Officers Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:39 PM
| BILL | TITLE | SUMMARY | STATUS | ISBA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF 542 | A bill for an act relating to the suspension of child support and medical support in certain circumstances. (Formerly SSB 1123.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill relates to the suspension of child support and medical support (support) in certain circumstances. The bill allows a court to enter an ex parte order suspending support if a dispositional or permanency order in juvenile court places the custody or physical care of a... Full Bill Text |
Message from House. (4/14/26) | Support |
| SF 629 | A bill for an act providing for an expedited filing service for filers of business documents administered by the secretary of state, and providing fees.(Formerly SF 285, SSB 1003.) | BACKGROUND. This bill amends a provision enacted in 2021 Iowa Acts, chapter 165, section 253, which requires the secretary of state (secretary) to establish and administer programs providing extra services to filers of documents under a number of Code sections regulating business entities. One such... Full Bill Text |
Read first time, referred to Ways and Means. (4/14/26) | Support |
| HF 2331 - Dead | A bill for an act creating an attorney loan repayment program, and making appropriations.(Formerly HSB 532; See HF 2760.) | This bill establishes an attorney loan repayment program to encourage attorneys to remain and practice law in Iowa. The program is to be administered by the college student aid commission. The bill provides that an individual is eligible to apply for the program if the individual is... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2331 (4/13/26) | Support |
| HF 2760 | A bill for an act creating an attorney loan repayment program, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 2331, HSB 532.) | Introduced, placed on Appropriations calendar. (4/13/26) | ||
| SF 2198 | A bill for an act relating to the authority of an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care. (Formerly SSB 3020.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. | This bill relates to the authority of an attorney in fact (attorney) under a durable power of attorney for health care (durable power of attorney). Current law provides that an attorney under a durable power of attorney has the duty to act in accordance with the... Full Bill Text |
Signed by Governor . (4/9/26) | Support |
| SF 2481 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system.(Formerly SSB 3184.) | Committee report, approving bill. (4/9/26) | ||
| SF 2486 | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch.(Formerly SSB 3185.) | Committee report, approving bill. (4/9/26) | ||
| SSB 3184 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system.(See SF 2481.) | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2481 (4/8/26) | Monitor | |
| SSB 3185 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch.(See SF 2486.) | Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2486 (4/8/26) | Monitor | |
| HF 2706 | A bill for an act relating to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 722.) Effective date: Enactment, 07/01/2026, 11/01/2026, 06/18/2027. | This bill relates to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation. MAGISTRATES APPOINTED IN JUDICIAL ELECTION DISTRICTS. The bill provides for the appointment and service of magistrates in judicial election districts rather than individual counties and makes conforming... Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/7/26) | Undecided |
| SF 2401 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 3155.) | This bill relates to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation. MAGISTRATES APPOINTED IN JUDICIAL ELECTION DISTRICTS. The bill provides for the appointment and service of magistrates in judicial election districts rather than individual counties and makes conforming... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (4/7/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2253 | A bill for an act relating to terminology involving a pregnant female. (Formerly HSB 501.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill relates to terminology involving a pregnant female. The bill makes changes to terminology used in the Code. The bill changes the use of "pregnant person" to "pregnant female". Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/1/26) | |
| SF 2070 | A bill for an act relating to the commission on uniform state laws. | This bill relates to the commission on uniform state laws. The bill requires appointees by the governor to the commission to be confirmed by the senate. The bill also requires the commission to submit a report of its expenses to the legislative council for approval... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| SF 523 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the establishment or modification of legal custody of a child.(Formerly SSB 1124.) | This bill relates to the establishment or modification of legal custody of a child. The bill allows a court to award separate rights and responsibilities of joint legal custody to each parent in a dissolution of marriage proceeding. The bill allows a court to resolve joint legal... Full Bill Text |
Tabled until future meeting. (3/12/26) | Support |
| HF 2570 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authority of an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care.(Formerly HSB 161.) | This bill relates to the authority of an attorney in fact (attorney) under a durable power of attorney for health care (durable power of attorney). Current law provides that an attorney under a durable power of attorney has the duty to act in accordance with the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/10/26) | Support |
| HF 2719 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the collection and publication of judicial officer performance information. (Formerly HSB 631.) | This bill relates to the collection and publication of judicial officer performance information. The bill requires the state court administrator to annually collect and publish performance information for district court judges. The performance information must include information relating to pretrial discretion, sentencing outcomes, appellate review, and... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. (3/10/26) | Undecided |
| HF 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 |
| HSB 631 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the collection and publication of judicial officer performance information.(See HF 2719.) | This bill relates to the collection and publication of judicial officer performance information. The bill requires the state court administrator to annually collect and publish performance information for district court judges. The performance information must include information relating to pretrial discretion, sentencing outcomes, appellate review, and... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2719 (2/24/26) | Undecided |
| HSB 722 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2706.) | This bill relates to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation. MAGISTRATES APPOINTED IN JUDICIAL ELECTION DISTRICTS. The bill provides for the appointment and service of magistrates in judicial election districts rather than individual counties and makes conforming... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2706 (2/23/26) | Undecided |
| SSB 3155 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2401.) | This bill relates to judicial officers, including magistrate appointments in judicial election districts, senior magistrates, and judicial officer compensation. MAGISTRATES APPOINTED IN JUDICIAL ELECTION DISTRICTS. The bill provides for the appointment and service of magistrates in judicial election districts rather than individual counties and makes conforming... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2401. (2/18/26) | Undecided |
| HF 2174 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for a task force to address legal services for indigent parties.(See HF 2572.) | This bill directs the judicial branch to establish a task force to investigate the statewide delivery of legal services to indigent parties in criminal, juvenile, and child abuse and neglect proceedings and to develop recommendations to improve service delivery, address public defender conflicts of interest,... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2572. (2/17/26) | Support |
| 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 |
| HSB 161 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the authority of an attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care.(See HF 2570.) | This bill relates to the authority of an attorney in fact (attorney) under a durable power of attorney for health care (durable power of attorney). Current law provides that an attorney under a durable power of attorney has the duty to act in accordance with the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2570 (2/17/26) | Support |
| SSB 3147 - Dead | A bill for an act requiring the supreme court to establish a judicial officer and state court administrator compensation and benefits plan and including effective date provisions. | Under current law, the supreme court must establish and may amend a personnel system and a pay and benefits plan for court employees. This bill requires the supreme court to also establish a pay and benefits plan for judicial officers and the state court administrator... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/17/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2422 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to creation of transfer on death deeds and to disclaimers of an interest in real property. | This bill provides that an individual may execute a transfer on death deed which transfers real property outside of probate death. essential elements and formalities of a properly recordable inter vivos deed, state that the transfer to the designated beneficiary is to occur at the transferor's... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/12/26) | Oppose |
| 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) | Oppose |
| HSB 532 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the university of Iowa college of law, including priority for admission and reporting requirements.(See HF 2331.) | This bill relates to the university of Iowa college of law, including priority for admission and reporting requirements. The bill requires the state board of regents to adopt a policy providing that not less than 80 percent of students accepted into the college of law be... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2331 (2/6/26) | Undecided |
| SF 639 | A bill for an act creating a specialty business court, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SF 570, SSB 1203.) | This bill creates the business court of Iowa. The bill provides that the business court has jurisdiction over cases involving compensatory damages of $500,000 or more involving claims that arise from at least one of the following: technology licensing agreements; the internal affairs of business entities;... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/4/26) | Undecided |
| HSB 546 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to continuing education requirements for licensed professions.(See HF 2246.) | 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 |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2246 (1/30/26) | Monitor |
| HF 985 | A bill for an act relating to services provided by the secretary of state, providing fees, and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 198, HSB 17.) | GENERAL. This bill amends several sections in Code chapter 9 that provides for the collection of fees by the secretary of state (secretary) and the appropriation of moneys from certain funds under the control of the secretary of state to support BUSINESS SERVICES MODERNIZATION. Code... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Bousselot, Bisignano, and Schultz. (1/25/26) |