Liz Bennett

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. (Formerly HSB 784.) Contingent effective date, effective 06/02/2026, 06/19/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027. Applicability date: 01/01/2026, 05/12/2026, 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026, 07/01/2028.

Passed Senate, yeas 29, nays 11

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. (Formerly HSB 755.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 41, nays 0

A bill for an act relating to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, and providing fees. (Formerly HSB 770.) Effective date: 06/02/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2021.

Passed Senate, yeas 44, nays 0

A bill for an act relating to abortions including definitions, informed consent, dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs, and other abortion-related provisions. (Formerly HF 2563, HSB 704.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 30, nays 11

A bill for an act prohibiting warrant resolution clinics, including enforcement mechanisms, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 780.) Effective date: 06/02/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 31, nays 12

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. (Formerly SF 2213.) Effective date: 01/01/2027.

Passed Senate, yeas 45, nays 0

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. (Formerly SSB 3001.) Effective date: 05/18/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027. Applicability date: 01/01/2026, 07/01/2026, 01/01/2027, 07/01/2027, 07/01/2028.

Passed Senate, yeas 41, nays 1

A bill for an act providing for investment by regents institutions in certified innovation funds and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 3180.) Vetoed 6-2-26.

Passed Senate, yeas 39, nays 5

A bill for an act relating to the regulation of certain places and activities by the governor. (Formerly HF 2145.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 31, nays 14

A bill for an act establishing a sexual assault forensic examination center grant program and trust fund. (Formerly HF 705, HF 458.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 45, nays 0

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. (Formerly HSB 777.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2025.

Passed Senate, yeas 30, nays 14

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. (Formerly SF 2449, SF 546, SF 268.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 35, nays 11

A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund. (Formerly HF 2537, HF 2315.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 34, nays 9

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing fees, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 775.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 29, nays 17

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. (Formerly HSB 772.) Effective Date: Conditional, 07/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 43, nays 2

A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch. (Formerly HSB 776.) Effective date: 07/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 29, nays 17

A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2595, HSB 731.) Effective date: 06/02/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 46, nays 0

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. (Formerly SSB 3187.) Effective date: 06/02/2026, 07/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 45, nays 0

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. (Formerly HF 2714, HSB 517.) Effective date: 01/01/2027.

Passed Senate, yeas 46, nays 0

A bill for an act creating a specialty business court, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 570, SSB 1203.) Effective date: 09/01/2026.

Passed Senate, yeas 38, nays 8