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90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 622: Permitting public schools to designate and allow the use of restrooms and changing facilities only by persons of the same biological sex, and providing a private cause of action

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill permits public schools to designate and allow the use of restrooms and changing facilities only by persons of the same sex. The bill defines changing facility, public school, sex, and restroom. Sex means a person’s biological sex as either female or male. The sex listed on a student’s official birth certificate or certificate issued upon adoption may be relied upon if the certificate was issued at or near the time of the student’s birth. Changing facility means a facility, including but not limited to a locker room, changing room, or shower room, designed or designated to be used by more than one person at a time where a person may be in varying stages of undress in the presence of other persons.

Sponsors

Judiciary committee

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named February 27, 2023

  • Rep. Steven Holt (R) · steven.holt@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Bobby Kaufmann (R) · bobby.kaufmann@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (D) · beth.wessel-kroeschell@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 6 for, 36 against

For: Iowa Baptists For Biblical Values; Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition; Protect My Innocence; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation; VALOR Iowa

Against: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA); Common Good Iowa; Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Human Rights Campaign; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa ACEs 360; Iowa Affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives; Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers; Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; and 24 more

In plain words

  1. February 27, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the Judiciary committee · as HSB 208
  2. February 27, 2023House subcommittee named: Holt, Kaufmann and Wessel-Kroeschell · as HSB 208
  3. February 28, 2023Subcommittee recommended passing it · as HSB 208
  4. March 2, 2023Approved by the House committee · as HSB 208
  5. March 3, 2023Filed in the House
  6. March 3, 2023Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 622 · as HSB 208
  7. March 16, 2023Withdrawn

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/90/HF622