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25
Bills sponsored
this session · 83 all-time
0
Bills co-sponsored
this session · 0 all-time
0
Enacted into law
this session · 0 all-time
2587
Recorded votes
99%
Vote participation
voted in 99% of 2587 recorded votes
Voting scorecard
2025-2026 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes
Party unity
95.9%
based on 2557 votes
Votes with own party's majority
Independence
4.1%
based on 2557 votes
Votes against own party's majority
Participation
99%
based on 2557 votes
Roll calls where a yes/no was cast
Sponsored (introduced)
83 billsCurrent session 25 bills
- HF2483 A bill for an act relating to towing or impounding vehicles, and making penalties applicable. Introduced
- HF2733 A bill for an act relating to water quality, including a water quality monitoring network and the water quality initiative, an agricultural best management practices tax credit, an Iowa clean water farm program and property tax credit, and water quality practices loans, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- 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
- HCR 7 A concurrent resolution calling upon the President of the United States and the United States Congress to support efforts to naturalize certain legally adopted children who were born outside the United States. Introduced
- 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 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
- HF 659 A bill for an act relating to housing in the state by establishing an Iowa housing tax credit program, establishing a neighborhood renovation grant program, and increasing first-time homebuyer tax incentives, and including effective date and applicability provisions. In Committee
- HF 661 A bill for an act relating to child care, including the child and dependent care tax credit, a child care workforce matching grant program, a small business child care tax credit, and state child care assistance, and including applicability provisions. In Committee
- HF 607 A bill for an act relating to eligibility of pregnant women and infants for the Medicaid program. In Committee
- HF 2483 A bill for an act relating to towing or impounding vehicles, and making penalties applicable. In Committee
- HR 101 A resolution honoring Staff Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, Staff Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, and their families. Passed
- HF 481 A bill for an act relating to rent increases in manufactured home communities and mobile home parks. In Committee
- HF 482 A bill for an act relating to the ability of landlords to terminate rental agreements of tenants of mobile home parks and manufactured home communities, and including applicability provisions. In Committee
- HF 152 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. In Committee
- HR 16 A resolution recognizing and commending the National Conference of State Legislatures on its fiftieth anniversary. Passed
- HF 455 A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year. In Committee
- HF 251 A bill for an act requiring the state board of education to publish information related to nonpublic schools that are accredited by an approved independent accrediting agency. In Committee
- HF 266 A bill for an act relating to application fees charged by landlords to prospective tenants. In Committee
- HR 14 A resolution calling upon the President of the United States and the United States Congress to support efforts to naturalize certain legally adopted children who were born outside the United States. Passed
- HF 662 A bill for an act appropriating moneys to the department of health and human services for refugee resettlement assistance, and including effective date provisions. In Committee
- HF 665 A bill for an act relating to mental health services at public institutions of higher education. In Committee
- HF 671 A bill for an act relating to eligible parties to a valid marriage. In Committee
- HJR 8 A joint resolution relating to the placement of a statue in the United States capitol honoring Governor Robert D. Ray, and making appropriations. In Committee
- HF 2733 A bill for an act relating to water quality, including a water quality monitoring network and the water quality initiative, an agricultural best management practices tax credit, an Iowa clean water farm program and property tax credit, and water quality practices loans, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions. In Committee
Historical 58 bills
- HF 2467 A bill for an act relating to expansion of the 1st five program statewide, and making an appropriation. Died
- HF 2609 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. Died
- HF 394 A bill for an act relating to school district finance by modifying provisions relating to the calculation of the regular program state cost per pupil, establishing a supplementary weighting plan for certain mandatory school district transportation costs, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 630 A bill for an act relating to mental health supports and services for children and adults, including the establishment of a mental health professional fellowship program. Died
- HF 383 A bill for an act relating to public school funding by establishing the state percent of growth and the categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2019, specifying citation references, modifying provisions relating to the property tax replacement payments, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 135 A bill for an act relating to long-term services and supports and certain capitation rates under the Medicaid program, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 2578 A bill for an act establishing a small business revolving loan program and small business revolving loan fund within the economic development authority to award low-interest loans to eligible small businesses. Died
- HF 2545 A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a grant program and grant fund administered by the department of human services to provide grants for new or expanded licensed child care centers and new or expanded registered child development homes. Died
- HF 2579 A bill for an act relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicable. Died
- HF 2103 A bill for an act exempting from the state sales tax the purchase price of tangible personal property or specified digital products sold and services furnished to a nonprofit food bank. Died
- HF 2546 A bill for an act relating to the child and dependent care credit available against the individual income tax, and including retroactive applicability provisions. 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 2327 A bill for an act relating to preexisting condition protections and including applicability provisions. Died
- HF 2604 A bill for an act establishing a local government public safety grant fund and making an appropriation. Died
- HF 2426 A bill for an act relating to state and school antiharassment and antibullying policies, providing for a competitive grant program to provide related training, and providing for a school climate and bullying prevention work group. Effective date: 07/01/2020. Died
- HF 2610 A bill for an act relating to the workforce housing tax incentives program. Died
- HF 2371 A bill for an act relating to campaign finance, including expenditures, attribution statements, and reports, and making penalties applicable. Died
- HF 2284 A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance, including income eligibility and waiting list guidelines and copayment requirements. Died
- HF 2431 A bill for an act relating to robotics extracurricular activities, including requiring the department of education to provide technical assistance to school districts related to chartering career and technical student organizations related to robotics and authorizing high school athletic organizations to sponsor interscholastic contests related to robotics. Died
- 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 2338 A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance for children of certain child care personnel. Died
- HF 2300 A bill for an act modifying the sales tax holiday. Died
- HF 2356 A bill for an act providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms. Died
- HF 2235 A bill for an act relating to filling a vacancy on a unit owners association executive board. Died
- HF 2245 A bill for an act relating to renewal requirements associated with licenses issued by the board of educational examiners to practitioners who have been employed as practitioners for at least thirty years. 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? |
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? |
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? |
Yea | 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? |
Nay | 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? |
Not Voting | 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? |
Not Voting | 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 |