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

SF 2035: Relating to service dogs and county or city dog breed restrictions

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 relates to service dogs in the context of county or city breed restrictions. Current law grants a person with a disability, a person assisting a person with a disability by controlling a service animal or a service-animal-in-training, or a person training a service animal the right to be accompanied by the service animal or service-animal-in-training, under control, at public facilities and accommodations without being required to make additional payment for the service animal or service-animal-in-training.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named January 19, 2022

  • Sen. Dawn Driscoll (R) · dawn.driscoll@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Dennis Guth (R) · dennis.guth@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. J. Smith

Lobbying · 0 for, 6 against

Against: American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA); Animal Rescue League Iowa, Inc.; Disability Rights Iowa; Iowa Council of the United Blind; Iowa Pet Alliance; The Humane Society of the United States

In plain words

  1. January 13, 2022Filed in the Senate and sent to the Local Government committee
  2. January 19, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Driscoll, Guth and J. Smith

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SF2035