Family & Juvenile Law Section Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:38 PM
| BILL | TITLE | SUMMARY | STATUS | ISBA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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,... Full Bill Text |
House amendment S-5181 filed. (4/15/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2256 | A bill for an act exempting a parent's or legal guardian's inability to access appropriate behavioral or mental health treatment for their child from the definition of child abuse. (Formerly HSB 503.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill relates to adjudication of a child in need of assistance due to the need for treatment of a chemical dependency, mental health disorder, or behavioral disorder. The bill allows a court to adjudicate a child in need of assistance (CINA) when the child requires... Full Bill Text |
Message from House. (4/14/26) | |
| SF 542 | A bill for an act relating to the suspension of child support and medical support in certain circumstances. (Formerly SSB 1123.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill relates to the suspension of child support and medical support (support) in certain circumstances. The bill allows a court to enter an ex parte order suspending support if a dispositional or permanency order in juvenile court places the custody or physical care of a... Full Bill Text |
Message from House. (4/14/26) | Support |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
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... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/13/26) | Monitor |
| SF 473 | A bill for an act relating to certain sincerely held religious or moral beliefs of child foster care providers and prospective adoptive parents. (Formerly SF 236.) | This bill relates to certain sincerely held religious or moral beliefs (beliefs) of child foster care providers and prospective adoptive parents. The bill prohibits the department of health and human services (HHS) from requiring an individual licensee (foster parent) to affirm, accept, or support a policy... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8353 filed. (4/13/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2356 | A bill for an act establishing the state public defender's pilot project to implement innovative models of child welfare legal representation as the project to preserve families. (Formerly HSB 566.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | Under current law, the state public defender (SPD) may establish a pilot project to implement innovative models of legal representation to assist families involved in the child welfare system by implementing and studying ways to achieve positive outcomes for families, reduce trauma to young children,... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2564 | A bill for an act relating to a pregnant minor's legal capacity to consent to the provision of certain medical care. (Formerly HF 814.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill relates to the legal capacity of a pregnant minor to consent to certain medical care. If a parent, guardian, or legal custodian is not reasonably available, a minor shall have the legal capacity to give consent to the provision of prenatal, intrapartum, and... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2720 | A bill for an act relating to dissolution of marriage, including name change requests. (Formerly HF 2436.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | As part of a decree of dissolution or decree of annulment, a party to a marriage may request a change in the person's name to either the name appearing on the person's birth certificate or to the name the person had immediately prior to the... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (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... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2462 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to early childhood and family services, including the creation of an early childhood and family services system, state child care assistance for the child care workforce, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3111; See SF 2488.) | This bill relates to early childhood and family services, including creation of an early childhood and family services (ECFS) system and child care workforce eligibility for state child care assistance (CCA). DIVISION I ?? EARLY CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY SERVICES SYSTEM. The bill creates new Code chapter 234A... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2488 . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2488 | A bill for an act relating to early childhood and family services, including the creation of an early childhood and family services system, making appropriations, and including applicability, retroactive applicability, and effective date provisions.(Formerly SF 2462, SSB 3111.) | Committee report, approving bill. (4/9/26) | ||
| HF 940 | A bill for an act relating to civil law, including providing notice to named beneficiaries in probate law, a process for named beneficiaries to obtain ownership of property held by others in probate law, and authorizing spouses to amend premarital agreements, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 713.) | This bill relates to probate law regarding notice provided to named beneficiaries. The bill provides that if a holder of property that has a beneficiary designation owned by a decedent has been notified of the death of the decedent, the property holder shall within 10... Full Bill Text |
Senate amendment H-8334 filed. (4/8/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2660 | A bill for an act relating to decedent property, including deposit accounts, small estate affidavits, and distribution of child support. (Formerly HF 817.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill relates to decedent property, including deposit accounts, small estate affidavits, and distribution of child support. Under current law, a successor may use an affidavit pursuant to Code section 633.356 (distribution of property by affidavit) to collect and transfer a decedent's personal property that would... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/7/26) | Support |
| SF 2096 | A bill for an act relating to foster parent training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care providers. (Formerly SSB 3016.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill relates to training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care (foster care) providers. Under current law, an individual must complete 30 hours of foster care training offered or approved by the department of health and human services (HHS) to obtain a foster... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/7/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/6/26) | Monitor |
| 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". Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/1/26) | |
| SF 2150 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a pregnant minor's legal capacity to consent to the provision of certain medical care. | This bill relates to the legal capacity of a pregnant minor to consent to certain medical care. If a parent, guardian, or legal custodian is not reasonably available, a minor shall have the legal capacity to give consent to the provision of prenatal, intrapartum, and... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/30/26) | Monitor |
| HF 385 | A bill for an act relating to discharge of involuntarily committed persons from a facility or a hospital. (Formerly HF 124.) | This bill relates to discharge of involuntarily committed persons from a facility or a hospital (facility). The bill requires, prior to the discharge of a person that was committed for a substance use disorder or hospitalized for inpatient care for a serious mental impairment, that the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 1003 | A bill for an act relating to child placements.(Formerly HF 638, HSB 146.) | This bill relates to child placements. Under current law, the department of health and human services (HHS) is required to exercise due diligence in identifying and providing notice to certain relatives of a child when the child has been removed from the child's parent's custody. The... Full Bill Text |
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... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | |
| HF 2526 | A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents. (Formerly HF 2036.) | This bill relates to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents. The bill defines "address", "child foster care", "foster child", and "foster parent". The bill prohibits the department of health and human services (HHS) and HHS's agents from knowingly providing or making available a document... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2557 | A bill for an act allowing a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex.(Formerly HSB 669.) | This bill allows a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex. The bill exempts from the definition of child abuse a person raising, guiding, or instructing a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex, including... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2707 | A bill for an act relating to alignment of delivery of health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services, and including applicability and effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 622.) | This bill relates to activities, programs, and services under the purview of the department of health and human services (HHS). DIVISION I ?? HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DISTRICTS. The bill directs HHS to divide the state into health and human services districts (districts), as defined in... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8266 filed. (3/26/26) | |
| SF 2186 | A bill for an act relating to child custody and visitation for parents subject to deployments. (Formerly SF 2053.) | This bill relates to child custody and visitation for parents subject to short-term deployment. The bill defines "short-term deployment" as the movement or mobilization of a deploying parent for less than 30 days pursuant to uniformed service member orders that are designated as unaccompanied, do not... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Support |
| HF 2619 | A bill for an act creating the uniform family law arbitration Act. (Formerly HF 2277.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill creates the Iowa uniform family law arbitration Act. The bill provides definitions, including the terms "arbitrator", "child custody dispute", "child support dispute", and "family law dispute". The bill governs the arbitration in a family dispute but does not allow an arbitrator to grant a... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (3/24/26) | Support |
| SF 2370 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing the state public defender's pilot project to implement innovative models of child welfare legal representation as the project to preserve families.(Formerly SSB 3076.) | Under current law, the state public defender (SPD) may establish a pilot project to implement innovative models of legal representation to assist families involved in the child welfare system by implementing and studying ways to achieve positive outcomes for families, reduce trauma to young children,... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/23/26) | Undecided |
| SF 2371 - Dead | A bill for an act creating the uniform family law arbitration Act.(Formerly SSB 3158.) | This bill creates the Iowa uniform family law arbitration Act. The bill provides definitions, including the terms "arbitrator", "child custody dispute", "child support dispute", and "family law dispute". The bill governs the arbitration in a family dispute but does not allow an arbitrator to grant a... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/23/26) | Support |
| HF 2562 | A bill for an act relating to care facility placement decisions for certain adults. (Formerly HSB 653.) | This bill relates to care facility placement decisions for certain adults. The bill defines "authorized representative" as an agent, attorney in fact, conservator, or guardian. "Person authorized to consent" (authorized person) is defined as a member of any of the following groups of individuals, in order... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| HF 817 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the distribution of child support owed to a decedent by affidavit.(See HF 2660.) | Current law allows for the distribution of a decedent's property by affidavit for very small estates (those with a gross value of $50,000 or less). This bill allows a successor of a decedent who has a very small estate to access undistributed child support payments... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2277 - Dead | A bill for an act creating the uniform family law arbitration Act.(See HF 2619.) | This bill creates the Iowa uniform family law arbitration Act. The bill provides definitions, including the terms "arbitrator", "child custody dispute", "child support dispute", and "family law dispute". The bill governs the arbitration in a family dispute but does not allow an arbitrator to grant a... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/16/26) | Support |
| HF 2436 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to dissolution of marriage, including name change requests.(See HF 2720.) | As part of a decree of dissolution or decree of annulment, a party to a marriage may request a change in the person's name to either the name appearing on the person's birth certificate or to the name the person had immediately prior to the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/16/26) | Undecided |
| SF 523 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the establishment or modification of legal custody of a child.(Formerly SSB 1124.) | This bill relates to the establishment or modification of legal custody of a child. The bill allows a court to award separate rights and responsibilities of joint legal custody to each parent in a dissolution of marriage proceeding. The bill allows a court to resolve joint legal... Full Bill Text |
Tabled until future meeting. (3/12/26) | Support |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (3/10/26) | Undecided |
| HF 814 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a pregnant minor's legal capacity to consent to the provision of certain medical care.(See HF 2564.) | This bill relates to the legal capacity of a pregnant minor to consent to certain medical care. If a parent, guardian, or legal custodian is not reasonably available, a minor shall have the legal capacity to give consent to the provision of prenatal, intrapartum, and... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/9/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/9/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/5/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2625 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to orders for child support including requests for information regarding digital financial accounts, and providing penalties.(Formerly HF 2128.) | This bill relates to orders for child support. The bill defines "digital financial account" as an online account that stores, transfers, or receives moneys digitally. The bill allows child support services or a child support agency to subpoena records relating to digital financial accounts that are relevant... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/4/26) | Support |
| SF 2157 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to malicious prosecution arising from civil actions between private parties. | This bill relates to malicious prosecution arising from civil actions between private parties. The bill defines "malice" as the initiation of a civil action for a primary purpose other than securing a proper adjudication of the claim, and "probable cause" as the existence of reasonably known... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/4/26) | |
| HF 2519 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to collection of accrued interest on unpaid child support by the department of health and human services.(Formerly HSB 620.) | This bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to collect interest accrued on unpaid child support debt, and allows HHS to collect the interest without first obtaining a court order. Under current law, HHS may collect the accrued interest but is not... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Pike, Alons, and Petersen. (3/3/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2565 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing a human trafficking investigative task force.(Formerly HF 1011, HF 831, HF 463.) | This bill establishes a human trafficking investigative task force. DIVISION I. The bill provides that a task force to combat human trafficking is established within the department of public safety (department) to oversee and coordinate efforts to combat human trafficking, and shall be known as the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (3/3/26) | Monitor |
| HF 831 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including the establishment of human trafficking prosecution units and the remittance of wire transmission fees to the office to combat human trafficking.(Formerly HF 463; See HF 1011, HF 2565.) | This bill relates to human trafficking, including the establishment of human trafficking prosecution units and the remittance of wire transmission fees to the office to combat human trafficking. The bill provides that two human trafficking prosecution units are established in the department of justice. The attorney... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 1011 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including the establishment of human trafficking prosecution units and the remittance of wire transmission fees to the office to combat human trafficking.(Formerly HF 831, HF 463; See HF 2565.) | This bill relates to human trafficking, including the establishment of human trafficking prosecution units and the remittance of wire transmission fees to the office to combat human trafficking. The bill provides that two human trafficking prosecution units are established in the department of justice. The attorney... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2036 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents.(See HF 2526.) | This bill relates to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents. The bill defines "address", "child foster care", "foster child", and "foster parent". The bill prohibits a person from knowingly providing or making available a document to a biological parent of a foster foster parent... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 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,... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2163 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care providers.(Formerly HSB 505.) | This bill relates to training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care (foster care) providers. Under current law, an individual must complete 30 hours of foster care training offered or approved by the department of health and human services (HHS) to obtain a foster... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | 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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2704 (2/23/26) | |
| HSB 622 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to alignment of delivery of health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services, and including applicability and effective date provisions.(See HF 2707.) | This bill relates to activities, programs, and services under the purview of the department of health and human services (HHS). DIVISION I ?? HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DISTRICTS. The bill districts (districts), as defined in the bill, to be used by HHS in the delivery of... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2707 (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2128 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to orders for child support including requests for information regarding digital financial accounts, and providing penalties.(See HF 2625.) | This bill relates to orders for child support. The bill defines "digital financial account" as an online account that stores, transfers, or receives moneys digitally. The bill allows child support services or a child support agency to subpoena records relating to digital financial accounts that are relevant... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2625. (2/19/26) | Support |
| HF 2575 - Dead | A bill for an act allowing a court to grant a grandparent or great-grandparent visitation rights of a child in certain circumstances. | Under current law, if a parent of a child is deceased, a court may enter an order granting visitation rights with the child to the child's grandparent or great-grandparent (grandparent) if the court finds such visitation is in the child's best interests; the grandparent and... Full Bill Text |
Tabled until future meeting. (2/19/26) | Oppose |
| SF 2156 - Dead | A bill for an act authorizing court-required drug testing for a parent pursuant to a custody order. | This bill authorizes a court, as part of an order granting custody of a child, to order a parent of the child to undergo drug testing for a period of time and at a frequency the court determines will serve the best interest of the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar. (2/19/26) | Undecided |
| SSB 3111 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to early childhood and family services, including the creation of an early childhood and family services system, state child care assistance for the child care workforce, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2462.) | This bill relates to early childhood and family services, including creation of an early childhood and family services (ECFS) system and child care workforce eligibility for state child care assistance (CCA). DIVISION I ?? EARLY CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY SERVICES SYSTEM. The bill creates new Code chapter 234A... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2462. (2/19/26) | 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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/18/26) | |
| 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,... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2572. (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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3076 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing the state public defender's pilot project to implement innovative models of child welfare legal representation as the project to preserve families.(See SF 2370.) | Under current law, the state public defender (SPD) may establish a pilot project to implement innovative models of legal representation to assist families involved in the child welfare system by implementing and studying ways to achieve positive outcomes for families, reduce trauma to young children,... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2370 (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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2379 (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3158 - Dead | A bill for an act creating the uniform family law arbitration Act.(See SF 2371.) | This bill creates the Iowa uniform family law arbitration Act. The bill provides definitions, including the terms "arbitrator", "child custody dispute", "child support dispute", and "family law dispute". The bill governs the arbitration in a family dispute but does not allow an arbitrator to grant a... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2371 (2/17/26) | Support |
| HSB 620 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to collection of accrued interest on unpaid child support by the department of health and human services.(See HF 2519.) | This bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to collect interest accrued on unpaid child support debt, and allows HHS to collect the interest without first obtaining a court order. Under current law, HHS may collect the accrued interest but is not... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2519. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 653 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to care facility placement decisions for certain adults.(See HF 2562.) | This bill relates to care facility placement decisions for certain adults. The bill defines "authorized representative" as an agent, attorney in fact, conservator, or guardian. "Person authorized to consent" (authorized person) is defined as a member of any of the following groups of individuals, in order... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2562. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 669 - Dead | A bill for an act allowing a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex.(See HF 2557.) | This bill allows a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex. The bill exempts from the definition of child abuse a person raising, guiding, or instructing a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex, including... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2557. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/12/26) | |
| HF 2423 - Dead | A bill for an act allowing a court to grant a grandparent or great-grandparent visitation rights of a child in certain circumstances. | Under current law, if a parent of a child is deceased, a court may enter an order granting visitation rights with the child to the child's grandparent or great-grandparent (grandparent) if the court finds such visitation is in the child's best interests; the grandparent and... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/12/26) | Oppose |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee Meeting: 02/10/2026 11:00AM Senate Lounge. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 566 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing the state public defender's pilot project to implement innovative models of child welfare legal representation as the project to preserve families. | Under current law, the state public defender (SPD) may establish a pilot project to implement innovative models of legal representation to assist families involved in the child welfare system by implementing and studying ways to achieve positive outcomes for families, reduce trauma to young children,... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2356 (2/9/26) | Undecided |
| SF 2172 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to marriage, including the grounds for dissolution of marriage. | This bill relates to marriage, including the grounds for dissolution of marriage. The bill provides that parties applying for a marriage license may also submit a waiver to waive dissolution of marriage based solely on a breakdown of the marriage relationship. The waiver, as prescribed by... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/9/26) | Oppose |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Public Safety. (2/6/26) | |
| HF 2154 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the placement of siblings when custody of the siblings has been transferred to the department of health and human services or an agency for placement. | This bill relates to the placement of siblings together when custody of the siblings has been transferred to the department of health and human services (HHS) or an agency for placement (placing agency). Under current law, HHS or a placing agency must make reasonable efforts to... Full Bill Text |
Tabled until future meeting. (2/4/26) | Oppose |
| HF 2275 - Dead | A bill for an act requiring individuals obligated to pay child support to provide proof of the source from which delinquent child support is being paid. | If an individual makes a payment of delinquent child support (support) which the individual has been court-ordered to pay, this bill requires the individual to provide paystubs, receipts, or other documentation evidencing the source or sources of funds for the support payment. If no such... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/4/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2276 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the financial responsibilities of a parent, or an individual who has a parent-child relationship with a child, whose parental rights are terminated in whole or in part for committing domestic abuse, or assault against a family member. | This bill relates to the financial responsibilities of a parent, or an individual who has a parent-child relationship with a child, whose parental rights are terminated in whole or in part for engaging in domestic abuse, or being convicted of an assault against a family... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/4/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2053 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to child custody for parents subject to short-term deployments.(See SF 2186.) | This bill relates to child custody and visitation for parents subject to short-term deployment. The bill defines "short-term deployment" as the movement or mobilization of a deploying parent for less than 30 days pursuant to uniformed service member orders that are designated as unaccompanied, do not... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2186 . (2/4/26) | Support |
| HF 2219 - Dead | A bill for an act requiring postadoption interviews of adoptive parents and adopted persons by the department of health and human services, and including applicability provisions. | This bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to conduct interviews of the parent named in a final adoption decree (adopter) and the adopted person (adoptee) at least 18 months but no later than 36 months from the date of the final... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services. (1/30/26) | |
| 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". Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2253 (1/30/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 503 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to adjudication of a child in need of assistance due to the need for treatment of a chemical dependency, mental health disorder, or behavioral disorder.(See HF 2256.) | This bill relates to adjudication of a child in need of assistance due to the need for treatment of a chemical dependency, mental health disorder, or behavioral disorder. The bill allows a court to adjudicate a child in need of assistance (CINA) when the child requires... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2256 (1/30/26) | Support |
| HSB 576 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to parties responsible for the confidentiality of information of participants in the address confidentiality program. | Under current law, an assessor or the assessor's staff must redact the name of a participant in the address confidentiality program from documents displayed for public access on an internet site, upon the participant's request. This bill extends this requirement to recorders and requires recorders... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee Meeting: 02/03/2026 12:30PM RM 304 (Cancelled). (1/30/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2136 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to marriage license requirements by requiring premarriage legal counseling. | This bill requires parties applying for a marriage license to complete one hour of premarriage legal counseling provided by an attorney. The bill directs the judicial branch, in consultation with a private legal organization representing lawyers in this state, to prescribe the content of the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Green, Bisignano, and Webster. (1/29/26) | Oppose |
| HF 824 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to consideration of the educational setting of a minor child in a child custody proceeding.(Formerly HF 347.) | This bill provides that in determining temporary custody orders or the award of joint legal custody for a minor child, if the parents are in disagreement over the minor child's educational setting, the court is to consider the educational setting of the minor child. In... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar. (1/28/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 590 - Dead | A bill for an act requiring the department of health and human services to pay for the costs of a child's placement in shelter care. | "Shelter care" is the temporary care of a child in a physically unrestricting facility at any time between the child's initial contact with juvenile authorities and the final judicial disposition of the child's case. Under current law, if the department of health and human services... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/28/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2122 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the creation of an extreme risk protective order against a person in possession of a firearm who presents a significant danger to the person's self or others, and providing penalties. | This bill relates to the creation of an extreme risk protective order against a person who presents a significant danger to the person's self or others by possessing, shipping, transporting, or receiving firearms. DEFINITIONS. The bill defines "family member" to mean a spouse, person cohabiting, a... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (1/28/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2175 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the purchase or sale of an individual including surrogate mother agreements, and making penalties applicable. | This bill relates to the purchase or sale of an individual including surrogate mother agreements. The bill provides that the prohibition against the purchase or sale of an individual does not apply to a surrogate mother arrangement provided that the surrogate mother receives no monetary consideration... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (1/27/26) | Monitor |
| SF 81 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to paternity and the obligation of parents for support of children. | This bill amends Code chapter 600B (paternity and obligation for support) to allow an alleged father of a child, the child's mother, or the child to file a complaint to establish paternity of the child and an obligation for support of the child. Under current... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar. (1/27/26) | Support |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Rereferred to Calendar (1/26/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 505 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care providers.(See HF 2163.) | This bill relates to training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care (foster care) providers. Under current law, an individual must complete 30 hours of foster care training offered or approved by the department of health and human services (HHS) to obtain a foster... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2163 (1/26/26) | |
| HSB 263 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to temporary orders of child custody in dissolution proceedings. | This bill relates to temporary orders of child custody during dissolution proceedings. The bill provides that unless a rebuttable presumption exists against awarding physical care to one of the parties, the court shall award temporary joint physical care of the child to both parties during... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/22/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3016 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to foster parent training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care providers.(See SF 2096.) | This bill relates to training requirements for the licensure of individual child foster care (foster care) providers. Under current law, an individual must complete 30 hours of foster care training offered or approved by the department of health and human services (HHS) to obtain a foster... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2096 (1/22/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2127 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to parent, legal guardian, and legal custodian attendance in court-ordered classes due to the actions of the parent's, legal guardian's, or legal custodian's child, and providing penalties. | This bill relates to parent, legal guardian, and legal custodian attendance in school and court-ordered classes due to the actions of the parent's, legal guardian's, or legal custodian's child. The bill requires a child's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian (parent) to attend a class with... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2134. (1/21/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2083 - Dead | A bill for an act requiring the department of health and human services to pay for child care provided to a foster child participating in the state child care assistance program at the same rate as child care provided to a child with special needs. | This bill requires the department of health and human services to pay for child care provided to a foster child participating in the state child care assistance program at the same rate as child care provided to a child with special needs. | Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services. (1/15/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2093 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a father's obligation for payment of expenses including those related to a mother's pregnancy and the birth of a child born out of wedlock. | This bill relates to the obligation of parents of a child born out of wedlock for support. The bill amends Code chapter 600B (paternity and obligation for support) to provide that the court shall establish medical support pursuant to Code chapter 252E (medical support) and may... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services. (1/15/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2095 - Dead | A bill for an act requiring the filing of a tax return when child support obligations are delinquent, and providing for penalties. | This bill requires the filing of a return when child support obligations are delinquent. The bill requires the director of health and human services (HHS) or the director's designee to notify the department of revenue (DOR) when a obligor's child support obligations are delinquent and referred... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services. (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... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (1/15/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3029 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to parties responsible for the confidentiality of information of participants in the address confidentiality program. | Under current law, an assessor or the assessor's staff must redact the name of a participant in the address confidentiality program from documents displayed for public access on an internet site, upon the participant's request. This bill extends this requirement to recorders and requires recorders... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Westrich, Blake, and Driscoll. (1/14/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2008 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance payments to child care providers for days a child receiving foster care is absent from scheduled child care. | The state child care assistance (CCA) program assists lower-income families who meet certain requirements by reimbursing child care providers (providers) for child care provided to the children of the lower-income families. This bill defines "child care facility" as a child care center, a preschool, or a... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services. (1/13/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2014 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to child preference for physical care of the child and parental visitation rights, and including effective date provisions. | This bill relates to child preference for physical care of the child and visitation rights. The bill permits a child who is 16 years of age or older to request a hearing to modify an order issued by a court establishing custody rights, visitation rights, or... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (1/13/26) | Oppose |
| HF 2030 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance payments. | This bill provides that the department of human services shall pay child care providers enrolled in the state's child care assistance program based on the number of hours of child care scheduled for a child enrolled in the program instead of for child care provided. | Introduced, referred to Health and Human Services. (1/13/26) | Monitor |
| SF 638 | A bill for an act relating to the taxation and regulation of alternative nicotine products and vapor products, creating the Iowa cancer research fund, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SF 475, SSB 1137.) | This bill regulates alternative nicotine products and vapor products and imposes taxes upon the wholesale sales price of such products, and makes numerous conforming changes to Code chapter 453A (cigarettes and tobacco-related products). The bill defines "nicotine analog" to mean a substance that has a chemical... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Dawson, Quirmbach, and Taylor. (1/12/26) | |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (5/14/25) | Monitor |