89th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Tuesday, November 10, 2026
SF 312: Relating to employment agreements assigning rights to inventions by employees and including 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 provides that any provision of an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of the employee’s rights to an invention, as defined in the bill, to the employer shall not apply to an invention for which equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information of the employer was not used and which was developed entirely on the employee’s own time, unless specified conditions apply. A provision of an employment agreement in violation of the bill is void and unenforceable.
Sponsors
Not listed
Cost
No fiscal note
Senate subcommittee · named February 11, 2021
- Sen. Jason Schultz (R) · jason.schultz@legis.iowa.gov
- Sen. Adrian Dickey (R) · adrian.dickey@legis.iowa.gov
- Sen. T. Taylor
Lobbying · 1 for, 0 against
For: Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
In plain words
- February 10, 2021Filed in the Senate and sent to the Labor and Business Relations committee
- February 11, 2021Senate subcommittee named: Schultz, Dickey 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/SF312