Commercial and Bankruptcy Law Section Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:38 PM
| BILL | TITLE | SUMMARY | STATUS | ISBA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HF 1031 | A bill for an act relating to county recorder fees and land record information systems management. (Formerly HF 328.) | This bill relates to documents and instruments filed or recorded with a county recorder. Under current law, the board of supervisors of each county, on behalf of each county recorder, is directed to enter into an agreement under Code chapter 28E (chapter 28E agreement) with the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar. (4/15/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2497 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for an assignment of assets for the benefit of creditors, exempting the related tax on the transfer of real estate, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SF 2213.) | Introduced, placed on Ways and Means calendar. (4/15/26) | Support | |
| SF 2213 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for an assignment of assets for the benefit of creditors, exempting the related tax on the transfer of real estate, and including effective date provisions. | GENERAL. This bill is based on the "Uniform Assignment for Benefit of Creditors Act" approved and recommended by the uniform law commission in 2025 for enactment by all states. The bill repeals Code chapter 681 which governs the same subject. BACKGROUND. An assignment for the benefit of... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2497 (4/14/26) | Support |
| SF 2215 | A bill for an act relating to the applicability of the standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities to contingent deferred annuities. (Formerly SSB 3064.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill provides that subsections 2 through 7 of Code section 508.38 (standard nonforfeitures ?? deferred annuities) shall not apply to contingent deferred annuities, except that the commissioner of insurance may prescribe by rule nonforfeiture benefits for contingent deferred annuities that the commissioner deems equitable... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2596 | A bill for an act regulating the marketing of grain, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 745.) | BACKGROUND. The department of agriculture and land stewardship (DALS) regulates grain marketing transactions under three interrelated Code chapters. The first two Code chapters regulate grain marketers, including Code chapter 203 providing for the regulation of a grain dealer purchasing grain from a seller and Code... Full Bill Text |
Senate amendment H-8322 filed. (4/7/26) | |
| HF 2706 | A bill for an act relating to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 722.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2026, 11/01/2026, 06/18/2027. | This bill relates to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation. MAGISTRATES APPOINTED IN JUDICIAL ELECTION DISTRICTS. The bill provides for the appointment and service of magistrates in judicial election districts rather than individual counties and makes conforming... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/7/26) | Undecided |
| SF 2401 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3155.) | This bill relates to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation. MAGISTRATES APPOINTED IN JUDICIAL ELECTION DISTRICTS. The bill provides for the appointment and service of magistrates in judicial election districts rather than individual counties and makes conforming... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/7/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2326 | A bill for an act relating to debt management programs, services, fees, and licensee requirements. (Formerly HSB 603.) | This bill relates to debt management, services, fees, and licensee requirements. Under current law, if a debt management program (program) is based on a model which requires a licensee to receive money or creditors, the licensee who receives the money for distribution shall maintain a separate... Full Bill Text |
Read first time, attached to SF 2298 . (4/2/26) | |
| SF 2298 | A bill for an act relating to debt management programs, services, fees, and licensee requirements.(Formerly SSB 3090.) | This bill relates to debt management, services, fees, and licensee requirements. Under current law, if a debt management program (program) is based on a model which requires a licensee to receive money or creditors, the licensee who receives the money for distribution shall maintain a separate... Full Bill Text |
Attached to HF 2326 . (4/2/26) | Monitor |
| SF 492 | A bill for an act relating to the acquisition of certain vehicles by a vehicle recycler, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 292.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | Under current law, the purchaser or transferee of a motor vehicle sold for scrap or junk is required to surrender the certificate of title, properly endorsed and signed by the previous owner, to a county treasurer, and apply for a junking certificate from the county... Full Bill Text |
Message from House. (3/31/26) | |
| HF 2255 | A bill for an act relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders.(Formerly HF 2061.) | Under current law, a peace officer, a civilian employee of a law enforcement agency, a state or federal judicial officer, or state or federal prosecutor may request their name be redacted from documents made public by the county assessor or county recorder. This bill adds... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2526 | A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents. (Formerly HF 2036.) | This bill relates to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents. The bill defines "address", "child foster care", "foster child", and "foster parent". The bill prohibits the department of health and human services (HHS) and HHS's agents from knowingly providing or making available a document... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2695 | A bill for an act relating to the application of foreign law and limiting changes in venue of civil actions, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2554.) | This bill relates to the application of foreign law and limits the transfer of civil actions when application of foreign law would violate constitutional protections. The bill defines "foreign law" as law, legal codes, or legal systems of jurisdictions outside any state or territory of the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2617 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles. (Formerly HSB 667.) | This bill rewrites and reorganizes current Code section 321.89, regulating the towing, impounding, reclaiming, and selling of abandoned vehicles, and providing required notice. The bill does not amend substantive provisions under current law, but makes changes to enhance readability. The bill amends Code sections 321.88 and 321.90... Full Bill Text |
Attached to SF 2475 . (3/25/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2457 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles, and making appropriations.(Formerly SSB 3061; See SF 2475.) | Code sections 321.89 and 321.90 regulate the taking into custody and disposal of abandoned vehicles, as defined in Code section 321.89. Current law requires an entity that takes custody of an abandoned vehicle to send notice by certified mail to all known claimants of the vehicle... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2475 . (3/25/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2475 | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles.(Formerly SF 2457, SSB 3061.) | Attached to HF 2617 . (3/25/26) | ||
| HF 2184 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the applicability of the standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities to contingent deferred annuities.(Formerly HSB 525.) | This bill provides that subsections 2 through 7 of Code section 508.38 (standard nonforfeitures ?? deferred annuities) shall not apply to contingent deferred annuities, except that the commissioner of insurance may prescribe by rule nonforfeiture benefits for contingent deferred annuities that the commissioner deems equitable... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2554 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the application of foreign law and limiting changes in venue of civil actions, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 2695.) | This bill relates to the application of foreign law and limits the transfer of civil actions when application of foreign law would violate constitutional protections. The bill defines "foreign law" as law, legal codes, or legal systems of jurisdictions outside any state or territory of the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2565 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing a human trafficking investigative task force.(Formerly HF 1011, HF 831, HF 463.) | This bill establishes a human trafficking investigative task force. DIVISION I. The bill provides that a task force to combat human trafficking is established within the department of public safety (department) to oversee and coordinate efforts to combat human trafficking, and shall be known as the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (3/3/26) | Monitor |
| HF 831 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including the establishment of human trafficking prosecution units and the remittance of wire transmission fees to the office to combat human trafficking.(Formerly HF 463; See HF 1011, HF 2565.) | This bill relates to human trafficking, including the establishment of human trafficking prosecution units and the remittance of wire transmission fees to the office to combat human trafficking. The bill provides that two human trafficking prosecution units are established in the department of justice. The attorney... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 1011 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including the establishment of human trafficking prosecution units and the remittance of wire transmission fees to the office to combat human trafficking.(Formerly HF 831, HF 463; See HF 2565.) | This bill relates to human trafficking, including the establishment of human trafficking prosecution units and the remittance of wire transmission fees to the office to combat human trafficking. The bill provides that two human trafficking prosecution units are established in the department of justice. The attorney... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2036 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents.(See HF 2526.) | This bill relates to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents. The bill defines "address", "child foster care", "foster child", and "foster parent". The bill prohibits a person from knowingly providing or making available a document to a biological parent of a foster foster parent... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2061 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders.(See HF 2255.) | Under current law, a peace officer, a civilian employee of a law enforcement agency, a state or federal judicial officer, or state or federal prosecutor may request their name be redacted from documents made public by the county assessor or county recorder. This bill adds... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2723 | A bill for an act relating to the use of specie as legal tender.(Formerly HF 2311.) | This bill provides that specie, defined in the bill, is legal tender in this state and that a person is not required to accept specie as payment. The bill requires the treasurer of state (treasurer) to establish or contract with one or more bullion depositories for... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Ways and Means. (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 667 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles.(See HF 2617.) | This bill rewrites and reorganizes current Code section 321.89, regulating the towing, impounding, reclaiming, and selling of abandoned vehicles, and providing required notice. The bill does not amend substantive provisions under current law, but makes changes to enhance readability. The bill amends Code sections 321.88 and 321.90... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2617. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 745 - Dead | A bill for an act regulating the marketing of grain, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 2596.) | BACKGROUND. The department of agriculture and land stewardship (DALS) regulates grain marketing transactions under three interrelated Code chapters. The first two Code chapters regulate grain marketers, including Code chapter 203 providing for the regulation of a grain dealer purchasing grain from a seller and Code... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2596. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3061 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles, and making appropriations.(See SF 2457.) | Code sections 321.89 and 321.90 regulate the taking into custody and disposal of abandoned vehicles, as defined in Code section 321.89. Current law requires an entity that takes custody of an abandoned vehicle to send notice by certified mail to all known claimants of the vehicle... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2457 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2427 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders. | Under current law, a peace officer, a civilian employee of a law enforcement agency, a state or federal judicial officer, or a state or federal prosecutor may request their name be redacted from documents made public by the county assessor or county recorder. This bill... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3090 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to debt management programs, services, fees, and licensee requirements.(See SF 2298.) | This bill relates to debt management, services, fees, and licensee requirements. Under current law, if a debt management program (program) is based on a model which requires a licensee to receive money or creditors, the licensee who receives the money for distribution shall maintain a separate... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2298 (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 559 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles, and making appropriations. | Code sections 321.89 and 321.90 regulate the taking into custody and disposal of abandoned vehicles, as defined in Code section 321.89. Current law requires an entity that takes custody of an abandoned vehicle to send notice by certified mail to all known claimants of the vehicle... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee Meeting: 02/12/2026 12:15PM RM 304 (Cancelled). (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2322 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to towing a motor vehicle without the owner's consent, and making penalties applicable. | Under current law, the towing, storing, selling, and disposing of abandoned vehicles are regulated under Code section 321.89. This bill regulates the towing, storing, selling, and disposing of a motor vehicle that was towed without the owner's consent and is not an abandoned vehicle. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Transportation. (2/6/26) | |
| HSB 603 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to debt management programs, services, fees, and licensee requirements.(See HF 2326.) | This bill relates to debt management, services, fees, and licensee requirements. Under current law, if a debt management program (program) is based on a model which requires a licensee to receive money or creditors, the licensee who receives the money for distribution shall maintain a separate... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2326 (2/6/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 525 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the applicability of the standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities to contingent deferred annuities.(See HF 2184.) | This bill provides that subsections 2 through 7 of Code section 508.38 (standard nonforfeitures ?? deferred annuities) shall not apply to contingent deferred annuities, except that the commissioner of insurance may prescribe by rule nonforfeiture benefits for contingent deferred annuities that the commissioner deems equitable... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2184. (1/28/26) | Monitor |
| SF 468 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SSB 1038.) | Current law requires an entity that takes custody of an abandoned vehicle to send notice of that fact to all known claimants of the vehicle no more than 20 days after taking custody of the vehicle. This bill requires such notice to be sent no... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Bousselot, Drey, and Webster. (1/22/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2054 - Dead | A bill for an act related to bankruptcy and personal property exemption amounts and including effective date provisions. | This bill relates to bankruptcy and personal property exemption amounts. The bill expands eligibility for the homestead exemption from judicial sale to include any debtor to whom the law of the state applies on the date a petition in bankruptcy is filed. The bill similarly expands eligibility... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/21/26) | Support |
| HF 357 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the acquisition of certain vehicles by a vehicle recycler, and making penalties applicable. | Under current law, the purchaser or transferee of a motor vehicle sold for scrap or junk is required to surrender the certificate of title, properly endorsed and signed by the previous owner, to a county treasurer, and apply for a junking certificate from the county... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Bossman, Henderson and Johnson, R. (1/20/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3029 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to parties responsible for the confidentiality of information of participants in the address confidentiality program. | Under current law, an assessor or the assessor's staff must redact the name of a participant in the address confidentiality program from documents displayed for public access on an internet site, upon the participant's request. This bill extends this requirement to recorders and requires recorders... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Westrich, Blake, and Driscoll. (1/14/26) | Monitor |