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88th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Tuesday, November 10, 2026

SF 390: Prohibiting public employers from seeking the criminal record or criminal history from applicants for employment under certain circumstances, establishing a criminal history employment application task force, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions

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.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named March 4, 2019

  • Sen. Waylon Brown (R)
  • Sen. Dennis Guth (R) · dennis.guth@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. T. Taylor

Lobbying · 10 for, 0 against

For: Americans For Prosperity; Iowa Association for Justice; Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Iowa Conference of United Methodist Church; League of Women Voters of Iowa; Linn County Board of Supervisors; NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Iowa-Nebraska; North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters; One Iowa Action

In plain words

  1. February 26, 2019Filed in the Senate and sent to the Labor and Business Relations committee
  2. March 4, 2019Senate subcommittee named: Brown, Guth and T. Taylor
  3. March 5, 2019Subcommittee recommended passing it with changes

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Tuesday, November 10, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/88/SF390