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91st General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 177: Relating to assaults, including assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and inmate assaults on department of corrections employees, and providing penalties

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to assaults, including assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and inmate assaults on department of corrections employees.1, against persons engaged in certain occupations including a peace officer, jailer, correctional staff, member or employee of the board of parole, health care provider, employee of the department of health and human services, employee of the department of revenue, national guard member engaged in national guard duty or state active duty, civilian employee of a law enforcement agency, civilian employee of a fire department, or fire fighter, whether paid or volunteer.

Sponsors

Public Safety committee

Cost

Cost: up to $948,000

Senate File 397 is anticipated to increase prison admissions and LOS, which would increase costs to the DOC by approximately $948,000 per group per year over the LOS. Figure 2 breaks down these costs by penalty. These costs would recur for each annual group of…

House subcommittee · named January 15, 2025

  • Rep. John H. Wills (R) · john.wills@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Timi M. Brown-Powers (D) · timi.brown-powers@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Sam Wengryn (R) · sam.wengryn@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 14 for, 1 against

For: AFSCME Council 61; Dr. Tanja Garrison; Iowa Attorney General Dept. of Justice; Iowa County Attorneys Association; Iowa Firefighters Association (IFA); Iowa Hospital Association; Iowa Independent Physician Group; Iowa Medical Society; Iowa Nurses Association; Iowa Organization for Victim Assistance; Iowa State Police Association; Iowa State Sheriffs' & Deputies' Association; and 2 more

Against: Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council

In plain words

  1. January 15, 2025Filed in the House and sent to the Public Safety committee · as HSB 24
  2. January 15, 2025House subcommittee named: Wills, J., Brown-Powers and Wengryn · as HSB 24
  3. January 22, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it with changes · as HSB 24
  4. January 29, 2025Approved by the House committee · as HSB 24
  5. January 29, 2025Committee vote: 21–2 · as HSB 24
  6. January 30, 2025Filed in the House
  7. January 30, 2025Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 177 · as HSB 24
  8. February 27, 2025Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  9. March 27, 2025Withdrawn

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/91/HF177