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58
Bills sponsored
this session · 86 all-time
0
Bills co-sponsored
this session · 0 all-time
0
Enacted into law
this session · 0 all-time
1211
Recorded votes
99%
Vote participation
voted in 99% of 1211 recorded votes
Voting scorecard
2025-2026 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes
Party unity
96%
based on 1196 votes
Votes with own party's majority
Independence
4%
based on 1196 votes
Votes against own party's majority
Participation
98.9%
based on 1196 votes
Roll calls where a yes/no was cast
Sponsored (introduced)
86 billsCurrent session 58 bills
- HF2479 A bill for an act relating to driver’s licenses marked to reflect veteran status. Introduced
- HF2197 A bill for an act relating to franchisee compensation and time allowances for motor vehicle warranty services, and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- HF727 A bill for an act relating to the maximum finance charge on a consumer credit sale. Introduced
- HF682 A bill for an act relating to the recapture of tax expenditures and disbursed by departments of the state to businesses that violate child labor laws. Introduced
- HF681 A bill for an act establishing a wage and hour division in the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. Introduced
- HF676 A bill for an act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicable. Introduced
- HF675 A bill for an act requiring employers to provide employees with meal periods and rest periods and providing penalties. Introduced
- HF672 A bill for an act relating to mandatory subjects of negotiation for public employee collective bargaining and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- HF611 A bill for an act providing for increased wage rates for required work on certain holidays and making penalties and remedies applicable. Introduced
- HF432 A bill for an act relating to eligibility for financial assistance from the department of workforce development for certain apprenticeship programs. Introduced
- HF361 A bill for an act exempting cash tips from the individual income tax, and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- HF360 A bill for an act excluding overtime from the individual income tax, and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- HF 684 A bill for an act relating to the purchase of steel by state agencies. In Committee
- HF 727 A bill for an act relating to the maximum finance charge on a consumer credit sale. In Committee
- HF 360 A bill for an act excluding overtime from the individual income tax, and including applicability provisions. In Committee
- HF 341 A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance payments. In Committee
- HF 682 A bill for an act relating to the recapture of tax expenditures and disbursed by departments of the state to businesses that violate child labor laws. In Committee
- HF 676 A bill for an act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicable. In Committee
- HF 605 A bill for an act relating to the prescribing and dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives. In Committee
- HF 812 A bill for an act requesting that the legislative council establish an interim study committee to plan an Iowa education summit to be held in 2026. In Committee
- HF 2740 A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of certain information filed with the secretary of state by foreign persons holding agricultural land. In Committee
- HF 663 A bill for an act relating to provision of the state family planning services under the Medicaid program, and including effective date and repeal provisions. In Committee
- HJR 5 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to citizen initiatives to amend the Constitution of the State of Iowa and the Iowa Code and referendums to approve certain bills passed by the general assembly. In Committee
- HF 611 A bill for an act providing for increased wage rates for required work on certain holidays and making penalties and remedies applicable. In Committee
- HF 2631 A bill for an act relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers. In Committee
Historical 28 bills
- HF 689 A bill for an act relating to provision of the state family planning services under the Medicaid program, and including effective date and repeal provisions. Died
- HF 2352 A bill for an act relating to the amount of tuition and mandatory fees charged by institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents and making appropriations. Died
- HF 2338 A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance for children of certain child care personnel. Died
- HF 2293 A bill for an act increasing the state minimum hourly wage. Died
- HF 2300 A bill for an act modifying the sales tax holiday. Died
- HF 230 A bill for an act requiring the state transportation commission to prioritize the improvement of United States highway 30. Failed
- HF 2632 A bill for an act establishing a retirement savings plan trust, providing penalties, and including implementation provisions. Died
- 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 2140 A bill for an act relating to the federal summer electronic benefits transfer for children program, making an appropriation, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. Died
- HR 117 A resolution recognizing and congratulating University of Northern Iowa Died
- HF 108 A bill for an act relating to the reimbursement of child care providers from the child care assistance program. Died
- HF 109 A bill for an act relating to professional liability insurance and child care centers employing unsupervised child care workers under eighteen years of age. Died
- HF 696 A bill for an act relating to enforcement of the Iowa wage payment collection law. Died
- HF 695 A bill for an act relating to economic development including child care, grants and tax credits relating to child care, and state child care assistance, and including applicability provisions. Died
- HF 107 A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance payments. Died
- HF 693 A bill for an act establishing a neighborhood housing renovation grant program and fund, and making appropriations. Died
- HF 509 A bill for an act relating to eligible parties to a valid marriage. Died
- HF 697 A bill for an act establishing an Iowa housing tax credit program and increasing first-time homebuyer tax incentives, and including effective date and applicability provisions. Died
- HR 116 A resolution honoring the outstanding performance of the Kirkwood Community College women’s basketball team and head coach Kim Muhl. Died
- HR 114 A resolution honoring and congratulating the University of Iowa Hawkeye women’s wrestling team for winning the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Tournament. Died
- HF 691 A bill for an act relating to the prescribing and dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives. Died
- HF 692 A bill for an act relating to the staffing of brain health professionals in primary and secondary schools and making appropriations. Died
- HF 690 A bill for an act relating to the Medicaid extended postpartum coverage option, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 442 A bill for an act relating to marijuana, including the manufacture, delivery, and possession of marijuana, the licensure of retail marijuana, and medical cannabis, providing fees, including excise taxes, establishing funds, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 219 A bill for an act relating to temporary unemployment for purposes of eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits. 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Not Voting | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Nay | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
HF 980
A bill for an act relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers.
Shall amendment H-1322 be adopted? |
Yea | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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 |