Government Practice Section Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:38 PM
| BILL | TITLE | SUMMARY | STATUS | ISBA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF 2284 | A bill for an act relating to the use of automated systems that detect traffic violations or registration plate information, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SF 2034.) | This bill prohibits a person from sharing historical location information collected by an automatic registration plate reader with a nongovernmental third party if the information could be used to identify another person or another person's vehicle. A person who shares such information in violation of... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8367 filed. (4/15/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2655 | A bill for an act relating to the operating privileges of drivers of authorized emergency vehicles and police officers riding police bicycles.(Formerly HSB 686.) | Under current law, for purposes of Code chapter 321 (motor vehicles and law of the road), "authorized emergency vehicle" includes vehicles of a fire department, police vehicles, ambulances, and emergency vehicles owned by a governmental entity, and privately owned vehicles as are designated or authorized... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/14/26) | |
| HF 2745 | A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, budgets, and authority, by modifying provisions relating to the assessment and taxation of property, funding from the secure an advanced vision for education fund, urban renewal areas, establishing a program for certain first-time homebuyers, establishing a local government efficiency grant fund, making appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 596.) | Fiscal Note. (4/14/26) | ||
| 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 | |
| SF 2286 | A bill for an act relating to the investment of public funds, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 3075.) | This bill relates to the investment of public funds. The bill allows the uninsured portion of any public funds invested through a depository to be invested in insured deposits or certificates of deposit that are placed in or issued by a credit union. The bill provides that... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (4/14/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2431 | A bill for an act relating to the appointment and duties of township officers and township budgets, and including effective date and applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 3009.) | This bill relates to township boards of trustees, including the appointment and duties of township officers and township budgets. Under current law, the county board of supervisors is responsible for dividing each county into townships. Townships in Iowa have a board of township trustees that is... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as []. (4/14/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2472 | A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, modifying divisions of revenue, establishing a program for first-time homebuyers, modifying appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3001.) | Fiscal Note. (4/14/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 1050 | A bill for an act relating to the assessment of property containing certain aboveground storage tanks and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 238.) | Code section 427A.1 specifies that for the purposes of property taxation only, certain property shall be assessed and taxed, unless otherwise qualified for exemption, as real property, including buildings, structures, or improvements, any of which are constructed on or in the land, attached to the... Full Bill Text |
Referred to Ways and Means. (4/13/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2062 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts.(See HF 2636.) | This bill repeals the ability of property owners to submit a written protest to challenge a proposed change in a zoning district. Under Code section 414.5, as a part of an ordinance changing land from one zoning district to another zoning district or an ordinance approving... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2558 | A bill for an act relating to the definition of public improvement for purposes of public construction bidding. (Formerly HSB 592.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill revises the definition of "public improvement" for purposes of Code chapter 26 (public construction bidding) to exclude equipment acquired by or for a city utility under Code chapter 388 when such equipment is related to an electric generating project and to exclude the... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | |
| 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 2340 | A bill for an act relating to the authority of counties and cities to regulate the installation or use of battery-charged security alarm systems on nonresidential properties. (Formerly SSB 3112.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | Under current law, Code sections 331.301 and 364.3 provide limitations on the powers of counties and cities, respectively. This bill amends those Code sections to limit a county's or city's authority to regulate the use and installation of battery-charged security alarm systems under certain circumstances. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2369 | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units. (Formerly SSB 3070.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | Under current law, a county or city shall allow a minimum of one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the same lot as a single family residence in accordance with certain conditions. This bill specifies that a county or city shall allow a minimum of one ADU... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2378 | A bill for an act relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts.(Formerly SF 2091.) | This bill repeals the ability of property owners to submit a written protest to challenge a proposed change in a zoning district. Under Code section 414.5, as a part of an ordinance changing land from one zoning district to another zoning district or an ordinance approving... Full Bill Text |
Message from House, with amendment S-5176 . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2418 | A bill for an act relating to drainage districts and levees, including district parcel records, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 2349.) Effective date: 04/09/2026. | Under Code chapter 468 (levee and drainage districts and improvement), the board of supervisors has the authority to establish a drainage district or to locate and establish a levee. Upon establishment of a district, the drainage district is deemed to acquire a permanent easement for... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2636 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts.(Formerly HF 2062.) | Under Code section 414.5, as a part of an ordinance changing land from one zoning district to another zoning district or an ordinance approving a site development plan, a city council may impose conditions on a property owner in addition to existing regulations if the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/8/26) | Monitor |
| SF 633 | A bill for an act relating to forest and fruit-tree reservations by establishing a program fee and including contingent effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 219.) | Currently, a person who establishes a forest or fruit-tree reservation (reservation) is entitled to a property tax exemption on the tract of land selected to be a reservation, subject to certain conditions. Beginning January 1, 2026, this bill establishes a fee structure for reservations dependent upon... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (4/8/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2296 | A bill for an act restricting counties and cities from issuing a local form of identification. (Formerly HSB 552.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill prohibits a county or city from issuing identification cards to its residents. The bill provides exceptions for counties authorized to issue driver's licenses, nonoperator's identification cards, and persons with disabilities identification devices pursuant to Code chapter 321M. The bill also provides an exception... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/7/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2263 | A bill for an act relating to the carrying, transportation, and possession of weapons, and including effective date provisions. | This bill relates to the carrying, transportation, and possession of weapons by certain persons and in certain locations. The bill is organized by divisions. DIVISION I ?? DANGEROUS WEAPONS IN PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE PARKING LOTS. This division allows a person to carry, possess, or transport a dangerous... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8321 filed. (4/7/26) | |
| SF 2341 | A bill for an act relating to the approval and publication of meeting minutes of county boards of supervisors. (Formerly SF 2026.) | Under current law, the county auditor is required to furnish recordings of proceedings of the board of supervisors to be published. All proceedings shall be published immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. This bill requires the proceedings to be approved by the board before the... Full Bill Text |
Message from House, with amendment S-5162 . (4/7/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2531 | A bill for an act relating to interests in minerals owned by counties and cities. (Formerly HF 2213.) | This bill requires a county or city to divest any interest in minerals that the county or city owns or controls. The county or city shall convey any interest in minerals it owns or controls to the surface owner of the land to which the... Full Bill Text |
Amendment S-5158 filed. (4/6/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2313 | A bill for an act relating to property tax sales, including bidding procedures and foreclosures on certificates, and including applicability provisions. | Under current law, a notice of the annual tax sale containing certain information shall be published in at least one official newspaper. This bill specifies that if the treasurer has an official internet site with the information required by Code section 446.9, then the publication... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee Meeting: 04/08/2026 12:00PM Room 315. (4/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2345 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the Iowa public employees' retirement system and the municipal fire and police retirement system, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 585.) | This bill allows the Iowa public employees' retirement system (IPERS) to release the legal name of a member or beneficiary to the treasurer of state to assist IPERS in locating the member or beneficiary. The bill removes the requirement for IPERS, between January and June of... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/1/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2359 | A bill for an act relating to the responsibility and liability of property owners for public places in cities and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HF 192.) | This bill relates to the responsibility and liability of an abutting property owner for public places in a city such as sidewalks. Under current law, an abutting property owner may be required by a city ordinance to maintain public sidewalks or other property between the... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8287 filed. (4/1/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2667 | A bill for an act relating to project design standards and specifications, including by providing for a statewide urban design and specifications board and requiring certain reports to city councils regarding noncompliant projects. (Formerly HSB 744.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill establishes the statewide urban design and specifications board (SUDAS board) within the department of transportation (DOT). The SUDAS board is required to develop statewide urban design standards and specifications (SUDAS), which may include soliciting recommendations from the institute for transportation at Iowa state... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/1/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2146 | A bill for an act relating to the responsibility and liability of property owners for public places in cities, prohibiting fines, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1118.) | This bill relates to the responsibility and liability of an abutting property owner for public places in a city such as sidewalks. Under current law, an abutting property owner may be required by a city ordinance to remove natural accumulations of snow and ice within... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8288 filed. (4/1/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2297 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the Iowa public employees' retirement system, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3038.) | This bill allows the Iowa public employees' retirement system (IPERS) to release the legal name and city of last known address of a member or beneficiary to the treasurer of state to assist IPERS in locating the member or beneficiary. The bill removes the requirement for... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (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... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/31/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2394 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a statewide urban design and specifications board, including assessment of costs for local government projects that do not comply with the board's design or specifications manuals.(Formerly SSB 3173.) | This bill establishes the statewide urban design and specifications board (SUDAS board) within the department of transportation (DOT). The SUDAS board is required to develop statewide urban design standards and specifications (SUDAS), which may include soliciting recommendations from the institute for transportation at Iowa state... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/31/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2429 | A bill for an act relating to fluid milk products annual permits, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 258, SSB 1044.) Effective date: 01/01/2027 | Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) is authorized to issue annual permits for the operation of vehicles or combinations of vehicles transporting fluid milk products to or from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station while exceeding the weight limitation of Code... Full Bill Text |
Message from House. (3/31/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2432 | A bill for an act eliminating a city's ability to create a city board of health or a city health department, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3135.) | Amendment H-8277 filed. (3/31/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 2614 | A bill for an act relating to the authorized uses of a township fire protection levy.(Formerly HF 2428.) | Under current law, township trustees are authorized to levy an annual tax not exceeding $0.405, $0.54, or $0.675 per $1,000 of assessed value of the taxable property in the township for the purpose of fire protection and emergency services, depending on services offered and the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/30/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2199 | A bill for an act relating to level II law enforcement academy training programs.(Formerly HSB 509.) | This bill relates to level II law enforcement academy training programs. The bill provides that an individual who submits an application for attendance at an approved level II academy training program shall, at a minimum, submit proof of successful completion of a two-year or four-year police... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2255 | A bill for an act relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders.(Formerly HF 2061.) | Under current law, a peace officer, a civilian employee of a law enforcement agency, a state or federal judicial officer, or state or federal prosecutor may request their name be redacted from documents made public by the county assessor or county recorder. This bill adds... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2490 | A bill for an act relating to public notice requirements for meetings of a governmental body.(Formerly HSB 578.) | This bill relates to public notice requirements for meetings of a governmental body. The bill requires the act of giving notice of a meeting of a governmental body to include (1) advising the news media who have filed a request for notice with the governmental... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2502 | A bill for an act relating to paid parental leave for state employees.(Formerly HSB 579.) | This bill strikes the requirement that a state employee be entitled to leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 in order to receive paid leave under Code section 70A.24 for the birth or adoption of a child. | Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | |
| HF 2618 | A bill for an act eliminating the Iowa smart planning principles and other local comprehensive planning and development guidelines.(Formerly HF 2148.) | Current Code section 18B.1 enumerates the Iowa smart planning principles. The Iowa smart planning principles are 10 principles that state agencies, local governments, and other public entities are required to consider and may apply during deliberation of all appropriate planning, zoning, development, and resource management... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| SF 259 | A bill for an act limiting the release of personal information for traffic violations observed by an out-of-state traffic camera, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 51.) | Under current law, the department of transportation (DOT) is prohibited from releasing personal information, if requested by the presentation of a registration plate number, to a person other than an officer or employee of a law enforcement agency, an employee of a federal or state... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2089 | A bill for an act relating to information provided to the department of workforce development during the fact-finding process for claims for unemployment benefits.(Formerly SSB 3003.) | This bill requires the department of workforce development to establish a process whereby a claimant and an employer may each provide information to the department prior to the department's fact-finding process for a claim for unemployment benefits without the presence of or participation by the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2368 | A bill for an act requiring cost-benefit analyses of county jail projects, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3137.) | This bill requires a county to conduct a study before approving a project to build a new jail, renovate 50 percent or more of the existing jail property, or expand the grounds or structure of the jail. The study must compare the cost difference between... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | |
| SF 2434 | A bill for an act relating to local government, including the approval of action by ordinance, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3175.) | Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 2617 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles. (Formerly HSB 667.) | This bill rewrites and reorganizes current Code section 321.89, regulating the towing, impounding, reclaiming, and selling of abandoned vehicles, and providing required notice. The bill does not amend substantive provisions under current law, but makes changes to enhance readability. The bill amends Code sections 321.88 and 321.90... Full Bill Text |
Attached to SF 2475 . (3/25/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2457 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles, and making appropriations.(Formerly SSB 3061; See SF 2475.) | Code sections 321.89 and 321.90 regulate the taking into custody and disposal of abandoned vehicles, as defined in Code section 321.89. Current law requires an entity that takes custody of an abandoned vehicle to send notice by certified mail to all known claimants of the vehicle... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2475 . (3/25/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2475 | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles.(Formerly SF 2457, SSB 3061.) | Attached to HF 2617 . (3/25/26) | ||
| HF 2500 | A bill for an act relating to contracts entered into by state agencies and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 583.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 Applicability date: 07/01/2026 | This bill prohibits the inclusion of certain provisions in contracts entered into by the department of administrative services (DAS) and any other state agency under Code chapter 8A, subchapter III, part 2 (purchasing), and declares those provisions void if present in such contracts. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (3/23/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2522 | A bill for an act relating to the required beneficiary and use of a public officer insurance policy, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 660.) | Under current law, certain public officers are required to obtain a bond that runs to the state for the use and benefit of any corporation, public or private, or person injured or sustaining loss, with a right of action in the name of the state... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (3/23/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 596 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to local government taxes, budgets, and authority, by establishing property tax limitations and modifying provisions relating to the assessment and taxation of property, certain taxpayer notices, bond issuances, and councils of governments, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions.(See HF 2745.) | This bill relates to local government taxes, budgets, and authority. DIVISION I ?? PROPERTY TAX REVENUE LIMITATIONS. The bill enacts new Code section 444.25, which establishes a maximum aggregate amount of property tax dollars that may be certified for levy among all property tax levies imposed... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2745 (3/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2206 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to contracts entered into by state agencies and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 3030.) | This bill prohibits the inclusion of certain provisions in contracts entered into by the department of administrative services (DAS) and any other state agency under Code chapter 8A, subchapter III, part 2 (purchasing), and declares those provisions void if present in such contracts. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2342 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the required beneficiary and use of a public officer insurance policy.(Formerly SSB 3069.) | Under current law, certain public officers are required to obtain a bond that runs to the state for the use and benefit of any corporation, public or private, or person injured or sustaining loss, with a right of action in the name of the state... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/23/26) | Monitor |
| HF 936 | A bill for an act relating to government bodies for purposes of open records, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 192.) | This bill amends the definition of "government body" in Code chapter 22 (open records) to include an instrumentality of a city or township, thereby subjecting such instrumentalities to open records requirements and associated civil penalties applicable to government bodies. By operation of law, the bill includes... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2189 | A bill for an act relating to public improvement contracts, including notice requirements.(Formerly HSB 567.) | This bill relates to public improvement contracts. Under Code chapter 573, a public corporation may enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement. The bill requires that no later than 14 calendar days after the public corporation's final acceptance of the public improvement, the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | 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... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | |
| HF 2304 | A bill for an act relating to indirect costs charged to state-funded grants, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 642.) | This bill provides that indirect costs, as defined in the bill, charged to a state-funded grant awarded or amended on or after July 1, 2026, must not exceed 5 percent of the total grant amount and prohibits a department or establishment from approving a budget... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | |
| HF 2517 | A bill for an act relating to the display of flags at half-staff on public buildings.(Formerly HSB 634.) | This bill requires the custodian and the board of public officers of a public building to comply with a proclamation issued by the governor for the flags of the United States and person to report alleged violations to the attorney general, who may initiate a... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | |
| HF 2592 | A bill for an act relating to the investment of public funds, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 633.) | This bill relates to the investment of public funds. The bill allows the uninsured portion of any public funds invested through a depository to be invested in insured deposits or certificates of deposit that are placed in or issued by a credit union. The bill provides that... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2647 | A bill for an act relating to transferring alcoholic beverages between the premises of certain retail alcohol licensees with identical ownership.(Formerly HSB 712.) | This bill relates to transferring alcoholic beverages between the premises of certain retail alcohol licensees with identical ownership. Under current Code section 123.46A (delivery of alcoholic beverages by retailers), licensees authorized to sell alcoholic liquor, wine, or beer in original unopened containers for consumption off the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | |
| SF 503 | A bill for an act relating to government bodies for purposes of open records, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SSB 1072.) | This bill amends the definition of "government body" in Code chapter 22 (open records) to include an instrumentality of a county, city, or township, thereby subjecting such instrumentalities to open records requirements and associated civil penalties applicable to government bodies. The bill defines the term... Full Bill Text |
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... Full Bill Text |
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... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2374 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the national electrical code, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3097.) | This bill relates to the national electrical code. The bill adopts certain provisions of the national electrical code, 2023 edition, with amendments, as the national electrical code applicable in this state. The bill prohibits a political subdivision from adopting a local electrical code that is... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2386 | A bill for an act relating to indirect costs charged to state-funded grants, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 3074.) | This bill provides that indirect costs, as defined in the bill, charged to a state-funded grant awarded or amended on or after July 1, 2026, must not exceed 5 percent of the total grant amount and prohibits a department or establishment from approving a budget... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | |
| SF 2430 | A bill for an act relating to the display of flags at half-staff on public buildings.(Formerly SSB 3134.) | This bill requires the custodian and the board of public officers of a public building to comply with a proclamation issued by the governor for the flags of the United States and person to report alleged violations to the attorney general, who may initiate a... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2447 | A bill for an act relating to the siting and operation of renewable electric power generating facilities.(Formerly SF 376.) | This bill relates to siting and operation of certain renewable electric power generation facilities. The bill creates standard-making ability for local authorities approving a renewable electric power generation facility (facility) proposed after January 1, 2025. The bill sets guidelines for a local authority to implement a facility... Full Bill Text |
Amendment S-5109 filed. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2451 | A bill for an act relating to transferring alcoholic beverages between the premises of certain retail alcohol licensees with identical ownership.(Formerly SSB 3168.) | This bill relates to transferring alcoholic beverages between the premises of certain retail alcohol licensees with identical ownership. Under current Code section 123.46A (delivery of alcoholic beverages by retailers), licensees authorized to sell alcoholic liquor, wine, or beer in original unopened containers for consumption off the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | |
| HF 2646 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to certain activities associated with foreign entities in the state, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 752.) | foreign entities in the state. bill prohibits the state or a political subdivision of the state from purchasing, leasing, or operating a remotely piloted aircraft, defined as a self-propelled vehicle used for navigation and flight that is controlled by the use of an electronic system and... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2376 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to bonds and letters of credit for general contractors and subcontractors. (Formerly SF 576, SSB 1151.) | This bill relates to performance bonds and letters of credit for general contractors and subcontractors. The bill requires a general contractor or subcontractor, as defined in Code chapter 572 (mechanic's lien), engaged in the business of construction, defined in the bill as the improvement of... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2438 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to city utilities including landlord notification, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3128.) | Under current law, a city utility or enterprise service to a property or premises shall not be discontinued or disconnected unless prior written notice is sent by mail to the account holder in whose name the delinquent rates were incurred. If the account holder is... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/18/26) | Monitor |
| HF 92 | A bill for an act relating to Iowa's urban renewal law by modifying the division of revenue, and including applicability provisions. | This bill excludes property taxes for emergency medical services imposed pursuant to Code chapter 422D from a division of revenue (tax increment financing) under Code section 403.19. The bill applies to property taxes due and payable in fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2026. Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/17/26) | |
| HF 2638 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to public records, including employment separation information for certain government employees, contractors, or appointees.(Formerly HF 2388.) | Under current law, a person has the right to examine and copy a public record. Code section 22.7 provides a list of public records that must be kept confidential unless otherwise ordered by a court, by the lawful custodian of the records, or by another... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Schultz, and Winckler. (3/17/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2191 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to elections for school district and city officers and bonds, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 2623.) | This bill relates to elections for school district and city DIVISION I ?? SCHOOL DISTRICT AND CITY ELECTIONS. The bill changes the day of school district and city elections from the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year to the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/16/26) | |
| HF 2388 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to public records, including employment separation information for certain government employees, contractors, or appointees.(See HF 2638.) | Under current law, a person has the right to examine and copy a public record. Code section 22.7 provides a list of public records that must be kept confidential unless otherwise ordered by a court, by the lawful custodian of the records, or by another... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/16/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2455 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage for emergency services, reimbursements for out-of-network providers, and complicating factors.(Formerly SSB 3177.) | This bill relates to insurance coverage for emergency services, reimbursements for out-of-network providers, and complicating factors. The bill requires a policy, contract, or plan providing for third-party payment or prepayment of medical expenses to provide coverage for health care services (services) provided to a covered person... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/16/26) | |
| SF 579 | A bill for an act relating to local laws implementing the Iowa civil rights Act of 1965, local civil rights commissions, and local civil rights agencies, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1184.) Effective date: 03/10/2026. | This bill relates to local civil rights commissions or local civil rights agencies. The bill provides that any complaint that is filed with a local commission or local agency where a party is a political subdivision shall be referred to the Iowa office of civil rights... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/13/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2584 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing drug-free homeless service zones, and providing penalties. (Formerly HSB 705.) | This bill establishes drug-free homeless service zones. The bill prohibits a person from intentionally or knowingly doing any of the following: the person sells or transfers or attempts to sell or transfer a controlled substance while present within a drug-free homeless service zone; or the person... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2620 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting signs giving notice that an automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement is used when the use of a system is not authorized.(Formerly HSB 597.) | Under current law, a local authority is prohibited from using an automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement (system) unless the local authority holds a valid permit issued by the department of transportation (DOT) to use a system at the system's location. A local... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2623 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to elections for school district and city officers, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2191.) | This bill relates to elections for school district and city officers. The bill changes the day of school district and city elections from the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year to the first Tuesday after the first Monday of... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Koelker, Webster, and Winckler. (3/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2375 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to fire fighting foam purchased by government entities.(Formerly SSB 3099.) | This bill requires the department of administrative services (DAS) to establish a master contract for the purchase of fire fighting foam from a seller whose product contains the greatest content of soybean-based materials without containing perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances or fluorine components. Under current law,... Full Bill Text |
Read first time, referred to Local Government. (3/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2256 | A bill for an act relating to required information on certain recorded documents and statements of property taxes due mailed to titleholders. | Code section 331.606B relating to documents or instruments presented for recording requires that, for any instrument of conveyance, certain information be contained on the document, including the name and address of the taxpayer. This bill provides that for a taxpayer that is an individual, the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (3/11/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2721 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the grounds for removal of a local assessor and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 738.) | This bill modifies Code section 441.9, which governs the grounds for the removal of a local assessor by majority vote of the conference board to specifically include charges of failing to meet applicable employment standards or charges of unethical or unlawful conduct, if substantiated at... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8195 filed. (3/10/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 761 | A bill for an act relating to a convenience fee for recording instruments in a county by a person who is not a resident of the county. | Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (3/10/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 2148 - Dead | A bill for an act eliminating the Iowa smart planning principles and other local comprehensive planning and development guidelines.(See HF 2618.) | Current Code section 18B.1 enumerates the Iowa smart planning principles. The Iowa smart planning principles are 10 principles that state agencies, local governments, and other public entities are required to consider and may apply during deliberation of all appropriate planning, zoning, development, and resource management... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (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... Full Bill Text |
Message from House, with amendment S-5076 . (3/9/26) | |
| HF 2252 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units.(Formerly HSB 618.) | Under current law, a county or city shall allow a minimum of one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the same lot as a single family residence in accordance with certain conditions. This bill specifies that a county or city shall allow a minimum of one ADU... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/5/26) | 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... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/5/26) | |
| HF 2516 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authority of counties and cities to regulate the installation or use of battery-charged security alarm systems on nonresidential properties.(Formerly HSB 659.) | Under current law, Code sections 331.301 and 364.3 provide limitations on the powers of counties and cities, respectively. This bill amends those Code sections to limit a county's or city's authority to regulate the use and installation of battery-charged security alarm systems under certain circumstances. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/5/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2520 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to elections to fill vacancies in elective county and city offices.(Formerly HSB 639.) | This bill relates to vacancies in elected county and city offices. If a county board of supervisors or city council chooses to fill a vacancy in an elective office by appointment, the bill allows eligible electors of a county or city to submit a petition... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (3/5/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2439 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to fire protection sprinkler systems in certain residential properties. (Formerly SF 310, SSB 1094.) | This bill requires the state building code commissioner to adopt as part of the state building code a prohibition on the required installation of a fire protection sprinkler system in a series of attached single-family residences consisting of 18,000 square feet or less. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/5/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3183 | A bill for an act relating to the publication of certain public notices by designated public entities, providing for fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. | Subcommittee: Green, Guth, and Petersen. (3/5/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 2223 | A bill for an act relating to local and state government finances by modifying provisions relating to homestead property tax credits, providing a residential property tax rebate, modifying provisions relating to retirement systems, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to local and state government finances by modifying provisions relating to homestead property tax credits, providing a residential property tax rebate, and modifying provisions relating to the municipal fire and police retirement system. The bill authorizes a homestead property tax credit based on... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Nordman, Jacoby and Lundgren. (3/4/26) | |
| HF 2548 | A bill for an act relating to the determination and collection of certain fees by the auditor of state and the provision of municipal financial management training, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 626.) | Code section 11.6(11) authorizes the auditor of state to establish and collect a periodic examination fee from cities that are not required to have an audit or required fiscal year examination during a fiscal year. The auditor of state is required to base the fees... Full Bill Text |
Tabled until future meeting. (3/4/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2409 | A bill for an act relating to Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly SF 2343.) | This bill authorizes the department of transportation (DOT) to design and issue Gadsden flag special registration plates. The bill requires the plate's background to be black and the plate's numbers and letters to be yellow. The left side of the plate must contain the image of... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/4/26) | |
| SF 2442 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county zoning ordinances governing residential buildings.(Formerly SSB 3152.) | This bill relates to county zoning ordinances that govern residential buildings. Under current law, a county board of supervisors may by ordinance regulate and restrict the height, number of structures, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the... Full Bill Text |
Read first time, referred to Local Government. (3/4/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2330 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to public records requests.(Formerly HSB 582.) | This bill provides that upon receipt of a public records request, the lawful custodian shall (1) promptly, as defined in the bill, acknowledge the request and provide the contact information of the lawful custodian's authorized designee, (2) provide an approximate date for a response and... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Schultz, and Winckler. (3/3/26) | |
| HF 2511 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to statewide resilience planning, including the development, implementation, and periodic updating of an Iowa state resilience plan. (Formerly HF 2158.) | This bill relates to statewide resilience planning, including the development, implementation, and periodic updating of an Iowa state resilience plan. The bill defines "critical assets" to include transportation community and emergency facilities; and natural, cultural, and historical resources. The bill defines "regionally significant assets" as critical... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Zumbach, Shipley, and Staed. (3/3/26) | |
| SF 2461 | A bill for an act establishing continuing appropriations in fiscal years for which annual appropriations have not been enacted.(Formerly SF 2388, SSB 3176.) | This bill establishes continuing appropriations in fiscal years for which the general assembly does not enact annual appropriations. The bill applies to fiscal years for which one or more line item appropriations, standing limited appropriations, or standing unlimited appropriations otherwise limited by law (appropriations) for... Full Bill Text |
Amendment S-5054 filed. (3/3/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2061 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders.(See HF 2255.) | Under current law, a peace officer, a civilian employee of a law enforcement agency, a state or federal judicial officer, or state or federal prosecutor may request their name be redacted from documents made public by the county assessor or county recorder. This bill adds... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2074 - Dead | A bill for an act permitting a city to create entertainment districts allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places.(See HF 2325.) | This bill permits a city to create entertainment districts (district) allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places. A city may define by ordinance a licensed premises which may be used by holders of class "C" or special class "C" retail... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2158 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to statewide resilience planning, including the development, implementation, and periodic updating of an Iowa state resilience plan.(See HF 2511.) | This bill relates to statewide resilience planning, including the development, implementation, and periodic updating of an Iowa state resilience plan. The bill defines "critical assets" to include transportation community and emergency facilities; and natural, cultural, and historical resources. The bill defines "regionally significant assets" as critical... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2213 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to interests in minerals owned by counties and cities.(See HF 2531.) | This bill requires a county or city to divest any interest in minerals that the county or city owns or controls. The county or city shall convey any interest in minerals it owns or controls to the surface owner of the land to which the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2294 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the filing of complaints with the Iowa public information board.(Formerly HSB 580.) | This bill provides that a person has 90 days, rather than 60 days under current law, to file a complaint with the Iowa public information board after an alleged violation of Code chapter 21 (open meetings) or Code chapter 22 (open records) occurred or the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee reassigned: Rozenboom, Schultz, and Staed. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| SF 497 - Dead | A bill for an act concerning county and city administration, and including effective date and applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 1105.) | This bill provides that a county board of supervisors or a city council shall only discharge from employment the county manager, county administrator, city manager, city administrator, or similar county or city executive, even if a different nomenclature is used to describe the position, by... Full Bill Text |
Amendment S-5038 filed. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2145 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to monetary donations that may be received and gifted by local officials and local employees to offset medical or health care expenses, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SF 580, SF 261.) | Generally under current law, a public official, public employee, or candidate, or that person's immediate family member is prohibited from accepting or receiving any gift or series of gifts from a restricted donor. Certain monetary gifts are authorized under Code section 68B.22(4). This bill authorizes... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2433 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the national electrical code, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3148.) | This bill relates to the national electrical code. The bill adopts the international energy conservation code, 2009 edition (national energy code), as part of the national electrical code applicable in this state. Current law requires the electrical examining board (board) to adopt rules for the... Full Bill Text |
Amendment S-5040 filed. (3/2/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2325 - Dead | A bill for an act permitting a city to create social districts allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places.(Formerly HF 2074.) | This bill permits a city to create social districts (district) allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places. A city may define by ordinance an area which may be used by holders of class "C" or special class "C" retail alcohol... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Bisignano, and Schultz. (2/26/26) | |
| SF 2435 | A bill for an act relating to local government by modifying property tax credits and rent reimbursements, provisions governing abandoned mobile homes and personal property in rural areas, and tax sales.(Formerly SF 2024.) | This bill relates to local government administration of certain property tax credits and rent reimbursements, abandoned mobile homes and personal property in rural areas, and tax sales. DIVISION I ?? PROPERTY TAX CREDITS AND RENT REIMBURSEMENTS. The bill specifies a claim for credit of property taxes due... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/26/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2441 | A bill for an act concerning locally imposed hotel and motel taxes for tourism development and tourism promotion.(Formerly SSB 3114.) | This bill concerns locally imposed hotel and motel taxes by creating a local hotel and motel tax account for the development and promotion of tourism, and includes applicability provisions. The bill strikes the detailed list of permissible expenditures for at least 50 percent of the locally... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Dawson, Bisignano, and Gruenhagen. (2/26/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 734 | A bill for an act authorizing cities to establish self-supported tourism improvement districts. | This bill authorizes a self-supported tourism improvement district (district). The bill allows a levy (assessment) upon lodging businesses for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, installing, or maintaining improvements and providing activities that will provide certain benefits to lodging businesses located within the district. The bill defines "activities"... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/25/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2659 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing an affordable housing task force.(Formerly HF 2312.) | This bill establishes an affordable housing task force to study state and local regulations that contribute to the cost of affordable housing and to examine the corresponding public benefit of such regulations relative to their impact on housing The bill requires the task force to... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8038 filed. (2/24/26) | |
| HF 2710 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the powers and duties applicable to state of disaster emergencies and public health disasters, including a prohibition on regulating religious institutions and practices.(Formerly HSB 726.) | This bill relates to the powers and duties applicable during a state of disaster emergency or a public health disaster and prohibits the governor's ability to regulate religious institutions and practices during these emergencies. The bill prohibits the governor from dictating a measure in a proclamation... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 689 | A bill for an act relating to budgets of local emergency management agencies and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to budgets of local emergency management agencies. Code section 29C.17(2) specifies the methods and sources for funding a local emergency management agency and provides that such methods and sources are determined by the local emergency management commission. The bill specifies an exception to... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 738 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the grounds for removal of a local assessor and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2721.) | This bill modifies Code section 441.9, which governs the grounds for the removal of a local assessor by majority vote of the conference board to specifically include charges of failing to meet applicable employment standards or charges of unethical or unlawful conduct, if substantiated at... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2721 (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2373 | A bill for an act modifying the major economic growth attraction program to include incentivizing the building of a professional sports stadium by a national football league franchise in the state.(Formerly SF 2252.) | This bill modifies the major economic growth attraction (MEGA) program to include incentivizing the building of a professional sports stadium by a national football league franchise in the state. Currently, the MEGA program provides economic development incentives designed to attract capital investments from businesses who invest... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Dawson, Bisignano, and Gruenhagen. (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2436 | A bill for an act relating to the division of revenue of school district foundation property taxes for urban renewal projects, authorizing voluntary payments by school districts, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 3138.) | This bill excludes the school district foundation property tax imposed under Code section 257.3 from the division of revenue under Code section 403.19 (tax increment financing). The bill prohibits the foundation property tax from being divided and paid into the municipality's special fund for the payment... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Dawson, Bisignano, and Gruenhagen. (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2440 | A bill for an act relating to the permissible uses of certain school district property tax revenue for urban renewal projects and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3136.) | Iowa's urban renewal law under Code chapter 403 authorizes the division of revenue (tax increment financing). This bill provides that school district foundation property taxes levied under Code section 257.3 and deposited into a municipality's special fund as the result of a division of revenue... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Dawson, Gruenhagen, and Winckler. (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2458 | A bill for an act relating to public safety answering points, including limitations, property tax allocation, service requirements, management, consolidation, transfer of duties from joint 911 service boards to local emergency management commissions, and reporting requirements, and including transfer and effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3008.) | This bill relates to public safety answering points, including setting limitations, property tax allocation, service requirements, management, consolidation, transfer of duties from joint 911 service boards to local emergency management commissions, and reporting requirements. authorizes the Iowa finance authority to exercise the same bonding and fund-pooling... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Dawson, and Dotzler. (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8023 filed. (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2555 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the use of automatic registration plate readers and providing penalties.(See HF 2701.) | Under current law, the operator of an automatic registration plate reader (plate reader) or any associated data storage device is required to permanently delete from the plate reader and storage device, as applicable, every image of a vehicle registration plate captured by the plate reader,... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2701 (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... Full Bill Text |
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... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2701 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the use of automatic registration plate readers and providing penalties.(Formerly HF 2555.) | Under current law, the operator of an automatic registration plate reader (plate reader) or any associated data storage device is required to permanently delete from the plate reader and storage device, as applicable, every image of a vehicle registration plate captured by the plate reader,... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2675 (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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2677 (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 744 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a statewide urban design and specifications board, including assessment of costs for local government projects that do not comply with the board's design or specifications manuals.(See HF 2667.) | This bill establishes the statewide urban design and specifications board (SUDAS board) within the department of transportation (DOT). The SUDAS board is required to develop statewide urban design standards and specifications (SUDAS), which may include soliciting recommendations from the institute for transportation at Iowa state... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2667 (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 376 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the siting and operation of renewable electric power generating facilities.(See SF 2447.) | This bill relates to siting and operation of certain renewable electric power generation facilities. The bill creates standard-making ability for local authorities approving a renewable electric power generation facility (facility) proposed after January 1, 2025. The bill sets guidelines for a local authority to implement a facility... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2447 . (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 493 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting political subdivisions from using certain moneys to hire lobbyists or pay instrumentalities, and providing penalties.(Formerly SSB 1042.) | This bill prohibits a political subdivision from using moneys received from the imposition of a tax to employ or compensate a lobbyist, or to pay an instrumentality that employs or compensates a lobbyist. For the purposes of the bill, "instrumentality" is defined and includes, among... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar. (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2024 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to local government by modifying property tax credits and rent reimbursements, provisions governing abandoned mobile homes and personal property in rural areas, and tax sales.(See SF 2435.) | This bill relates to local government administration of certain property tax credits and rent reimbursements, abandoned mobile homes and personal property in rural areas, and tax sales. DIVISION I ?? PROPERTY TAX CREDITS AND RENT REIMBURSEMENTS. The bill specifies a claim for credit of property taxes due... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2435 . (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2029 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the compensation of county officers.(See SF 2437.) | This bill relates to required considerations for determining the salary of county officers. The bill requires a county compensation board to use the statistical mean of certain law enforcement positions for comparison. The bill provides that in determining the average salary of police chiefs employed... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2437 . (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2349 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to drainage districts and levees, including district parcel records.(See SF 2418.) | Under Code chapter 468 (levee and drainage districts and improvement), the board of supervisors has the authority to establish a drainage district or to locate and establish a levee. Upon establishment of a district, the drainage district is deemed to acquire a permanent easement for... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2418 . (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2437 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to health insurance coverage for surviving spouses and children of deceased fire fighters and peace officers, and health insurance coverage for disabled or injured fire fighters and peace officers.(Formerly SF 2029.) | This bill relates to health insurance coverage for surviving spouses and children of deceased fire fighters and peace officers; and health insurance coverage for disabled or injured fire fighters and peace officers. Under current law, if a governing body, a county board of supervisors, or a... Full Bill Text |
Committee report, approving bill. (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2312 - Dead | A bill for an act establishing an affordable housing task force.(See HF 2659.) | This bill establishes an affordable housing task force to study state and local regulations that contribute to the cost of affordable housing and to examine the corresponding public benefit of such regulations relative to their impact on housing costs. The bill requires the task force to... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2659 (2/20/26) | |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2658 (2/20/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/20/26) | |
| HF 2428 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authorized uses of a township fire protection levy.(See HF 2614.) | Under current law, township trustees are authorized to levy an annual tax not exceeding $0.405, $0.54, or $0.675 per $1,000 of assessed value of the taxable property in the township for the purpose of fire protection and emergency services, depending on services offered and the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2614. (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... Full Bill Text |
Committee vote: Yeas, 20. Nays, 0. Excused, 1. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2637 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of peer support communications for public safety officers and civilian employees.(Formerly HSB 652.) | This bill relates to the confidentiality of peer support communications for public safety officers. The bill amends Code section 80F.1 (peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights) by providing that the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights does not... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 597 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting signs giving notice that an automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement is used when the use of a system is not authorized.(See HF 2620.) | Under current law, a local authority is prohibited from using an automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement (system) unless the local authority holds a valid permit issued by the department of transportation (DOT) to use a system at the system's location. A local... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2620. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 652 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of peer support communications for public safety officers.(See HF 2637.) | This bill relates to the confidentiality of peer support communications for public safety officers. The bill amends Code section 80F.1 (peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights) by providing that the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights does not... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2637. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 667 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles.(See HF 2617.) | This bill rewrites and reorganizes current Code section 321.89, regulating the towing, impounding, reclaiming, and selling of abandoned vehicles, and providing required notice. The bill does not amend substantive provisions under current law, but makes changes to enhance readability. The bill amends Code sections 321.88 and 321.90... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2617. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 752 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to certain activities associated with foreign entities in the state, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 2646.) | foreign entities in the state. bill prohibits the state or a political subdivision of the state from purchasing, leasing, or operating a remotely piloted aircraft, defined as a self-propelled vehicle used for navigation and flight that is controlled by the use of an electronic system and... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2646. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2343 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.(See SF 2409.) | This bill relates to vehicle registration plates. The bill authorizes the department of transportation (DOT) to design and issue Gadsden flag special registration plates. The bill requires the plate's background to be yellow at the top and bottom, with the color fading into white in the center. The... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2409 . (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3008 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to public safety answering points, including limitations, property tax allocation, service requirements, management, consolidation, transfer of duties from joint 911 service boards to local emergency management commissions, and reporting requirements, and including transfer and effective date provisions.(See SF 2458.) | This bill relates to public safety answering points, including setting limitations, property tax allocation, service requirements, management, consolidation, transfer of duties from joint 911 service boards to local emergency management commissions, and reporting requirements. DIVISION I ?? PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINTS. The bill authorizes the Iowa... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2458 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3009 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to duties of certain political subdivisions, including duties of fence viewers, stewardship of certain cemeteries, and provision of fire protection and emergency medical services, and including transition and effective date provisions.(See SF 2431.) | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2431 (2/19/26) | Monitor | |
| SSB 3061 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles, and making appropriations.(See SF 2457.) | Code sections 321.89 and 321.90 regulate the taking into custody and disposal of abandoned vehicles, as defined in Code section 321.89. Current law requires an entity that takes custody of an abandoned vehicle to send notice by certified mail to all known claimants of the vehicle... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2457 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3114 - Dead | A bill for an act concerning locally imposed hotel and motel taxes for tourism development and tourism promotion.(See SF 2441.) | This bill concerns locally imposed hotel and motel taxes by creating a local hotel and motel tax account for the development and promotion of tourism, and includes applicability provisions. The bill strikes the detailed list of permissible expenditures for at least 50 percent of the locally... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2441 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3134 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the display of flags at half-staff on public buildings.(See SF 2430.) | This bill requires the custodian and the board of public officers of a public building to comply with a proclamation issued by the governor for the flags of the United States and person to report alleged violations to the attorney general, who may initiate a... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2430 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3135 - Dead | A bill for an act transferring the powers and duties of local boards of health and local health departments to county boards of health and district boards of health, and including applicability and effective date provisions.(See SF 2432.) | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2432 (2/19/26) | Monitor | |
| SSB 3136 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the permissible uses of certain school district property tax revenue for urban renewal projects and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2440.) | Iowa's urban renewal law under Code chapter 403 authorizes the division of revenue (tax increment financing). This bill provides that school district foundation property taxes levied under Code section 257.3 and deposited into a municipality's special fund as the result of a division of revenue... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2440 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3138 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the division of revenue of school district foundation property taxes for urban renewal projects, authorizing voluntary payments by school districts, and including applicability provisions.(See SF 2436.) | This bill excludes the school district foundation property tax imposed under Code section 257.3 from the division of revenue under Code section 403.19 (tax increment financing). The bill prohibits the foundation property tax from being divided and paid into the municipality's special fund for the payment... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2436 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3152 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county zoning ordinances governing residential buildings.(See SF 2442.) | This bill relates to county zoning ordinances that govern residential buildings. Under current law, a county board of supervisors may by ordinance regulate and restrict the height, number of structures, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2442 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3168 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to transferring alcoholic beverages between the premises of certain retail alcohol licensees with identical ownership.(See SF 2451.) | This bill relates to transferring alcoholic beverages between the premises of certain retail alcohol licensees with identical ownership. Under current Code section 123.46A (delivery of alcoholic beverages by retailers), licensees authorized to sell alcoholic liquor, wine, or beer in original unopened containers for consumption off the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2451 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3175 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to local government, including the approval of action by ordinance and posting of public notices.(See SF 2434.) | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2434 (2/19/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 2068 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the publication of notice of political party precinct caucuses. | This bill allows a political party to publish notice of the date, time, and place of each precinct caucus on an official social media account of the political party instead of in a newspaper of general circulation in the precinct. | Committee vote: Yeas, 15. Nays, 6. Excused, 2. (2/18/26) | 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... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2194 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the membership of the Iowa law enforcement academy council.(See HF 2587.) | This bill relates to the membership of the Iowa law enforcement academy council. The bill provides that one member of the council must be a resident of the state who has not been employed as a certified law enforcement officer and two additional officers are designated... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2587 (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2577 | A bill for an act relating to property taxes and local government funding by modifying the methodology for determining actual value of property, certain levy rates, bonding procedures, assessment protests, and assessment limitations of certain classes of property, and including retroactive applicability provisions. | This bill relates to property taxation by modifying the methodology for determining actual value of residential, commercial, and industrial property, assessment limitations of certain classes of property, and certain levy rate limitations. DIVISION I ?? ACTUAL VALUE LIMITATION. Under Code section 441.21, all property subject to... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Ways and Means. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2587 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the membership of the Iowa law enforcement academy council.(Formerly HF 2194.) | This bill relates to the membership of the Iowa law enforcement academy council. The bill provides that one member of the council must be a resident of the state who has not been employed as a certified law enforcement officer and two additional officers are designated... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 633 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the investment of public funds, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 2592.) | This bill relates to the investment of public funds. The bill allows the uninsured portion of any public funds invested through a depository to be invested in insured deposits or certificates of deposit that are placed in or issued by a credit union. The bill provides that... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2592 (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... Full Bill Text |
Tabled until future meeting. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2091 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts.(See SF 2378.) | This bill repeals the ability of property owners to submit a written protest to challenge a proposed change in a zoning district. Under Code section 414.5, as a part of an ordinance changing land from one zoning district to another zoning district or an ordinance approving... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2378. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2235 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to sewer services provided by a city utility, including establishing procedures for water that does not enter the sewer system. | This bill relates to sewer services provided by a city utility, including establishing procedures for water that does not enter the sewer system. The bill provides findings of the general assembly that municipal sewer charges are intended to recover costs associated with actual wastewater collection, treatment,... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2252 - Dead | A bill for an act modifying the major economic growth attraction program to include incentivizing the building of a professional sports stadium by a national football league franchise in the state.(See SF 2373.) | This bill modifies the major economic growth attraction (MEGA) program to include incentivizing the building of a professional sports stadium by a national football league franchise in the state. Currently, the MEGA program provides economic development incentives designed to attract capital investments from businesses who invest... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2373 . (2/18/26) | |
| SF 2301 | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority, the utilities commission, and the department of education, including creation of the headquarters expansion and development for growth and employment program, and the business incentives for growth program training fund; repeal of the new jobs tax credit program; the major economic growth attraction program; load forecasting and analysis of electric transmission system expansion plans; creation of the electric transmission system expansion planning and analysis and load forecasting fund; the industrial new jobs training program; and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3103.) | This bill relates to economic development authority programs and tax credits; load forecasting and the state electric transmission system expansion plans; and the industrial new jobs training program. DIVISION I ?? HEADQUARTERS EXPANSION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM. The bill creates a headquarters expansion... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Dawson, Gruenhagen, and Quirmbach. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2346 - Dead | A bill for an act allowing certain cities to opt out of the municipal fire and police retirement system. | This bill allows a city with a population of less than 10,000 to discontinue participation in the statewide municipal fire and police retirement system (system). Current members of the system employed by the city shall maintain membership in the system. A police officer or fire... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2347 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to city emergency medical services property tax levies. | This bill authorizes cities, following approval at election, to establish an emergency medical services fund and certify property taxes to be levied for the purpose of providing emergency medical service. The following conditions must also be met: (1) the city has not established an emergency... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3074 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to indirect costs charged to state-funded grants, and including applicability provisions.(See SF 2386.) | This bill provides that indirect costs, as defined in the bill, charged to a state-funded grant awarded or amended on or after July 1, 2026, must not exceed 5 percent of the total grant amount and prohibits a department or establishment from approving a budget... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2386. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3172 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a health insurance pool for municipal employees. | This bill relates to the establishment of a health insurance pool for municipal employees. The bill requires the department of administrative services (department) to enter into a contract with a health carrier (carrier) for the administration of a municipal employee health insurance pool (insurance pool) in... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3173 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a statewide urban design and specifications board, including assessment of costs for local government projects that do not comply with the board's design or specifications manuals.(See SF 2394.) | This bill establishes the statewide urban design and specifications board (SUDAS board) within the department of transportation (DOT). The SUDAS board is required to develop statewide urban design standards and specifications (SUDAS), which may include soliciting recommendations from the institute for transportation at Iowa state... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2394. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2569 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to recovery of costs for the demolition of abandoned buildings by cities. | Under current law, a building is considered abandoned if it is vacant, or is occupied only by trespassers, and is in violation of the housing code or building code of the city or county in which the property is located. Under current law, a city may... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2131 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to publication requirements for official publications. | Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/17/26) | Monitor | |
| SF 2309 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to city regulation of short-term rental properties. | This bill relates to city regulation of short-term rental properties. Under current law, a city shall not adopt or enforce any regulation, restriction, or other ordinance, including a conditional use permit requirement, relating to short-term rental properties within the city. A city also shall not... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Bousselot, Driscoll, and Weiner. (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2348 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to health insurance coverage for surviving spouses and children of deceased fire fighters and peace officers, and health insurance coverage for disabled or injured fire fighters and peace officers. | This bill relates to health insurance coverage for surviving spouses and children of deceased fire fighters and peace officers; and health insurance coverage for disabled or injured fire fighters and peace officers. Under current law, if a governing body, a county board of supervisors, or a... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Webster, Blake, and Koelker. (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2350 - 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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3070 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units.(See SF 2369.) | Under current law, a county or city shall allow a minimum of one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the same lot as a single family residence in accordance with certain conditions. This bill specifies that a county or city shall allow a minimum of one ADU... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2369 (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3097 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the national electrical code.(See SF 2374.) | This bill relates to the national electrical code. The bill adopts certain provisions of the national electrical code, 2023 edition, with amendments, as the national electrical code applicable in this state. The bill prohibits a political subdivision from adopting a local electrical code that is... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2374. (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2459 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to liability of persons performing housing or rental inspections for a municipality. | This bill modifies the definition of "employee" for purposes of Code chapter 670 (tort liability of governmental subdivisions) to include a person performing a housing or rental inspection for a municipality. Under Code chapter 670, a municipality is liable for the torts of the municipality's... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2463 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the operation of state government, including the commencement of audits, information made available to the auditor of state, and disputes between governmental agencies. | This bill relates to the commencement of audits, information made available to the auditor of state, and disputes between governmental agencies. The bill strikes or repeals provisions enacted by the general assembly in 2023 Iowa Acts, chapter 103 (SF 478). Specifically, the bill strikes prohibitions on... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2474 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to reimbursement for certain audit expenses to the auditor of state. | This bill relates to the reimbursement of certain audit expenses to the auditor of state. The bill strikes a list of specified departments and agencies that must reimburse the auditor of state for performing audits and examinations, and instead provides that any audited department or agency... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2483 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to towing or impounding vehicles, and making penalties applicable. | This bill regulates towing and impounding motor vehicles. The bill requires a person who tows a vehicle without the owner's consent to post certain signs on private property where the person is authorized to tow vehicles, document the towing with photographs, and maintain records relating to... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Transportation. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2524 | A bill for an act relating to city finances. | This bill relates to city finances. Under current law, all government subdivisions are subject to a fiscal year examination annually, with exceptions for certain entities and cities. Such examination checks the financial condition and transactions of the government subdivisions. Cities with a population of less than... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Ways and Means. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2541 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to local laws implementing the Iowa civil rights Act of 1965.(Formerly HSB 664.) | This bill relates to local laws implementing the Iowa civil rights Act of 1965 (civil rights Act). The civil rights Act prohibits discrimination in employment, wages, public accommodations, housing, education, and credit practices based upon certain characteristics of a person. Current law requires cities, to the extent... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2556 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the use of automatic registration plate readers, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. | 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... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2566 | A bill for an act relating to certain city fire protection and emergency medical services funds. | Cities may contract with other public agencies to provide fire protection and emergency medical services. This bill requires cities that contract with other cities or a township to provide such protection and services to establish a fire protection and emergency medical services fund, in which... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Ways and Means. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 578 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to public notice requirements for meetings of a governmental body.(See HF 2490.) | This bill relates to public notice requirements for meetings of a governmental body. The bill requires the act of giving notice of a meeting of a governmental body to include (1) advising the news media who have filed a request for notice with the governmental... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2490. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 579 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to paid parental leave for state employees.(See HF 2502.) | This bill strikes the requirement that a state employee be entitled to leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 in order to receive paid leave under Code section 70A.24 for the birth or adoption of a child. | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2502. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 592 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the definition of public improvement for purposes of public construction bidding.(See HF 2558.) | This bill revises the definition of "public improvement" for purposes of Code chapter 26 (public construction bidding) to exclude equipment acquired by a city utility when the equipment relates to an electric generation or transmission project, existing utility infrastructure, or establishing connections to existing utility... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2558. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 626 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the determination and collection of certain fees by the auditor of state and the provision of municipal financial management training, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 2548.) | Code section 11.6(11) authorizes the auditor of state to establish and collect a periodic examination fee from cities that are not required to have an audit or required fiscal year examination during a fiscal year. The auditor of state is required to base the fees... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2548. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 634 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the display of flags at half-staff on public buildings.(See HF 2517.) | This bill requires the custodian and the board of public officers of a public building to comply with a proclamation issued by the governor for the flags of the United States and person to report alleged violations to the attorney general, who may initiate a... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2517. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 639 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to elections to fill vacancies in elective county and city offices.(See HF 2520.) | This bill relates to vacancies in elected county and city offices. If a county board of supervisors or city council chooses to fill a vacancy in an elective office by appointment, the bill allows eligible electors of a county or city to submit a petition... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2520. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 659 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authority of counties and cities to regulate the installation or use of battery-charged security alarm systems on nonresidential properties.(See HF 2516.) | Under current law, Code sections 331.301 and 364.3 provide limitations on the powers of counties and cities, respectively. This bill amends those Code sections to limit a county's or city's authority to regulate the use and installation of battery-charged security alarm systems under certain circumstances. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2516. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 664 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to local laws implementing the Iowa civil rights Act of 1965.(See HF 2541.) | This bill relates to local laws implementing the Iowa civil rights Act of 1965 (civil rights Act). The civil rights Act prohibits discrimination in employment, wages, public accommodations, housing, education, and credit practices based upon certain characteristics of a person. Current law requires cities, to the extent... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2541. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2026 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the approval and publication of meeting minutes of county boards of supervisors.(See SF 2341.) | Under current law, the county auditor is required to furnish recordings of proceedings of the board of supervisors to be published. All proceedings shall be published immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. This bill requires the proceedings to be approved by the board before the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2341 . (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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2238 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to public records, including the duties of lawful custodians. | This bill relates to public records, including the duties of lawful custodians. Under current law, a person may request to examine, copy, publish, or otherwise disseminate a public record from the government body currently in physical possession of the public record (lawful custodian). The bill defines "original... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2333 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county requirements for land surveyors. | Code chapter 542B regulates the licensure of land surveyors by the engineering and land surveying examining board. This bill prohibits a county from imposing on a land surveyor to survey land in the county any requirements in addition to those required for licensure, including any bonds,... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Guth, Drey, and Green. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3098 - Dead | A bill for an act related to boundary adjustments between cities by petition of property owners. | This bill relates to boundary adjustments between cities by petition of property owners. Under current law, a real property owner within the boundaries of a city may file a petition for severance with the city council if the property would then be eligible for annexation by... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3113 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the provision of law enforcement services by agreement between counties and cities, and including effective date provisions. | Under current law, Code section 28E.30 allows a county and cities within the county to enter into an agreement to provide administrative services through the county sheriff to the city for its police department. Code section 28E.30 requires the agreement to specify the administrative services... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 1023 | A bill for an act relating to benefits and contributions for members of the Iowa public employees' retirement system who are employed in a protection occupation.(Formerly HF 967, HSB 265.) | This bill modifies the Iowa public employees' retirement system (IPERS) benefits and contributions for members employed in a protection occupation. The bill increases the amount a member of IPERS who is employed in a protection occupation is required to contribute to IPERS from 40 percent to... Full Bill Text |
Placed on Ways and Means calendar. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2399 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the awarding of public improvement contracts. | Under current law, a contract for a public improvement must be awarded to the lowest responsive, responsible bidder. This bill provides that a contract for a public improvement may be awarded to a local contractor whose bid is within 10 percent of the cost of... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Lundgren, Cooling and Johnson, C. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2424 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to settlement agreements involving a county or a city. | This bill requires the county board of supervisors or the city council to hold a public hearing on any settlement agreement that the county or the city has entered. Before implementing the settlement agreement or making any payments pursuant to the agreement, the board or... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee Meeting: 02/12/2026 12:00PM RM 304 (Cancelled). (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 730 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to rehabilitation projects and tax incentives under the workforce housing tax incentives program. | This bill relates to rehabilitation projects and tax incentives issued under the workforce housing tax incentives program. The bill defines a "rehabilitation project" as a proposed housing project eligible to receive workforce housing tax incentives that includes at least four or more single-family dwelling units, except... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Latham, Wilson and Wood. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2032 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to tax and special assessment collections for buildings or improvements erected on land owned by another person.(See SF 2334.) | When property adjacent to a public improvement benefits from the improvement, a special assessment may be levied against the adjacent properties that received the benefit to pay for all or a portion of the improvement. Under current law, principal and interest due and delinquent because... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2334. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2100 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county zoning of industrial and commercial businesses. | This bill prohibits a county from preventing an industrial or commercial business that operates or seeks to operate the business on and out of property in the county but outside the corporate limits of any city from storing items directly related to the business, regardless... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2243 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the operation of state government, including the commencement of audits, information made available to the auditor of state, and disputes between governmental agencies. | This bill relates to the commencement of audits, information made available to the auditor of state, and disputes between governmental agencies. The bill strikes or repeals provisions enacted by the general assembly in 2023 Iowa Acts, chapter 103 (SF 478). Specifically, the bill strikes prohibitions on... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Drey, and Schultz. (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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Bisignano, and Schultz. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2334 | A bill for an act relating to tax and special assessment collections for buildings or improvements erected on land owned by another person.(Formerly SF 2032.) | When property adjacent to a public improvement benefits from the improvement, a special assessment may be levied against the adjacent properties that received the benefit to pay for all or a portion of the improvement. Under current law, principal and interest due and delinquent because... Full Bill Text |
Committee report, approving bill. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3069 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the required beneficiary and use of a public officer insurance policy.(See SF 2342.) | Under current law, certain public officers are required to obtain a bond that runs to the state for the use and benefit of any corporation, public or private, or person injured or sustaining loss, with a right of action in the name of the state... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2342. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3112 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authority of counties and cities to regulate the installation or use of battery-charged security alarm systems on nonresidential properties.(See SF 2340.) | Under current law, Code sections 331.301 and 364.3 provide limitations on the powers of counties and cities, respectively. This bill amends those Code sections to limit a county's or city's authority to regulate the use and installation of battery-charged security alarm systems under certain circumstances. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2340. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2026 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the display of flags on public schools and state-owned buildings. | This bill provides that a custodian of a public school or state-owned building is authorized to raise only the flags of the United States, the state of Iowa, and the national league of POW/MIA families on the building and the associated grounds. | Subcommittee Meeting: 02/12/2026 8:45AM House Lounge 2 (Cancelled). (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2400 - Dead | A bill for an act creating a contractor performance assessment system. | This bill requires the department of administrative services (DAS) to create and maintain a contractor performance assessment system on an internet site that is accessible to governmental entities for the purpose of assessing contractor performance on public improvements. DAS must develop a performance grading system... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2401 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to exceptions to member education course requirements for official meetings open to the public. | Current law requires a newly elected or appointed public official who is a member of a governmental body to complete a training course relating to the responsibilities of the governmental body and its members under Code chapter 21 (official meetings open to public). This bill... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2414 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the investment of public funds in precious metals, oil, and natural gas. | This bill requires the treasurer of state to invest 20 percent of the public moneys in the general fund of the state in gold, silver, platinum, and palladium and 10 percent in equity interests in businesses engaged in the production of gold, silver, platinum, palladium,... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/11/26) | 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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2034 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the use of automated vehicle noise enforcement systems.(See SF 2284.) | This bill prohibits local authorities from issuing a citation for a violation detected by an automated vehicle noise enforcement system, as defined in the bill, based on noise emitted from the use of a vehicle's brake or exhaust system while the vehicle is reducing speed.... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2284 . (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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2283. (2/11/26) | |
| SF 2126 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the regulation of private burial sites by counties and cities. | This bill requires counties and cities to adopt an ordinance that establishes regulations on burials to occur on property that is not owned and operated with the main purpose of being a cemetery. At a minimum, the ordinance shall require the person authorized to conduct... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends indefinite postponement. []. (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3038 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the Iowa public employees' retirement system, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2297.) | This bill strikes a prohibition on the Iowa public employees' retirement system (IPERS) requiring electronic records and electronic signatures of members to the extent permitted under Code chapter 554D (electronic transactions ?? computer agreements). The bill also allows IPERS to release the legal name of... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2297 (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3075 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the investment of public funds, and making penalties applicable.(See SF 2286.) | This bill relates to the investment of public funds. The bill allows the uninsured portion of any public funds invested through a depository to be invested in insured deposits or certificates of deposit that are placed in or issued by a credit union. The bill provides that... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2286 (2/11/26) | |
| SSB 3103 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority, the utilities commission, and the department of education, including creation of the headquarters expansion and development for growth and employment program, and the business incentives for growth program training fund; repeal of the new jobs tax credit program; the major economic growth attraction program; load forecasting and analysis of electric transmission system expansion plans; creation of the electric transmission system expansion planning and analysis and load forecasting fund; the industrial new jobs training program; and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2301.) | This bill relates to economic development authority programs and tax credits; load forecasting and the state electric transmission system expansion plans; and the industrial new jobs training program. DIVISION I ?? HEADQUARTERS EXPANSION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM. The bill creates a headquarters expansion... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2301 (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3150 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to matters associated with county officers. | This bill relates to matters associated with county officers. The bill strikes a requirement that a county commission of veteran affairs file in the office of the county auditor a report regarding recipients of services from the county rather than the auditor is responsible for maintaining... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Schultz, and Winckler. (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2029 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to health care coverage of public school district personnel under the state health insurance plan, providing fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. | This bill allows employees and elected officials of a public school district to apply for coverage and enroll in a state health or medical group insurance plan provided to state employees by the department of administrative services (DAS). Premium payments for coverage received through a state... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/10/26) | |
| HF 2372 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to mechanical insulation inspections for public buildings. | This bill requires the department of administrative services (department) to contract with a mechanical insulation contractor for a mechanical insulation energy and safety assessment of each public building within the next 10 years. The department must post the findings of each assessment on the department's internet... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2386 - Dead | A bill for an act related to city regulation of single-family residential property. | This bill allows a city to require the first purchaser of a single-family residential home in a new housing development to physically occupy the single-family residential home for one year after the purchase of the home. The city may charge the owner of a single-family... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2387 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to early retirement benefits for members of the peace officers' retirement, accident, and disability system. | Under current law, a member of the department of public safety peace officers' retirement, accident, and disability system who has completed 22 years or more of creditable service and is at least 50 years of age, but less than 55 years of age, may retire... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2390 | A bill for an act relating to workforce housing project tax incentives issued by the economic development authority, and including effective date provisions. | This bill relates to workforce housing tax incentives issued by the economic development authority (authority). The bill strikes a provision requiring the authority to issue workforce housing tax incentives on a first-come, first-served basis until the maximum amount allowable for the fiscal year has been achieved... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Ways and Means. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2028 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to fire fighter training and certification. | This bill relates to fire fighter training and certification. The bill directs the department of public safety to revise the rules relating to fire fighter training and certification by January 1, 2027, to provide that a person who committed any crime as an adult that resulted... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| HF 192 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the responsibility and liability of property owners for public places in cities and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2359.) | This bill relates to the responsibility and liability of an abutting property owner for public places in a city such as sidewalks. Under current law, an abutting property owner may be required by a city ordinance to maintain public sidewalks or other property between the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2359. (2/9/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 585 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the Iowa public employees' retirement system, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2345.) | This bill strikes a prohibition on the Iowa public employees' retirement system (IPERS) requiring electronic records and electronic signatures of members to the extent permitted under Code chapter 554D (electronic transactions ?? computer agreements). The bill also allows IPERS to release the legal name of... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2345 (2/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2317 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to real property, including the removal of unauthorized persons and trespass, and providing penalties. | This bill relates to real property owners' rights against unauthorized occupants and modifies the definition of trespass. The bill allows a real property owner to submit to law enforcement a complaint to remove unauthorized persons occupying the owner's real property if all of the following conditions... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/6/26) | |
| HF 2320 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to short-term rental property classification by cities. | Under current law, cities are prohibited from regulating short-term rental properties. In addition, cities are permitted to impose a hotel and motel tax upon the sales price from the renting of lodging. This bill allows a city to consider a short-term rental property as lodging for... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (2/6/26) | |
| HF 2322 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to towing a motor vehicle without the owner's consent, and making penalties applicable. | Under current law, the towing, storing, selling, and disposing of abandoned vehicles are regulated under Code section 321.89. This bill regulates the towing, storing, selling, and disposing of a motor vehicle that was towed without the owner's consent and is not an abandoned vehicle. The bill... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Transportation. (2/6/26) | |
| HSB 582 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to public records requests.(See HF 2330.) | This bill provides that upon receipt of a public records request, the lawful custodian shall (1) promptly, as defined in the bill, acknowledge the request and provide the contact information of the lawful custodian's authorized designee, (2) provide an approximate date for a response and... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2330 (2/6/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2177 - Dead | A bill for an act providing paid leave to state employees for volunteer activities. | This bill allows a state employee to be granted paid time off for not more than eight hours each calendar year for participating in volunteer activities. The employee shall not lose any pay or benefits as a result of the paid leave and shall not... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/5/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2291 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to charging fees for examining and copying public records requested by members of the general assembly. | This bill relates to fees for public records requested by members of the general assembly. Pursuant to Code section 22.3, custodians of public records may charge a reasonable fee for supervising the examination of as well as the making and providing copies of public records. A reasonable... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/5/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 552 - Dead | A bill for an act restricting counties and cities from issuing a local form of identification.(See HF 2296.) | This bill prohibits a county or city from issuing identification cards to its residents. The bill provides exceptions for counties authorized to issue driver's licenses, nonoperator's identification cards, and persons with disabilities identification devices pursuant to Code chapter 321M. The bill also provides an exception... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2296 (2/5/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 580 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the filing of complaints with the Iowa public information board.(See HF 2294.) | This bill provides that a person has 90 days, rather than 60 days under current law, to file a complaint with the Iowa public information board after an alleged violation of Code chapter 21 (open meetings) or Code chapter 22 (open records) occurred or the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2294 (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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2295 (2/5/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2107 - Dead | A bill for an act permitting a city to create entertainment districts allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places. | This bill permits a city to create entertainment districts (district) allowing for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain public places. A city may define by ordinance a licensed premises which may be used by holders of class "C" or special class "C" retail... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/5/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2193 - Dead | A bill for an act requiring a water treatment plant to conduct a test of sewage sludge to detect the presence of a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance. | This bill requires a waste water treatment plant to test sewage sludge for perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) prior to providing the sewage sludge for application on land used for farming. If the test detects the presence of PFAS, the waste water treatment plant must... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Shipley, and Staed. (2/5/26) | 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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2192 . (2/4/26) | |
| SF 2111 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to statewide resilience planning, including the development, implementation, and periodic updating of an Iowa state resilience plan. | This bill relates to statewide resilience planning, including the development, implementation, and periodic updating of an Iowa state resilience plan. The bill defines "critical assets" to include transportation community and emergency facilities; and natural, cultural, and historical resources. The bill defines "regionally significant assets" as critical... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/4/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2268 (2/3/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2152 - Dead | A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the executive officers of the boards of directors of school districts. | This bill modifies provisions related to the executive Current law provides that the superintendent of a school district is the executive officer of the board of directors of the school district. The bill strikes this provision. The bill requires the board of directors of a... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Sinclair, Kraayenbrink, and Winckler. (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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Evans, Pike, and Trone Garriott. (2/3/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 618 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units.(See HF 2252.) | Under current law, a county or city shall allow a minimum of one accessory dwelling unit (ADU) on the same lot as a single family residence in accordance with certain conditions. This bill specifies that a county or city shall allow a minimum of one ADU... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2252 (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... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2216 (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2207 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the purchase of single-family residences by certain business entities. | This bill relates to the purchase of single-family homes by certain business entities. The bill defines "private equity entity" and "single-family residence". The bill prohibits a private equity entity from purchasing, contracting to purchase, or otherwise acquiring a single-family residence during the first 75 days that... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2208 | A bill for an act related to the meaning of residential property for purposes of property taxation. | This bill prohibits single-family homes that are owned by a titleholder of more than 10 single-family homes from being classified as residential property for purposes of property taxation. Instead, a single-family home that is owned by a titleholder who owns more than 10 single-family homes... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Ways and Means. (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 509 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to level II law enforcement academy training programs.(See HF 2199.) | This bill relates to level II law enforcement academy training programs. The bill provides that an individual who submits an application for attendance at an approved level II academy training program shall, at a minimum, submit proof of successful completion of a two-year or four-year police... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2199 (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 563 | A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, budgets, and authority, by modifying provisions relating to the assessment and taxation of property, funding from the secure an advanced vision for education fund, the election of certain county officers, urban renewal areas and urban revitalization areas, establishing a rent reimbursement program, establishing a program for certain first-time homebuyers, establishing a local government shared-services grant fund, making appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. | Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/29/26) | Monitor | |
| SF 580 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to monetary donations that may be received and gifted by local officials and local employees to offset medical or health care expenses, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly SF 261; See SF 2145.) | Generally under current law, a public official, public employee, or candidate, or that person's immediate family member is prohibited from accepting or receiving any gift or series of gifts from a restricted donor. Certain monetary gifts are authorized under Code section 68B.22(4). This bill authorizes... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2145 . (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2124 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the disabled veteran homestead tax credit and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. | Current Code section 425.15 provides a homestead credit to the owner of a homestead for the full amount of property tax levied if the owner is any of the following: (1) a veteran of any of the military forces of the United States who acquired... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Salmon, Townsend, and Warme. (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 567 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to public improvement contracts, including notice requirements.(See HF 2189.) | This bill relates to public improvement contracts. Under Code chapter 573, a public corporation may enter into a contract for the construction of a public improvement. The bill requires that no later than 14 calendar days after the public corporation's final acceptance of the public improvement, the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2189. (1/28/26) | |
| 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. Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Bousselot, and Knox. (1/28/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3026 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to dates for elections to issue bonds or other indebtedness. | This bill allows elections for the question of issuing bonds or other indebtedness to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June in each even-numbered year, the same day on which political parties hold primary elections. | Subcommittee recommends passage. (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... Full Bill Text |
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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/27/26) | |
| SF 2093 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to powers and duties applicable to state of disaster emergencies and public health disasters. | This bill relates to duties and powers relative to emergency situations including a state of disaster emergency and a public health disaster. The bill amends provisions relating to the proclamation of a state of disaster emergency by the governor under Code chapter 29C (emergency management and... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Bisignano, and Schultz. (1/27/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2109 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a review of fire safety code requirements and enforcement mechanisms for basement egress windows. | This bill requires the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing (department) to conduct a study regarding compliance with and sufficiency of fire safety code requirements for basement egress windows in this state. The study must include a review of enforcement mechanisms available to property owners... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Schultz, and Townsend. (1/27/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends indefinite postponement. []. (1/27/26) | 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. Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Donahue, and Schultz. (1/26/26) | |
| HSB 573 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the approval and publication of meeting minutes of county boards of supervisors. | Under current law, the county auditor is required to furnish recordings of proceedings of the board of supervisors to be published. All proceedings shall be published immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. This bill requires the proceedings to be approved by the board before the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee reassigned: Golding, McBurney and Watkins. (1/22/26) | |
| HSB 601 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the acquisition of water, sanitary sewer, and storm water utilities, including required findings by the Iowa utilities commission, the timeline for issuing ratemaking principles, and the determination of applicable ratemaking principles. | This bill relates to the acquisition of water, sanitary sewer, and storm water utilities, including required findings by the Iowa utilities commission (commission), the timeline to issue ratemaking principles, and the determination of applicable ratemaking principles. Under current law, a public utility is not allowed to... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Mohr, G., Bagniewski and Determann. (1/22/26) | Monitor |
| SF 656 | A bill for an act allowing property owners to temporarily opt out of solid waste collection and disposal services, and providing penalties.(Formerly SF 589, SSB 1190.) | This bill relates to solid waste collection and disposal services by creating exemptions for service charges. The bill allows real property owners to opt out of solid waste collection and disposal services (services) provided or contracted by a county or city if the property is... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/21/26) | 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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Meggers, Gosa and Meyer, A. (1/20/26) | |
| SF 609 | A bill for an act authorizing the abatement of property taxes owed on property owned by the surviving spouse of an emergency services member killed in the line of duty, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 21.) | This bill authorizes the abatement of property taxes and special assessments owed on property owned by the surviving spouse of an emergency services member killed in the line of duty. The bill defines "emergency services member" or "member" to mean a fire fighter, a peace officer... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (1/20/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3032 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to paid parental leave for state employees. | This bill strikes the requirement that a state employee be entitled to leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 in order to receive paid leave under Code section 70A.24 for the birth or adoption of a child. | Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (1/20/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2060 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the compensation of county officers. | This bill relates to required considerations for determining the salary of county officers. The bill requires a county compensation board to use the statistical mean of certain law enforcement positions for comparison. The bill provides that in determining the average salary of police chiefs employed... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (1/14/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2069 - Dead | A bill for an act providing an annual cost-of-living adjustment for members of the Iowa public employees' retirement system. | This bill establishes a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to the monthly retirement allowance for active and inactive members of the Iowa public employees' retirement system, including members in regular service and protection occupations, and to beneficiaries and contingent annuitants, for retirements occurring on or after July... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (1/14/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2015 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the publication of notice of political party precinct caucuses. | This bill allows a political party to publish notice of the date, time, and place of each precinct caucus on an official social media account of the political party instead of in a newspaper of general circulation in the precinct. | Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Schultz, and Winckler. (1/14/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2016 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the maximum age of a peace officer for the department of public safety. | This bill increases the maximum age of a peace officer for the department of public safety from 65 to 67 years of age. | Subcommittee: Pike, Dotzler, and Sires. (1/14/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2031 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to arbitrator awards concerning base wages in public employee collective bargaining and including effective date and applicability provisions. | Under current law, in an arbitration involving a public employee collective bargaining unit that does not have at least 30 percent of members who are public safety employees, the arbitrator's award regarding any increase in base wages shall not exceed the lesser of two percentages... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Taylor, and Townsend. (1/14/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2006 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to health care coverage of certain nonstate public employees and officials under the state health insurance plan, providing fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. | This bill allows employees and elected officials of a nonstate public employer who actively contribute to the Iowa public employees' retirement system to apply for coverage and enroll in a state health or medical group insurance plan provided to state employees by the department of... Full Bill Text |
Rereferred to State Government. (1/13/26) | Monitor |
| 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... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (1/13/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2018 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to stickers affixed to county and city motor vehicles operating on ethanol blended gasoline. | This bill strikes the requirement that any county or city vehicle which operates on ethanol blended gasoline be affixed with a sticker. Under current law, motor vehicles purchased or used by counties or cities to provide county or city services shall not operate on gasoline other... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Local Government. (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... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee Meeting: 01/14/2026 12:15PM RM 304 (Cancelled). (1/13/26) | Monitor |