Molly Donahue
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181
Bills sponsored
this session · 425 all-time
0
Bills co-sponsored
this session · 0 all-time
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Enacted into law
counting…
2509
Recorded votes
98%
Vote participation
voted in 98% of 2509 recorded votes
Voting scorecard
90 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes
Based on only 2 votes so far — treat these scores as early and low-confidence.
Party unity
100%
based on 2 votes
Votes with own party's majority
Independence
0%
based on 2 votes
Votes against own party's majority
Participation
100%
based on 2 votes
Roll calls where a yes/no was cast
Sponsored (introduced)
425 billsCurrent session 181 bills
- SF2248 A bill for an act providing for paid family and medical leave to certain employees who have a child receiving inpatient care in a neonatal intensive care unit. Introduced
- SF2247 A bill for an act relating to persons prohibited from participating in economic development programs. Introduced
- SF2242 A bill for an act relating to radon testing and mitigation for the conveyance of single-family residences, and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- SF2241 A bill for an act relating to charter school requirements, including reporting requirements, governance standards, financial accountability, and oversight by the state board of education. Introduced
- SF2179 A bill for an act relating to the definition of beverage for purposes of beverage container deposits, and including effective date provisions. Introduced
- SF2133 A bill for an act relating to administrator licenses granted by the board of educational examiners and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- SF2128 A bill for an act relating to securing firearms and establishing a private cause of action and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- SF2102 A bill for an act relating to health care coverage of certain public school district personnel under the state health insurance plan, providing fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. Introduced
- SF2098 A bill for an act relating to firearms, including background checks for acquiring pistols or revolvers, identification markings on firearms and firearm parts, trigger locks, extreme risk protective orders, mental health funding, certain firearm transfers, and certain related crimes, and providing penalties. Introduced
- SF2080 A bill for an act relating to area education agency employee access to student records. Introduced
- SF2076 A bill for an act relating to a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at accredited private institutions and regents institutions for students during student teaching experiences in the state. Introduced
- SF2073 A bill for an act relating to the minimum amounts required for motor vehicle financial responsibility, and making penalties applicable. Introduced
- SF2056 A bill for an act relating to billing methods for distributed generation customers. Introduced
- SF2048 A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for annual lung cancer screenings for at-risk individuals. Introduced
- SF2047 A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage for prescription insulin drugs. Introduced
- SF2046 A bill for an act relating to wage payment collection issues arising between employers and employees, providing penalties and remedies, and including effective date provisions. Introduced
- SF2045 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. Introduced
- SF2018 A bill for an act relating to special education, including by requiring accredited nonpublic schools to provide special education services to students enrolled in the school who require such services and modifying the responsibilities of area education agencies, and including effective date provisions. Introduced
- SF2014 A bill for an act creating the restroom emergency access Act, and providing civil penalties. Introduced
- SF453 A bill for an act relating to school district and area education agency funding and education savings accounts, and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- SF417 A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for annual lung cancer screenings for at-risk individuals. Introduced
- SF382 A bill for an act relating to education, including by prohibiting the use of certain mascots to represent schools and institutions of higher education, establishing grant programs to assist schools and institutions of higher education in adopting alternative mascots, modifying provisions related to the Iowa tuition grants program, and making appropriations. Introduced
- SF381 A bill for an act relating to youth employment and providing penalties. Introduced
- SF380 A bill for an act relating to prohibitions on noncompete covenants involving nurses and including applicability provisions. Introduced
- SF264 A bill for an act relating to prescription drug affordability, including the creation of a prescription drug affordability board. Introduced
Historical 244 bills
- HF 2150 A bill for an act providing for a work group, study, and report on hiring practices, recruitment, and background checks for employment of school bus drivers, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 2342 A bill for an act appropriating moneys to the Iowa resources enhancement and protection fund. Died
- HF 2329 A bill for an act requiring annual volunteer service by high school students and including applicability provisions. Died
- HF 2265 A bill for an act requiring the department of natural resources to conduct a study related to pollinator species on properties owned by the department. Died
- HF 2467 A bill for an act relating to expansion of the 1st five program statewide, and making an appropriation. 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 565 A bill for an act establishing a first responders loan repayment program and fund 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 2049 A bill for an act requiring school employee training and protocols relating to children’s mental health, requiring that suicide prevention information be included on secondary student identification cards, and including effective date and applicability provisions. Died
- HF 2078 A bill for an act relating to the use of an electronic communication device while driving, and making penalties applicable. Died
- HF 563 A bill for an act requiring the boards of directors of school districts to appoint student liaisons to the boards. (See HF 704.) Died
- HF 2080 A bill for an act relating to cigarettes, tobacco products, and vapor products, including the taxation of such products, and making penalties applicable. 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 98 A bill for an act establishing an Iowa center for suicide prevention in the department of education and making an appropriation. 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 614 A bill for an act establishing a requirement for administrators employed by school districts with enrollments of more than two thousand five hundred students. 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 615 A bill for an act eliminating the option to calculate by hours the instructional time school districts and accredited nonpublic schools must include in the school calendar. 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 186 A bill for an act relating to a tax credit for pollution-control and recycling property connected to property used for the care and feeding of livestock, and including effective date and applicability provisions. Died
- HF 85 A bill for an act restoring the right to register to vote and to vote and hold elective office for certain persons and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 84 A bill for an act providing for the registration of eligible electors upon review of electronic records received from state agencies and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 155 A bill for an act relating to unfair or discriminatory employment practices based upon issues relating to reproductive health, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 174 A bill for an act providing for internet neutrality, and making penalties applicable. 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
Voting record
Current session 50 votes
| Bill | Vote | Result | Date |
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SF 654
A bill for an act relating to wildlife, including the treatment of beaver dams, identification for traps, snares, and tree stands, maximum fur dealer license fees, and deer depredation, and making penalties applicable.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
HF 2768
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.
Shall the bill pass? |
Nay | pass | April 28, 2026 |
|
HF 2757
A bill for an act relating to nuclear electric generation facilities by creating sales and use tax exemptions and refunds, making appropriations to the state board of regents for establishing and maintaining a nuclear energy workforce, making penalties applicable, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | April 28, 2026 |
|
HF 2571
A bill for an act relating to the Iowa rules of criminal procedure including commitment hearings following an acquittal based on insanity.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | March 30, 2026 |
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SF 2224
A bill for an act relating to computer science education, including by modifying provisions related to standards for computer science education, the curriculum provided to students enrolled in grades nine through twelve, and practitioner preparation programs, and including applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | February 24, 2026 |
|
HF 1002
A bill for an act authorizing length of service award programs for volunteer fire fighters, volunteer emergency medical care providers, and reserve peace officers, and making appropriations.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
SF 660
A bill for an act relating to sports wagering and tourism, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? #2 |
Yea | pass | May 14, 2025 |
|
HF 639
A bill for an act relating to hazardous liquid pipelines, including common carrier requirements, proceedings under the Iowa utilities commission, including commission member attendance at hearings and informational meetings, including allowing certain persons to intervene in such proceedings, including sanctions on intervenors in contested cases, and permit, permit renewal, and operation limitations, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
Shall amendment S-3165 to amendment S-3064 be adopted? |
Nay | fail | May 12, 2025 |
|
HF 381
A bill for an act relating to statutory corrections which may adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, remove ambiguities, and provide for Code editor directives.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | April 08, 2025 |
|
HF 784
A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to mathematics instruction, practitioner preparation programs, and the duties of the director of the department of education, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | April 07, 2025 |
|
HF 2788
A bill for an act relating to abortions including definitions, informed consent, dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs, and other abortion-related provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 03, 2026 |
|
HF 2800
A bill for an act relating to state and local government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds, making corrections, and providing for properly related matters including the national electrical code, local civil rights laws, political party state central committees, noxious weeds, nonresident deer hunting licenses, proprietary treatment systems, poultry associations, tax credits, alternative nicotine and vapor products, public assistance programs, judicial branch and county attorney salaries, civil litigation abuse, human trafficking, federal grants and loans notifications, quarterly payments to area education agencies, civic proficiency in higher education, charter schools under the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, school district incentives, extracurricular interscholastic eligibility, and levy increases, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 03, 2026 |
|
SF 2472
A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions, divisions of revenue, and funding from the secure an advanced vision for education fund, establishing a program for first-time homebuyers, modifying and making appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 03, 2026 |
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SF 2453
A bill for an act providing for investment by regents institutions in certified innovation funds and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2694
A bill for an act relating to the regulation of certain places and activities by the governor.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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SF 639
A bill for an act creating a specialty business court, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
HF 2598
A bill for an act relating to a required course of instruction regarding human trafficking prevention for persons applying for the initial issuance of certain commercial driver’s licenses, and including applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
HF 1036
A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions.
Shall amendment S-5251 be adopted? |
Not Voting | fail | May 02, 2026 |
|
HF 2769
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2756
A bill for an act relating to licensing of service companies, motor vehicle service contracts, and residential service contracts, and providing civil penalties and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2493
A bill for an act relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and including applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2797
A bill for an act relating to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, and providing fees.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
HF 1036
A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2787
A bill for an act prohibiting warrant resolution clinics, including enforcement mechanisms, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
HF 2782
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the department of veterans affairs and the department of health and human services, including aging and disability services, behavioral health, public health, and community access and eligibility; the medical assistance program, state supplementary assistance, Hawki, and other health-related programs; family well-being and protection; state-operated specialty care; administration and compliance; transfers, cash flow, and nonreversions; report on nonreversion of moneys; more options for maternal support program; reimbursement rates review; mental diseases exclusion waiver; full-time equivalent dashboard; comprehensive family support program; federal community mental health services block grant; behavioral health expenditure report; opioid settlement fund; emergency rules; graduate medical education; and special population nursing facilities; and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2765
A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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SF 2490
A bill for an act relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, pooling orders, negotiation of surface damage, imposition and distribution of a tax, and jurisdiction, and providing civil penalties.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2781
A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2615
A bill for an act relating to thoroughbred and quarter horse racing seasons.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2531
A bill for an act relating to interests in minerals owned by counties and cities, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2771
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations involving state government entities associated with agriculture, natural resources, and environmental protection, and including contingent effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2542
A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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SF 2497
A bill for an act providing for an assignment of assets for the benefit of creditors, exempting the related tax on the transfer of real estate, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
HF 2799
A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority, the utilities commission, and the department of education, including creation of the headquarters expansion and development for growth and employment program, and the business incentives for growth program training fund; repeal of the new jobs tax credit program; the major economic growth attraction program; load forecasting and analysis of electric transmission system expansion plans; creation of the electric transmission system expansion planning and analysis and load forecasting fund; the industrial new jobs training program; and establishing the new jobs training program interim study committee; and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
SF 2484
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund, technology reinvestment fund, and renewable fuel infrastructure fund, providing for related matters including financial assistance eligibility for regional sports authority districts, department of health and human services information technology systems, the railway tracks overpass and underpass fund, and eligibility for entities to receive financial assistance from both the Iowa major events and tourism fund and the sports tourism infrastructure program, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
HF 2770
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing fees, and including applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2602
A bill for an act relating to the licensure of massage establishments, and making penalties applicable.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2794
A bill for an act establishing a sexual assault forensic examination center grant program and trust fund.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2617
A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 01, 2026 |
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SF 2488
A bill for an act relating to early childhood and family services, including the creation of an early childhood and family services system, making appropriations, convening an early childhood Iowa interim study committee, and including applicability, retroactive applicability, and effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 01, 2026 |
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HF 1003
A bill for an act relating to child placements.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 01, 2026 |
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SF 2474
A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the Iowa dyslexia board and requiring the department of education to prepare a report related to cardiac emergency response plans and automated external defibrillators.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 01, 2026 |
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HF 2526
A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | May 01, 2026 |
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SF 2284
A bill for an act relating to the use of automated systems that detect traffic violations or registration plate information, and making penalties applicable.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | April 30, 2026 |
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HF 2757
A bill for an act relating to nuclear electric generation facilities by creating sales and use tax exemptions and refunds, making appropriations to the state board of regents for establishing and maintaining a nuclear energy workforce, making penalties applicable, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | April 30, 2026 |
|
SF 2422
A bill for an act relating to public assistance programs under the purview of the department of health and human services, including the supplemental nutrition assistance program, Medicaid, and the Iowa health and wellness plan, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Nay | pass | April 30, 2026 |
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SF 2168
A bill for an act relating to workforce matters including apprenticeships and other career training, unemployment insurance, and membership of the state workforce development board, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Not Voting | pass | April 30, 2026 |
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HF 2783
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, state board of regents, department of workforce development, and Iowa special education council.
Shall the bill pass? |
Nay | pass | April 30, 2026 |
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HF 2230
A bill for an act relating to teacher education and licensing, including by modifying provisions related to practitioner preparation programs and licenses issued by the board of educational examiners.
Shall the bill pass? |
Nay | pass | April 30, 2026 |
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HF 1028
A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of management, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | April 30, 2026 |