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

HSB 155: Prohibiting state entities from expending moneys to fund diversity, equity, and inclusion offices or to hire individuals to serve as diversity, equity, and inclusion officers, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions

Became HF 856 · Its progress continues under the new number.

What it does

This bill prohibits state entities, defined to include local government entities, from expending moneys to fund diversity, equity, and inclusion offices or to hire individuals to serve as diversity, equity, and inclusion officers. The bill prohibits state entities from expending any moneys appropriated by the general assembly or any other moneys derived from bequests, charges, deposits, donations, endowments, fees, grants, gifts, income, receipts, tuition, or any other source to establish, sustain, support, or staff a diversity, equity, and inclusion office, or to contract, employ, engage, or hire an individual to serve as a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named February 11, 2025

  • Rep. Henry Stone (R) · henry.stone@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Dan Gehlbach (R) · dan.gehlbach@legis.iowa.gov
  • Rep. Mary Lee Madison (D) · mary.madison@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 9 for, 15 against

For: Cicero Action; Inspired Life; Iowa Baptists For Biblical Values; Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition; Iowans for Freedom; PELLA PAC; Professional Educators of Iowa; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation

Against: American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA); American Planning Association Iowa Chapter; Dubuque Branch NAACP; Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers; Iowa Environmental Council; Iowa Public Health Association; Iowa Safe Schools; Iowa State Education Association; NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Iowa-Nebraska; National Association of Social Workers, Iowa Chapter; and 3 more

In plain words

  1. February 11, 2025Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
  2. February 11, 2025House subcommittee named: Stone, Gehlbach and Madison
  3. February 18, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it
  4. February 27, 2025Approved by the House committee
  5. March 7, 2025Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 856

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/HSB155