89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 2025: Prohibiting persons from entering single and multiple occupancy toilet facilities in elementary and secondary schools that do not correspond with the person’s biological sex

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 requires elementary and secondary public and nonpublic schools to designate and allow the use of multiple occupancy toilet facilities only by persons of the same biological sex. The bill prohibits a person from entering a school single and multiple occupancy toilet facility that does not correspond with the person’s biological sex. The bill provides that such designations and prohibitions do not constitute unfair or discriminatory practices in violation of the Iowa civil rights Act, Code chapter 216.

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named January 24, 2022

Sen. Amy Sinclair (R) · amy.sinclair@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Herman C. Quirmbach (D) · herman.quirmbach@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Ken Rozenboom (R) · ken.rozenboom@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 4 for, 23 against

For: Concerned Women For America of Iowa; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation; VALOR Iowa

Against: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA); IA Mental Health Planning Council; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa ACEs 360; Iowa Alliance For Retired Americans; Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Iowa Safe Schools; Iowa School Mental Health Alliance; Iowa State Education Association; and 11 more

In plain words

January 13, 2022Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee
January 24, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Sinclair, Quirmbach and Rozenboom