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88th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Thursday, November 12, 2026

SF 332: Relating to motor vehicle damage repair under motor vehicle insurance policies and deceptive acts or practices by motor vehicle insurers

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 it does

This bill relates to the repair of damage to a motor vehicle covered by a motor vehicle insurance policy and deceptive acts or practices by the insurer of the motor vehicle. The bill makes it an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance for an insurer, adjuster, appraiser, insurance producer, employee of an insurer, or any other representative of an insurer to unilaterally disregard a repair operation or cost identified by an estimating system which the insurer and a repair facility agreed to use to determine the cost of repairing a claimant’s motor vehicle.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named February 21, 2019

  • Sen. Michael Breitbach (R)
  • Sen. Carrie Koelker (R) · carrie.koelker@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Jim Lykam (D)

Lobbying · 0 for, 1 against

Against: Iowa Insurance Associates

In plain words

  1. February 20, 2019Filed in the Senate and sent to the Transportation committee
  2. February 21, 2019Senate subcommittee named: Breitbach, Koelker and Lykam

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Thursday, November 12, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/88/SF332