Criminal Law Section Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:38 PM


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HF 2523 A bill for an act authorizing the parent or legal guardian of a child to have the child committed for substance use or mental health treatment.(Formerly HF 2114.) Under current law, if a minor refuses to receive treatment or rehabilitation services (SUD treatment) for the child's substance use disorder, or refuses observation, diagnosis, care, or treatment (mental health treatment) for the child's mental health disorder, the child's parents, or any other interested person,...

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House amendment S-5181 filed. (4/15/26) Monitor
SF 2399 A bill for an act relating to pretrial bond amounts for certain felonies. (Formerly SSB 3162.) This bill relates to pretrial bond amounts for certain The bill provides that for certain violent offenses, a court setting bond must give significant consideration to the danger a defendant poses to another person or the property of another if the defendant is not detained...

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Message from House. (4/15/26) Monitor
HF 2751 - Dead A bill for an act relating to criminal acts against persons in certain occupations, including testing for communicable diseases for certain persons who have committed an assault against a member of a protected occupation, certain public safety personnel, including confidentiality of peer support communications for public safety officers and civilian employees, and obstructing first responders, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 2728.) Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (4/14/26) Monitor
HF 2753 A bill for an act relating to prison infrastructure. (Formerly HF 1047, HSB 333.) Subcommittee: Zumbach, Knox, and Kraayenbrink. (4/14/26)
SF 2379 A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights. (Formerly SSB 3089.) This bill relates to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights. DIVISION I. The bill provides that a victim counselor, or a clerk, secretary, stenographer, or any other employee...

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Message from House, with amendment S-5178 . (4/14/26) Monitor
HF 2704 - Dead A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights.(Formerly HSB 570.) This bill relates to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights. DIVISION I. The bill provides that a victim counselor, or a clerk, secretary, stenographer, or any other employee...

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Withdrawn. (4/13/26) Monitor
HF 1047 - Dead A bill for an act relating to prison infrastructure.(Formerly HSB 333; See HF 2753.) This bill creates a new prison construction account within the Iowa prison infrastructure (IPI) fund. Under current law, the treasurer of state is authorized to issue bonds to provide prison infrastructure financing (Code section 12.80) and the Iowa finance authority is authorized to issue bonds to...

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Withdrawn. (4/9/26)
HF 2232 A bill for an act relating to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults. (Formerly HSB 516.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. This bill relates to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults. Under current law, a delay of a disbursement or transaction involving the money, assets, or property of an eligible adult will expire upon the first to occur of: (1) a determination...

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Signed by Governor . (4/9/26)
HF 2515 A bill for an act relating to deferred or suspended sentences for cases involving sexual exploitation of a minor. (Formerly HSB 617.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. This bill relates to sexual exploitation of a minor and deferred and suspended sentences. The bill provides that a person convicted of sexual exploitation of a child in violation of Code section 728.12 is not eligible to receive a deferred or suspended sentence if the minor...

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Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) Monitor
HF 2571 A bill for an act relating to the Iowa rules of criminal procedure including commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity. (Formerly HSB 632.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. This bill relates to the Iowa rules of criminal procedure including commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity. The bill provides a list of factors a court must consider in determining whether a defendant continues to be mentally ill and dangerous to the defendant's self...

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Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) Monitor
HF 2728 - Dead A bill for an act relating to obstructing first responders, and providing penalties.(See HF 2751.) Withdrawn. (4/9/26) Monitor
SF 2114 A bill for an act relating to intimidation with a dangerous weapon, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 3018.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. This bill relates to intimidation with a dangerous weapon. The bill removes language referring to the shooting, throwing, launching, or discharging of a dangerous weapon within an assembly of people, and thereby placing the occupants or people in reasonable apprehension of serious injury from the bill,...

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Signed by Governor . (4/9/26)
SF 2280 A bill for an act relating to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons, establishing the criminal offenses of threatening and the malicious sharing of personal information of a general assembly member or a judicial officer or a general assembly member's or a judicial officer's immediate family, and considering true threats to public officials as harassment, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 3087.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 This bill relates to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including by authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, and assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons;...

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Message from House. (4/9/26) Monitor
SF 2416 A bill for an act relating to interviews conducted with a child subsequent to a report of child abuse. (Formerly SSB 3167.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. This bill relates to interviews conducted with a child subsequent to a report of child abuse. The bill allows peace officers to conduct an interview with a child for the purpose of a child abuse investigation, and allows a child protection worker or peace officer to...

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Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) Monitor
SF 2481 A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system.(Formerly SSB 3184.) Committee report, approving bill. (4/9/26)
HF 705 A bill for an act establishing a grant program for a nonprofit organization providing sexual assault forensic examination centers.(Formerly HF 458.) This bill establishes a grant program in the department of justice for a nonprofit organization providing sexual assault forensic examination centers. The bill requires that the attorney general contract with an eligible nonprofit organization to operate and maintain sexual assault forensic examination centers in the state....

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Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (4/8/26)
HF 2133 A bill for an act designating kratom as a schedule I controlled substance, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 508.) This bill designates kratom as a hallucinogenic schedule I controlled substance. A person possessing kratom is guilty of a serious misdemeanor for a first offense. A person who commits a subsequent violation is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. A person who has previously been convicted two or...

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Amendment S-5174 filed. (4/8/26) Monitor
HF 2533 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including authorizing a judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons, establishing the criminal offenses of threatening and the malicious sharing of personal information of a judicial officer or a judicial officer's immediate family, and considering true threats to public officials as harassment, and providing penalties.(Formerly HSB 564.) This bill relates to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including by authorizing a judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, and assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons; and establishing the criminal offenses...

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Withdrawn. (4/8/26) Monitor
SF 634 A bill for an act relating to registration fees for persons on the sex offender registry.(Formerly SF 317.) This bill relates to registration fees for persons on the sex offender registry. The bill increases the annual registration fee that a person required to register as a sex offender must pay from $25 to $50 beginning with the first required in-person appearance at the sheriff's...

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Read first time, referred to Ways and Means. (4/8/26) Monitor
SSB 3184 - Dead A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system.(See SF 2481.) Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2481 (4/8/26) Monitor
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...

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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...

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Withdrawn. (4/7/26) Undecided
HF 2360 A bill for an act relating to child endangerment. (Formerly HF 2086.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 This bill relates to child endangerment. Current law provides that a person who is the parent, guardian, or person having custody or control over a child or a minor under the age of 18 with a mental or physical disability, or a person who is a...

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Message from Senate. (4/6/26) Monitor
HF 2337 A bill for an act relating to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials or professional or occupational licenses, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 2091.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 This bill relates to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials. The bill provides that a person who falsely represents oneself as possessing an academic degree or academic credentials for the purpose of obtaining employment or other personal gain is guilty of a fraudulent practice in the second...

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Message from House. (4/2/26)
HF 523 A bill for an act relating to the ability of peace officers to file a petition for emergency protective orders on behalf of persons seeking relief from domestic abuse. (Formerly HF 108.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 This bill allows a peace officer to file a petition to receive a 72-hour emergency protective order on a person's behalf if the person claims to be in present danger of domestic abuse and the person requests the peace officer to submit the petition. Message from Senate. (4/1/26) Monitor
HF 2253 A bill for an act relating to terminology involving a pregnant female. (Formerly HSB 501.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 This bill relates to terminology involving a pregnant female. The bill makes changes to terminology used in the Code. The bill changes the use of "pregnant person" to "pregnant female".

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Message from Senate. (4/1/26)
HF 2697 A bill for an act relating to the payment of pecuniary damages, restitution, and prosecution costs. (Formerly HSB 616.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 This bill relates to the payment of pecuniary damages, restitution, and prosecution costs. The bill provides that notwithstanding any other statute or rule of law, with the consent of the defendant and the prosecuting attorney, the court may order as part of the dismissal of a...

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Message from Senate. (4/1/26) Monitor
HF 2629 - Dead A bill for an act relating to trespass, and providing penalties. (Formerly HF 981.) This bill establishes the criminal offense of unlawful squatting. The bill provides that a person commits the offense of unlawful squatting if all of the following circumstances apply: the person knowingly enters the premises of another person and resides on the premises of the other person...

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Fiscal Note. (3/31/26) Monitor
SF 2055 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the Iowa rules of criminal procedure including commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity. This bill relates to the Iowa rules of criminal procedure including commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity. The bill provides a list of factors a court must consider in determining whether a defendant continues to be mentally ill and dangerous to the defendant's self...

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Withdrawn. (3/30/26) Monitor
HF 178 A bill for an act relating to the penalty for speeding in excess of twenty miles per hour over the limit.(Formerly HF 45.) Under current law, a person who operates a motor vehicle in excess of a speed limit under Code section 321.236(5, 11) (public parks and alleys), Code section 321.285 (speed restrictions generally), Code section 321.383(5) (implements of husbandry), Code section 321O.5(1) (personal delivery devices), or Code...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) Monitor
HF 788 A bill for an act requiring state employees to provide a specimen for alcohol and drug analysis following certain motor vehicle accidents or collisions resulting in serious injury or death under certain circumstances, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 162.) Under current law, a person who operates a motor vehicle under circumstances which give reasonable grounds to believe that the person was operating the motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or a drug is deemed to have given consent to the withdrawal of...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) Monitor
HF 826 A bill for an act relating to obscene materials involving minors, and providing penalties.(Formerly HF 81.) This bill relates to obscene materials involving minors. The bill defines "obscene material involving a minor" as any visual depiction that depicts or appears to depict a minor engaging in a prohibited sexual act that the average person, taking the visual depiction as a whole and...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) Monitor
HF 904 A bill for an act relating to motor vehicle accident reports, including the amount of property damage necessary for a report, the period in which a law enforcement officer must forward a report to the department of transportation, and resulting suspensions of driver's licenses, registrations, and operating privileges. (Formerly HSB 297.) Under current law, the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person, or total property damage to an apparent extent of $1,500 or more, must forward a written report of the accident to the department of...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) Monitor
HF 1036 A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 908, HF 452.) This bill relates to human trafficking, including civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution. The bill directs the office to combat human trafficking within the department of public safety to...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26)
HF 2542 A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 666.) This bill relates to habitual offenders. The bill strikes the current law regarding habitual offenders and provides that a habitual offender is a person who has been convicted, in a court of this state of an offense, or has been convicted of an offense committed in...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) Monitor
HF 2628 A bill for an act relating to the driving privileges of persons under the age of eighteen who were previously issued a special minor's restricted license that was subsequently suspended, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2113.) Under current law, a person between the ages of 14 and 18 who holds a special minor's restricted license (licensee) is authorized to operate a motor vehicle without supervision between certain approved locations for a number of purposes during specified times. If a licensee violates...

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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...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) Monitor
HF 2696 A bill for an act relating to the expungement of certain criminal history records of victims of human trafficking, and including penalties.(Formerly HF 2144.) This bill is related to the expungement of certain criminal history records (criminal record) of victims of human trafficking. "Human trafficking" is defined as participating in a venture to recruit, harbor, transport, supply provisions, or obtain a person for forced labor or service that results...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) Monitor
SF 2274 A bill for an act relating to the sale or offer for sale of certain firearm devices.(Formerly SF 2001.) This bill relates to the sale or offer for sale of certain firearm devices. Under current law, a person who sells or offers for sale a manual or power-driven trigger activating device constructed and designed so that when attached to a firearm increases the rate of...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26)
HF 2621 - Dead A bill for an act relating to intimidation with a dangerous weapon, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 613.) This bill relates to intimidation with a dangerous weapon. The bill removes from the bill language referring to the shooting, throwing, launching, or discharging of a dangerous weapon within an assembly of people, and thereby placing the occupants or people in reasonable apprehension of serious injury,...

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Withdrawn. (3/24/26) Monitor
HF 2202 A bill for an act relating to controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 528.) This bill relates to controlled substances, including certain controlled substances schedules. The bill makes changes to the controlled substances schedule I in Iowa's uniform controlled substances Act (Code chapter 124) to conform to the specific chemical designations of the substances contained in Title 21 of the...

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Message from Senate. (3/23/26) Monitor
HF 2601 A bill for an act relating to campaign finance, including participation in ballot issue campaigns by foreign nationals and investigations of election misconduct, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HF 2044.) This bill relates to campaign finance. The bill defines the terms "directly or indirectly" and "foreign national" for purposes of the bill and for independent campaign expenditures and transfers of campaign funds under current law. The bill requires the treasurer of a political committee expressly advocating...

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Read first time, attached to SF 2204 . (3/23/26) Monitor
SF 2115 A bill for an act relating to sexual exploitation of a minor and deferred and suspended sentences.(Formerly SSB 3021.) This bill relates to sexual exploitation of a minor and deferred and suspended sentences. The bill provides that a person convicted of sexual exploitation of a child in violation of Code section 728.12 is not eligible to receive a deferred or suspended sentence if the minor...

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Fiscal Note. (3/23/26) Monitor
SF 2204 A bill for an act relating to campaign finance, including participation in ballot issue campaigns by foreign nationals and investigations of election misconduct, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SF 2078.) This bill relates to campaign finance. The bill defines the terms "directly or indirectly" and "foreign national" for purposes of the bill and for independent campaign expenditures and transfers of campaign funds under current law. The bill requires the treasurer of a political committee expressly advocating...

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Attached to HF 2601 . (3/23/26)
SF 2281 - Dead A bill for an act relating to controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3035.) This bill relates to controlled substances, including certain controlled substances schedules. The bill makes changes to the controlled substances schedule I in Iowa's uniform controlled substances Act (Code chapter 124) to conform to the specific chemical designations of the substances contained in Title 21 of the...

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Withdrawn. (3/23/26) Monitor
SF 2454 - Dead A bill for an act relating to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults.(Formerly SSB 3094.) This bill relates to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults. Under current law, a delay of a disbursement or transaction involving the money, assets, or property of an eligible adult will expire upon the first to occur of: (1) a determination...

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Withdrawn. (3/23/26) Monitor
HF 2295 A bill for an act relating to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by law enforcement officers.(Formerly HSB 612.) This bill relates to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by The bill provides that a certified law enforcement officer may operate an unmanned aerial vehicle in order to assist other law enforcement officers in apprehending a driver eluding or attempting to elude a pursuing...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) Support
HF 2348 A bill for an act relating to animal torture, and providing penalties.(Formerly HF 557.) This bill relates to animal torture. The bill provides that a person is guilty of animal torture if the person intentionally or knowingly crushes, burns, drowns, suffocates, impales, or otherwise subjects an animal to serious injury or death or causes, directs, or provides anything of value...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) Monitor
HF 2608 A bill for an act relating to qualifications for certain rights and privileges prescribed by the state, including state employment, professional licensure, voter registration, and bail, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 663.) This bill relates to qualifications for certain rights and privileges prescribed by this state, including state employment, professional licensure, voter registration, and bail. LICENSURE. The bill requires each head of a department or independent agency of this state, as well as the state board of regents...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) Monitor
HF 2673 A bill for an act relating to the operation of driverless-capable vehicles transporting hazardous materials, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 598.) Under current law, a driverless-capable vehicle equipped with an automated driving system and meeting certain requirements is authorized to operate on highways while performing all real-time operational and tactical functions (dynamic driving task) regardless of whether a conventional human driver is present in the vehicle....

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26)
SF 2099 A bill for an act relating to animal torture, and providing penalties. This bill relates to animal torture. The bill provides that a person is guilty of animal torture if the person intentionally or knowingly crushes, burns, drowns, suffocates, impales, or otherwise subjects an animal to serious injury or death or causes, directs, or provides anything of value...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) Monitor
SF 2192 A bill for an act designating kratom as a schedule I controlled substance, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SF 2013.) This bill designates kratom as a hallucinogenic schedule I controlled substance. A person possessing kratom is guilty of a serious misdemeanor for a first offense. A person who commits a subsequent violation is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. A person who has previously been convicted two or...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) Monitor
SF 2283 A bill for an act relating to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by law enforcement officers.(Formerly SF 2105.) This bill relates to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by law enforcement officers. The bill provides that a certified law enforcement officer may operate an unmanned aerial vehicle in order to assist other law enforcement officers in apprehending a driver eluding or attempting to elude...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) Monitor
SF 2288 A bill for an act concerning speed-related driving violations, providing penalties, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 2030.) This bill concerns speed-related driving violations. Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) must revoke the driver's license of a person who is convicted of certain crimes involving a motor vehicle. Upon revoking a driver's license, the DOT is prohibited from granting an application for...

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) Monitor
SF 2384 A bill for an act relating to the operation of driverless-capable vehicles, including associated civil and criminal liability, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SSB 3052.) Under current law, a driverless-capable vehicle equipped with an automated driving system and meeting certain requirements is authorized to operate on highways while performing all real-time operational and tactical functions (dynamic driving task) regardless of whether a conventional human driver is present in the vehicle....

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Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26)
HF 2718 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the seizure of firearms, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HF 430.) This bill establishes the "Anti-Red Flag Gun Seizure Act" related to the seizure of firearms. For purposes of the bill, "red flag law" is defined as any firearm control law, order, or measure that directs the seizure of any firearm of an individual; or any federal...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/18/26) Monitor
HF 2091 - Dead A bill for an act relating to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials and providing penalties.(See HF 2337.) This bill relates to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials. The bill provides that a person who falsely represents oneself as possessing an academic degree or academic credentials for the purpose of obtaining employment or other personal gain is guilty of a fraudulent practice in the second...

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Withdrawn. (3/16/26)
HF 2144 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the expungement of certain criminal history records of victims of human trafficking, and including penalties.(See HF 2696.) This bill is related to the expungement of certain criminal history records (criminal record) of victims of human trafficking. "Human trafficking" is defined as participating in a venture to recruit, harbor, transport, supply provisions, or obtain a person for forced labor or service that results...

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Withdrawn. (3/16/26) Monitor
HF 2624 - Dead A bill for an act relating to criminal investigation, including the extension of DNA submission requirements to persons arrested for a felony or aggravated misdemeanor. (Formerly HSB 571.) This bill relates to criminal investigations. The bill extends DNA submission requirements to persons arrested for a felony or aggravated misdemeanor. Current law requires a person who receives a deferred judgment for a felony or against whom a judgment or conviction for a felony or aggravated...

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Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (3/12/26) Monitor
HF 2579 A bill for an act prohibiting disorderly conduct related to religious services, and providing penalties. Under current law, disorderly conduct is punishable by a range of penalties from simple misdemeanor to class "C" felony based on the nature of the offense (Code sections 723.4 and 723.5). This bill provides that a person who intentionally obstructs, prevents, or interferes with the orderly...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/11/26) Monitor
HF 2645 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the establishment of an electronic court notification system.(Formerly HSB 732.) This bill relates to the establishment of an electronic court notification system. The bill provides that the state court administrator shall, by July 1, 2027, establish an opt-out electronic court notification system for all pending and future criminal case actions. The system shall: deliver text-based notifications...

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Subcommittee recommends indefinite postponement. []. (3/11/26) Monitor
HF 2719 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the collection and publication of judicial officer performance information. (Formerly HSB 631.) This bill relates to the collection and publication of judicial officer performance information. The bill requires the state court administrator to annually collect and publish performance information for district court judges. The performance information must include information relating to pretrial discretion, sentencing outcomes, appellate review, and...

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Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (3/10/26) Undecided
HF 162 - Dead A bill for an act requiring employees of the department of transportation to provide a specimen for alcohol and drug analysis following a motor vehicle accident or collision resulting in injury or death, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 788.) Under current law, a person who operates a motor vehicle under circumstances which give reasonable grounds to believe that the person was operating the motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or a drug is deemed to have given consent to the withdrawal of...

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Withdrawn. (3/9/26) Monitor
HF 430 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the seizure of firearms without the adjudication of a contested court case, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2718.) This bill establishes the "Anti-Red Flag Gun Seizure Act" related to the seizure of firearms without the adjudication of a contested court case. For purposes of the bill, "red flag law" is defined as any firearm control law, order, or measure that directs the seizure of...

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Withdrawn. (3/9/26) Monitor
HF 557 - Dead A bill for an act relating to animal torture, and providing penalties.(See HF 2348.) This bill relates to animal torture. The bill provides that a person is guilty of animal torture if the person intentionally or knowingly crushes, burns, drowns, suffocates, impales, or otherwise subjects an animal to serious injury or death or causes, directs, or provides anything of value...

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Withdrawn. (3/9/26)
HF 2086 - Dead A bill for an act relating to child endangerment.(See HF 2360.) This bill relates to child endangerment. Current law provides that a person who is the parent, guardian, or person having custody or control over a child or a minor under the age of 18 with a mental or physical disability, or a person who is a...

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Withdrawn. (3/9/26) Monitor
HF 2113 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the driving privileges of persons under the age of eighteen who were previously issued a special minor's restricted license that was subsequently suspended, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 2628.) Under current law, a person between the ages of 14 and 18 who holds a special minor's restricted license (licensee) is authorized to operate a motor vehicle without supervision between certain approved locations for a number of purposes during specified times. If a licensee violates...

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Withdrawn. (3/9/26)
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...

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Withdrawn. (3/9/26)
HF 2639 - Dead A bill for an act relating to limitations on discovery depositions involving minor victims.(Formerly HF 2135.) This bill relates to limitations on discovery depositions involving minor victims. The bill provides that there shall be a rebuttable presumption in favor of permitting a discovery deposition demonstrates to the court, by a preponderance of the evidence, that such deposition is critical to the defendant's...

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Amendment H-8189 filed. (3/9/26) Monitor
SF 2088 A bill for an act relating to the administration and regulation of matters associated with the operation, registration, and titling of motor vehicles, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3023.) This bill relates to the administration and regulation of matters associated with the operation, registration, and titling of motor vehicles. CHAUFFEUR'S INSTRUCTION PERMITS. Under current law, a chauffeur's instruction permit is valid for up to two years for the operation of a motor vehicle, other than...

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Message from House, with amendment S-5076 . (3/9/26)
HF 2611 - Dead A bill for an act relating to unlawful practices involving providing a false social security number to an employer or prospective employer, or to a potential employee, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HF 2088.) This bill relates to unlawful practices involving providing a false social security number to an employer or prospective employer, or to a potential employee. The bill provides that an employer may not hire or continue to employ an employee whom the employer knows to have provided...

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Fiscal Note. (3/6/26) Monitor
HF 2268 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the administration and regulation of matters associated with the operation, registration, and titling of motor vehicles, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 512.) This bill relates to the administration and regulation of matters associated with the operation, registration, and titling of motor vehicles. CHAUFFEUR'S INSTRUCTION PERMITS. Under current law, a chauffeur's instruction permit is valid for up to two years for the operation of a motor vehicle, other than...

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Withdrawn. (3/5/26)
HF 2703 - Dead A bill for an act relating to interviews conducted with a child subsequent to a report of child abuse.(Formerly HSB 741.) This bill relates to interviews conducted with a child subsequent to a report of child abuse. The bill allows peace officers to conduct an interview with a child for the purpose of a child abuse investigation, and allows a child protection worker or peace officer to...

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Withdrawn. (3/5/26) Monitor
SF 27 A bill for an act relating to required information in the electronic database used by the department of transportation and law enforcement to access registration, titling, and driver's license information. This bill requires the department of transportation (DOT) to include in the electronic database used by the DOT and law enforcement to access registration, titling, and driver's license information, details indicating whether a driver has been required to take or has completed remedial driver improvement...

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Message from House, with amendment S-5069 . (3/5/26)
SF 2019 - Dead A bill for an act relating to invasion of privacy, including attempts to invade privacy, and making penalties applicable. This bill relates to invasion of privacy, including attempts to invade privacy. The bill provides that a person who knowingly views, photographs, or films another person, or attempts to view, photograph, or film another person, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of...

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Tabled until future meeting. (3/5/26) Monitor
HF 2505 - Dead A bill for an act relating to bail and bond amounts and conditions.(Formerly HSB 641.) This bill relates to bail and bond amounts and conditions. The bill provides that when the offense is bailable, the magistrate shall fix bail at the amount endorsed on the warrant unless the bail set on the warrant is less than that specified on the bond...

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Withdrawn. (3/4/26) Monitor
HF 2535 - Dead A bill for an act establishing a criminal offense for written or electronic threats to kill, cause bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, and providing penalties.(Formerly HSB 651.) This bill establishes a criminal offense for written or electronic threats to kill, cause bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism. The bill provides that it is unlawful for a person to send, post, or transmit, or procure the sending, posting,...

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Fiscal Note. (3/4/26) 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...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/4/26) 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...

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Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (3/3/26) Monitor
HF 463 - Dead A bill for an act establishing human trafficking prosecution units.(See HF 831, HF 1011, HF 2565.) This bill establishes a human trafficking prosecution unit. The bill provides that two human trafficking prosecution units are established in the department of justice. The attorney general, in cooperation and coordination with the department of public safety, the office to combat human trafficking, and the department...

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Withdrawn. (3/2/26) 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...

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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...

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Withdrawn. (3/2/26) Monitor
HF 2114 - Dead A bill for an act authorizing the parent or legal guardian of a child to have the child committed for substance use or mental health treatment.(See HF 2523.) Under current law, if a minor refuses to receive treatment or rehabilitation services (SUD treatment) for the child's substance use disorder, or refuses observation, diagnosis, care, or treatment (mental health treatment) for the child's mental health disorder, the child's parents, or any other interested person,...

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Withdrawn. (3/2/26) Monitor
SF 2035 - Dead A bill for an act related to eluding, including aggravated eluding and fresh pursuit, and providing penalties. This bill relates to eluding, including aggravated eluding and fresh pursuit. The bill provides that the driver of a motor vehicle commits aggravated eluding if the driver, while being pursued by a peace officer within the state, knowingly crosses the state border into another state without...

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Fiscal Note. (3/2/26) Support
HSB 733 A bill for an act modifying state income tax withholdings for winnings derived from slot machines, and including effective date provisions. This bill modifies state income tax withholdings for winnings derived from slot machines. Currently, state income tax is required to be withheld from winnings derived from a slot machine in excess of $1,200. The bill strikes the $1,200 threshold requirement, and requires state income tax withholdings...

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Subcommittee Meeting: 02/26/2026 12:30PM House Lounge (Cancelled). (2/26/26) Monitor
HF 2726 - Dead A bill for an act relating to testing for communicable diseases for certain persons who have committed an assault against a member of a protected occupation, and including penalties. Under current law, a person who commits an assault against a person who is a member of certain occupations is subject to specific criminal penalties based on the circumstances surrounding the assault. This bill defines "assault" and "member of a protected occupation". The bill provides that an...

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Introduced, referred to Public Safety. (2/25/26) Monitor
HF 2201 - Dead A bill for an act relating to sexual misconduct with offenders and juveniles, and providing penalties.(Formerly HSB 529.) This bill relates to sexual misconduct with offenders and juveniles. The bill increases the penalty from an aggravated misdemeanor to a class "D" felony for any peace officer, or an officer, employee, contractor, vendor, volunteer, or an agent of the department of corrections or a judicial...

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Fiscal Note. (2/24/26) Monitor
HF 668 - Dead A bill for an act relating to immunity from criminal or civil liability in cases involving the justifiable use of reasonable force.(See HF 2693.) This bill relates to immunity from criminal or civil liability in cases involving the justifiable use of reasonable force. Under current law, a person who is justified in using reasonable force against an aggressor in defense of the person's self, another person, or property is immune...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2693 (2/23/26)
HF 2216 - Dead A bill for an act relating to restitution for the torture, injury, or killing of a police service dog, and modifying penalties.(Formerly HF 2015.) This bill relates to restitution for the torture, injury, or killing of a police service dog. The bill provides that in addition to any other penalty, a person convicted of knowingly and willfully or maliciously torturing, injuring, or killing a police service dog shall be ordered...

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Amendment H-8023 filed. (2/23/26) Monitor
HF 2675 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights.(Formerly HSB 625.) This bill relates to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights. The bill amends the definition of "formal administrative investigation" to mean an investigative process, based upon a complaint, ordered by a commanding officer of an agency or commander's designee that, if...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/23/26) Monitor
HF 2677 - Dead A bill for an act establishing procedures and requirements for reverse-location information searches by law enforcement or any governmental entity.(Formerly HSB 743.) This bill establishes procedures and requirements for reverse-location searches by law enforcement or any governmental entity. The bill provides that for a criminal investigation or prosecution, a law enforcement agency shall not obtain geofence unless the law enforcement agency obtains a search warrant as provided under...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/23/26) Monitor
HF 2693 - Dead A bill for an act relating to immunity from criminal or civil liability in cases involving the justifiable use of reasonable force.(Formerly HF 668.) This bill relates to immunity from criminal or civil liability in cases involving the justifiable use of reasonable force. Under current law, a person who is justified in using reasonable force against an aggressor in defense of the person's self, another person, or property is immune...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/23/26) Monitor
HSB 570 - Dead A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights.(See HF 2704.) This bill relates to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights. DIVISION I. The bill provides that a victim counselor, or a clerk, secretary, stenographer, or any other employee...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2704 (2/23/26) Monitor
HSB 598 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the operation of driverless-capable vehicles, including associated civil and criminal liability, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 2673.) Under current law, a driverless-capable vehicle equipped with an automated driving system and meeting certain requirements is authorized to operate on highways while performing all real-time operational and tactical functions (dynamic driving task) regardless of whether a conventional human driver is present in the vehicle....

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2673 (2/23/26) Monitor
HSB 616 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the payment of pecuniary damages, restitution, and prosecution costs.(See HF 2697.) This bill relates to the payment of pecuniary damages, restitution, and prosecution costs. The bill provides that notwithstanding any other statute or rule of law, with the consent of the defendant and the prosecuting attorney, the court may order as part of the dismissal of a...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2697 (2/23/26) Monitor
HSB 625 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights.(See HF 2675.) This bill relates to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights. The bill amends the definition of "formal administrative investigation" to mean an investigative process, based upon a complaint, ordered by a commanding officer of an agency or commander's designee that, if...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2675 (2/23/26) Monitor
HSB 741 - Dead A bill for an act relating to interviews conducted with a child subsequent to a report of child abuse.(See HF 2703.) This bill relates to interviews conducted with a child subsequent to a report of child abuse. The bill allows peace officers to conduct an interview with a child for the purpose of a child abuse investigation, and allows a child protection worker or peace officer to...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2703 (2/23/26) Monitor
HSB 743 - Dead A bill for an act establishing procedures and requirements for reverse-location information searches by law enforcement or any governmental entity.(See HF 2677.) This bill establishes procedures and requirements for reverse-location searches by law enforcement or any governmental entity. The bill provides that for a criminal investigation or prosecution, a law enforcement agency shall not obtain geofence unless the law enforcement agency obtains a search warrant as provided under...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2677 (2/23/26) Monitor
HF 2561 - Dead A bill for an act relating to street takeovers, and providing penalties.(See HF 2658.) This bill prohibits street takeovers, an event involving the operation of a motor vehicle in violation of Code section 321.277 (reckless driving), 321.277A (careless driving), or 321.278 (drag racing), with at least three motor vehicles present or one or more spectators present. A person who participates...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2658 (2/20/26) Monitor
HF 2650 - Dead A bill for an act relating to drug paraphernalia. This bill relates to drug paraphernalia. Under current law, a person who knowingly or intentionally manufactures, delivers, sells, or possesses drug paraphernalia commits a simple misdemeanor. Hypodermic needles or syringes manufactured, delivered, sold, or possessed for a lawful purpose are exempt from the definition of "drug...

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Introduced, referred to Public Safety. (2/20/26)
HF 2653 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the suspension of a person's driver's license for unlawful or fraudulent uses, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 707.) Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) is authorized to adopt rules providing for the suspension of a person's driver's license for up to one year upon 30 days' notice and without preliminary hearing upon a showing by the DOT's records or other sufficient...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/20/26)
HF 2658 - Dead A bill for an act relating to street takeovers, and providing penalties.(Formerly HF 2561.) This bill prohibits street takeovers, an event involving the operation of a motor vehicle in violation of Code section 321.277 (reckless driving), 321.277A (careless driving), or 321.278 (drag racing), with at least three motor vehicles present or one or more spectators present. A person who participates...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/20/26)
HSB 707 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the suspension of a person's driver's license for unlawful or fraudulent uses, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 2653.) Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) is authorized to adopt rules providing for the suspension of a person's driver's license for up to one year upon 30 days' notice and without preliminary hearing upon a showing by the DOT's records or other sufficient...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2653 (2/20/26) Monitor
HF 2088 - Dead A bill for an act relating to fraudulent practices including providing a false social security number to an employer or prospective employer, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 2611.) This bill provides that it is a fraudulent practice for a person, for the purpose of retaining or obtaining employment, or any other thing of value, to provide the employer or prospective employer with a social security number that does not belong to that person. Penalties...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2611. (2/19/26) Monitor
HF 2135 - Dead A bill for an act relating to limitations on discovery depositions involving minor victims.(See HF 2639.) This bill relates to limitations on discovery depositions involving minor victims. The bill provides that, except as provided, discovery depositions are not permitted in any criminal action when the victim is a minor at the time of the deposition and when the victim has previously given...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2639. (2/19/26) Monitor
HF 2289 - Dead A bill for an act establishing the criminal offense of torture, and providing penalties.(See HF 2605.) This bill establishes the criminal offense of torture. The bill provides that a person who, with the intent to cause cruel or extreme physical or mental pain and suffering, inflicts serious bodily injury or severe mental pain or suffering upon another person within the person's custody...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2605. (2/19/26) Monitor
HF 2574 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the penalty for public employees and public officials taking money from a public employer. This bill relates to sentencing of public employees and public officials for certain offenses. The bill prohibits a sentencing court from deferring the judgment or deferring the sentence of a defendant if the defendant was a public employee or public official at the time of the...

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Committee vote: Yeas, 20. Nays, 0. Excused, 1. (2/19/26) Monitor
HF 2604 - Dead A bill for an act relating to child abuse based on use of a controlled substance by a pregnant woman. This bill relates to child abuse based on use of a controlled substance by a pregnant woman. For purposes of determining child abuse, the bill includes an individual organism of the species homo sapiens from fertilization to live birth within the meaning of "child". The bill...

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Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/19/26) Monitor
HF 2605 - Dead A bill for an act establishing the criminal offense of torture, and providing penalties.(Formerly HF 2289.) This bill establishes the criminal offense of torture. The bill provides that a person who, with the intent to cause cruel or extreme physical or mental pain and suffering, inflicts serious bodily injury or severe mental pain or suffering upon another person within the person's custody...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/19/26) Monitor
HF 2644 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the use of electronic monitoring for sex offenders.(Formerly HSB 706.) This bill relates to the use of electronic monitoring for sex offenders. The bill provides that a sex offender subject to registration requirements, and verification of relevant information requirements, who is unable to provide verification of the sex offender's residence shall be supervised by an electronic...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/19/26) Monitor
HSB 571 - Dead A bill for an act relating to criminal investigation, including the extension of DNA submission requirements to persons arrested for a felony or aggravated misdemeanor, and making appropriations to support the investigation of cold cases.(See HF 2624.) This bill relates to criminal investigations. The bill extends DNA submission requirements to persons arrested for a felony or aggravated misdemeanor, and provides a standing appropriation to support the investigation of cold cases. DIVISION I. Current law requires a person who receives a deferred judgment for...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2624. (2/19/26) Monitor
HSB 613 - Dead A bill for an act relating to intimidation with a dangerous weapon, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 2621.) This bill relates to intimidation with a dangerous weapon. The bill removes language referring to discharging a dangerous weapon within an assembly of people, and thereby placing the occupants or people in reasonable apprehension of serious injury from the bill. A violation of the bill is either...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2621. (2/19/26) Monitor
HSB 663 - Dead A bill for an act relating to qualifications for certain rights and privileges prescribed by the state, including state employment, professional licensure, voter registration, and bail, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 2608.) This bill relates to qualifications for certain rights and privileges prescribed by this state, including state employment, professional licensure, voter registration, and bail. LICENSURE. The bill requires each head of a department or independent agency of this state, as well as the state board of regents...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2608. (2/19/26) Monitor
HSB 706 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the use of electronic monitoring for sex offenders.(See HF 2644.) This bill relates to the use of electronic monitoring for sex offenders. The bill provides that a sex offender subject to registration requirements, and verification of relevant information requirements, who is unable to provide verification of the sex offender's residence shall be supervised by an electronic...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2644. (2/19/26) Monitor
HSB 732 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the establishment of an electronic court notification system.(See HF 2645.) This bill relates to the establishment of an electronic court notification system. The bill provides that the state court administrator shall, by July 1, 2027, establish an opt-out electronic court notification system for all pending and future criminal case actions. The system shall: deliver text-based notifications...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2645. (2/19/26) Monitor
SF 2398 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the defense of justification for violent crimes. This bill specifies that a defense of justification is not available to a person who is the subject of a nonviolent sexual advance who commits a violent crime upon another person as the result of that sexual advance or solely as the result of the...

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Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/19/26) Monitor
SSB 3094 - Dead A bill for an act relating to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults.(See SF 2454.) This bill relates to life insurance, permissible third parties, and financial exploitation of eligible adults. Under current law, a delay of a disbursement or transaction involving the money, assets, or property of an eligible adult will expire upon the first to occur of: (1) a determination...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2454 (2/19/26) Monitor
HF 2161 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the use of automatic registration plate readers, and providing penalties. Under current law, the operator of an automatic registration plate reader (plate reader) is required to permanently delete every image of a vehicle registration plate captured by the plate reader, and any other accompanying data, within 30 days after the image was captured. Prior to...

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Placed on calendar. (2/18/26) Monitor
HF 2560 - Dead A bill for an act relating to recordings of interviews during child abuse assessments and family assessments. The federal Generate Recordings of All Child protective Interviews Everywhere (GRACIE) Act established grants for states that meet certain requirements. This bill implements the requirements of the GRACIE Act by redefining "interview" for purposes of child abuse assessments and family assessments (assessments), and requiring each...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/18/26) Monitor
HF 2576 - Dead A bill for an act establishing the criminal offenses of possession of lethal narcotics and reckless homicide by lethal narcotic transfer, and providing penalties. This bill establishes the criminal offenses of possession of lethal narcotics and reckless homicide by lethal narcotic transfer. The bill contains legislative findings and purposes. DIVISION I. The bill defines "lethal narcotic" as fentanyl or any fentanyl analog, methamphetamine, heroin, or any mixture or compound containing...

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Introduced, referred to Public Safety. (2/18/26) Monitor
HF 2586 - Dead A bill for an act relating to temporary restricted licenses issued to persons whose driver's license is suspended. Under current law, a person whose driver's license is suspended or revoked under Code chapter 321 (motor vehicles and law of the road) may apply to the department of transportation (DOT) for a temporary restricted license (TRL), and the DOT may issue a TRL that...

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Introduced, referred to Transportation. (2/18/26) Monitor
HSB 749 - Dead A bill for an act relating to state tort claims, including qualified immunity for state employees, and including retroactive applicability provisions. Under current law, an employee of the state that is subject to a claim brought under Code chapter 669 (state tort claims) is not liable for monetary damages if the right, privilege, or immunity secured by law was not clearly established at the time of...

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Tabled until future meeting. (2/18/26) Monitor
SF 2355 - Dead A bill for an act relating to intelligent speed assistance devices on motor vehicles, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. This bill provides for the required installation and regulation of intelligent speed assistance devices (ISAD) on motor vehicles. Under the bill, the department of transportation is required to revoke the driver's license of a person who exceeds a speed limit by 10 miles per hour (MPH)...

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Subcommittee: Lofgren, Townsend, and Zumbach. (2/18/26) Oppose
SSB 3052 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the operation of driverless-capable vehicles, including associated civil and criminal liability, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 2384.) Under current law, a driverless-capable vehicle equipped with an automated driving system and meeting certain requirements is authorized to operate on highways while performing all real-time operational and tactical functions (dynamic driving task) regardless of whether a conventional human driver is present in the vehicle....

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2384. (2/18/26) Monitor
SSB 3156 - Dead A bill for an act relating to assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and harassment against public utility employees or contractors, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 2400.) This bill relates to assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and harassment against public utility employees or contractors. The bill adds an employee or contractor of a public utility engaged in the performance of a public utility responsibility to the list of occupations that are...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2400. (2/18/26) Monitor
SSB 3162 - Dead A bill for an act relating to pretrial bond amounts for certain felonies.(See SF 2399.) This bill relates to pretrial bond amounts for certain The bill provides that for certain violent offenses, a court setting bond must give significant consideration to the danger a defendant poses to another person or the property of another if the defendant is not detained...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2399. (2/18/26) Monitor
SSB 3167 - Dead A bill for an act relating to interviews conducted with a child subsequent to a report of child abuse.(See SF 2416.) This bill relates to interviews conducted with a child subsequent to a report of child abuse. The bill allows peace officers to conduct an interview with a child for the purpose of a child abuse investigation, and allows a child protection worker or peace officer to...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2416. (2/18/26) Monitor
HF 2174 - Dead A bill for an act providing for a task force to address legal services for indigent parties.(See HF 2572.) This bill directs the judicial branch to establish a task force to investigate the statewide delivery of legal services to indigent parties in criminal, juvenile, and child abuse and neglect proceedings and to develop recommendations to improve service delivery, address public defender conflicts of interest,...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2572. (2/17/26) Monitor
HF 2572 - Dead A bill for an act providing for a task force to address legal services for indigent parties.(Formerly HF 2174.) This bill directs the judicial branch to establish a task force to investigate the statewide delivery of legal services to indigent parties in criminal, juvenile, and child abuse and neglect proceedings and to develop recommendations to improve service delivery, address public defender conflicts of interest,...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/17/26) Support
HSB 314 - Dead A bill for an act establishing a medical release program for certain persons committed to the custody of the department of corrections. This bill establishes a medical release program for certain persons committed to the custody of the department of corrections (department). The bill provides that a person committed to the custody of the director of the department may be eligible for medical release if a licensed medical...

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Committee vote: Yeas, 20. Nays, 0. Excused, 1. (2/17/26) Monitor
HSB 632 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the Iowa rules of criminal procedure including commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity.(See HF 2571.) This bill relates to the Iowa rules of criminal procedure including commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity. The bill provides a list of factors a court must consider in determining whether a defendant continues to be mentally ill and dangerous to the defendant's self...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2571 (2/17/26) Monitor
SF 2161 - Dead A bill for an act defining coercive control and including it in the definition of domestic abuse. This bill defines coercive control and includes it within the meaning of domestic abuse. By operation of law, a temporary protective order or a protective order requiring a defendant to cease domestic abuse of a plaintiff will require the defendant to cease engaging in coercive...

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Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/17/26) Monitor
SSB 3089 - Dead A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights.(See SF 2379.) This bill relates to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights. DIVISION I. The bill provides that a victim counselor, or a clerk, secretary, stenographer, or any other employee...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2379 (2/17/26) Monitor
SSB 3161 - Dead A bill for an act relating to victim's rights including the definition of victim. This bill relates to victim's rights including the definition of "victim". The bill provides that a first responder, including law enforcement, fire personnel, and emergency medical services personnel, may also be considered a victim for purposes of presenting a victim impact statement to the court at...

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Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/17/26) Monitor
HF 2023 - Dead A bill for an act relating to speed limits, including the speed limit in school districts and the penalty for speeding in excess of twenty miles per hour over the limit.(See HF 2496.) Under current law, the speed limit in a school district is 25 miles per hour (MPH). Each school district must be marked by distinctive signs as provided by the current manual of uniform traffic control devices adopted by the department of transportation and placed on...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2496. (2/16/26) Support
HF 2059 - Dead A bill for an act relating to victim's rights including the definition of victim. This bill relates to victim's rights including the definition of "victim". The bill provides that a first responder, including law enforcement, fire personnel, and emergency medical services personnel, may also be considered a victim for purposes of presenting a victim impact statement to the court at...

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Tabled until future meeting. (2/16/26) Monitor
HF 2138 - Dead A bill for an act relating to use of and reporting requirements related to forfeited weapons.(See HF 2495.) This bill relates to the use of and reporting requirements related to forfeited weapons. Under current law, weapons possessed, used, or available for use during a public offense that is a serious or aggravated misdemeanor or felony are subject to forfeiture. Weapons and ammunition seized by...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2495. (2/16/26) Monitor
HF 2334 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the suspension of a person's driver's license for unlawful or fraudulent uses, and including applicability provisions. Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) is authorized to adopt rules providing for the suspension of a person's driver's license for up to one year upon 30 days' notice and without preliminary hearing upon a showing by the DOT's records or other sufficient...

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Subcommittee Meeting: 02/18/2026 8:15AM House Lounge. (2/16/26)
HF 2464 - Dead A bill for an act relating to audits of governmental subdivisions by the state auditor concerning suspected embezzlement, theft, or other significant financial irregularities. This bill relates to audits of governmental subdivisions concerning suspected embezzlement, theft, or other significant financial irregularities. The bill provides that upon notification to the auditor of state by a certified public accountant and a governmental subdivision of any misuse of public funds involving any suspected...

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Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/16/26) Monitor
HF 2495 - Dead A bill for an act relating to use of and reporting requirements related to forfeited weapons.(Formerly HF 2138.) This bill relates to the use of and reporting requirements related to forfeited weapons. Under current law, weapons possessed, used, or available for use during a public offense that is a serious or aggravated misdemeanor or felony are subject to forfeiture. Weapons and ammunition seized by...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/16/26) Monitor
HF 2496 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the penalty for speeding in excess of twenty miles per hour over the limit.(Formerly HF 2023.) Under current law, a person who operates a motor vehicle in excess of a speed limit under Code section 321.236(5, 11) (public parks and alleys), Code section 321.285 (speed restrictions generally), Code section 321.383(5) (implements of husbandry), Code section 321O.5(1) (personal delivery devices), or Code...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/16/26) Support
HSB 564 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including authorizing a judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons, and establishing the criminal offenses of threatening and the malicious sharing of personal information of a judicial officer or a judicial officer's immediate family, and providing penalties.(See HF 2533.) This bill relates to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including by authorizing a judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, and assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons; and establishing the criminal offenses...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2533. (2/16/26) Monitor
HSB 617 - Dead A bill for an act relating to sexual exploitation of a minor and deferred and suspended sentences.(See HF 2515.) This bill relates to sexual exploitation of a minor and deferred and suspended sentences. The bill provides that a person convicted of sexual exploitation of a child in violation of Code section 728.12 is not eligible to receive a deferred or suspended sentence if the minor...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2515. (2/16/26) Monitor
HSB 641 - Dead A bill for an act relating to bail and bond amounts and conditions.(See HF 2505.) This bill relates to bail and bond amounts and conditions. The bill provides that when the offense is bailable, the magistrate shall fix bail at the amount endorsed on the warrant unless the bail set on the warrant is less than that specified on the bond...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2505. (2/16/26) Monitor
HSB 651 - Dead A bill for an act establishing a criminal offense for written or electronic threats to kill, cause bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, and providing penalties.(See HF 2535.) This bill establishes a criminal offense for written or electronic threats to kill, cause bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism. The bill provides that it is unlawful for a person to send, post, or transmit, or procure the sending, posting,...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2535. (2/16/26) Monitor
HSB 666 - Dead A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties.(See HF 2542.) This bill relates to habitual offenders. The bill strikes the current law regarding habitual offenders and provides that a habitual offender is a person who has been convicted, in a court of this state or any other state, or of the United States, of any combination...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2542. (2/16/26) Monitor
SF 2194 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights. This bill relates to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights. The bill amends the definition of "formal administrative investigation" to mean an investigative process, based upon a complaint, ordered by a commanding officer of an agency or commander's designee that, if...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/16/26) Monitor
SF 2307 - Dead A bill for an act establishing the criminal offense of felony rental vandalism, addressing state supplementary assistance, and providing penalties. This bill establishes the criminal offense of felony rental vandalism and addresses eligibility for state supplementary assistance. The bill provides that a tenant or occupant of a dwelling unit, as defined in Code section 562A.6, who commits criminal mischief, as described in Code section 716.1, that...

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Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/16/26) Monitor
HF 2037 - Dead A bill for an act requiring an initial appearance before a magistrate on new felony charges by a person on felony probation or parole. This bill requires an initial appearance before a magistrate on new felony charges by a person on felony probation or parole. Current law allows a person arrested with or without a warrant to be released within the period of time the person would otherwise remain incarcerated...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/12/26) Support
HF 2301 - Dead A bill for an act establishing a domestic abuse offender registry, and providing penalties. This bill establishes a domestic abuse offender registry. The bill provides that there is created within the department of public safety (department) a registry of persistent domestic abuse assault offenders. The bill requires the department to maintain the registry based upon information supplied to the department...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/12/26)
HF 2377 - Dead A bill for an act establishing the criminal offense of engaging in a fraudulent polling scheme, and providing penalties. This bill establishes the criminal offense of engaging in a fraudulent polling scheme. The bill provides that a person commits the offense of engaging in a fraudulent polling scheme when the person knowingly, intentionally, and with the specific intent to obtain money or induce material action,...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/12/26) Monitor
HSB 723 - Dead A bill for an act relating to intelligence data, including the use of historical location information. This bill relates to intelligence data, including the use of historical location information. The bill defines "historical location information" as information that, when accessed, reveals the locations of persons or vehicles more than 24 hours prior to the time of access. The bill also provides a...

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Subcommittee Meeting: 02/12/2026 12:00PM RM 304 (Cancelled). (2/12/26) Monitor
HSB 724 - Dead A bill for an act relating to notarial acts, recording of instruments affecting real property, quiet title proceedings, and providing penalties. This bill relates to notarial acts, recording of instruments affecting real property, quiet title proceedings, and theft. The bill creates a new criminal offense for a notarial officer who performs a notarial act without requiring the personal appearance of the individual, or requiring the use of...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/12/26) Monitor
SF 2245 - Dead A bill for an act relating to audits of governmental subdivisions by the state auditor concerning suspected embezzlement, theft, or other significant financial irregularities. This bill relates to audits of governmental subdivisions concerning suspected embezzlement, theft, or other significant financial irregularities. The bill provides that upon notification to the auditor of state by a certified public accountant and a governmental subdivision of any misuse of public funds involving any suspected...

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Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Bisignano, and Schultz. (2/12/26) Monitor
HSB 685 - Dead A bill for an act relating to assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and harassment against public utility employees or contractors, and making penalties applicable. This bill relates to assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and harassment against public utility employees or contractors. The bill adds an employee or contractor of a public utility engaged in the performance of a public utility responsibility to the list of occupations that are...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/11/26) Monitor
SF 2001 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the sale or offer for sale of certain firearm devices, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 2274.) This bill relates to the sale or offer for sale of certain firearm devices. Under current law, a person who sells or offers for sale a manual or power-driven trigger activating device constructed and designed so that when attached to a firearm increases the rate of...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2274 . (2/11/26) Monitor
SF 2030 - Dead A bill for an act concerning speed-related driving violations, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 2288.) This bill concerns speed-related driving violations. Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) must revoke the driver's license of a person who is convicted of certain crimes involving a motor vehicle. Upon revoking a driver's license, the DOT is prohibited from granting an application for...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2288 . (2/11/26) Monitor
SF 2105 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by law enforcement officers.(See SF 2283.) This bill relates to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by The bill provides that a certified law enforcement officer may operate an unmanned aerial vehicle in order to assist other law enforcement officers in apprehending a driver eluding or attempting to elude a pursuing...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2283. (2/11/26) Support
HF 2369 - Dead A bill for an act establishing procedures and requirements for reverse-location information searches by law enforcement or any governmental entity. This bill establishes procedures and requirements for reverse-location searches by law enforcement or any governmental entity. The bill provides that for a criminal investigation or prosecution, a law enforcement agency shall not obtain geofence unless the law enforcement agency obtains a search warrant as provided under...

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Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/10/26)
SF 2129 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the disclosure of psychological test data. This bill relates to the disclosure of psychological test data (test data). The bill defines "test data" the same as described in the most recent version of the ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct standard as published by the American psychological association (APA code...

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Subcommittee Meeting: 02/10/2026 11:00AM Senate Lounge. (2/10/26) Monitor
SF 2210 - Dead A bill for an act relating to sexual abuse by fraud, concealment, or artifice regarding marital status, and providing penalties. This bill relates to sexual abuse by fraud, concealment, or artifice regarding marital status. The bill provides that sexual abuse includes a person obtaining the consent of another person by the use of fraud, concealment, or artifice, who intentionally deceives the other person regarding the person's...

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Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/10/26) Monitor
SSB 3035 - Dead A bill for an act relating to controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2281.) This bill relates to controlled substances, including certain controlled substances schedules. The bill makes changes to the controlled substances schedule I in Iowa's uniform controlled substances Act (Code chapter 124) to conform to the specific chemical designations of the substances contained in Title 21 of the...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2281 (2/10/26) Monitor
SSB 3087 A bill for an act relating to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including authorizing a judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons, and establishing the criminal offenses of threatening and the malicious sharing of personal information of a judicial officer or a judicial officer's immediate family, and providing penalties.(See SF 2280.) This bill relates to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including by authorizing a judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, and assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons; and establishing the criminal offenses...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as []. (2/10/26) Monitor
HF 803 - Dead A bill for an act relating to court-ordered substance use disorder evaluations for persons convicted of operating while intoxicated.(Formerly HF 464; See HF 2346.) Under current law, a person who is convicted of operating while intoxicated must pay for and undergo a substance use disorder evaluation prior to sentencing. This bill strikes the requirement for the evaluation to occur prior to sentencing. Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2346. (2/9/26) Support
HF 2346 - Dead A bill for an act relating to court-ordered substance use disorder evaluations for persons convicted of operating while intoxicated.(Formerly HF 803, HF 464.) Under current law, a person who is convicted of operating while intoxicated must pay for and undergo a substance use disorder evaluation prior to sentencing. This bill strikes the requirement for the evaluation to occur prior to sentencing. Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/9/26) Support
HF 2302 - Dead A bill for an act establishing a domestic abuse offender registry, and providing penalties. This bill establishes a domestic abuse offender registry. The bill provides that there is created within the department of public safety (department) a registry of persistent domestic abuse assault offenders. The bill requires the department to maintain the registry based upon information supplied to the department...

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Introduced, referred to Public Safety. (2/6/26)
HF 2316 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the treatment of an unborn child for the purposes of damages for wrongful death, homicide and related crimes, and assault, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions. This bill relates to the treatment of an unborn child for purposes of damages for wrongful death, certain crimes, and certain defenses. The bill provides the purposes of the bill. The bill amends Code section 633.336 (damages for wrongful death) to provide that damages for wrongful death...

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Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/6/26)
HF 2058 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the Iowa rules of criminal procedure, including subpoenas issued to law enforcement officers. This bill relates to the Iowa rules of criminal procedure, including subpoenas issued to law enforcement officers. The bill requires the supreme court to revise the criminal rules to provide that a subpoena issued to a law enforcement officer to compel attendance at a hearing or...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/5/26) Monitor
HSB 612 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by law enforcement officers.(See HF 2295.) This bill relates to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by The bill provides that a certified law enforcement officer may operate an unmanned aerial vehicle in order to assist other law enforcement officers in apprehending a driver eluding or attempting to elude a pursuing...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2295 (2/5/26) Support
SF 172 - Dead A bill for an act relating to child sexual abuse and child sexual assault awareness and prevention. This bill relates to child sexual abuse and child sexual assault awareness and prevention. Current law requires the director of the department of education to develop and make available to school districts examples of age-appropriate and research-based materials. The bill provides that the age-appropriate and research-based...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/5/26) Monitor
SF 2078 - Dead A bill for an act relating to campaign finance, including participation in ballot issue campaigns by foreign nationals and investigations of election misconduct, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 2204.) This bill relates to campaign finance. The bill defines the terms "directly or indirectly" and "foreign national" for purposes of the bill and for independent campaign expenditures and transfers of campaign funds under current law. The bill requires the treasurer of a political committee expressly advocating...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2204 . (2/5/26) Monitor
SF 2151 - Dead A bill for an act removing psilocybin and psilocyn from the list of substances classified as schedule I controlled substances under Iowa's uniform controlled substances Act. This bill removes psilocybin and psilocyn from the list of substances classified as schedule I controlled substances under Iowa's uniform controlled substances Act (Code chapter 124). Under Code section 124.203, a substance that has a high potential for abuse and has no accepted medical use in...

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Subcommittee: Sweeney, Donahue, and Webster. (2/5/26) Monitor
HF 2273 - Dead A bill for an act relating to investigations of insurance fraud related to adjusters, appraisers, and umpires. This bill relates to investigations of insurance fraud related to adjusters, appraisers, and umpires. Under current law, an individual employed by the insurance division and designated as a peace officer shall be considered a law enforcement officer and shall exercise the powers of a law enforcement...

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Introduced, referred to Commerce. (2/4/26) Monitor
SF 2013 - Dead A bill for an act designating kratom as a schedule I controlled substance, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 2192.) This bill designates kratom as a hallucinogenic schedule I controlled substance. A person possessing kratom is guilty of a serious misdemeanor for a first offense. A person who commits a subsequent violation is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. A person who has previously been convicted two or...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2192 . (2/4/26) Monitor
SF 2163 - Dead A bill for an act relating to false accusations of criminal acts, and providing penalties. This bill relates to false accusations of criminal acts. Current law provides that a person who reports the alleged occurrence of a criminal act, knowing the act did not occur, commits a serious misdemeanor or a class "D" felony depending on the nature of the alleged...

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Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/4/26) Monitor
HF 2176 - Dead A bill for an act relating to operating a motor vehicle at excessive speeds, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) is authorized to establish rules providing for the suspension of the driver's license of an operator upon 30 days' notice under certain circumstances. This bill requires the DOT to suspend the driver's license of a person who...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/3/26) Support
HSB 512 - Dead A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of transportation, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 2268.) This bill relates to matters under the purview of the department of transportation (DOT). CHAUFFEUR'S INSTRUCTION PERMITS. Under current law, a chauffeur's instruction permit is valid for up to two years for the operation of a motor vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle, as a...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2268 (2/3/26) Monitor
SF 2160 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the ability of persons to examine the public records of school districts. This bill relates to the ability of persons to examine the public records of school districts. The bill requires the board of directors of a school district to comply with all applicable provisions of Code chapter 22 (examination of public records). If the board of directors...

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Subcommittee: Evans, Pike, and Trone Garriott. (2/3/26)
SSB 3088 - Dead A bill for an act relating to criminal investigation, including the extension of DNA submission requirements to persons arrested for a felony or aggravated misdemeanor, and making appropriations to support the investigation of cold cases. This bill relates to criminal investigations. The bill extends DNA submission requirements to persons arrested for a felony or aggravated misdemeanor, and provides a standing appropriation to support the investigation of cold cases. DIVISION I. Current law requires a person who receives a deferred judgment for...

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Subcommittee Meeting: 02/04/2026 4:00PM Room 217 Conference Room. (2/2/26) Monitor
HF 2222 - Dead A bill for an act allowing the use of a pretrial risk assessment for certain bailable defendants. This bill allows the court to use a pretrial risk assessment if a bailable defendant is charged with any offense involving an allegation that the defendant's release may endanger the safety of another person. If the court determines a risk assessment should be performed, a...

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Introduced, referred to Public Safety. (1/30/26) Support
HF 2248 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the confinement of persons found incompetent to stand trial. This bill relates to the confinement of persons found incompetent to stand trial. The bill provides that a defendant who poses a danger to the public peace or safety and whose competency the court finds, by a preponderance of the evidence, is unlikely to be restored...

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Introduced, referred to Public Safety. (1/30/26) Undecided
HSB 501 - Dead A bill for an act relating to terminology involving a pregnant female.(See HF 2253.) This bill relates to terminology involving a pregnant female. The bill makes changes to terminology used in the Code. The bill changes the use of "pregnant person" to "pregnant female".

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2253 (1/30/26) Monitor
HF 2015 - Dead A bill for an act relating to restitution for the torture, injury, or killing of a police service dog, and modifying penalties.(See HF 2216.) This bill relates to restitution for the torture, injury, or killing of a police service dog. The bill provides that in addition to any other penalty, a person convicted of knowingly and willfully or maliciously torturing, injuring, or killing a police service dog shall be ordered...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2216 (1/29/26) Monitor
HF 2206 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the manufacture, delivery, and possession of marijuana, the licensure of retail marijuana, providing fees, including excise taxes, establishing funds, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. This bill relates to retail marijuana. DIVISION I ?? MARIJUANA ?? CRIMINAL PENALTIES. The bill modifies criminal penalties relating to marijuana by eliminating and modifying certain criminal provisions in Code chapter 124 (uniform controlled substances Act), and transferring certain criminal provisions from Code chapter 124 to...

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Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (1/29/26) Monitor
HSB 528 - Dead A bill for an act relating to controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2202.) This bill relates to controlled substances, including certain controlled substances schedules. The bill makes changes to the controlled substances schedule I in Iowa's uniform controlled substances Act (Code chapter 124) to conform to the specific chemical designations of the substances contained in Title 21 of the...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2202 (1/29/26) Monitor
HSB 529 - Dead A bill for an act relating to sexual misconduct with offenders and juveniles, and providing penalties.(See HF 2201.) This bill relates to sexual misconduct with offenders and juveniles. The bill increases the penalty from an aggravated misdemeanor to a class "D" felony for any peace officer, or an officer, employee, contractor, vendor, volunteer, or an agent of the department of corrections or a judicial...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2201 (1/29/26) Monitor
HF 2130 - Dead A bill for an act relating to noncompliance with and circumvention of ignition interlock device requirements, and providing penalties. Under current law, a person whose driver's license is revoked for operating while intoxicated is required to install an ignition interlock device (IID) prior to being issued a temporary restricted license (TRL) by the department of transportation (DOT). The IID must be installed on every...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/28/26) Support
HF 2139 - Dead A bill for an act related to eluding, including aggravated eluding and fresh pursuit, and providing penalties. This bill relates to eluding, including aggravated eluding and fresh pursuit. The bill provides that the driver of a motor vehicle commits aggravated eluding if the driver, while being pursued by a peace officer within the state, knowingly crosses the state border into another state without...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/28/26) Support
SF 2097 - Dead A bill for an act relating to state law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration and customs enforcement. This bill relates to state law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration and customs enforcement. The bill provides that all law enforcement agencies and officers in the state shall cooperate and work with United States immigration and customs enforcement and any other federal immigration-related agencies when requested.

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Subcommittee: Schultz, Bousselot, and Knox. (1/28/26) Monitor
SSB 3051 - Dead A bill for an act relating to public retirement systems by allowing for the forfeiture of certain portions of the pension of a public employee who commits a felony. This bill relates to public retirement systems by allowing for the forfeiture of certain portions of the pension of a public employee who commits a felony. The bill defines "public employee" to mean an individual who is employed by a public employer and is entitled to...

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Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (1/28/26) Monitor
HF 2109 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the disposition of collected criminal case fines and establishing a victim restitution fund. This bill relates to the disposition of collected criminal Current law provides that the clerk of the district court shall distribute the fine amount for a criminal violation that occurred within the boundaries of a county as follows: 91 percent to the state court administrator...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/27/26)
SF 2020 - Dead A bill for an act requiring an initial appearance before a magistrate on new felony charges by a person on felony probation or parole. This bill requires an initial appearance before a magistrate on new felony charges by a person on felony probation or parole. Current law allows a person arrested with or without a warrant to be released within the period of time the person would otherwise remain incarcerated...

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Placed on calendar. (1/27/26) Monitor
SF 2021 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the sex offender registry including duration of registration, photograph requirements, and modifications. This bill relates to the sex offender registry including duration of registration, photograph requirements, and modifications. The bill provides that a sex offender convicted of any subsequent sex offense, including any expunged convictions, who is already required to register as a sex offender shall be required...

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Placed on calendar. (1/27/26) Monitor
SF 2059 - Dead A bill for an act relating to prohibitions and requirements for state entities concerning certain actions of appointed officers of the executive branch, and making penalties applicable. This bill includes officers appointed to positions in the executive branch of state government in the definition of "state employee" and "employee" for purposes of prohibitions on certain policies of state government entities relating to, and protections against adverse actions for, the disclosure to certain...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/27/26) Monitor
SF 2065 - Dead A bill for an act relating to prostitution and providing penalties. This bill relates to prostitution. Code section 725.1(2) provides that a person who purchases or offers to purchase another person's services as a partner in a sex act commits an aggravated misdemeanor. A person who purchases or offers to purchase services as a partner in a...

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Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (1/27/26) Monitor
SF 2079 - Dead A bill for an act relating to parole eligibility for a person under the age of twenty-one convicted of a class "A" felony and making penalties applicable. This bill relates to parole eligibility for a person under the age of 21 convicted of a class "A" felony. Current law provides that a person under the age of 18 convicted of first degree murder, a class "A" felony, shall receive one of the following...

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Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (1/27/26) Monitor
SJR 2002 - Dead A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa prohibiting the power of judicial review. This joint resolution proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa that prohibits the power of judicial review. The resolution provides that, except for the supreme court's review of an apportionment plan adopted by the general assembly, the judicial power of courts shall...

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Subcommittee recommends indefinite postponement. []. (1/27/26) Monitor
HF 2041 - Dead A bill for an act relating to state law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration and customs enforcement. This bill relates to state law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration and customs enforcement. The bill provides that all law enforcement agencies and officers in the state shall cooperate and work with United States immigration and customs enforcement and any other federal immigration-related agencies when requested.

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Subcommittee Meeting: 01/28/2026 12:00PM RM 103 (Cancelled). (1/26/26) Monitor
HF 2097 - Dead A bill for an act relating to immunization information requested on a medical examiner report used for investigations. This bill requires the report used by medical examiners for investigations of infants zero to three years of age shall include a request for information regarding the date and type of the decedent's last immunization. If the decedent received more than one immunization at the...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/26/26) Monitor
HF 2134 - Dead A bill for an act relating to rental agreements and early termination rights of tenants who are victims of certain crimes.(Formerly HSB 141.) This bill allows a victim of certain crimes to terminate a rental agreement early. The bill allows a tenant to terminate a rental agreement without penalty or liability if the tenant provides written notification to the landlord that a tenant or household member is a...

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Rereferred to Calendar (1/26/26) Monitor
HF 2155 - Dead A bill for an act relating to mandatory minimum sentences for certain criminal offenses, and making penalties applicable. This bill relates to mandatory minimum sentences for certain criminal offenses. The bill provides that a person found guilty of a forcible felony who was in the immediate possession and control of a dangerous weapon, displayed a dangerous weapon in a threatening manner, or was armed...

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Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (1/26/26) Monitor
HF 2159 - Dead A bill for an act designating kava as a schedule I controlled substance, and making penalties applicable. This bill designates kava as a schedule I controlled substance. A person possessing kava is guilty of a serious misdemeanor for a first offense. A person who commits a subsequent violation is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. A person who has previously been convicted two or...

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Introduced, referred to Public Safety. (1/26/26) Monitor
SF 2082 - Dead A bill for an act relating to implied consent to test specimens of a person's blood, breath, or urine following a motor vehicle accident resulting in death, and making penalties applicable. Under current law, a person who operates a motor vehicle under circumstances which give reasonable grounds to believe that the person was operating the motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or a drug is deemed to have given consent to the withdrawal of...

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Subcommittee: Kraayenbrink, Townsend, and Zumbach. (1/26/26) Monitor
SSB 3018 - Dead A bill for an act relating to intimidation with a dangerous weapon, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 2114.) This bill relates to intimidation with a dangerous weapon. The bill removes language referring to discharging a dangerous weapon within an assembly of people, and thereby placing the occupants or people in reasonable apprehension of serious injury from the bill. A violation of the bill is either...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2114 (1/26/26) Monitor
SSB 3021 - Dead A bill for an act relating to sexual exploitation of a minor and deferred and suspended sentences.(See SF 2115.) This bill relates to sexual exploitation of a minor and deferred and suspended sentences. The bill provides that a person convicted of sexual exploitation of a child in violation of Code section 728.12 is not eligible to receive a deferred or suspended sentence if the minor...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2115 (1/26/26) Monitor
SSB 3071 - Dead A bill for an act relating to state law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration and customs enforcement. This bill relates to state law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration and customs enforcement. The bill provides that all law enforcement agencies and officers in the state shall cooperate and work with United States immigration and customs enforcement and any other federal immigration-related agencies when requested.

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Subcommittee: Driscoll, Donahue, and Schultz. (1/26/26) Monitor
HF 986 A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of insurance and financial services, the utilities commission, and the department of transportation, including financial literacy and exploitation, tax confidentiality, health insurance rates, health savings accounts, insurer withdrawals, property insurance, service contracts, the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, and the Iowa cemetery Act, motor vehicle financial liability coverage, and including penalties and effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 911, HSB 256.) This bill relates to matters under the purview of the department of insurance and financial services including financial literacy and exploitation, tax confidentiality, health insurance rates, health savings accounts, insurer withdrawals, property insurance, and service contracts. DIVISION I ?? FINANCIAL LITERACY AND FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION. Division I appropriates...

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Subcommittee: Bousselot, Blake, and Rowley. (1/22/26)
HSB 565 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the appointment of counsel by the court for an indigent person, and including effective date provisions. This bill relates to the appointment of counsel by the court for an indigent person. Current law provides that if no contract attorney is available for appointment by the court, the court may appoint a noncontract attorney. The bill provides that if the court determines that no...

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Tabled until future meeting. (1/22/26) Monitor
SF 2071 - Dead A bill for an act relating to immunization information requested on a medical examiner report used for investigations. This bill requires the report used by medical examiners for investigations of infants zero to three years of age shall include a request for information regarding the date and type of the decedent's last immunization. If the decedent received more than one immunization at the...

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Subcommittee: Sweeney, Donahue, and Webster. (1/22/26) Monitor
HF 2119 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the possession of contraband in department of corrections facilities, and providing penalties.(Formerly HSB 510.) This bill relates to the possession of contraband in department of corrections facilities. The bill provides that any punishment for the possession of contraband by an inmate of a facility under the control of the department of corrections shall be served consecutively to the sentence being...

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Introduced, placed on calendar. (1/21/26) Monitor
HSB 141 - Dead A bill for an act relating to rental agreements and early termination rights of tenants who are victims of certain crimes.(See HF 2134.) This bill allows a victim of certain crimes to terminate a rental agreement early. The bill allows a tenant to terminate a rental agreement without penalty or liability if the tenant provides written notification to the landlord that a tenant or household member is a...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2134. (1/21/26) Monitor
HSB 508 - Dead A bill for an act designating kratom as a schedule I controlled substance, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 2133.) This bill designates kratom as a hallucinogenic schedule I controlled substance. A person possessing kratom is guilty of a serious misdemeanor for a first offense. A person who commits a subsequent violation is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. A person who has previously been convicted two or...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2133 (1/21/26) Monitor
HSB 510 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the possession of contraband in department of corrections facilities, and providing penalties.(See HF 2119.) This bill relates to the possession of contraband in department of corrections facilities. The bill provides that any punishment for the possession of contraband by an inmate of a facility under the control of the department of corrections shall be served consecutively to the sentence being...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2119 (1/21/26) Monitor
HSB 511 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the purchase or possession of a visual depiction of a minor engaging in a prohibited sexual act or the simulation of a prohibited sexual act. This bill provides that it is unlawful to knowingly purchase or possess using any means, including by computer, a visual depiction of a minor engaging in a prohibited sexual act or the simulation of a prohibited sexual act. Tabled until future meeting. (1/21/26) Monitor
SF 2012 - Dead A bill for an act establishing the offense of assault by criminal groping, and providing penalties. This bill establishes the criminal offense of assault by criminal groping. The bill defines "assault by criminal groping" as an assault that involves intentional physical contact with an intimate body part of another person, without the intent to commit sexual abuse. "Intimate body part" is defined...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/21/26) Monitor
SSB 3023 - Dead A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of transportation, and including applicability provisions.(See SF 2088.) This bill relates to matters under the purview of the department of transportation (DOT). CHAUFFEUR'S INSTRUCTION PERMITS. Under current law, a chauffeur's instruction permit is valid for up to two years for the operation of a motor vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle, as a...

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Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2088 (1/21/26) Monitor
HF 2065 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the sex offender registry including duration of registration, photograph requirements, and modifications. This bill relates to the sex offender registry including duration of registration, photograph requirements, and modifications. The bill provides that a sex offender convicted of any subsequent sex offense, including any expunged convictions, who is already required to register as a sex offender shall be required...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/20/26) Monitor
HSB 514 - Dead A bill for an act relating to respondents in a proceeding to expunge information in a record in the investment adviser registration depository. This bill relates to respondents in a proceeding to expunge information in a record in the investment adviser registration depository. Under current law, the commissioner of insurance, or the investment adviser that reported the information in the record in the investment adviser registration depository, may...

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Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/20/26) Monitor
SF 62 - Dead A bill for an act relating to railway special agents. This bill relates to railway special agents. The bill provides that a railway special agent shall cooperate with city, county, and state law enforcement when investigating a criminal offense or crash involving a resident of or property located within the state. The bill defines "railroad corporation" to...

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Subcommittee: Meggers, Gosa and Meyer, A. (1/20/26)
SF 2011 - Dead A bill for an act relating to mandatory minimum sentences for certain criminal offenses, and making penalties applicable. This bill relates to mandatory minimum sentences for certain criminal offenses. The bill provides that a person found guilty of a forcible felony who was in the immediate possession and control of a dangerous weapon, displayed a dangerous weapon in a threatening manner, or was armed...

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Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (1/20/26) Monitor
HF 2111 - Dead A bill for an act relating to deferred or suspended sentences for cases involving sexual exploitation of a minor. This bill relates to deferred or suspended sentences for cases involving sexual exploitation of a minor. Current law provides that a court may not defer the judgment if the offense is a violation of Code section 728.12 (sexual exploitation of a minor). The bill provides that a...

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Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (1/16/26)
HF 2082 - Dead A bill for an act relating to restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence, and creating a civil cause of action. This bill relates to restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The bill defines "artificial intelligence" as any machine-based system that, for any explicit or implicit objective, infers from the inputs the system receives to generate outputs, including content, decisions, predictions, or recommendations, that can...

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Introduced, referred to Economic Growth and Technology. (1/15/26) Monitor
HF 2098 - Dead A bill for an act requiring a child abuse investigation for newborn children whose biological parent previously had the parent's parental rights terminated due to child abuse. This bill requires a child abuse investigation for newborn children whose biological parent previously had the parent's parental rights terminated due to child abuse. For purposes of Code chapter 232 (juvenile justice), a mandatory reporter is a person working in an occupation specified in Code section...

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Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (1/15/26) Monitor
HF 2103 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the speed limit on unpaved roads under county jurisdiction, and making penalties applicable. Under current law, the maximum speed limit on roads under county jurisdiction (secondary roads) is 55 miles per hour, unless such roads are not surfaced with concrete or asphalt, in which case the maximum speed limit is 55 miles per hour at any time between...

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Introduced, referred to Transportation. (1/15/26) Monitor
SF 105 - Dead A bill for an act relating to mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon and providing penalties. This bill relates to mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon. Current law provides that a person who is convicted of a felony in a state or federal court, or who is adjudicated...

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Subcommittee: Reichman, Dawson, and Knox. (1/15/26)
HF 2013 - Dead A bill for an act relating to county attorneys, including workplace requirements, prohibited actions, and duties. This bill relates to county attorneys, including workplace requirements, prohibited actions, and duties. Under current law, a county attorney may be full-time or part-time. The bill requires all county attorneys be full-time and specifies that the county attorney must work in the office provided by the...

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Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (1/13/26) Monitor
HF 2031 - Dead A bill for an act relating to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, including fees, expenses, and court costs. This bill relates to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, including fees, expenses, and court costs. The bill provides that when an officer who has appealed the officer's placement on a Brady-Giglio list to the district court, and the district court...

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Subcommittee Meeting: 01/14/2026 12:15PM RM 304 (Cancelled). (1/13/26) Monitor
SF 2017 - Dead A bill for an act relating to intimidation with a dangerous weapon, and making penalties applicable. This bill relates to intimidation with a dangerous weapon. Current law provides that a person commits intimidation with a dangerous weapon when a person shoots, throws, launches, or discharges a dangerous weapon at, into, or in a building, vehicle, airplane, railroad engine, railroad car, or boat,...

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Subcommittee: Reichman, Bisignano, and Dawson. (1/13/26) Monitor
HF 452 - Dead A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and making appropriations.(See HF 908, HF 1036.) This bill relates to human trafficking, including civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution. The bill directs the office to combat human trafficking within the department of public safety to...

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Withdrawn. (5/14/25) Monitor