Explore Iowa state bills from the 2025–2026 legislative session, with plain-language summaries, nonpartisan impact analysis, current status, and official sources.
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Explore 73 Iowa state bills from the 2025–2026 legislative session, with plain-language summaries, nonpartisan impact analysis, current status, and official sources.
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This bill creates a test project to improve how public lawyers represent families in child welfare court. The goal is to find better ways to support parents and children so that families can stay together. It is currently being reviewed in the House.
A new bill would allow child care workers to get state help paying for their own children's child care. It is currently being reviewed by the House.
A bill for an act relating to school funding by establishing the state percent of growth and the categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2026, modifying provisions relating to property tax replacement payments, transportation equity aid funding, funding for school district budget adjustments, and school district enrollment, establishing an education support personnel salary supplement, making appropriations, and including effective date and applicability provisions.. Currently in Senate.
A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the protected speech and expression rights of students, modifying provisions related to the duties of the department of education, and modifying eligibility and participation requirements for certain education programs, preschool programs, and tax provisions, providing civil penalties, and including retroactive applicability provisions.. Currently in Senate.
This bill is currently being discussed in the House. It covers several health topics, including new rules for medical workers, nutrition, medicine, and health education. It also explains when these changes will officially begin.
This bill creates new rules and taxes for vaping and other nicotine products. It also provides money to enforce these rules and sets a date for when they will begin. Right now, the Senate is deciding whether to pass it.
This bill proposes a new rule requiring commercial drivers (like truckers and bus drivers) to be able to speak and understand English well enough to drive safely. Drivers who don't meet this standard could face penalties. The bill is currently being reviewed by the Senate.
This bill updates the rules for "captive insurance companies"—businesses that create their own private insurance programs to cover their own risks. It also sets up fines for these companies if they break the law. It is currently being reviewed by the House.
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.. Currently in House.
Lawmakers are working on a new program that would give special awards (a "seal of excellence") to students who show they are great at learning about government and citizenship. The Department of Education would run the program. It is currently being debated in the House.
This bill updates how the Secretary of State manages businesses. It allows the state to shut down businesses that fail to turn in their required paperwork and adds penalties for those who break the rules. It is currently being debated in the House.
This bill would lower the taxes farmers pay on ethanol-based gas when they use it for their tractors and other farming equipment. The bill is currently being reviewed by the Senate.
