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53
Bills sponsored
this session · 207 all-time
0
Bills co-sponsored
this session · 0 all-time
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Enacted into law
counting…
3344
Recorded votes
93%
Vote participation
voted in 93% of 3344 recorded votes
Voting scorecard
2025-2026 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes
Party unity
95.6%
based on 3111 votes
Votes with own party's majority
Independence
4.4%
based on 3111 votes
Votes against own party's majority
Participation
93.1%
based on 3111 votes
Roll calls where a yes/no was cast
Sponsored (introduced)
207 billsCurrent session 53 bills
- HF434 A bill for an act relating to taking otters on one’s own property. Introduced
- HF 2736 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to area education agency funding, and including effective date and applicability provisions. In Committee
- 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
- 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 2729 A bill for an act establishing a temporary prohibition on an increase in rates or charges by gas and electric public utilities, and including effective date provisions. 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 431 A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring civil actions by victims of sexual abuse, human trafficking, or sexual exploitation, and including effective date provisions. 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 283 A bill for an act increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits. 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 376 A bill for an act limiting campaign contributions to certain candidates, and making penalties applicable. In Committee
- HF 2378 A bill for an act increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits. In Committee
- HF 672 A bill for an act relating to mandatory subjects of negotiation for public employee collective bargaining and including applicability provisions. In Committee
- HF 333 A bill for an act providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms and making an appropriation. 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 673 A bill for an act requiring certain weekly workers’ compensation benefits to be calculated by including an employee’s overtime and premium pay, and to include an annual cost-of-living adjustment. In Committee
- HJR 10 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to reproductive care. In Committee
- HF 914 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties and powers of area education agencies, the department of education, and area education agency funding, and including effective date and 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
Historical 154 bills
- HF 2467 A bill for an act relating to expansion of the 1st five program statewide, and making an appropriation. Died
- HF 2172 A bill for an act relating to provision of the state family planning network under the Medicaid program, and including effective date and repeal provisions. Died
- HF 2606 A bill for an act providing for grants to eligible political subdivisions for rehabilitation and remediation of buildings that are public nuisances or are abandoned for community use, and making appropriations. 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 559 A bill for an act relating to the compassionate use of medical cannabis Act, reclassifying marijuana, including tetrahydrocannabinols, from a schedule I controlled substance to a schedule II controlled substance, providing for civil and criminal penalties and fees, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 221 A bill for an act relating to the compassionate use of medical cannabis Act, reclassifying marijuana, including tetrahydrocannabinols, from a schedule I controlled substance to a schedule II controlled substance, providing for civil and criminal penalties and fees, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 2286 A bill for an act prohibiting cities from annexing certain agricultural land, and providing applicability provisions. 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 368 A bill for an act relating to underage prostitution. Died
- HF 107 A bill for an act relating to maintaining dangerous weapons at a child care facility or when transporting a child receiving care from a child care facility, and providing penalties. Died
- HF 287 A bill for an act relating to the midwest interstate passenger rail compact, 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
- HR 27 A resolution of the Iowa General Assembly, on the occasion of Earth Day, 2019, recognizing the threat of climate change and committing to necessary and appropriate legislative action to improve air quality, combat climate change, mitigate its effects, and position our economy for sustainable growth and job creation. 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
- HR 107 A resolution honoring and recognizing Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn upon his retirement as president of the World Food Prize Foundation. 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 2011 A bill for an act relating to a deferred judgment and the denial, suspension, or revocation of a professional license, driver’s license, or boating license. Died
- HF 2302 A bill for an act creating the our care, our options Act, and providing penalties. 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 2610 A bill for an act relating to the workforce housing tax incentives program. Died
- HF 2020 A bill for an act relating to radio operators blackout special registration plates for motor vehicles. (See HF 2234, HF 2624.) Died
- HF 2433 A bill for an act creating a life imprisonment review committee to recommend commutation or reconsideration of a sentence of a class “A” felon serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. 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? |
Not Voting | 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? |
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? |
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? |
Not Voting | 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? |
Not Voting | 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 |