Legal Access Committee Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:39 PM
| BILL | TITLE | SUMMARY | STATUS | ISBA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 981 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to real property, including the removal of unauthorized persons and trespass, and providing penalties.(See HF 2629.) | 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 |
Withdrawn. (3/16/26) | Monitor |
| 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 2698 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to business entity-owned residential arrangements, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 750.) | This bill regulates certain business entity-owned residential arrangements. The bill defines "business entity", "managing entity", "residential arrangement", and "residential property". The bill requires that an agreement for the purchase of an interest in a managing entity must disclose to the purchaser that the agreement is for the... Full Bill Text |
Tabled until future meeting. (3/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2246 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to education requirements, including continuing education requirements, for certain licensed professions. (Formerly HSB 546.) | This bill relates to continuing education requirements for licensed professions, including those licensed by the board of education or the supreme court. The bill prohibits boards from adopting rules for continuing education requirements that require a licensee to obtain continuing education credits that are not... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee reassigned: Bousselot, Bisignano, and Westrich. (3/2/26) | Undecided |
| 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 |
| HSB 750 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to business entity-owned residential arrangements, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2698.) | This bill regulates certain business entity-owned residential arrangements. The bill defines "business entity", "managing entity", "residential arrangement", and "residential property". The bill requires that an agreement for the purchase of an interest in a managing entity must disclose to the purchaser that the agreement is for the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2698 (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) | Undecided |
| SSB 3128 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to city utilities including tenant notification.(See SF 2438.) | Under current law, when a landlord has given written notice to the city utility or enterprise that a property is residential rental property and that the tenant is liable for the rates or charges for certain utilities, the property is exempt from a lien for... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2438 (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2352 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to eviction procedures, including tenants who pose a clear and present danger, maximum durations for forcible entry and detainer actions, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to eviction procedures involving tenants who pose a clear and present danger and establishes a maximum duration for certain residential forcible entry and detainer actions. Under current law, if a tenant creates or maintains a threat constituting a clear and present danger to... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2353 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to residential tenant responsibility for utility charges, providing civil penalties, and including applicability provisions. | This bill relates to the responsibility for payment of utility charges incurred by tenants of residential units and provides enforcement mechanisms and penalties. The bill prohibits a city or city utility from assessing, certifying, or collecting unpaid utility charges as a lien against real property when... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2354 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to assistance animals in residential rental housing, including damage reimbursement, refundable income tax credits, and a landlord insurance risk pool, and providing penalties and effective date provisions. | This bill relates to landlord reimbursement for damage to dwelling units caused by a tenant's assistance animal, emotional support animal, service animal, or therapy animal, including a refundable income tax credit and a landlord insurance risk pool. The bill provides that if a landlord suffers unreimbursed... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (2/18/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2572 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for a task force to address legal services for indigent parties.(Formerly HF 2174.) | This bill directs the judicial branch to establish a task force to investigate the statewide delivery of legal services to indigent parties in criminal, juvenile, and child abuse and neglect proceedings and to develop recommendations to improve service delivery, address public defender conflicts of interest,... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/17/26) | Support |
| HF 2551 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to rent increases under residential landlord and tenant rental agreements and in manufactured home communities and mobile home parks. | This bill limits the amount a landlord can increase rent on current tenants under residential landlord and tenant agreements and in manufactured home communities or mobile home parks. The bill provides that if a landlord applies a rent increase to the dwelling unit or mobile... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Commerce. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2171 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to qualifications for admission to practice law. | This bill relates to qualifications for admission to practice law. Current law requires an applicant for admission to practice law to have studied law and graduated from a reputable law school. The bill provides an alternative, authorizing applicants who have worked as an employee of the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage. (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2225 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to property law, including rental properties, manufactured home communities, mobile home parks, and actions relating to such properties, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | This bill relates to property law. GROUNDS FOR TERMINATION OF TENANCY. The bill prohibits a landlord from terminating a tenancy unless the tenant acts in material noncompliance with the rental agreement, commits a material violation of the manufactured home community or mobile home park rules or... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Webster, Dickey, and Weiner. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| HF 129 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the minimum amounts required for motor vehicle financial responsibility, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 2352.) | This bill increases the minimum amounts of coverage required under Code chapter 321A for motor vehicle financial responsibility for bodily injury or death of one person ($20,000 to $50,000), bodily injury or death of two or more persons ($40,000 to $100,000), and property damage ($15,000... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2352. (2/9/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2352 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the minimum amounts required for motor vehicle financial responsibility, and making penalties applicable.(Formerly HF 129.) | This bill increases the minimum amounts of coverage required under Code chapter 321A for motor vehicle financial responsibility for bodily injury or death of one person ($20,000 to $50,000), bodily injury or death of two or more persons ($40,000 to $100,000), and property damage ($15,000... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (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 2134 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to rental agreements and early termination rights of tenants who are victims of certain crimes.(Formerly HSB 141.) | This bill allows a victim of certain crimes to terminate a rental agreement early. The bill allows a tenant to terminate a rental agreement without penalty or liability if the tenant provides written notification to the landlord that a tenant or household member is a... Full Bill Text |
Rereferred to Calendar (1/26/26) | Undecided |
| SF 567 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to property law by modifying provisions related to forcible entry and detainer actions and to landlord and tenant law.(Formerly SSB 1204.) | This bill relates to property law and modifies provisions related to forcible entry and detainer actions and landlord and tenant law. The bill permits tenants and landlords to consent to notice by electronic mail by executing a separate addendum to rental agreements under Code chapters 562A... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Webster, Driscoll, and Petersen. (1/22/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 141 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to rental agreements and early termination rights of tenants who are victims of certain crimes.(See HF 2134.) | This bill allows a victim of certain crimes to terminate a rental agreement early. The bill allows a tenant to terminate a rental agreement without penalty or liability if the tenant provides written notification to the landlord that a tenant or household member is a... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2134. (1/21/26) | Undecided |