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88th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Wednesday, November 11, 2026

SF 456: Relating to registration and bonding requirements for contractors, and providing criminal and civil penalties

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 contractor registration and bonding requirements. The bill requires the labor commissioner of the division of labor services of the department of workforce development to make available on the division’s internet site a searchable database of all contractors registered under Code chapter 91C with unpaid court orders. The bill requires the labor commissioner to adopt rules to implement this requirement.6B that a contractor, prior to entering into a home improvement contract in Iowa, obtain a surety bond of $75,000.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named March 4, 2019

  • Sen. Dan Dawson (R) · dan.dawson@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Robert Hogg (D)
  • Sen. Amy Sinclair (R) · amy.sinclair@legis.iowa.gov

In plain words

  1. March 4, 2019Filed in the Senate and sent to the Judiciary committee
  2. March 4, 2019Senate subcommittee named: Dawson, Hogg and Sinclair

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Wednesday, November 11, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/88/SF456