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

SF 471: Relating to occupational safety and health standards, employment matters, reporting requirements, and civil liability concerning COVID-19, providing penalties and remedies, and including effective date 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

The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. This bill requires the labor commissioner to provide for emergency temporary standards for occupational safety and health if the commissioner determines that employees are exposed to COVID-19. The bill prohibits an employer from discharging or in any manner discriminating against an employee because the employee has filed a complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted a proceeding under or related to any condition of employment that the employee believes to pose an undue risk of a COVID-19 infection or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding or because of the exercise by the employee on behalf of the employee or others of a right afforded by the bill.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named March 2, 2021

  • Sen. Jason Schultz (R) · jason.schultz@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Nate Boulton (D)
  • Sen. Zach Whiting (R)

In plain words

  1. February 25, 2021Filed in the Senate and sent to the Labor and Business Relations committee
  2. March 2, 2021Senate subcommittee named: Schultz, Boulton and Whiting

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/SF471