Jacob Bossman
Born
1980
Contact
Email · jacob.bossman@legis.iowa.gov
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27
Bills sponsored
this session · 103 all-time
0
Bills co-sponsored
this session · 0 all-time
0
Enacted into law
this session · 0 all-time
2939
Recorded votes
100%
Vote participation
voted in 100% of 2939 recorded votes
Voting scorecard
2025-2026 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes
Party unity
99.8%
based on 2930 votes
Votes with own party's majority
Independence
0.2%
based on 2930 votes
Votes against own party's majority
Participation
99.9%
based on 2930 votes
Roll calls where a yes/no was cast
Sponsored (introduced)
103 billsCurrent session 27 bills
- HF2390 A bill for an act relating to workforce housing project tax incentives issued by the economic development authority, and including effective date provisions. Introduced
- HF2249 A bill for an act relating to vision benefit plans, vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including civil penalties and effective date and applicability provisions. Introduced
- HF2029 A bill for an act relating to health care coverage of public school district personnel under the state health insurance plan, providing fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. Introduced
- HF656 A bill for an act relating to vision benefit plans, the regulation of insurers and vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including effective date and applicability provisions. Introduced
- HF208 A bill for an act relating to the allocation of workforce housing tax incentives available against the individual and corporate income taxes, the franchise tax, the insurance premiums tax, and the moneys and credits tax. Introduced
- HF109 A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of workforce housing tax incentives available against the individual and corporate income taxes, the franchise tax, the insurance premiums tax, and the moneys and credits tax. Introduced
- HF900 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to open enrollment policies and English-language learners.(See HF 900.) Introduced
- HF 656 A bill for an act relating to vision benefit plans, the regulation of insurers and vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including effective date and applicability provisions. In Committee
- HR 8 A resolution to recognize Archie and Nancy Martin and the contributions of the Martin family to the education of Black students in Iowa. Passed
- HF 920 A bill for an act relating to the double up food bucks program and making an appropriation. In Committee
- HF 208 A bill for an act relating to the allocation of workforce housing tax incentives available against the individual and corporate income taxes, the franchise tax, the insurance premiums tax, and the moneys and credits tax. In Committee
- HR 3 A resolution affirming Iowa’s support for the State of Israel. Passed
- HF 2249 A bill for an act relating to vision benefit plans, vision benefit managers, vision care providers, and vision care provider contracts and including civil penalties and effective date and applicability provisions. In Committee
- HF 2029 A bill for an act relating to health care coverage of public school district personnel under the state health insurance plan, providing fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. In Committee
- HF 140 A bill for an act providing for the direct shipment of alcoholic liquor, providing fees, and including effective date provisions. In Committee
- HF 327 A bill for an act creating an advanced registered nurse practitioner preceptor tax credit available against the individual income tax, and including applicability provisions. In Committee
- HF 2390 A bill for an act relating to workforce housing project tax incentives issued by the economic development authority, and including effective date provisions. In Committee
- HF 68 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to open enrollment policies and English-language learners. In Committee
- HF 109 A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of workforce housing tax incentives available against the individual and corporate income taxes, the franchise tax, the insurance premiums tax, and the moneys and credits tax. In Committee
- HR 101 A resolution honoring Staff Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, Staff Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, and their families. Passed
- HF 962 A bill for an act modifying the child and dependent care credit available against the individual income tax, and including retroactive applicability provisions. Failed
- HF 964 A bill for an act exempting the sale of toilet paper from the sales tax. Failed
- HR 16 A resolution recognizing and commending the National Conference of State Legislatures on its fiftieth anniversary. Passed
- HF 442 A bill for an act providing for the disclosure of lead service lines in real estate disclosures. Failed
- HF 75 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. In Committee
Historical 76 bills
- HF 2041 A bill for an act permitting businesses’ new onsite daycare facilities or businesses’ expansion of existing onsite daycare facilities to qualify as projects under the high quality jobs program, and making penalties applicable. (See HF 2593.) Died
- HF 2083 A bill for an act providing businesses with income, franchise, moneys and credits, and gross premiums tax credits for providing child care benefits to employees of the business, and including applicability date provisions. (See HF 2594.) Died
- HF 2062 A bill for an act exempting from the sales tax the purchase price of specified digital products sold to a nonprofit food bank or blood center. Died
- HF 439 A bill for an act requiring the budget submissions of executive branch departments to utilize a zero-base approach once per decade. Died
- HF 2175 A bill for an act relating to the construction of child care facilities by providing developers with sales and use tax refunds and income, franchise, moneys and credits, and gross premiums tax credits, providing for a fee, and including applicability provisions. (See HF 2595.) Died
- HF 2005 A bill for an act relating to the individual income tax credits for volunteer fire fighters, volunteer emergency medical services personnel members, and reserve peace officers by increasing the amounts of the credits, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (See HF 2280.) Died
- HF 2067 A bill for an act relating to child care reimbursement rates under the state child care assistance program. (See HF 2270.) Failed
- HF 2002 A bill for an act relating to the health care professional recruitment program. Died
- HCR 105 A concurrent resolution celebrating July 2, 2019, as the 100th anniversary of the State of Iowa ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. (See HR 102.) Died
- HF 330 A bill for an act relating to certain workforce training programs administered by community colleges and tuition assistance related to such programs. Died
- HF 227 A bill for an act creating exemptions from the computation of net income for the individual income tax of amounts paid to a child or dependent care provider, and including applicability provisions. (See HF 771.) Failed
- HF 119 A bill for an act relating to the calculation and allocation of adjusted additional property tax levy aid for school districts and including applicability provisions. Died
- HF 464 A bill for an act providing for the establishment of recreation savings accounts and a related individual income tax exemption, and including applicability provisions. Died
- HF 299 A bill for an act creating the criminal offense of female genital mutilation and providing penalties. Died
- HF 2327 A bill for an act relating to higher education, including diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, tuition, and administrator hiring at state universities, membership of the state board of regents, and student-employer work and tuition programs at state universities and community colleges. Failed
- HF 2218 A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of workforce housing tax incentives available against the individual and corporate income taxes, the franchise tax, the insurance premiums tax, and the moneys and credits tax. Died
- HF 2199 A bill for an act relating to health care employment agencies, including the statewide maximum allowable charges schedule applicable to nursing services provided by health care employment agency workers, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. Failed
- HF 2197 A bill for an act providing for education on the holocaust for students and teachers in school districts. Died
- HF 2246 A bill for an act relating to the creation of land redevelopment trusts. Died
- HF 2535 A bill for an act relating to the Iowa public employees’ retirement system by modifying the retirement benefits of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. Died
- HF 2206 A bill for an act relating to public safety personnel by modifying the retirement benefits of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, restricting bail for murder in the first degree or felonious assaults committed upon public safety personnel, and providing for a tax credit for moving expenses available against the individual income tax for new public safety personnel moving to the state. Failed
- HR 110 A resolution honoring and congratulating Caitlin Clark for her extraordinary accomplishments and establishing February 22, 2024, as Caitlin Clark day in the state of Iowa. Died
- HF 2146 A bill for an act relating to shared operational functions for purposes of supplementary weighting for school districts that share school resource officers, and including applicability provisions. Died
- HF 2149 A bill for an act relating to the allocation of workforce housing tax incentives available against the individual and corporate income taxes, the franchise tax, the insurance premiums tax, and the moneys and credits tax. Died
- HR 118 A resolution honoring the historic performance of the Dordt University women’s basketball team. Died
Voting record
Current session 50 votes
| Bill | Vote | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
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HF 2778
A bill for an act modifying the individual income tax credit for emergency medical services personnel to include volunteer ambulance drivers, and including retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | April 21, 2026 |
|
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.
Shall amendment H-8206 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | March 12, 2026 |
|
HF 2513
A bill for an act prohibiting institutions of higher education from entering into employment contracts with citizens of federally designated foreign adversaries and state sponsors of terrorism holding certain visas.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 03, 2026 |
|
HF 2226
A bill for an act relating to the bachelor of science in nursing program at the university of Iowa, including priority for admission and reporting requirements.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | February 24, 2026 |
|
SF 660
A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
SF 659
A bill for an act relating to state government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers; authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds; providing for properly related matters including crystalline polymorph psilocybin, medical residency and fellowship positions, state membership in the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, student abuse by school employees, modified supplemental amounts for school budgets, wagering taxes, a state fire marshal study, certain legislative interim studies, and 911 emergency communications services; making corrections; and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
SF 657
A bill for an act related to state taxation and finance and other related matters, by creating, modifying, and eliminating tax credits and tax incentive programs, providing for penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall amendment H-1351 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 14, 2025 |
|
HF 1044
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for state government administration and regulation, including the department of administrative services, auditor of state, ethics and campaign disclosure board, offices of governor and lieutenant governor, department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, department of insurance and financial services, department of management, Iowa public employees’ retirement system, public information board, department of revenue, secretary of state, treasurer of state, and utilities commission, and providing for properly related matters including the deposit of captive company premium tax revenue.
Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-1336? |
Nay | fail | May 13, 2025 |
|
SF 615
A bill for an act relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 26, 2025 |
|
HF 884
A bill for an act authorizing school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to employ chaplains, or engage volunteer chaplains, to provide services to students.
Shall amendment H-1177, to amendment H-1129, be adopted? |
Nay | fail | March 26, 2025 |
|
HF 844
A bill for an act relating to eligibility requirements for financial institutions in which public funds may be deposited.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 25, 2025 |
|
HF 777
A bill for an act relating to applications for a motor vehicle salvage certificate of title by an insurer without surrendering the certificate of title or manufacturer’s or importer’s statement of origin, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 17, 2025 |
|
HF 652
A bill for an act concerning county and city regulation of real property and the powers granted to a board of adjustment.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 13, 2025 |
|
HF 602
A bill for an act relating to testimony by a minor witness using two-way, closed-circuit equipment.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 12, 2025 |
|
HF 530
A bill for an act authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or an assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 12, 2025 |
|
HF 393
A bill for an act relating to the Iowa school performance profiles published by the department of education, including how dropout students affect school performance grades contained in the profiles.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 11, 2025 |
|
HF 248
A bill for an act relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 10, 2025 |
|
HF 2494
A bill for an act requiring the director of the department of education to prepare, publish, and submit to the general assembly annual reports related to reading proficiency, mathematics proficiency, and area education agencies.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 03, 2026 |
|
HF 2292
A bill for an act directing the department of health and human services to increase the number of inpatient psychiatric beds at each state mental health institute.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | February 26, 2026 |
|
HF 980
A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.
Shall amendment H-1321 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 14, 2025 |
|
SF 612
A bill for an act relating to state and local taxation and regulations by changing certain tax credits, cigarette and tobacco-related regulations, and certain city budget certification deadlines, providing for penalties, and including retroactive applicability and effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
SF 648
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch including judicial officer salaries and interpreter or translator fees, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
HF 980
A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.
Shall amendment H-1323 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 14, 2025 |
|
HF 980
A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.
Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-1318? |
Nay | fail | May 14, 2025 |
|
SF 644
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing for properly related matters including indigent defense and representation, the corrections capital reinvestment fund, and a corrections federal receipts fund, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
HF 980
A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.
Shall amendment H-1322 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 14, 2025 |
|
SF 615
A bill for an act relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
HF 980
A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.
Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-1320? |
Nay | fail | May 14, 2025 |
|
HF 980
A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.
Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-1319? |
Nay | fail | May 14, 2025 |
|
SF 657
A bill for an act related to state taxation and finance and other related matters, by creating, modifying, and eliminating tax credits and tax incentive programs, providing for penalties, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
SF 615
A bill for an act relating to work requirements for the Iowa health and wellness plan, public assistance programs, an information technology fund, the public assistance modernization fund, and the Medicaid for employed people with disabilities program, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the House concur in the Senate amendment H-1342? |
Yea | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
SF 641
A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of health and human services, including administrative services organizations, child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, internal audit and examination information, and the region incentive fund in the mental health and disability services regional service fund, health maintenance organization’s premium tax, and making appropriations and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 13, 2025 |
|
HF 1044
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for state government administration and regulation, including the department of administrative services, auditor of state, ethics and campaign disclosure board, offices of governor and lieutenant governor, department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, department of insurance and financial services, department of management, Iowa public employees’ retirement system, public information board, department of revenue, secretary of state, treasurer of state, and utilities commission, and providing for properly related matters including the deposit of captive company premium tax revenue.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 13, 2025 |
|
SF 645
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and the state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and extending the repeal date for the housing renewal pilot program.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 13, 2025 |
|
SF 646
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 13, 2025 |
|
SF 647
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, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions.
Shall amendment H-1345 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 13, 2025 |
|
HF 1049
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, and related provisions and appropriations, including aging and disability services; behavioral health, public health, community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; sex reassignment surgeries or associated procedures; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care, administration and compliance; transfers, cash flows, and nonreversions; prior appropriations; the beer and liquor control fund, and the behavioral health fund; report on nonreversion of moneys; emergency rules; and a hospital directed payment program; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 13, 2025 |
|
SF 628
A bill for an act relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund, the primary road fund, and the statutory allocations fund.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 13, 2025 |
|
SF 647
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, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 13, 2025 |
|
SF 626
A bill for an act relating to federal moneys and regulations, including the appropriation of federal moneys made available from federal block grants and other nonstate sources, the allocation of portions of federal block grants, the procedures if federal moneys or federal block grants are more or less than anticipated, and the authorization of certain city regulations when required under federal law, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 13, 2025 |
|
SF 646
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection.
Shall amendment H-1337 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 13, 2025 |
|
HF 1040
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations for the economic development of the state, including to the economic development authority, Iowa finance authority, department of workforce development, and state board of regents and certain regents institutions, and eliminating the repeal of the housing renewal pilot program.
Shall amendment H-1293 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 13, 2025 |
|
HF 856
A bill for an act prohibiting public entities from engaging in certain activities relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 13, 2025 |
|
HF 1049
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, and related provisions and appropriations, including aging and disability services; behavioral health, public health, community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; sex reassignment surgeries or associated procedures; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care, administration and compliance; transfers, cash flows, and nonreversions; prior appropriations; the beer and liquor control fund, and the behavioral health fund; report on nonreversion of moneys; emergency rules; and a hospital directed payment program; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-1334? |
Nay | fail | May 13, 2025 |
|
HF 890
A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, the national board certification pilot project, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and the employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 13, 2025 |
|
SF 646
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection.
Shall amendment H-1338 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 13, 2025 |
|
SF 647
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, and state board of regents, and including contingent effective date provisions.
Shall amendment H-1344 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 13, 2025 |
|
HF 974
A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations.
Shall amendment H-1303 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 12, 2025 |
|
HF 1026
A bill for an act relating to the adoption tax credit available against the individual income tax, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 12, 2025 |
|
HF 593
A bill for an act relating to groundwater hazard statement requirements.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 12, 2025 |