89th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Wednesday, November 11, 2026
HF 473: Relating to the collection of unemployment benefit payments and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions
Died when the session ended · The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.
What it does
This bill prohibits the department of workforce development from pursuing the recovery of any overpayments of unemployment insurance benefits made to any individual who received such benefits to which the individual was not entitled without fault on the part of the individual if such benefits were paid during the period of a declaration of disaster emergency by the governor pertaining to COVID-19. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies retroactively to unemployment benefits received on or after March 8, 2020.
Sponsors
Not listed
Cost
No fiscal note
Lobbying · 2 for, 0 against
For: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
In plain words
- February 10, 2021Filed in the House and sent to the Labor committee
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/89/HF473