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89th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Tuesday, November 10, 2026

HF 788: Relating to the auditor of state and including effective date and 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 concerns the office of auditor of state.3, the auditor of state shall appoint a certified public accountant to lead that division. Code chapter 542, concerning public accountants, is amended. The bill adds “peer review reports”, defined in the bill, to the definition of “peer review records”. By operation of law, peer review records are privileged, confidential, and not subject to discovery or other means of legal compulsion.7.7 if the auditor of state is a certified public accountant or all divisions of the office of auditor of state performing attest services are led by a certified public accountant.

Sponsors

State Government committee

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named March 3, 2021

  • Rep. Jane Bloomingdale (R) · jane.bloomingdale@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Megan Jones (R) · megan.jones@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Mary Lynn Wolfe (D)

Lobbying · 1 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Society of Certified Public Accountants

In plain words

  1. March 3, 2021Filed in the House and sent to the State Government committee · as HSB 269
  2. March 3, 2021House subcommittee named: Bloomingdale, Jones and Wolfe · as HSB 269
  3. March 4, 2021Approved by the House committee · as HSB 269
  4. March 8, 2021Filed in the House
  5. March 8, 2021Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 788 · as HSB 269
  6. April 15, 2021Sent to the House State Government committee
  7. March 10, 2022Withdrawn

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/89/HF788