HSB 607: Repealing the board of regents’ minority and women educators enhancement program

What it does

This bill repeals the board of regents’ minority and women educators enhancement program. The program has the purposes of recruiting minority educators to faculty positions and creating faculty opportunities for women educators at regents institutions. The program also requires the board to develop and implement tenure, promotion, and hiring policies that recognize the unique needs of faculty members who are principal caregivers to dependents.

House subcommittee · named January 22, 2026

• Rep. Brooke Boden (R) · brooke.boden@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Angel Ramirez (D) · angel.ramirez@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Henry Stone (R) · henry.stone@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 3 for, 11 against

For: Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps; Professional Educators of Iowa; VALOR Iowa

Against: Bitches Get Stuff Done; Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers; Iowa Conference of the United Methodist Church; Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council; League of Women Voters of Iowa; NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Iowa-Nebraska; One Iowa; One Iowa Action; Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa

In plain words

1. January 22, 2026Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
2. January 22, 2026House subcommittee named: Boden, Ramirez and Stone
3. January 29, 2026Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. February 11, 2026Approved by the House committee
5. February 11, 2026Committee vote: 16–7
6. February 16, 2026Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 2539