Construction Law Section Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:38 PM
| BILL | TITLE | SUMMARY | STATUS | ISBA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF 2365 | A bill for an act relating to public improvement contracts, including notice requirements.(Formerly SSB 3159.) | This bill relates to public improvement contracts. Under Code chapter 573, a public corporation may enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement. The bill requires that no later than 14 calendar days after the public corporation's final acceptance of the public improvement, the... Full Bill Text |
Read first time, passed on file. (4/9/26) | Support |
| HF 2667 | A bill for an act relating to project design standards and specifications, including by providing for a statewide urban design and specifications board and requiring certain reports to city councils regarding noncompliant projects. (Formerly HSB 744.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill establishes the statewide urban design and specifications board (SUDAS board) within the department of transportation (DOT). The SUDAS board is required to develop statewide urban design standards and specifications (SUDAS), which may include soliciting recommendations from the institute for transportation at Iowa state... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/1/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2394 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a statewide urban design and specifications board, including assessment of costs for local government projects that do not comply with the board's design or specifications manuals.(Formerly SSB 3173.) | This bill establishes the statewide urban design and specifications board (SUDAS board) within the department of transportation (DOT). The SUDAS board is required to develop statewide urban design standards and specifications (SUDAS), which may include soliciting recommendations from the institute for transportation at Iowa state... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/31/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2297 | A bill for an act relating to radon mitigation in residential buildings.(Formerly HF 82.) | This bill relates to radon mitigation requirements. The bill requires the state building code commissioner to adopt as part of the state building code a requirement that new single-family or two-family residential construction include a passive method for the mitigation of radon listed in appendix... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2189 | A bill for an act relating to public improvement contracts, including notice requirements.(Formerly HSB 567.) | This bill relates to public improvement contracts. Under Code chapter 573, a public corporation may enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement. The bill requires that no later than 14 calendar days after the public corporation's final acceptance of the public improvement, the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Support |
| SF 2374 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the national electrical code, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3097.) | This bill relates to the national electrical code. The bill adopts certain provisions of the national electrical code, 2023 edition, with amendments, as the national electrical code applicable in this state. The bill prohibits a political subdivision from adopting a local electrical code that is... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2376 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to bonds and letters of credit for general contractors and subcontractors. (Formerly SF 576, SSB 1151.) | This bill relates to performance bonds and letters of credit for general contractors and subcontractors. The bill requires a general contractor or subcontractor, as defined in Code chapter 572 (mechanic's lien), engaged in the business of construction, defined in the bill as the improvement of... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/18/26) | Monitor |
| HF 82 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to radon mitigation in residential buildings.(See HF 2297.) | This bill relates to radon mitigation requirements. The bill requires the state building code commissioner to adopt as part of the state building code a requirement that new single-family or two-family residential construction include passive methods for the mitigation of radon. The requirement shall apply... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/16/26) | No Position |
| HF 2191 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to elections for school district and city officers and bonds, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 2623.) | This bill relates to elections for school district and city DIVISION I ?? SCHOOL DISTRICT AND CITY ELECTIONS. The bill changes the day of school district and city elections from the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year to the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/16/26) | |
| HF 2623 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to elections for school district and city officers, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2191.) | This bill relates to elections for school district and city officers. The bill changes the day of school district and city elections from the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year to the first Tuesday after the first Monday of... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Koelker, Webster, and Winckler. (3/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2439 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to fire protection sprinkler systems in certain residential properties. (Formerly SF 310, SSB 1094.) | This bill requires the state building code commissioner to adopt as part of the state building code a prohibition on the required installation of a fire protection sprinkler system in a series of attached single-family residences consisting of 18,000 square feet or less. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/5/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2157 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to malicious prosecution arising from civil actions between private parties. | This bill relates to malicious prosecution arising from civil actions between private parties. The bill defines "malice" as the initiation of a civil action for a primary purpose other than securing a proper adjudication of the claim, and "probable cause" as the existence of reasonably known... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/4/26) | |
| SF 2433 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the national electrical code, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3148.) | This bill relates to the national electrical code. The bill adopts the international energy conservation code, 2009 edition (national energy code), as part of the national electrical code applicable in this state. Current law requires the electrical examining board (board) to adopt rules for the... Full Bill Text |
Amendment S-5040 filed. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2665 | A bill for an act relating to radon mitigation requirements and tax credits, including retroactive applicability provisions, and making appropriations. | This bill relates to radon mitigation requirements and tax credits. DIVISION I ?? RADON MITIGATION ?? STATE BUILDING CODE. The bill requires that the state building code commissioner adopt, as part of the state building code, that new single-family or two-family residential construction starting after adoption... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Ways and Means. (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 310 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to fire protection sprinkler systems in certain residential properties.(Formerly SSB 1094; See SF 2439.) | This bill requires the state building code commissioner to adopt as part of the state building code a prohibition on the required installation of a fire protection sprinkler system in a series of attached single-family residences consisting of fewer than seven units. The bill also... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2439 . (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3148 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the national electrical code, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2433.) | This bill relates to the national electrical code. The bill adopts the international energy conservation code, 2009 edition, as the basis of the national electrical code applicable in this state. The bill requires the electrical examining board (board) to conduct an analysis of the change... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2433 (2/19/26) | No Position |
| SF 576 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to bonds for general contractors.(Formerly SSB 1151; See SF 2376.) | This bill requires a general contractor, defined as a person who does work or furnishes materials by contract, express or implied, with an owner, to obtain a performance bond payable to the person for whom the general contractor is performing work in the amount of... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2376. (2/18/26) | Undecided |
| SSB 3159 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to public improvement contracts, including notice requirements.(See SF 2365.) | This bill relates to public improvement contracts. Under Code chapter 573, a public corporation may enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement. The bill requires that no later than 14 calendar days after the public corporation's final acceptance of the public improvement, the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2365 (2/17/26) | Support |
| HF 2399 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the awarding of public improvement contracts. | Under current law, a contract for a public improvement must be awarded to the lowest responsive, responsible bidder. This bill provides that a contract for a public improvement may be awarded to a local contractor whose bid is within 10 percent of the cost of... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Lundgren, Cooling and Johnson, C. (2/12/26) | No Position |
| HF 564 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to contracts for the construction of public improvements. | This bill relates to contracts for the construction of a public improvement. The bill allows a governmental entity to reject the lowest responsive bidder for the construction of a public improvement under Code chapter 26 or the lowest cost construction manager-at-risk for a guaranteed maximum price... Full Bill Text |
Tabled until future meeting. (2/11/26) | No Position |
| HF 2400 - Dead | A bill for an act creating a contractor performance assessment system. | This bill requires the department of administrative services (DAS) to create and maintain a contractor performance assessment system on an internet site that is accessible to governmental entities for the purpose of assessing contractor performance on public improvements. DAS must develop a performance grading system... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/11/26) | No Position |
| HF 2372 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to mechanical insulation inspections for public buildings. | This bill requires the department of administrative services (department) to contract with a mechanical insulation contractor for a mechanical insulation energy and safety assessment of each public building within the next 10 years. The department must post the findings of each assessment on the department's internet... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/10/26) | No Position |
| HSB 567 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to public improvement contracts, including notice requirements.(See HF 2189.) | This bill relates to public improvement contracts. Under Code chapter 573, a public corporation may enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement. The bill requires that no later than 14 calendar days after the public corporation's final acceptance of the public improvement, the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2189. (1/28/26) | Support |
| SF 2109 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a review of fire safety code requirements and enforcement mechanisms for basement egress windows. | This bill requires the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (department) to conduct a study regarding compliance with and sufficiency of fire safety code requirements for basement egress windows in this state. The study must include a review of enforcement mechanisms available to property owners... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Schultz, and Townsend. (1/27/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 1151 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to bonds for construction contractors.(See SF 576, SF 2376.) | This bill relates to the filing of bonds by construction contractors. The bill requires all contractors, defined as a person who engages in the business of construction and earns at least $2,000 annually, to file a surety bond in the amount of $50,000 with the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee reassigned: Webster, Sires, and Wahls. (1/13/26) | Oppose |