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

SF 2186: Relating to public employee collective bargaining concerning the designation of public safety officers and providing for retention and recertification elections

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 public employee bargaining.3 is amended to designate correctional officers employed by the Iowa department of corrections, jailers employed by a county, and employees of a judicial district department of correctional services at a residential facility operated by the district department as public safety employees for the purposes of collective bargaining pursuant to Code chapter 20, the public employment relations Act. Code chapter and Code chapter 400 include collective bargaining procedures specifically applicable to public safety employees that are not applicable to other public employees, including procedures relating to the scope of collective bargaining negotiations, arbitration procedures, and certain matters relating to city civil service employment.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named February 10, 2022

  • Sen. Jason Schultz (R) · jason.schultz@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Dawn Driscoll (R) · dawn.driscoll@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. T. Taylor

Lobbying · 2 for, 0 against

For: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; Teamsters Local 238

In plain words

  1. February 3, 2022Filed in the Senate and sent to the Labor and Business Relations committee
  2. February 10, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Schultz, Driscoll and T. Taylor

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/SF2186