Sandy Salmon
Born
1955
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103
Bills sponsored
this session · 383 all-time
0
Bills co-sponsored
this session · 0 all-time
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Enacted into law
counting…
3266
Recorded votes
100%
Vote participation
voted in 100% of 3266 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)
383 billsCurrent session 103 bills
- SCR3 A concurrent resolution relating to the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges . Introduced
- SF2211 A bill for an act relating to the Iowa medical freedom Act, including limitations on requiring medical interventions by businesses, governmental entities, and educational institutions, modifying state authority during public health disasters, and including effective date provisions. Introduced
- SF2177 A bill for an act relating to policies and protection measures a library provider or third party contracting with a library provider must take if the library provider or third party offers digital library services. Introduced
- SF2166 A bill for an act relating to the publication of electioneering communications containing synthetic media, and providing penalties. Introduced
- SF2159 A bill for an act relating to materials used for prurient purposes, including age verification requirements for certain commercial entities, prohibitions on the publication, distribution, creation, or development of prohibited material, and prohibitions on child sexual exploitation material, and providing civil penalties. Introduced
- SF2124 A bill for an act relating to the disabled veteran homestead tax credit and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. Introduced
- SF2118 A bill for an act relating to student participation in non-school-sponsored athletic contests or competitions. Introduced
- SF2093 A bill for an act relating to powers and duties applicable to state of disaster emergencies and public health disasters. Introduced
- SF2072 A bill for an act relating to state entities, including by modifying provisions related to prohibited diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and officers and to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts provided by school districts. Introduced
- SF2066 A bill for an act relating to human growth and development course enrollment at school districts and to pupil attendance at educational conferences or seminars in which human growth and development information is provided. Introduced
- SF2065 A bill for an act relating to prostitution and providing penalties. Introduced
- SF2064 A bill for an act relating to the display of a slow-moving vehicle reflective device on all-terrain vehicles when operated on a highway. Introduced
- SF2061 A bill for an act establishing a nonpublic school safety infrastructure grant program and making appropriations. Introduced
- SF406 A bill for an act relating to powers and duties applicable to public health disasters. Introduced
- SF335 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to trainings and curricula provided by school districts and prohibited sexual orientation and gender identity instruction, and implementing prohibitions related to the diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts of institutions of higher learning governed by the state board of regents, community colleges, and public schools. Introduced
- SF554 A bill for an act relating to the delegation of custodial rights and duties with respect to a child.(See SF 554.) Introduced
- SF299 A bill for an act establishing the Iowa carbon dioxide disaster relief fund, creating an excise tax, and making appropriations. Introduced
- SF564 A bill for an act relating to the appointment of an ombudsman assistant for investigating complaints related to child foster care.(See SF 564.) Introduced
- SF473 A bill for an act relating to certain sincerely held religious or moral beliefs of child foster care providers and prospective adoptive parents.(See SF 473.) Signed
- SF208 A bill for an act providing that sexual attraction to minors is not a protected class for purposes of the Iowa civil rights Act. Introduced
- SF164 A bill for an act relating to the use of applications for state motor vehicle driver’s licenses, nonoperator’s identification cards, and public services as applications for voter registration. Introduced
- SF159 A bill for an act relating to voter records created and retained by the state commissioner of elections and county commissioners of elections. Introduced
- SF136 A bill for an act relating to hazardous liquid pipelines, including the establishment of setbacks and safety regulations, specified utility construction project requirements, pipeline project investor disclosures, voluntary easement negotiation requirements, and provisions for land surveys in connection with hazardous liquid pipeline construction projects, and including effective date and applicability provisions. Introduced
- SF313 A bill for an act relating to the prescribing, ordering, dispensing, and administering authority of pharmacists and practitioners.(See SF 313.) Introduced
- SF115 A bill for an act relating to human growth and development course enrollment at school districts and to pupil attendance at educational conferences or seminars in which human growth and development information is provided. Introduced
Historical 280 bills
- HF 2038 A bill for an act providing for an exception to motor vehicle window tint limitations for persons with certain medical conditions. Died
- HF 54 A bill for an act relating to voter qualifications for propositions to authorize the issuance of bonds by school districts and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 332 A bill for an act relating to the practice of alternative and complementary medicine, and making penalties applicable. Died
- HF 2019 A bill for an act establishing a conditional exception to pre-use inspection requirements for new school buses. Died
- HF 2273 A bill for an act establishing the protecting freedom of conscience from government discrimination Act, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HF 2272 A bill for an act relating to actions relative to treatment or intervention regarding the discordance between a minor’s sex and gender identity, and providing penalties. Died
- HF 43 A bill for an act relating to subject and performance-based assessments administered prior to a student’s completion of a practitioner preparation program, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. Died
- HR 15 A resolution designating the twenty-seventh day of June as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day and the month of June as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Month. Died
- HF 258 A bill for an act relating to the standard of judicial review and providing a claim or defense when a state action burdens a person’s exercise of religion, and including effective date provisions. Died
- HJR 5 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa that the Constitution of the State of Iowa does not secure or protect a right to or require the funding of abortion. Died
- HCR 8 A concurrent resolution recognizing the public health hazard of pornography and its harmful proliferation on the internet and calling for vigorous enforcement of obscenity laws and steps to address the crisis of easily accessible pornography on the internet. Died
- HF 39 A bill for an act relating to student data collection by the department of education, school districts, and accredited nonpublic schools. Died
- HF 153 A bill for an act providing for an abortion victims monument on the capitol complex grounds. Died
- HF 313 A bill for an act relating to requirements for specific digital content blocking capabilities on products manufactured, distributed, or sold in the state that make the internet accessible, and provides for the collection and remittance of fees, and provides for criminal and civil liability for certain violations of the Act. 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
- HR 107 A resolution honoring and recognizing Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn upon his retirement as president of the World Food Prize Foundation. Died
- HF 2202 A bill for an act requiring high school students to participate in extracurricular interscholastic athletic practices, contests, or competitions based on biological sex as determined at birth. Died
- HF 2201 A bill for an act relating to sexual orientation or gender identity instruction or related materials provided by school districts to pupils. Died
- HF 2199 A bill for an act relating to requirements for specific digital content-blocking capabilities on devices manufactured, distributed, leased, or sold and services distributed, leased, or sold in the state that make the internet accessible, the prohibition of certain restrictions on specific types of speech on social media internet sites, and the collection and remittance of fees for certain related activities, providing for criminal and civil liability for certain violations, and including applicability and contingent effective date provisions. Died
- HF 2185 A bill for an act relating to the appointment of a director of public policy events at each institution of higher education governed by the state board of regents. Died
- HF 2184 A bill for an act providing for the establishment of a policy prohibiting public school teachers from engaging in political or ideological advocacy while carrying out student instruction or otherwise acting within the scope of employment by a school district, providing for related training, and providing penalties. Died
- HF 40 A bill for an act relating to calculation of attorney fees for attorneys representing personal representatives in administration of estates. 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
- HR 103 A resolution designating the twenty-seventh day of June as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day and the month of June as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Month. Died
- HF 152 A bill for an act relating to the operations and governance of certain common interest communities and including applicability provisions. 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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 |
|
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 |
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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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | pass | May 03, 2026 |
|
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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Nay | fail | May 02, 2026 |
|
HF 2769
A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
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? |
Yea | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
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? |
Yea | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
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? |
Yea | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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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? |
Yea | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | pass | May 02, 2026 |
|
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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | pass | May 02, 2026 |
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HF 2617
A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | pass | May 01, 2026 |
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HF 1003
A bill for an act relating to child placements.
Shall the bill pass? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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? |
Yea | 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 |