Matthew Rinker
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64
Bills sponsored
this session · 98 all-time
0
Bills co-sponsored
this session · 0 all-time
0
Enacted into law
this session · 0 all-time
1211
Recorded votes
87%
Vote participation
voted in 87% of 1211 recorded votes
Voting scorecard
2025-2026 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes
Party unity
95.3%
based on 1047 votes
Votes with own party's majority
Independence
4.7%
based on 1047 votes
Votes against own party's majority
Participation
86.6%
based on 1047 votes
Roll calls where a yes/no was cast
Sponsored (introduced)
98 billsCurrent session 64 bills
- HF2569 A bill for an act relating to recovery of costs for the demolition of abandoned buildings by cities. Introduced
- HF2459 A bill for an act relating to liability of persons performing housing or rental inspections for a municipality. Introduced
- HF2412 A bill for an act relating to prior authorization exemptions for certain health care providers for specific health care services. Introduced
- HF2374 A bill for an act relating to Iowa’s delta waterfowl special registration plates, providing fees, and making appropriations. Introduced
- HF2273 A bill for an act relating to investigations of insurance fraud related to adjusters, appraisers, and umpires. Introduced
- HF2248 A bill for an act relating to the confinement of persons found incompetent to stand trial. Introduced
- HF2235 A bill for an act requiring the board of educational examiners to establish authorizations for instruction related to fine arts. Introduced
- HF2170 A bill for an act relating to minimum roster sizes for interscholastic sports. Introduced
- HF2143 A bill for an act authorizing school districts to use revenues from the district management levy for targeted staff retention incentives and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- HF2491 A bill for an act providing for a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at regents institutions for certain veterans with service-connected disabilities.(See HF 2491.) To Executive
- HF815 A bill for an act relating to annual automatic increases in Medicaid provider reimbursement rates. Introduced
- HF810 A bill for an act relating to granting supplemental aid or a modified supplemental amount for school districts with high open enrollments, and including effective date and applicability provisions. Introduced
- HF809 A bill for an act providing for the repeal of the beverage containers control program, and including effective date provisions. Introduced
- HF808 A bill for an act relating to managed care organization chargebacks and third-party auditors. Introduced
- HF885 A bill for an act relating to deer hunting privileges of disabled veterans, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 885.) To Executive
- HF559 A bill for an act relating to animal abuse, neglect, and torture, and providing penalties. Introduced
- HF912 A bill for an act relating to state services and benefits provided to veterans, including state grants, public assistance programs, business fee waivers, substance use disorder programs, mental health and disability services, undergraduate tuition and fees, disabled veteran tax credits, department of natural resources’ licenses and fees, civil litigation priority, permit to carry weapons fees, vehicle registration fees, and driver’s licenses, making penalties applicable, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 912.) Introduced
- HF468 A bill for an act relating to the display of the national league of families POW/MIA flag. Introduced
- HF466 A bill for an act relating to contracts between a publisher and a library for electronic literary materials, and providing civil penalties. Introduced
- HF635 A bill for an act relating to the driver’s license revocation effective date following an operating-while-intoxicated violation or refusal to test.(See HF 635.) Introduced
- HF294 A bill for an act allowing certain cities to certify taxes for general fund levy for libraries. Introduced
- HF779 A bill for an act relating to persons eligible for special registration plates with a veteran processed emblem.(See HF 779.) Introduced
- HF156 A bill for an act raising the limit certain townships may levy for fire protection service and emergency medical service. Introduced
- HF138 A bill for an act relating to the Iowa rules of criminal procedure including the right to a speedy trial. Introduced
- HF52 A bill for an act relating to civil liability of sports officials, providing criminal penalties for assault of sports officials, and including effective date and applicability provisions. Introduced
Historical 34 bills
- 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 2253 A bill for an act requiring pipeline capacities for natural gas suppliers. Died
- HF 2284 A bill for an act relating to the scope of certain criminal actions, including exclusion zones for registered sex offenders and burglary, and making penalties applicable. Died
- HF 2125 A bill for an act relating to college athletics by requiring a name, image, and likeness financial literacy course for college athletes, exempting certain net income received by college athletes from the individual income tax, and allowing for deductions from individual and corporate income taxes for contributions made to college athletic collectives, and including retroactive applicability provisions. 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 2505 A bill for an act relating to state services and benefits provided to veterans, including state grants, public assistance programs, business fee waivers, substance use disorder programs, mental health and disability services, undergraduate tuition and fees, disabled veteran tax credits, department of natural resources’ licenses and fees, civil litigation priority, vehicle registration fees, and driver’s licenses, making penalties applicable, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 2442 A bill for an act allowing cities to impose a tax to fund a public library. 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
- HR 117 A resolution recognizing and congratulating University of Northern Iowa Died
- HF 505 A bill for an act relating to meter installation or replacement by a utility. Died
- HF 406 A bill for an act relating to human trafficking and providing penalties. Failed
- HF 13 A bill for an act relating to rural emergency hospitals, including licensing requirements and fees, making penalties applicable, providing emergency rulemaking authority, and including applicability and effective date provisions. Died
- HR 6 A resolution designating May 2023 as Jewish American Heritage Month. 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 534 A bill for an act establishing a school district funding supplement, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 233 A bill for an act relating to determination of school district enrollments and education savings account participation and including effective date and applicability provisions. Died
- HF 4 A bill for an act modifying requirements related to teacher intern license programs and licenses and authorizations issued by the board of educational examiners and establishing a temporary initial teaching license to be issued by the board of educational examiners to applicants who complete an alternative teacher certification program. Failed
- HF 2413 A bill for an act relating to the revocation or suspension of a law enforcement officer’s certification or a reserve peace officer’s certification. Died
- HF 2367 A bill for an act relating to a health insurer’s duty of good faith in negotiations with hospitals. Died
- HF 155 A bill for an act relating to mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon and providing penalties. Failed
- HR 5 A resolution regarding foundational principles of the American form of government. Died
- HF 173 A bill for an act relating to automated or remote systems for traffic law enforcement, including by limiting municipalities from placing or using such systems on certain roads and limiting certain penalties. Died
- HF 2443 A bill for an act raising the limit certain townships may levy for fire protection service and emergency medical service. Died
- HF 417 A bill for an act relating to moneys credited to the flood mitigation fund from fees collected for flying our colors registration plates. Failed
- HF 418 A bill for an act relating to purchasing of tires from the state by certain volunteer emergency services providers. Failed
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? |
Not Voting | 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? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
Not Voting | 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? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
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? |
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 |