89th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Tuesday, November 10, 2026
SSB 1223: SSB 1223
Became SF 529 · Its progress continues under the new number.
What it does
This bill creates the “Fraud in Assisted Reproduction Act”. The bill provides definitions for the purposes of the bill including “assisted reproduction”, “donor”, “gamete”, “health care professional”, “health facility”, “human reproductive material”, “patient”, and “physician”. _____ provides false information to a patient related to an assisted reproduction procedure or treatment. The bill prohibits a physician from using or providing human reproductive material for assisted reproduction other than that to which the patient consented in writing and prohibits a health facility from providing a patient with human reproductive material for assisted reproduction other than that agreed to in writing between the patient and the health facility or that is not provided in compliance with the agreement between the donor and the health facility.
Sponsors
Not listed
Cost
See the fiscal note
Senate File 529 establishes new criminal offenses and applies specifically to health care professionals, and the fiscal impact cannot be estimated due to a lack of existing conviction data. The average State cost per offense for an aggravated misdemeanor range…
Senate subcommittee · named February 23, 2021
- Sen. Annette Sweeney (R) · annette.sweeney@legis.iowa.gov
- Sen. Mark S. Lofgren (R) · mark.lofgren@legis.iowa.gov
- Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D) · sarah.trone.garriott@legis.iowa.gov
In plain words
- February 23, 2021Filed in the Senate and sent to the Human Resources committee
- February 23, 2021Senate subcommittee named: Sweeney, Lofgren and Trone Garriott
- March 2, 2021Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 529
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/SSB1223