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Bills › 89th General Assembly

SF 2035Died when the session ended · January 13, 2022

Relating to service dogs and county or city dog breed restrictions

Topics:Families & human servicesCities & counties

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Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 13, 2022
  2. Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 19, 2022
  3. Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  4. Next: Passes the Senate
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

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’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary People with disabilities currently have the right to bring service animals into most public places. This new law would take away that right if a person lives in a city or county that bans or restricts certain dog breeds. If a service animal is a breed that is not allowed in that area, it would not be permitted in those public facilities.1

Read the official explanation

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. The bill provides that the right does not apply if the public facility or accommodation is in a county or city that prohibits or restricts the possession of a specific breed or perceived breed of dog and the service animal or service-animal-in-training is of the prohibited or restricted breed or perceived breed of dog.

Full bill text2

Senate subcommittee

Named January 19, 2022. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§216C.11

How the Code works3

Lobbying

0 for · 6 against · 5 undecided · Who →