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Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicable
Sponsored by Rep. Jerome Amos Jr. (D), Rep. Sean Bagniewski (D), Rep. Jeff Cooling (D), Rep. Ken Croken (D), Rep. Tracy A. Ehlert (D), Rep. Lindsay James (D), Rep. Rob Johnson (D), Rep. Jennifer Konfrst (D), Rep. Bob Kressig (D), Rep. Elinor A. Levin (D), Rep. Mary Lee Madison (D), Rep. Heather Matson (D), Rep. Brian Meyer (D), Rep. Amy Nielsen (D), Rep. Rick L. Olson (D), Rep. J.D. Scholten (D), Rep. Dr. Megan L. Srinivas (D), Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (D), Rep. Ross Wilburn (D), Rep. Adam Zabner (D)
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 28, 2025
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by February 20, 2026
- 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 requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee based on medical conditions related to the employee’s pregnancy or childbirth if the employee requests reasonable accommodations with the advice of the employee’s health care provider. Penalty provisions for discriminatory employment practices are made applicable to a failure to provide such reasonable accommodations to an employee. The bill defines “reasonable accommodations” as actions which would permit an employee with a medical condition relating to the employee’s pregnancy or childbirth to perform in a reasonable manner the activities involved in the employee’s specific occupation and include but are not limited to the provision of an accessible worksite, acquisition or modification of equipment, job restructuring, and a modified work schedule.
Read the full explanation
The bill provides that “reasonable accommodations” does not mean any action that would impose an undue hardship on the business of the employer from whom the action is requested.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Iowa Code it changes
Amends§216.6
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Lobbying
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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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91st General Assembly
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. None got through a chamber.
- HF 124 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 175 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 2257 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…89th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 109 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 384 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- SF 117 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…88th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
Similar bills this General Assembly
- SF 134 Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy o…91st General Assembly · In committeeSimilar
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.