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

HF 639: Relating to apprenticeships and establishing an Iowa office of apprenticeship and Iowa apprenticeship council

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

What it does

This bill shall be known and may be cited as the Iowa registered apprenticeship Act. The bill establishes the Iowa office of apprenticeship within the department of workforce development, to be operated and managed by the director of the department. The bill provides for duties of the office, which generally pertain to procedures for the voluntary registration of apprenticeships with the office in accordance with regulations of the federal department of labor, office of apprenticeship. Eligible apprenticeship programs must be established pursuant to an apprenticeship agreement between an apprentice and an apprenticeship sponsor and involve work in an apprenticeable profession, as those terms are defined in the bill, and must be registered with the federal department of labor, office of apprenticeship, or the Iowa office of apprenticeship.

Sponsors

Economic Growth and Technology (companion To Sf 318 By Committee on Workforce) committee

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named January 25, 2023

  • Rep. Chad Ingels (R) · chad.ingels@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Thomas Jay Moore (R) · tom.moore@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Art Staed (D) · art.staed@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 16 for, 7 against

For: Associated Builders & Contractors of Iowa; BLD Connection Iowa; Broadlawns Medical Center; Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance; Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce; Greater Des Moines Partnership; Home Builders Association of Iowa; Iowa Business Council; Iowa Chamber Alliance; Iowa Nebraska Farm Equipment Dealers Association; Iowa Workforce Development; MH/DS of East Central Region; and 4 more

Against: Heavy Highway Contractors Association; IBEW Iowa State Conference; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Iowa State Building and Construction Trades; Laborers International Union of North America; North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters; Plumbers and Steam Fitters Local 33

In plain words

  1. January 25, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the Economic Growth and Technology committee · as HSB 82
  2. January 25, 2023House subcommittee named: Ingels, Moore, T. and Staed · as HSB 82
  3. February 8, 2023Subcommittee recommended passing it · as HSB 82
  4. March 2, 2023Approved by the House committee · as HSB 82
  5. March 6, 2023Filed in the House
  6. March 6, 2023Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 639 · as HSB 82
  7. April 19, 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/HF639