code chapter 20. The division strikes language permitting the EAB to appoint a certified shorthand reporter to report state employee grievance and discipline resolution proceedings, to contract with a vendor to conduct elections, to establish fees to cover the cost of elections, and to retain certain funds collected by the EAB as repayment receipts. STATEWIDE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS FOLLOWING A GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION YEAR. The division strikes language providing for modified collective bargaining procedures for a proposed, statewide collective bargaining agreement to become effective in the year following a general election in which the governor and certain other elected officials are elected. CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS. The division strikes language providing that certain information relating to elections conducted by the EAB is a confidential record under Code chapter 22, the state open records law. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC EMPLOYEE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. The division strikes a definition of “supplemental pay”. The division strikes language providing that a public employer has the right to evaluate public employees in positions within the public agency. The division strikes language providing that a public employee has the right under Code section 20.8 to exercise any right or seek any remedy provided by law, including but not limited to Code sections 70A.28 and 70A.29, Code chapter 8A, subchapter IV, and Code chapters 216 and 400. The division transfers language in Code section 20.10 prohibiting a public employee or any employee organization from negotiating or attempting to negotiate directly with a member of the governing board of a public employer if the public employer has appointed or authorized a bargaining representative for the purpose of bargaining with the public employees or their representative to Code section 20.17. The division decreases the amount of time before an employee organization decertified as the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit for violating an injunction against an unlawful strike can be certified again from 24 months to 12 months. The division strikes language prohibiting voluntary contributions by individuals to political parties or candidates through payroll deductions. The division strikes a requirement that a copy of a final collective bargaining agreement be filed with the EAB by the public employer within 10 days of the agreement being entered into. The division strikes a requirement that the EAB maintain an internet site that allows searchable access to a database of collective bargaining agreements and other collective bargaining information. The division changes the period before retirement for a prohibited voluntary reduction to a nonsupervisory rank or grade by a supervisor and related ineligibility for benefits from 36 months to 6 months. The division strikes language providing that a mediator shall not be required to testify in any arbitration proceeding regarding any matters occurring in the course of a mediation. The division requires a council, board of waterworks, or other board or commission which establishes a pension and annuity retirement system pursuant to Code chapter 412 to negotiate in good faith with a certified employee organization which is the collective bargaining representative of the employees, with respect to the amount or rate of the assessment on the wages and salaries of employees and the method or methods for payment of the assessment by the employees. The division makes additional conforming changes. TRANSITION PROVISIONS —— DEADLINE. The division requires parties, mediators, and arbitrators engaging in any collective bargaining procedures provided for in Code chapter 20, Code 2025, who have not, before the effective date of the division, completed such procedures, to immediately terminate any such procedures in process as of the effective date of the division. The division provides that a collective bargaining agreement negotiated pursuant to such procedures in process shall not become effective. The division prohibits parties, mediators, and arbitrators from engaging in further collective bargaining procedures except as provided in the division. The division requires such parties to commence collective bargaining in accordance with Code section 20.17, as amended by the division. The division requires such parties to complete such bargaining not later than June 30, 2025, unless the parties mutually agree to a different deadline. The division requires the EAB to adopt emergency rules to implement these requirements. The division also requires the department of administrative services to adopt emergency rules to implement the provisions of the division relating to dues deductions. EFFECTIVE DATE AND APPLICABILITY PROVISIONS. The division takes effect upon enactment. With the exception of the section of the division amending Code section 20.6, subsection 1, the division does not apply to collective bargaining agreements which have been ratified in a ratification election, for which an arbitrator has made a final determination, or which have become effective, when such events occurred before the effective date of the division. The division applies to all collective bargaining procedures provided for in Code chapter 20 occurring on and after the effective date of the division and collective bargaining agreements for which a ratification election is held, for which an arbitrator makes a final determination, or which become effective on or after the effective date of the division. DIVISION II —— EDUCATOR EMPLOYMENT MATTERS. This division makes a variety of changes relating to educator employment matters. TERMINATION OF TEACHER EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS. The division makes various changes relating to the termination of teacher employment contracts. The division shortens various procedural deadlines regarding private hearings held after a superintendent recommends termination of a teacher’s employment contract. The division makes participation in such a private hearing by the superintendent, the superintendent’s designated representatives, the teacher’s immediate supervisor, the teacher, and the teacher’s representatives mandatory on the part of those individuals instead of discretionary. The division requires that the school board employ a certified shorthand reporter to keep a record of a private hearing. The division requires the school board to issue subpoenas for witnesses and evidence on behalf of the board and the teacher. The division provides for a judicial remedy if a witness appears and refuses to testify or to produce required books or papers at a private hearing. The division authorizes the superintendent and the teacher to file written briefs and arguments with the board at the conclusion of the private hearing. The division provides deadlines for determining the status of the teacher’s contract if the teacher does not request a private hearing. The division requires that the decision of the board include findings of fact and conclusions of law. The division strikes language authorizing a school board which votes to continue a teacher’s contract to issue the teacher a one-year, nonrenewable contract. The division permits a teacher to appeal the board’s determination to an adjudicator and provides procedures for such appeals. TEACHER PROBATIONARY PERIODS. The division makes various changes relating to probationary employment of teachers. The division decreases from two years to one year the length of a teacher’s probationary employment period in a school district if the teacher has successfully completed a probationary period of employment for another school district located in Iowa. The division provides that requirements for notices of termination, private hearings, and appeals applicable to nonprobationary teachers whose employment contracts are terminated are applicable to probationary teachers whose employment contracts are terminated. The division strikes alternative procedures for the termination of employment contracts of such probationary teachers, including notification procedures and the opportunity to request a private conference with the school board. EXTRACURRICULAR INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC COACH CONTRACTS. The division makes various changes relating to extracurricular interscholastic athletic coach employment contracts. The division provides that wages for such coaches shall be paid pursuant to established or negotiated supplemental pay schedules. The division provides that employment contracts of such coaches shall be continued automatically in force and effect for equivalent periods and that the termination of such contracts follows procedures similar to those used for teacher contracts. The division strikes language providing that employment contracts of such coaches may be terminated prior to their expiration for any lawful reason following an informal, private hearing before the school board. The division strikes language providing that the decision of the school board to terminate such a contract is final. SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR EMPLOYMENT MATTERS. The division makes various changes relating to school administrator employment matters. The division provides that the rate of compensation in an administrator’s employment contract must be on a weekly or monthly basis. The division strikes language authorizing a school board to issue a temporary employment contract to an administrator for a period of up to nine months. The division strikes language authorizing a school board to issue a one-year, nonrenewable employment contract and instead authorizes a school board considering the termination of an administrator’s contract and the administrator to mutually agree to enter into such a contract. The division decreases the probationary employment period for administrators from three years to two years and authorizes a school board to waive the probationary period for an administrator who previously served a probationary period in another school district. The division strikes language providing that a hearing before an administrative law judge requested by an administrator whose employment contract a school board is considering terminating shall be a private hearing. The division reduces certain procedural deadlines relating to such hearings. The division strikes language providing that any witnesses for the parties at the hearing shall be sequestered. The division requires that the decision of the board include findings of fact and conclusions of law. The division strikes language authorizing a school board which votes to continue an administrator’s contract to issue the administrator a one-year, nonrenewable contract. INTENSIVE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. The division makes various changes relating to intensive assistance programs. The division strikes language providing that a teacher who has previously participated in an intensive assistance program relating to particular Iowa teaching standards or criteria shall not be entitled to participate in another intensive assistance program relating to the same standards or criteria. The division strikes language providing that following a teacher’s participation in an intensive assistance program, the teacher shall be reevaluated to determine whether the teacher successfully completed the intensive assistance program and is meeting district expectations under the applicable Iowa teaching standards or criteria. The division strikes language providing that if the teacher did not successfully complete the intensive assistance program or continues not to meet the applicable Iowa teaching standards or criteria, the board may initiate procedures to terminate the teacher’s employment contract immediately or at the end of the school year or may continue the teacher’s contract for a period not to exceed one year on a nonrenewable basis and without the right to a private hearing. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO EDUCATOR EMPLOYMENT MATTERS. The division strikes language authorizing a school board to issue a temporary employment contract to a teacher for a period of up to six months. The division strikes language providing that just cause for which a teacher may be discharged at any time during the contract year under Code section 279.27 includes but is not limited to a violation of the code of professional conduct and ethics of the board of educational examiners if the board has taken disciplinary action against a teacher during the six months following issuance by the board of a final written decision and finding of fact after a disciplinary proceeding. The division either authorizes or requires a school board and its certified bargaining representative to negotiate various matters pursuant to Code chapter 20. The division makes additional conforming changes. EFFECTIVE DATE AND APPLICABILITY PROVISIONS. The division takes effect upon enactment. The division applies to employment contracts of school employees entered into pursuant to Code chapter 279 on and after the effective date of the division. The division does not apply to collective bargaining agreements pursuant to Code chapter 20 which have been ratified in a ratification election, for which an arbitrator has made a final determination, or which have become effective, when such events occurred before the effective date of the division. The division applies to all collective bargaining procedures provided for in Code chapter 20 occurring on and after the effective date of the division and collective bargaining agreements pursuant to Code chapter 20 for which a ratification election is held, for which an arbitrator makes a final determination, or which become effective on or after the effective date of the division. DIVISION III —— CITY CIVIL SERVICE REQUIREMENTS. This division makes a variety of changes relating to city civil service requirements under Code chapter 400. SENIORITY RIGHTS. The division strikes language permitting a city council to extinguish statutory seniority rights of all city civil service employees who are not employed or appointed as a fire fighter or police officer, fire chief or police chief, or assistant fire chief or assistant police chief, unless otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement. The division reestablishes any such rights so extinguished, including accrual of seniority during the period of extinguishment. ADVERSE EMPLOYMENT ACTIONS —— GROUNDS AND PROCEDURES. The division provides that adverse employment action may be taken against a city civil service employee for neglect of duty, disobedience, misconduct, or failure to properly perform the person’s duties. The division strikes language permitting such action to be taken due to any act or failure to act by the employee that is in contravention of law, city policies, or standard operating procedures, or that in the judgment of the person having the appointing power as provided in Code chapter 400, or the chief of police or chief of the fire department, is sufficient to show that the employee is unsuitable or unfit for employment. The division strikes language providing that the scope of review for an appeal to district court from a civil service commission shall be limited to de novo appellate review without a trial or additional evidence, instead providing that the appeal shall be a trial de novo as an equitable action. DIMINUTION OF EMPLOYEES. The division provides that a diminution of city employees by a city council can only be implemented when the public interest requires. The division permits a diminution to be carried out either by abolishing an office and removing the employee from the employee’s classification or grade thereunder, or reducing the number of employees in any classification or grade by suspending the necessary number. The division provides for such removal to be carried out based on seniority and requires that employees so removed be placed on a preferred list for at least three years for purposes of appointments or promotions made during that period to the person’s former duties. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. The division makes changes in terminology relating to adverse employment actions for city civil service employees. The division makes additional conforming changes. EFFECTIVE DATE AND APPLICABILITY PROVISIONS. The division takes effect upon enactment. The division applies to employment actions taken on or after the effective date of the division. | 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| HF711 | A bill for an act relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, including establishment training programs, schools of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, and course of study. (Formerly HF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| SF607 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment S–3186 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Nay |
| SF607 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment S–3185 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF607 | A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers. (Formerly SF 504, SSB 1173.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall amendment S–3184 be adopted? | 05/14/2025 | Yea |
| SF608 | A bill for an act regulating the marketing of grain, by providing for fees paid by grain dealers and warehouse operators into the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund, and the payment of claims to reimburse sellers and depositors for losses covered by the fund, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1131.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 10/24/2022. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/14/2025 | 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: Enactment, 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| SF615 | A bill for an act relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 599, SF 363.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Absent |
| SF626 | A bill for an act relating to federal moneys and regulations, including the appropriation of federal moneys made available from federal block grants and other nonstate sources, the allocation of portions of federal block grants, the procedures if federal moneys or federal block grants are more or less than anticipated, and the authorization of certain city regulations when required under federal law, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1216.) Effe | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| SF645 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and the state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and extending the repeal date for the housing renewal pilot program. (Formerly SSB 1236.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | 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? | 05/13/2025 | Absent |
| SF648 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch including judicial officer salaries and interpreter or translator fees, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1233.) Effective date: 06/20/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Absent |
| SF657 | A bill for an act related to state taxation and finance and other related matters, by creating, modifying, and eliminating tax credits and tax incentive programs, providing for penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1205.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025, 12/31/2025, 01/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2017, 01/01/2025, 01/01/2026. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/13/2025 | Absent |
| SF412 | A bill for an act relating to property law, including rent, rental agreements, notice requirements, and possession of property. (Formerly SSB 1047.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HF639 | A bill for an act relating to hazardous liquid pipelines, including common carrier requirements, proceedings under the Iowa utilities commission, including commission member attendance at hearings and informational meetings, including allowing certain persons to intervene in such proceedings, including sanctions on intervenors in contested cases, and permit, permit renewal, and operation limitations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 240.) | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | 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.) | Shall amendment S–3165 to amendment S–3064 be adopted? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HF711 | A bill for an act relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, including establishment training programs, schools of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, and course of study. (Formerly HF 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HF975 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority and the Iowa finance authority including the strategic infrastructure program, brownfield, grayfield, and redevelopment tax credits, community attraction and tourism, vision Iowa, sports tourism marketing, the historic preservation tax credit, homelessness, the title guaranty board, arts and culture, and the Iowa reinvestment Act and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions. (For | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | 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 | Yea |
| HF1025 | A bill for an act relating to certain state highways not designated as part of the interstate road system, including the operation of implements of husbandry on such highways, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 394.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Yea |
| SF646 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection. (Formerly SSB 1230.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| SF647 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1231.) Effective Date: Conditional, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/12/2025 | Nay |
| HF856 | A bill for an act prohibiting public entities from engaging in certain activities relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 155.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 05/09/2025 | Nay |
| HF297 | A bill for an act relating to certain emergency services provided by a city. (Formerly HSB 98.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
| HF299 | A bill for an act relating to the provision of information relating to immunization exemptions. (Formerly HF 34.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/29/2025 | Nay |
| HF530 | A bill for an act authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or an assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons. (Formerly HSB 166.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/29/2025 | 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 | Nay |
| SF616 | A bill for an act relating to the rights and obligations of certain state and local government entities in erecting, rebuilding, or repairing partition fences, including the allocation of moneys from accounts in the Iowa resources enhancement and protection fund.(Formerly SF 597, SF 432.) | Shall the bill pass? | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
| SF632 | A bill for an act providing for programs and regulations related to agriculture, including crop production, animal health, and agricultural processing, providing for powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, providing fees, and providing penalties. (Formerly SF 522, SSB 1160.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
| SF641 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of health and human services, including administrative services organizations, child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, internal audit and examination information, and the region incentive fund in the mental health and disability services regional service fund, health maintenance organization's premium tax, and making appropriations and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly | Shall the bill pass? | 04/29/2025 | Yea |
| SF106 | A bill for an act relating to the conveyance of firearms in or on certain vehicles. Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/28/2025 | 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 | Nay |
| SF288 | A bill for an act relating to students who are pregnant or who recently gave birth who attend state institutions of higher education governed by the board of regents and community colleges. (Formerly SF 12.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/28/2025 | Yea |
| HF395 | A bill for an act relating to approved courses of instruction for school bus drivers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 107.) Effective date: 01/01/2026. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/28/2025 | Yea |
| SF383 | A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, prescription drugs, and pharmacy services administrative organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1074.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 Applicability date: 07/01/2025 | Shall the bill pass? | 04/28/2025 | Yea |
| SF383 | A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, prescription drugs, and pharmacy services administrative organizations, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1074.) Effective date: 07/01/2025 Applicability date: 07/01/2025 | Shall amendment S–3139 to amendment S–3138 be adopted? | 04/28/2025 | Yea |
| SF398 | A bill for an act relating to closing costs for a debt secured by an interest in land. (Formerly SSB 1103.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/28/2025 | Yea |
| SF423 | A bill for an act relating to deer hunting, including deer depredation and the purchasing of a youth deer hunting license and tag. (Formerly SF 331.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/28/2025 | Yea |
| SF491 | A bill for an act prohibiting the use of remotely piloted aircraft flying over farm property, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 1191.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. | Shall the bill pass? | 04/28/2025 | 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 | 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–3136 be adopted? | 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–3135 be adopted? | 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–3134 be adopted? | 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–3133 be adopted? | 04/23/2025 | Yea |
| 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. | 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IA | Iowa Senate District 35 | Senate | Democrat | In Office | 02/10/2025 |