Policy-focused browsing for Iowa legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| HF 2230 |
A bill for an act relating to teacher education and licensing, including by modifying provisions related to practitioner preparation programs and licenses issued by the board of educational examiners. (Formerly HSB 555 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Education |
| 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 .) Effective date: 06/02/2026. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| HF 2591 |
A bill for an act relating to open enrollment, student transfers, and interscholastic athletic eligibility requirements, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2034 .) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 08/01/2026. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Education |
| HF 2610 |
A bill for an act relating to education programs and systems, including career and technical education expenditures and definitions, statewide lower division general education framework and common course numbering systems, and the implementation of a statewide corequisite model in Iowa community colleges. (Formerly HSB 675 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Education |
| HF 2670 |
A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to summative testing in schools and the educational program provided to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade twelve, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 746 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2027. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Education |
| HF 2783 |
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the education system, including the funding and operation of the department for the blind, department of education, state board of regents, department of workforce development, and Iowa special education council. (Formerly HSB 778 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Appropriations |
| HF 2782 |
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; transfers, cash flow, and nonreversions; report on nonreversion of moneys; more options for maternal support program; reimbursement rates review; mental diseases exclusion waiver; full-time equivalent dashboard; comprehensive family support program; federal community mental health services block grant; behavioral health expenditure report; opioid settlement fund; emergency rules; graduate medical education; and special population nursing facilities; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 777 .) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2025. 91 | House
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enacted | Committee On Appropriations |
| HF 2799 |
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 establishing the new jobs training program interim study committee; and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 755 .) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Ways And Means |
| HF 2800 |
A bill for an act relating to state and local government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds, making corrections, and providing for properly related matters including the national electrical code, local civil rights laws, political party state central committees, noxious weeds, nonresident deer hunting licenses, proprietary treatment systems, poultry associations, tax credits, alternative nicotine and vapor products, public assistance programs, judicial branch and county attorney salaries, civil litigation abuse, human trafficking, federal grants and loans notifications, quarterly payments to area education agencies, civic proficiency in higher education, charter schools under the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, school district incentives, extracurricular interscholastic eligibility, and levy increases, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 784 .) Contingent effective date, effective 06/02/2026, 06/19/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027. Applicability date: 01/01/2026, 05/12/2026, 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026, 07/01/2028. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Appropriations |
| SF 2218 |
A bill for an act relating to state regulatory compliance and eligibility requirements, including by modifying provisions related 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; the provision of a false social security number to an employer, prospective employer, or a potential employee; qualifications for employment, professional licensure, voter registration, and bail; making penalties applicable; and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3015 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026. 91 | Senate
|
enacted | Committee On Education |
| SF 2220 |
A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the Iowa statewide assessment of student progress and programs for gifted and talented children, and by requiring school districts to develop an advanced mathematics pathway and implement procedures for subject acceleration and whole-grade acceleration, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3042 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2027. 91 | Senate
|
enacted | Committee On Education |
| SF 2299 |
A bill for an act relating to the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program. (Formerly SF 2176 .) Vetoed 6-2-26. 91 | Senate
|
vetoed | Committee On Education |
| SF 2320 |
A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program. (Formerly SF 2170 .) Vetoed 6-2-26. 91 | Senate
|
vetoed | Committee On Education |
| HF 2231 |
A bill for an act establishing a seal of civics excellence program administered by the department of education to recognize student excellence in civics. (Formerly HSB 558 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Education |
| SF 2086 |
A bill for an act authorizing schools to offer an elective junior fire fighter program to students enrolled in grades eleven and twelve. (Formerly SSB 3007 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | Senate
|
enacted | Committee On Workforce |
| SF 2428 |
A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties of the department of education; the discipline of students enrolled in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools who cause violent or nonviolent disruptions; the responsibilities and powers of the department of education, school district teachers, and other educational staff related to students who have individualized education programs or plans under section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act; school district professional development plans; and authorizing teachers to request a meeting of a student’s individualized education program team. (Formerly SF 2044 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | Senate
|
enacted | Committee On Education |
| SF 2474 |
A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the Iowa dyslexia board and requiring the department of education to prepare a report related to cardiac emergency response plans and automated external defibrillators. (Formerly SF 2390 , SF 2092 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | Senate
|
enacted | Committee On Appropriations |
| HF 2754 |
A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to charter school approval, contracts, funding, and operations, services provided to charter schools by area education agencies, charter school student participation in extracurricular activities provided by public schools, the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, education savings accounts, independent accreditation, teacher training and licensure, the statewide voluntary preschool program, the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program, open enrollment, school tuition organizations, private instruction, and innovation zone schools; making appropriations; and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HF 2713 , HSB 735 .) Effective date: 05/12/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026. 91 | House
|
unknown | Committee On Appropriations |
| HF 2676 |
A bill for an act relating to health-related matters, including health-related professions, nutrition, medication, and education, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 694 .) Effective Date: Conditional, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2027. 91 | House
|
unknown | Committee On Health And Human Services |
| SF 2201 |
A bill for an act relating to school funding by establishing the state percent of growth and the categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2026, modifying provisions relating to property tax replacement payments, transportation equity aid funding, funding for school district budget adjustments, and school district enrollment, establishing an education support personnel salary supplement, making appropriations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3100 .) Effective date: 02/26/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026. 91 | Senate
|
unknown | Committee On Education |
| SF 2231 |
A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the protected speech and expression rights of students, modifying provisions related to the duties of the department of education, and modifying eligibility and participation requirements for certain education programs, preschool programs, and tax provisions, providing civil penalties, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 2060 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 01/01/2026. 91 | Senate
|
unknown | Committee On Education |
| SF 2219 |
A bill for an act requiring boards of directors of school districts, governing boards of charter schools, and authorities in charge of accredited nonpublic schools to adopt policies related to exempting student absences for school-sponsored activities, programs, competitions, and projects. (Formerly SSB 3041 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | Senate
|
enacted | Committee On Education |
| SF 2472 |
A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions, divisions of revenue, and funding from the secure an advanced vision for education fund, establishing a program for first-time homebuyers, modifying and making appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3001 .) Effective date: 05/18/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027. Applicability date: 01/01/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027, 07/01/2027, 07/01/2028. 91 | Senate
|
enacted | Committee On Ways And Means |
| HF 703 |
A bill for an act concerning information regarding certain state and federal student loan programs. (Formerly HSB 152 .) Effective date: 07/01/2026. 91 | House
|
enacted | Committee On Higher Education |
| SF 2506 |
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; establishing the new jobs training program interim study committee; the research activities credit; and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SF 2301 , SSB 3103 .) 91 | Senate
|
failed | Committee On Ways And Means |