Diversity Committee Legislative Report
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:38 PM
| BILL | TITLE | SUMMARY | STATUS | ISBA Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HF 2539 | A bill for an act repealing certain programs and other matters relating to higher education.(Formerly HSB 607.) | This bill repeals various programs and functions of the state board of regents and institutions of higher education governed by the board such as the college bound program, the regents' minority and women educators enhancement program, laboratory schools, and various purchasing, policy, and reporting requirements. | Message from Senate. (4/14/26) | |
| HF 2544 | A bill for an act requiring annual reports on and the prohibition of antisemitism in community colleges, regents institutions, and public school districts.(Formerly HSB 646.) | This bill requires annual reports on, and the prohibition The bill requires the state board of education to submit an annual report to the general assembly and governor by October 1 of each year, identifying each complaint or incident of antisemitism that occurred during the... Full Bill Text |
Amendments H-8354 , H-8355 , H-8360 filed. (4/14/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2426 | A bill for an act relating to sufficient English language proficiency requirements for commercial drivers, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 2173.) | This bill requires the department of transportation (DOT) to deny the issuance or renewal of a commercial driver's license (CDL) or commercial learner's permit (CLP) if the person applying for or renewing the CDL or CLP fails to demonstrate proficiency in the English language, as... Full Bill Text |
Senate amendment H-8337 filed. (4/8/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2187 | A bill for an act relating to the verification of citizenship and immigration status of persons who apply for or renew a driver's license or nonoperator's identification card.(Formerly SSB 3024.) | This bill requires the department of transportation (DOT) to use the federal systematic alien verification for entitlements system to verify the U.S. citizenship and immigration status of each person who applies for issuance or renewal of a driver's license or nonoperator's identification card and who... Full Bill Text |
Amendment H-8294 filed. (4/6/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2253 | A bill for an act relating to terminology involving a pregnant female. (Formerly HSB 501.) Effective date: 07/01/2026 | This bill relates to terminology involving a pregnant female. The bill makes changes to terminology used in the Code. The bill changes the use of "pregnant person" to "pregnant female". Full Bill Text |
Message from Senate. (4/1/26) | |
| HF 2700 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to sufficient English language proficiency requirements for commercial drivers, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 699.) | This bill requires the department of transportation (DOT) to deny the issuance or renewal of a commercial driver's license (CDL) or commercial learner's permit (CLP) if the person applying for or renewing the CDL or CLP fails to demonstrate proficiency in the English language, as... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/31/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2557 | A bill for an act allowing a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex.(Formerly HSB 669.) | This bill allows a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex. The bill exempts from the definition of child abuse a person raising, guiding, or instructing a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex, including... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | |
| HF 2695 | A bill for an act relating to the application of foreign law and limiting changes in venue of civil actions, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2554.) | This bill relates to the application of foreign law and limits the transfer of civil actions when application of foreign law would violate constitutional protections. The bill defines "foreign law" as law, legal codes, or legal systems of jurisdictions outside any state or territory of the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2711 | A bill for an act relating to state policies and programs with race or gender requirements. (Formerly HSB 668.) | Current law sets forth a state policy to apply affirmative action measures to correct deficiencies in the state employment system where those remedies are appropriate, and sets forth various requirements relating to affirmative action for state and educational entities including but not limited to the... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/26/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2487 | A bill for an act concerning restrictions on certain activities relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory by state entities and public institutions of higher education.(Formerly HSB 542.) | This bill concerns restrictions on certain activities relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory by state entities and public institutions of higher The bill authorizes the attorney general to conduct an inquiry or investigation regarding a violation of current law prohibiting regents institutions,... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | 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 2303 | A bill for an act providing for a review of undergraduate general education requirements and core curricula at regents institutions and authorizing elimination of certain required courses and course requirements.(Formerly SF 2063.) | This bill requires the state board of regents, by the semester beginning fall 2028, to conduct a review of all undergraduate general education requirements and core curricula at regents institutions. For the review, the board shall direct the institutions to review and identify any required... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | |
| SF 2336 | A bill for an act requiring annual reports on and the prohibition of antisemitism in community colleges, regents institutions, and public school districts.(Formerly SSB 3095.) | This bill requires annual reports on, and the prohibition of, antisemitism. The bill requires the state board of education to submit an annual report to the general assembly and governor by October 1 of each year, identifying each complaint or incident of antisemitism that occurred... Full Bill Text |
Placed on calendar under unfinished business. (3/19/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2488 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting private institutions of higher education that participate in the Iowa tuition grant program from establishing diversity, equity, and inclusion offices.(Formerly HSB 537.) | This bill prohibits a private institution of higher education, as defined in the bill, from establishing, sustaining, supporting, or staffing a diversity, equity, and inclusion office, as defined in the bill. The prohibition does not apply if otherwise provided by federal or state law or... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends indefinite postponement. []. (3/16/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2102 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting the use of a language other than English for driver's license examinations. | Under current law, the English language is the official language of the state of Iowa. All official documents, regulations, orders, transactions, proceedings, programs, meetings, publications, or actions taken or issued, which are conducted or regulated by, or on behalf of, or representing Iowa and all... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (3/12/26) | 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 2510 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the social studies instruction provided to students enrolled in grades one through twelve and the educational programs provided by the institutions of higher education under the control of the state board of regents. (Formerly HSB 714.) | This bill relates to education, including by modifying provisions related to the social studies instruction provided to students enrolled in grades 1 through 12 and the educational programs provided by the institutions of higher education under the control of the state board of regents, and... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Sinclair, Quirmbach, and Rozenboom. (3/11/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2554 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the application of foreign law and limiting changes in venue of civil actions, and including applicability provisions.(See HF 2695.) | This bill relates to the application of foreign law and limits the transfer of civil actions when application of foreign law would violate constitutional protections. The bill defines "foreign law" as law, legal codes, or legal systems of jurisdictions outside any state or territory of the... Full Bill Text |
Withdrawn. (3/9/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 668 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to state policies, programs, and licenses with race, gender, or citizenship requirements.(See HF 2711.) | Current law sets forth a state policy to apply affirmative action measures to correct deficiencies in the state employment system where those remedies are appropriate, and sets forth various requirements relating to affirmative action for state and educational entities including but not limited to the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2711 (2/24/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2476 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to driver's licenses and nonoperator's identification cards marked to reflect a holder's nonapparent disability status.(See HF 2669.) | Under current law, a person who has autism spectrum disorder may be issued a driver's license or nonoperator's identification card (ID card) that is marked to reflect the person's autism spectrum disorder status on the face of the license or ID card. This bill instead... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2669 (2/23/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2669 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to driver's licenses and nonoperator's identification cards marked to reflect a holder's nonapparent disability status, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2476.) | Under current law, a person who has autism spectrum disorder may be issued a driver's license or nonoperator's identification card (ID card) that is marked to reflect the person's autism spectrum disorder status on the face of the license or ID card. This bill instead... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/23/26) | |
| HSB 699 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to sufficient English language proficiency requirements for commercial drivers, and providing penalties.(See HF 2700.) | This bill prohibits the department of transportation (DOT) from issuing or renewing a commercial driver's license (CDL) or commercial learner's permit (CLP) if the person applying for or renewing the CDL or CLP fails to demonstrate proficiency in the English language, as required in the... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2700 (2/23/26) | 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 |
| HSB 663 - Dead | 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.(See HF 2608.) | 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 |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2608. (2/19/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2477 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to English language proficiency requirements for commercial drivers and commercial carriers, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. | Under federal law, a person who is operating a commercial motor vehicle (commercial driver) must be able to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Transportation. (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 |
| HSB 537 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting private institutions of higher education that participate in the Iowa tuition grant program from establishing diversity, equity, and inclusion offices.(See HF 2488.) | This bill prohibits a private institution of higher education, as defined in the bill, from establishing, sustaining, supporting, or staffing a diversity, equity, and inclusion office, as defined in the bill. The prohibition does not apply if otherwise provided by federal or state law or... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2488. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 542 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting courses and content relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory in general education requirements and core curricula at regents institutions.(See HF 2487.) | This bill requires the state board of regents (board) to establish a policy that prohibits diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory-related courses or course requirements, as defined in the bill, from being included in any undergraduate general education requirement or core curriculum at institutions... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2487. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 607 - Dead | A bill for an act repealing the board of regents' minority and women educators enhancement program.(See HF 2539.) | This bill repeals the board of regents' minority and women educators enhancement program. The program has the purposes of recruiting minority educators to faculty positions and creating faculty opportunities for women educators at regents institutions. The program also requires the board to develop and implement... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2539. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 646 - Dead | A bill for an act requiring annual reports on antisemitism in community colleges, regents institutions, and public school districts.(See HF 2544.) | This bill requires the state board of education to submit an annual report to the general assembly and governor by October 1 of each year, identifying each complaint or incident of antisemitism that occurred during the prior academic year at each community college, institution of... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2544. (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 |
| HSB 669 - Dead | A bill for an act allowing a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex.(See HF 2557.) | This bill allows a person to raise, guide, and instruct a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex. The bill exempts from the definition of child abuse a person raising, guiding, or instructing a child in a manner consistent with the child's sex, including... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2557. (2/16/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2311 - Dead | A bill for an act providing for education on the holocaust for students and teachers in school districts. | This bill requires each school board to incorporate age-appropriate and grade-appropriate instruction regarding the holocaust for students in middle and high school into the school district's educational program. Such instruction shall be incorporated into existing required courses. The bill specifies the content of such instruction.... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Sinclair, Evans, and Quirmbach. (2/16/26) | 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 2063 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting courses and content relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory in general education requirements and core curricula at regents institutions.(See SF 2303.) | This bill requires the state board of regents (board) to establish a policy that prohibits diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory-related courses or course requirements, as defined in the bill, from being included in any undergraduate general education requirement or core curriculum at institutions... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2303 . (2/12/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2397 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to actions of United States immigration and customs enforcement. | This bill relates to the actions of U.S. immigration and customs enforcement. The bill requires the governor, in cooperation with the attorney general, to take all steps necessary to secure the return and release, respectively, of U.S. citizens who are residents of Iowa and who... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2407 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to civil remedies for deprivation of constitutional rights; immigration enforcement limitations in hospitals, licensed child care centers, and public institutions of higher education; and protections against civil arrest at courthouses; and including effective date provisions. | This bill relates to civil remedies for deprivation of constitutional rights; immigration enforcement limitations in hospitals, licensed child care centers, and public institutions of higher education; and protections against civil arrest at courthouses. The bill creates a civil cause of action for damages and injunctive relief... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Judiciary. (2/11/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2123 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to state entities, including by modifying provisions related to prohibited diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and officers and to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts provided by school districts. | This bill relates to state entities, including by modifying provisions related to prohibited diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and officers and to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts by school districts. Current Code section 19.2 prohibits state entities from expending any moneys appropriated by the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee recommends passage. (2/10/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2121 - 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.(See HF 2338.) | 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 |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2338 (2/6/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2338 - 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.(Formerly HF 2121.) | 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 |
Introduced, placed on calendar. (2/6/26) | |
| SSB 3024 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the verification of citizenship and immigration status of persons who apply for or renew a driver's license or nonoperator's identification card.(See SF 2187.) | This bill requires the department of transportation (DOT) to use the federal systematic alien verification for entitlements system to verify the U.S. citizenship and immigration status of each person who applies for issuance or renewal of a driver's license or nonoperator's identification card and who... Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2187 (2/3/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2110 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and nonoperator's identification cards, including physical forms of such identification and noncompliance with federal requirements. | This bill requires the department of transportation (DOT) to issue driver's licenses (DL) and nonoperator's identification cards (ID cards) that do not comply with federal REAL ID program standards if an applicant requests a noncompliant DL or ID card. The bill limits the extent to... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Young, Madison and Williams. (1/30/26) | Monitor |
| HSB 501 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to terminology involving a pregnant female.(See HF 2253.) | This bill relates to terminology involving a pregnant female. The bill makes changes to terminology used in the Code. The bill changes the use of "pregnant person" to "pregnant female". Full Bill Text |
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2253 (1/30/26) | Monitor |
| 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 |
| SF 2072 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to state entities, including by modifying provisions related to prohibited diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and officers and to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts provided by school districts. | This bill relates to state entities, including by modifying provisions related to prohibited diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and officers and to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts by school districts. Current Code section 19.2 prohibits state entities from expending any moneys appropriated by the... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Salmon, Green, and Quirmbach. (1/27/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2041 - 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 Meeting: 01/28/2026 12:00PM RM 103 (Cancelled). (1/26/26) | 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) | |
| HF 2116 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts provided by public institutions of higher education and school districts. | This bill relates to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts provided by public institutions of higher education and school districts. Current Code section 279.74(2) requires the superintendent of each school district to ensure that any curriculum or mandatory staff or student training provided by an... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Fett, Hayes and Kurth. (1/21/26) | 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) | |
| HF 2100 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting the use of a language other than English for commercial driver's license examinations. | Under current law, the English language is the official language of the state of Iowa. All official documents, regulations, orders, transactions, proceedings, programs, meetings, publications, or actions taken or issued, which are conducted or regulated by, or on behalf of, or representing Iowa and all... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Transportation. (1/15/26) | Monitor |
| HF 2101 - Dead | A bill for an act prohibiting the use of a language other than English for class C commercial driver's license examinations. | Under current law, the English language is the official language of the state of Iowa. All official documents, regulations, orders, transactions, proceedings, programs, meetings, publications, or actions taken or issued, which are conducted or regulated by, or on behalf of, or representing Iowa and all... Full Bill Text |
Introduced, referred to Transportation. (1/15/26) | Monitor |
| SF 2052 - Dead | A bill for an act relating to the issuance of driver's licenses and nonoperator's identification cards, including physical forms of such identification and noncompliance with federal requirements. | This bill requires the department of transportation (DOT) to issue driver's licenses (DL) and nonoperator's identification cards (ID cards) that do not comply with federal REAL ID program standards if an applicant requests a noncompliant DL or ID card. The bill limits the extent to... Full Bill Text |
Subcommittee: Kraayenbrink, Townsend, and Zumbach. (1/15/26) | Monitor |