90th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026
SSB 3106: SSB 3106
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 requires texting software providers to ensure certain encryption and notification features when persons send or receive text messages. telephone numbers capable of sending or receiving a text message. The bill requires a texting software provider to ensure that text message data is encrypted and sent over a network that supports the encryption, that media sent in the text message is sent and received in its original quality without degradation, and that a text message sender or receiver receives real-time notifications that a person is typing a message or whether a sent message has been read, if the user has enabled such functions on the wireless device.
Sponsors
Not listed
Cost
No fiscal note
Senate subcommittee · named January 23, 2024
- Sen. Chris Cournoyer (R)
- Sen. Kevin Alons (R) · kevin.alons@legis.iowa.gov
- Sen. Liz Bennett (D) · liz.bennett@legis.iowa.gov
Lobbying · 1 for, 5 against
For: Google LLC and its Affiliates
Against: AT & T; Apple Inc.; CTIA - The Wireless Association; U.S. Cellular; Verizon Corporation and Affiliated Companies
In plain words
- January 23, 2024Filed in the Senate and sent to the Technology committee
- January 23, 2024Senate subcommittee named: Cournoyer, Alons and Bennett
From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/SSB3106