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

SF 485: Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and providing civil penalties

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on May 24, 2022. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

Cost: up to $166,000

Senate File 485 is estimated to increase the cost to the IWD by $135,000 in FY 2022, and $166,000 in FY 2023 and subsequent fiscal years. 1% in the out-years. Funding is expected to come from the General Fund.

Senate subcommittee · named January 18, 2022

  • Sen. J. Taylor
  • Sen. Nate Boulton (D)
  • Sen. Dawn Driscoll (R) · dawn.driscoll@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 11 for, 0 against

For: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; Iowa Cable and Telecommunications Association; Iowa Catholic Conference; Iowa Conference of United Methodist Church; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Iowa Professional Fire Fighters; Mediacom Communications Corporation; North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters; Nurse-Family Partnership; Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa; Planned Parenthood North Central States

In plain words

  1. March 1, 2021Filed in the Senate
  2. March 1, 2021Approved by the Senate committee
  3. March 3, 2021Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  4. April 1, 2021Sent to the Senate Labor and Business Relations committee
  5. January 18, 2022Senate subcommittee named: J. Taylor, Boulton and Driscoll
  6. January 25, 2022Subcommittee recommended passing it with changes

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SF485