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HF 69Died when the session ended · January 23, 2019

Relating to insurance coverage for public and private schools that authorize persons to go armed with, carry, or transport firearms on school grounds

Topics:FirearmsPublic safety & emergencies

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 23, 2019
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 5, 2020
  3. Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

3 forbids a person from engaging in any trade practice defined or determined to be an unfair method of competition, or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance. This bill provides that the refusal to provide or the charging of unfair discriminatory premiums, policy fees, or rates for any policy or contract of real or personal property insurance, liability insurance, or policy containing liability coverage to a private or public school solely because the school authorizes a person to go armed with, carry, or transport a firearm on the school grounds for security purposes is an unfair method of competition, or an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance.

Read the full explanation

4B(2)(b), a school may specifically authorize a person to go armed with, carry, or transport a firearm on school grounds.2.

Full bill text1

House subcommittee

Named February 5, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§507B.4

How the Code works2

Lobbying

3 for · 3 against · 6 undecided · Who →