Labor & Employment Law Section Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:39 PM
| BILL | TITLE | SUMMARY | STATUS | ISBA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HF 2254 | A bill for an act relating to the prohibition of noncompete clauses in certain employment contracts entered into by the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2072.) | This bill relates to noncompete clauses in certain employment contracts entered into by the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics (UIHC). The bill directs the board of regents (board) to develop a policy prohibiting UIHC from including a noncompete clause in any contract with a physician.... Full Bill Text |
Message from House. (4/14/26) | |
| SF 2168 | A bill for an act relating to programs and procedures of the department of workforce development and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3044.) | This bill relates to programs and procedures of the department of workforce development (department). bill requires the department, as a required part of its administration of unemployment compensation benefits, to operate a reemployment case management program. The program shall provide individualized reemployment services to claimants who... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8363 filed. (4/14/26) | |
| SF 2463 | A bill for an act concerning the executive branch rulemaking process, including the uniform rules on agency procedure and review and regulatory readoption of rules, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3166.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2026. | Message from House. (4/9/26) | ||
| HF 2744 - Dead | A bill for an act concerning administrative rules relating to the uniform rules on agency procedure and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 760.) | Withdrawn. (4/8/26) | ||
| SF 2467 | A bill for an act concerning reimbursement of the attorney general for services relating to the second injury fund for workers' compensation.(Formerly SSB 3107.) | Placed on Appropriations calendar. (4/8/26) | Monitor | |
| SF 273 | A bill for an act relating to mandatory reporting to the board of educational examiners of licensed school employees who engage in grooming behavior toward students. (Formerly SSB 1066.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill relates to mandatory reporting to the board of educational examiners (BOEE) of licensed school employees who engage in grooming behavior toward students. Current law requires the board of directors of a school district or area education agency, the superintendent of a school district,... Full Bill Text |
Message from House. (4/7/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2185 | A bill for an act relating to cost sharing for health savings accounts and qualified high-deductible health plans.(Formerly HSB 518.) | This bill relates to cost sharing for health savings accounts (HSA) and qualified high-deductible health plans (HDHP). Under the bill, for group insurance and for accident and health insurance, if a copayment, coinsurance, or deductible paid as cost sharing by an enrollee may result in... Full Bill Text |
Read first time, attached to SF 2452 . (4/2/26) | |
| HF 2337 | A bill for an act relating to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials or professional or occupational licenses, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 2091.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill relates to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials. The bill provides that a person who falsely represents oneself as possessing an academic degree or academic credentials for the purpose of obtaining employment or other personal gain is guilty of a fraudulent practice in the second... Full Bill Text |
Message from House. (4/2/26) | |
| SF 2452 | A bill for an act relating to cost sharing for health savings accounts and qualified high-deductible health plans.(Formerly SSB 3055.) | This bill relates to cost sharing for health savings accounts (HSA) and qualified high-deductible health plans (HDHP). Under the bill, for group insurance and for accident and health insurance, if a copayment, coinsurance, or deductible paid as cost sharing by an enrollee may result in... Full Bill Text |
Attached to HF 2185 . (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 |
| SF 2218 | A bill for an act relating to the verification of the identity and employment eligibility of individuals by the board of educational examiners, school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3015.) | This bill relates to the verification of the identity and employment eligibility of individuals by the board of educational examiners (BOEE), school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools. The bill requires the BOEE to require all initial applicants for licensure and all... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (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 2384 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year. | This bill provides that the maximum total amount of unemployment benefits payable to an eligible individual during a benefit year shall not exceed 26 times the individual's weekly benefit amount, rather than 16 times the weekly benefit amount as provided under current law. The bill also... Full Bill Text |
Rereferred to Labor and Workforce. (3/31/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2385 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting the misclassification of employees as independent contractors, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions. | This bill prohibits an employer from willfully misclassifying an individual who performs services for the employer in return for remuneration as an independent contractor rather than an employee with the effect of denying the individual eligibility for an employment benefit provided by law or for... Full Bill Text |
Rereferred to Labor and Workforce. (3/31/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2631 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers. | This bill relates to a family leave and medical leave insurance program (program), administered by the director of the department of workforce development, that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers. An employee is... Full Bill Text |
Rereferred to Labor and Workforce. (3/31/26) | Monitor |
| HF 788 | A bill for an act requiring state employees to provide a specimen for alcohol and drug analysis following certain motor vehicle accidents or collisions resulting in serious injury or death under certain circumstances, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 162.) | Under current law, a person who operates a motor vehicle under circumstances which give reasonable grounds to believe that the person was operating the motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or a drug is deemed to have given consent to the withdrawal of... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | 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) | |
| 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) | Monitor |
| SF 472 | A bill for an act relating to retention and recertification elections for public employee collective bargaining units and including effective date and applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 1172.) | This bill relates to retention and recertification elections for public employee collective bargaining units conducted by the employment appeal board (board). The bill requires the board to issue to the public employer and the bargaining representative a written notice of intent to conduct such an election... 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 |
| HSB 760 - Dead | A bill for an act concerning administrative rules relating to the uniform rules on agency procedure and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2744.) | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2744 (3/20/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 2608 | A bill for an act relating to qualifications for certain rights and privileges prescribed by the state, including state employment, professional licensure, voter registration, and bail, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HSB 663.) | This bill relates to qualifications for certain rights and privileges prescribed by this state, including state employment, professional licensure, voter registration, and bail. LICENSURE. The bill requires each head of a department or independent agency of this state, as well as the state board of regents... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2169 | A bill for an act relating to apprenticeships.(Formerly SSB 3072.) | This bill relates to apprenticeships. DIVISION I ?? IOWA REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP ACT. The bill replaces intermediaries with intermediary sponsors, as defined in the bill, as a class of entities that provide apprenticeship training under Code chapter 84D, the Iowa registered apprenticeship Act, and that are subject... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | |
| 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 |
| SF 487 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to employer recordkeeping and auditing requirements for purposes of unemployment insurance and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 1165.) | This bill relates to employer recordkeeping and auditing requirements for purposes of unemployment insurance under Code chapter 96. Current requirements for these matters are largely set out in rules of the department of workforce development. The bill requires that an employing unit keep records regarding an... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/17/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2091 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials and providing penalties.(See HF 2337.) | This bill relates to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials. The bill provides that a person who falsely represents oneself as possessing an academic degree or academic credentials for the purpose of obtaining employment or other personal gain is guilty of a fraudulent practice in the second... 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 |
| HF 2512 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to revocation or denial of educator licenses and certificates for publicly celebrating assassinations or acts of politically motivated violence, student protests, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 682.) | This bill relates to education, including by modifying provisions related to revocation or denial of educator licenses and certificates for publicly celebrating assassinations or acts of politically motivated violence and student protests. The bill requires the board of educational examiners (BOEE) to disqualify an applicant for... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2327 | A bill for an act relating to programs and procedures of the department of workforce development and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 556.) | This bill relates to programs and procedures of the department of workforce development (department). bill requires the department, as a required part of its administration of unemployment compensation benefits, to operate a reemployment case management program. The program shall provide individualized reemployment services to claimants who... Full Bill Text |
Referred to Appropriations. (3/12/26) | |
| HF 2607 - Dead | A bill for an act exempting service performed for certain employers from eligibility for unemployment insurance, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2319.) | This bill provides that service performed for employers is not considered employment for purposes of eligibility for unemployment benefits (benefits) if specified conditions are met. The employer must certify to the department of workforce development (department) that all owners of the employing unit are members of... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8190 filed. (3/10/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2611 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to unlawful practices involving providing a false social security number to an employer or prospective employer, or to a potential employee, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HF 2088.) | This bill relates to unlawful practices involving providing a false social security number to an employer or prospective employer, or to a potential employee. The bill provides that an employer may not hire or continue to employ an employee whom the employer knows to have provided... Full Bill Text |
Fiscal Note. (3/6/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 755 | 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. | 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 recommends passage. (3/4/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2157 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to malicious prosecution arising from civil actions between private parties. | This bill relates to malicious prosecution arising from civil actions between private parties. The bill defines "malice" as the initiation of a civil action for a primary purpose other than securing a proper adjudication of the claim, and "probable cause" as the existence of reasonably known... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/4/26) | |
| SSB 3107 - Dead | A bill for an act concerning reimbursement of the attorney general for services relating to the second injury fund for workers' compensation.(See SF 2467.) | This bill increases the maximum amount of reimbursement to the attorney general annually from the second injury fund for workers' compensation for services provided related to the fund from $450,000 to $900,000. The bill provides that the reimbursement amount shall be adjusted annually to reflect... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2467 (3/4/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2072 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the prohibition of noncompete clauses in certain employment contracts entered into by the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2254.) | This bill relates to noncompete clauses in certain employment contracts entered into by the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics (UIHC). The bill directs the board of regents (board) to develop a policy prohibiting UIHC from including a noncompete clause in any contract with a physician.... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/2/26) | |
| HF 2466 | A bill for an act relating to apprenticeships and other career training and making appropriations.(Formerly HSB 674.) | This bill relates to apprenticeships and other career training. IOWA REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP ACT. The bill replaces intermediaries with intermediary sponsors, as defined in the bill, as a class of entities that provide apprenticeship training under Code chapter 84D, the Iowa registered apprenticeship Act, and that are... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (3/2/26) | 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 |
| SF 2414 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to automated decision systems used by employers. | This bill relates to automated decision systems used by employers. The bill requires an employer to provide a written notice that an automated decision system, as defined in the bill, is in use for the purpose of making employment-related decisions, other than hiring decisions, at the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Donahue, and Pike. (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 2088 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to fraudulent practices including providing a false social security number to an employer or prospective employer, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 2611.) | This bill provides that it is a fraudulent practice for a person, for the purpose of retaining or obtaining employment, or any other thing of value, to provide the employer or prospective employer with a social security number that does not belong to that person. Penalties... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2611. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2319 - Dead | A bill for an act exempting service performed for certain employers from eligibility for unemployment insurance, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 2607.) | This bill provides that service performed for employers is not considered employment for purposes of eligibility for unemployment benefits (benefits) if specified conditions are met. The employer must certify to the department of workforce development (department) that all owners of the employing unit are members of... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2607. (2/19/26) | |
| 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 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 |
| HF 2480 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for a veterans' benefits and services poster for employers to display in the workplace. | This bill requires the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing to consult with the Iowa department of veterans affairs to create a veterans' benefits and services poster for employers, as defined in the bill, to display in the workplace. The bill requires... Full Bill Text |
Committee vote: Yeas, 16. Nays, 1. Excused, 0. (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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HF 2456 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to employment of persons with disabilities. | This bill provides that in order to ensure full participation in the social and economic life of Iowa by persons with disabilities, it is declared to be the policy of the state that competitive and integrated employment shall be considered the first and preferred option... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Labor and Workforce. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2528 - Dead | A bill for an act modifying the duties of the workforce development board, state board of education, and department of education related to cyber and artificial intelligence.(Formerly HSB 609.) | This bill modifies the duties of the workforce development board, state board of education, and department of education related to cyber and artificial intelligence. The bill requires the workforce development board to establish a comprehensive initiative to address the state's cyber and artificial intelligence workforce needs.... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (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 609 - Dead | A bill for an act modifying the duties of the workforce development board, state board of education, and department of education related to cyber and artificial intelligence.(See HF 2528.) | This bill modifies the duties of the workforce development board, state board of education, and department of education related to cyber and artificial intelligence. The bill requires the workforce development board to establish a comprehensive initiative to address the state's cyber and artificial intelligence workforce needs.... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2528. (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 |
| 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 2108 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to discipline for nurses unable to speak English proficiently. | This bill allows the board of nursing to suspend or revoke a license to practice nursing if the licensee is unable to speak English proficiently. | Tabled until future meeting. (2/12/26) | |
| SF 2239 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers. | This bill relates to a family leave and medical leave insurance program (program), administered by the director of the department of workforce development, that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers. An employee is... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Donahue, and Schultz. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2272 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for a veterans' benefits and services poster for employers to display in the workplace. | This bill requires the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing to consult with the Iowa department of veterans affairs to create a veterans' benefits and services poster for employers, as defined in the bill, to display in the workplace. The bill requires... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Reichman, Costello, and Townsend. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2277 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to rights of employees and requirements of employers with respect to labor union membership. | This bill relates to rights of employees and requirements of employers with respect to labor union membership. The bill strikes a prohibition on depriving a person of the right to work at the person's chosen occupation for any employer because of withdrawal or expulsion from, or... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Sires, and Wahls. (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2396 - Dead | A bill for an act modifying provisions related to programs administered by the college student aid commission, including the skilled workforce shortage tuition grant program, Iowa workforce grant and incentive program, vocational-technical tuition grant program, the future ready Iowa skilled workforce last-dollar scholarship program, and the gap tuition assistance program, and making appropriations. | This bill modifies provisions related to programs administered by the college student aid commission (CSAC), including the skilled workforce shortage tuition grant program, Iowa workforce grant and incentive program, vocational-technical tuition grant program, the future ready Iowa skilled workforce last-dollar scholarship program, and the gap... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Higher Education. (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2132 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to retirement benefits of retired members reemployed as school resource officers under the Iowa public employees' retirement system and the municipal fire and police retirement system. | This bill relates to retirement benefits of a member of the Iowa public employees' retirement system (IPERS) or the municipal fire and police retirement system who is reemployed by a law enforcement agency as a school resource officer. The bill provides that a retired member who... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (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 |
| 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 |
| HSB 654 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting specified provisions in agreements between employers and health care providers relating to location of practice. | This bill provides that if a health care provider leaves employment for any reason, a provision of an agreement entered into between the health care provider and the health care provider's former employer prior to, on, or after the effective date of the bill that... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/10/26) | 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 2318 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to eligibility for unemployment benefits for participants in strikes or other labor disputes. | This bill provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment benefits shall not be denied benefits beginning on the 15th day of the individual's participation in a stoppage of work resulting from a strike or other labor dispute at the factory, establishment, or other premises... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Labor and Workforce. (2/6/26) | |
| HF 2321 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to membership in the protection occupation category of the Iowa public employees' retirement system for certain social workers. | This bill provides that a person employed as a social worker by the department of health and human services who meets certain criteria shall be included within the protection occupation category of the Iowa public employees' retirement system. The bill provides that membership service prior... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (2/6/26) | |
| HF 2266 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for family medical leave for grandparents and providing penalties and remedies. | This bill provides that an employee who is a grandparent shall have the same rights provided to an employee under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (the Act). The bill provides that an employer of such an employee shall be subject to... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Labor and Workforce. (2/3/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2267 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year. | This bill provides that the maximum total amount of unemployment benefits payable to an eligible individual during a benefit year shall not exceed 26 times the individual's weekly benefit amount, rather than 16 times the weekly benefit amount as provided under current law. The bill also... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Labor and Workforce. (2/3/26) | 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) | No Position |
| SSB 3044 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to programs and procedures of the department of workforce development and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2168.) | This bill relates to programs and procedures of the department of workforce development (department). DIVISION I ?? REEMPLOYMENT CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. The bill requires the department, as a required part of its administration of unemployment compensation benefits, to operate a reemployment case management program. The program... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2168 (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| SSB 3072 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to apprenticeships.(See SF 2169.) | This bill relates to apprenticeships. DIVISION I ?? IOWA REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP ACT. The bill adds intermediary sponsors, as defined in the bill, as a class of entities that provide apprenticeship training under Code chapter 84D, the Iowa registered apprenticeship Act, and that are subject to registration... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2169 (1/29/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2182 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to retirement benefits of retired members reemployed as school resource officers under the Iowa public employees' retirement system and the municipal fire and police retirement system. | This bill relates to retirement benefits of a member of the Iowa public employees' retirement system (IPERS) or the municipal fire and police retirement system who is reemployed by a law enforcement agency as a school resource officer. The bill provides that a retired member who... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (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 2156 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the eligibility of certain individuals employed by educational institutions for unemployment insurance benefits between two successive academic years or terms. | Current law provides that an individual is not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits based on service in a capacity that is not an instructional, research, or principal administrative capacity for an educational institution for any week of unemployment that begins during the period between two... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Labor and Workforce. (1/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2017 - Dead | A bill for an act creating a state work opportunity tax credit available against the individual and corporate income taxes, and including retroactive applicability provisions. | This bill creates a state work opportunity tax credit available against the individual and corporate income taxes. The bill reduces individual or corporate income taxes, as applicable, by a work opportunity tax credit that is equal to 100 percent of the federal work opportunity tax credit... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/22/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 539 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for a due process policy for faculty, staff, and students at regents institutions and for related disciplinary matters, and including effective date provisions. | This bill requires the state board of regents to develop and adopt a due process policy applicable to faculty, staff, and students at regents institutions. The policy must require each institution to affirm and guarantee to all faculty, staff, and students subject to its disciplinary procedures... Full Bill Text |
Tabled until future meeting. (1/22/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2087 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to work search requirements for unemployment benefits for certain individuals with disabilities.(Formerly SSB 3005.) | This bill provides that weekly work search activities for purposes of eligibility for unemployment benefits include certain specified activities for certain individuals with disabilities. An individual with an intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, or traumatic brain injury may participate in a program offered or approved by... Full Bill Text |
Committee report, approving bill. (1/22/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2003 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools from providing any program, curriculum, test, survey, questionnaire, promotion, or instruction relating to gender theory or sexual orientation instruction in grades seven through twelve. | This bill prohibits school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools from providing any program, curriculum, test, survey, questionnaire, promotion, or instruction relating to gender theory or sexual orientation instruction to students in grades 7 through 12, extending the current prohibition that applies to such... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (1/21/26) | |
| SSB 3003 - Dead | 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.(See SF 2089.) | 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 |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2089 (1/21/26) | No Position |
| SSB 3005 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to work search requirements for unemployment benefits for certain individuals with disabilities.(See SF 2087.) | This bill provides that weekly work search activities for purposes of eligibility for unemployment benefits include certain specified activities for certain individuals with disabilities. An individual with an intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, or traumatic brain injury may participate in a program offered or approved by... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2087 (1/21/26) | No Position |
| 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) | No Position |
| 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 2080 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to bona fide retirement and subsequent employment as school district support staff under the Iowa public employees' retirement system. | Current law provides that a member has a bona fide retirement for purposes of the Iowa public employees' retirement system when the member does not return to any employment with a covered employer until the member has qualified for at least one calendar month of... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to State Government. (1/15/26) | 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 2009 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to certain employees of the department of corrections, including collective bargaining, health insurance for a surviving spouse and children of certain employees of the department, and certain operational and employment matters involving the department, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to the department of corrections. The bill designates nonsupervisory employees of the Iowa department of corrections with ongoing direct contact with inmates as public safety employees for the purposes of collective bargaining pursuant to Code chapter 20, the public employment relations Act. Code... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Donahue, and Taylor. (1/14/26) | No Position |
| 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) | No Position |
| SF 2041 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for payroll deduction for membership dues to an employee organization under public employee collective bargaining, and including applicability provisions. | This bill strikes a prohibition on public entities authorizing or administering a deduction from the salaries or wages of its employees for membership dues to an employee organization. The bill provides that terms authorizing such deductions are a mandatory subject within the scope of negotiations... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Dotzler, and Schultz. (1/14/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2045 - Dead | A bill for an act increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits. | This bill increases the state minimum hourly wage to $15.00 as of July 1, 2026. The bill increases the state minimum hourly wage for employees employed for less than 90 days to $14.10 as of July 1, 2026. The bill also increases the state minimum hourly... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Donahue, and Pike. (1/14/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2046 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to wage payment collection issues arising between employers and employees, providing penalties and remedies, and including effective date provisions. | This bill relates to the collection of wages from employers by employees under Code chapter 91A, the "Iowa Wage Payment Collection Law". The bill provides that an employer has the burden to establish that a deduction from employees' wages is lawful and that the employer must... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Driscoll, Donahue, and Pike. (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 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 |