HF 2368: Relating to the Iowa medical freedom Act, including limitations on requiring medical interventions by businesses, governmental entities, and educational institutions, modifying state authority during public health disasters, and including effective date provisions

What it does

This bill relates to the Iowa medical freedom Act. The bill amends Code chapter 27C (proof of vaccination for COVID-19). The bill strikes current provisions prohibiting the required furnishing of proof of a vaccination for COVID-19 and the prohibition against the awarding or renewal of grants or contracts funded by state revenue to a business or government entity that violates the provision. The bill instead broadens the scope beyond furnishing proof of having received a vaccination for COVID-19, and prohibits the discrimination of a person based on whether the person has received a medical intervention.

House subcommittee · named February 10, 2026

• Rep. Craig P. Johnson (R) · craig.johnson@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Dr. Steven P. Bradley (R) · steven.bradley@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Timi M. Brown-Powers (D) · timi.brown-powers@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 1 for, 18 against

For: VALOR Iowa

Against: Blank Childrens Hospital; Central Iowa Physicians; Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Iowa Biotechnology Association; Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; Iowa Environmental Health Association; Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council; Iowa Nurse Practitioners Society; Iowa Nurses Association; Iowa Pharmacy Association; Iowa Primary Care Association; Iowa School Nurses Organization; and 6 more

In plain words

1. February 10, 2026Filed in the House and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
2. February 10, 2026House subcommittee named: Johnson, C., Bradley and Brown-Powers
3. February 12, 2026Subcommittee recommended passing it