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

SF 2325: Relating to city civil service employees and related procedures and including effective date provisions

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 relates to city civil service. The bill prohibits a city with a civil service commission established under Code chapter 400 from adopting, enforcing, or otherwise administering an ordinance, motion, resolution, or amendment, or using any other means, to establish a board or other entity for the purpose of citizen review of the conduct of police officers. The bill strikes language authorizing a city council to establish, by ordinance, the number of civil service commissioners at not less than three in a city having a population of more than 70,000.

Sponsors

Local Government (successor To Sf 231) committee

Cost

See the fiscal note

The potential fiscal impact of the Bill is illustrated in Figure 1, which shows a range based on the number of annual trials statewide attributed to the Bill.

House subcommittee · named March 6, 2024

  • Rep. Jon Dunwell (R)
  • Rep. Jerome Amos Jr. (D) · jerome.amosjr@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Robert Henderson (R) · robert.henderson@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 4 for, 11 against

For: Iowa Fraternal Order of Police; Iowa Peace Officers Association; Iowa Professional Fire Fighters; Iowa State Police Association

Against: City of Cedar Falls; City of Coralville; City of Davenport; City of Des Moines; City of Iowa City; Iowa League of Cities; Iowa Police Chief Association (FKA Iowa Police Executive Forum); Iowa State Bar Association; Jordan True; Metropolitan Coalition; NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Iowa-Nebraska

In plain words

  1. February 14, 2024Filed in the Senate
  2. February 14, 2024Approved by the Senate committee
  3. March 4, 2024Passed the Senate, 37–9
  4. March 5, 2024Arrived in the House
  5. March 6, 2024House subcommittee named: Dunwell, Amos Jr. and Henderson
  6. March 7, 2024Subcommittee recommended passing it
  7. March 12, 2024Approved by the House committee

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/SF2325