Bills › 91st General Assembly
Relating to contracts between a publisher and a library for electronic literary materials, and providing civil penalties
Sponsored by Rep. Matthew Rinker (R)
Topics:Cities & counties
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 19, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 20, 2025
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to contracts between a publisher and a library for electronic literary materials. The bill prohibits a contract or license agreement between a publisher and a library from precluding, limiting, and restricting the library from performing customary operational or lending functions.7. “Borrower”, “electronic literary material”, “library”, “loan”, “loan period”, and “publisher” are defined in the bill. The bill authorizes a contract or license agreement between a publisher and a library to limit the number of borrowers the library may allow to have simultaneous access to material.
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The bill also authorizes a contract or license agreement between a publisher and a library to require the library’s reasonable use of a technological protection measure that prevents a borrower from maintaining access to material beyond the loan period specified in the license, or from providing another person with access to material. The bill authorizes the attorney general, upon reasonable belief that a publisher is in violation of the bill, to bring civil action to enjoin further violations by the publisher, enforce compliance with the bill, assess a civil penalty not to exceed $100,000 per violation of the bill, and to obtain other remedies permitted under law.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
House subcommittee
Named February 27, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Iowa Code it changes
Creates§554I.1§554I.2§554I.3§554I.4
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Lobbying
2 for · 2 against · 2 undecided · Who →
Family tree
Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2230 Relating to contracts between a publisher and a library for electronic literary materials,…90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2320 · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2320 Relating to contracts between a publisher and a library for electronic literary materials,…90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.