Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

Updated: 4/1/2025 2:26 PM

SUPPORT:

• HF775 – Passed House Committee – Requires that entities and individuals performing medication abortions ensure the patient is fully informed about the risks and potential for reversal of the abortion drugs. (Formerly HSB 186)

• HF166 – Passed House Committee – Requires public schools to display the national motto of the United States and the state motto of Iowa and observe a two-minute period of “silent time” before reciting the Pledge of Allegiance for grades 1-12.. (Formerly HSB 32)
• HF391 – Passed House Committee – Requires the inclusion of pregnancy and fetal development in public schools’ human growth and development curriculum for grades 7-12, including a high-definition ultrasound video at least three minutes in duration showing early fetal development. (Formerly HSB 34) (Companion to SF175)
• SF8 – Scheduled for a vote by the full Senate – Prohibits school districts from disciplining employees or students for using legal names or enrollment names, or for not using specified personal pronouns in official communications.
• SF175 – Passed Senate – Requires the inclusion of pregnancy and fetal development in public schools’ human growth and development curriculum for grades 4-12, including a high-definition ultrasound video at least three minutes in duration showing early fetal development. (Formerly SSB 1028) (Companion to HF391)
• SF273 – Passed Senate – Sent to the House – Further defines the legal definition of “grooming behavior” toward a student to mean any behavior, which in light of all relevant circumstances, constitutes action to entice or entrap a student with the intent to engage in a sex act. (Formerly SSB 1066)
• SF510 – Passed Senate Committee – Authorizes public schools to offer and teach elective social study courses on the Bible in grades 9-12. (Formerly SF 138)

• HF165 – Passed House Committee – Requires that all students pass the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization civics test as a prerequisite for high school graduation. (Formerly HSB 30.)

• HF384 – Passed House Committee – Eliminates a minor’s legal right to consent to the medical care or services for a sexually transmitted disease or infection. (Formerly HF 104) (Companion to SF304)
• SF128 – Passed Senate Committee – Requires the report used by medical examiners for investigations of infants zero to three years of age shall include a request for information regarding the date and type of the decedent’s last immunization.
• SF304 – Passed Senate Committee – Eliminates a minor’s legal right to consent to the medical care or services for a sexually transmitted disease or infection. (Formerly SF 120) (Companion to HF384)
• SF313 – Passed Senate Committee – Ensures that pharmacists and practitioners can operate freely within their defined scopes of practice without undue restrictions from boards or employers. (Formerly SF 117)

• HF269 – Passed House & Senate Subcommittee – Freedom from Indoctrination Act. Ensures that no college or university can require students to enroll in diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory courses in order to graduate. (Formerly HSB 53)
• HF270 – Passed House Committee – Mandates that institutions of higher learning must publicly disclose course syllabus information for undergraduate courses offered for credit (Formerly HSB 55)
• HF402 – Passed House Committee – Requires a college student to complete a course on American history and civil government in order to complete their bachelor’s degree program. (Formerly HSB 56)
• HF437 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Establishes the Center for Intellectual Freedom within the University of Iowa, aimed at teaching the historical ideas, traditions, and texts that contribute to the American constitutional order and society. (Formerly HSB 52)
• HF854 – Passed House Committee – Prohibits private colleges that participate in the Iowa tuition grant program from establishing diversity, equity, and inclusion offices. (Formerly HSB 60)
• HF855 – Passed House Committee – Prohibits community colleges from establishing diversity, equity, and inclusion offices. (Formerly HSB 61)
• HF856 – Passed House – Senate Subcommittee Meeting: 04/01/2025 3:00PM Senate Lounge. – Prohibits state entities, community colleges, and private institutions of higher education from using funds to establish or support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices or to hire DEI officers. (Formerly HSB 155)

• HF888 – Passed House Committee – Increases the current tuition credit for homeschoolers from 25% to 50% of the first $2000.00 spent on a child’s education and amends the definition of “independent private instruction” (which includes homeschoolers) by removing the current limitations of only allowing four unrelated students to participate and not charging tuition, fees, or other remuneration, meaning that if this bill passes, there is no limit on the number of unrelated students who can participate and tuition and fees can be charged. (Formerly HF 88)

• HF572 – Passed House – Senate Subcommittee Meeting: 04/01/2025 1:30PM Room 217 Conference Room. – Establishes clear, severe penalties for the crime of human smuggling, including knowingly concealing, harboring, or shielding an illegal alien from detection. (Formerly HSB 15)

• SF418 – SIGNED into law – Defines “sex” as “the state of being either male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth,” requires vital records to reflect the sex at birth, and removes “gender identity” as a protected class in state laws. It also bans teaching gender theory in grades K-6.

• HF306 – Passed House & Senate Subcommittee – Amends current laws to impose stricter penalties on individuals who disseminate or exhibit obscene material to minors, excluding parents or guardians. (Formerly HF 64)
• HF826 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Prohibts a person from producing, distributing, receiving, or possessing with the intent to distribute any obscene material involving a minor. (Formerly HF 81)
• HF864 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Requires a commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally publishes or distributes obscene material on the internet to use reasonable age verification methods to verify that the individual attempting to access the material is not a minor. (Formerly HF 62) (Companion to SF443)
• HF891 – Passed House Committee – Prohibits minors from being present at or viewing drag shows at any place of business. (Formerly HSB 158)
• SF289 – Passed Senate & House Subcommittee – Criminalizes the possession without consent of nude imagery of a person for sexual gratification. (Formerly SF 5)
• SF443 – Scheduled for a vote by the full Senate – Requires commercial entities to perform reasonable age verification, and if a minor accesses obscene material, the platform can be held liable. (Formerly SF 207) (Companion to HF864)

• HF521 – Passed House Committee – Removes exemptions that allow obscene materials to be used for educational purposes in schools and public libraries. (Formerly HF 274)
• HF880 – Passed House Committee – Modifies the definition of “eligible public library” for the Enrich Iowa program to exclude libraries that are dues-paying members of nonprofit organizations involved in federal or state library advocacy. (Formerly HF 284)

• HF571 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Medical Right of Conscience Bill. Allows medical providers, doctors, nurses, and institutions to refuse to participate in medical procedures that violate their conscience, and allows them to speak out against wrongdoing and engage in free speech without fear of discrimination or retaliation. (Formerly HSB 139) (Companion to SF220)
• SF180 – Passed Senate – House Subcommittee Meeting: 04/01/2025 3:00PM RM 304. – Prohibits any entity, including a person, a government agency, a healthcare entity, or an employer, from taking adverse actions against an employee or any individual who refuses to take a vaccine because it violates their conscience.
• SF220 – Scheduled for a vote by the full Senate – Medical Right of Conscience Bill. Allows medical providers, doctors, nurses, institutions, to refuse to participate in medical procedures that violate their conscience, and allows them to speak out against wrongdoing and engage in free speech without fear of discrimination or retaliation. (Companion to HF571)

• HF884 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Allows schools to hire or use volunteer chaplains to support students, with no certification required, and sets rules for background checks and student interaction. (Formerly HF 334)

• HF180 – SIGNED into law – Establishes grooming as a class “D” felony and requires that individuals convicted grooming register as tier 1 sex offender (Formerly HSB 22)

• HF798 – Passed House Committee – Requires social media companies to obtain parental authorization before allowing minors to create accounts on their platforms. (Formerly HF 278)

• HF299 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Amends existing law to require that information about immunization exemptions be included in communication given to parents. (Formerly HF 34)

OPPOSE:

• SF223 – Introduced – Expands the gambling industry by allowing casino games on the internet, including slots and card games.

WATCH:

• HF950 – Passed House Committee – Amends the definition of medical cannabidiol to include various oral, topical, and inhaled forms of cannabis products to expand approved form of medicinal cannabis. (Formerly HF 105)