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

SF 2237: Relating to closed captioning in places of public accommodation, and providing for civil penalties

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 requires all public accommodations that provide television programming and online broadcasts for viewing by members of the public to enable closed captioning on devices viewable by the public during business hours unless a member of the public asks that closed captioning be disabled on a specific device, in which case closed captioning shall be enabled again when the member of the public who made the request discontinues viewing or leaves the public accommodation. A person who fails to comply with the bill is subject to a civil penalty of $25 for each violation. Civil penalties collected under the bill are deposited in the general fund of the state.

Sponsors

Sen. Art Staed (D)

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named February 12, 2026

  • Sen. Ken Rozenboom (R) · ken.rozenboom@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Jason Schultz (R) · jason.schultz@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Art Staed (D) · art.staed@legis.iowa.gov

In plain words

  1. February 9, 2026Filed in the Senate and sent to the State Government committee
  2. February 12, 2026Senate subcommittee named: Rozenboom, Schultz and Staed

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/SF2237