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

SF 2072: Relating to state entities, including by modifying provisions related to prohibited diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and officers and to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts provided by school districts

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to state entities, including by modifying provisions related to prohibited diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and officers and to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts by school districts.2 prohibits state entities from expending any moneys appropriated by the general assembly, or any other moneys, 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.

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named January 27, 2026

Sen. Sandy Salmon (R) · sandy.salmon@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Jesse Green (R) · jesse.green@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Herman C. Quirmbach (D) · herman.quirmbach@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 6 for, 13 against

For: Inspired Life; Iowa Baptists For Biblical Values; Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition; Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps; Protect My Innocence; VALOR Iowa

Against: Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council; Iowa Safe Schools; Iowa State Education Association; NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Iowa-Nebraska; One Iowa; One Iowa Action; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Siouxland Bitches Get Stuff Done; and 1 more

In plain words

January 21, 2026Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee
January 27, 2026Senate subcommittee named: Salmon, Green and Quirmbach