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

SF 2280: Relating to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons, establishing the criminal offenses of threatening and the malicious sharing of personal information of a general assembly member or a judicial officer or a general assembly member’s or a judicial officer’s immediate family, and considering true threats to public officials as harassment, and providing penalties

Signed into law

What it does

This bill relates to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including by authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, and assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons; establishing the criminal offenses of threatening and the malicious sharing of personal information of a judicial officer or a member of the judicial officer’s immediate family; and considering true threats to public officials as harassment.

Sponsors

Judiciary committee

Cost

Minimal

Division I of the Bill is estimated to have minimal fiscal impact. Division II — Threats Against Members of the General Assembly or Judicial Officers — Immediate Family Members Description Division II establishes a new criminal offense for threatening a member…

Lobbying · 8 for, 2 against

For: Home Builders Association of Iowa; Iowa Association of Magistrate Judges; Iowa Attorney General Dept. of Justice; Iowa County Attorneys Association; Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition; Iowa Firearms Coalition, Inc.; Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps; VALOR Iowa

Against: Dubuque Coalition for Nonviolence (CNV); Iowans for Gun Safety

In plain words

  1. February 11, 2026Filed in the Senate
  2. February 11, 2026Approved by the Senate committee
  3. February 20, 2026Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  4. February 24, 2026Passed the Senate, 45–2
  5. March 6, 2026Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  6. April 8, 2026Took the place of HF 2533 on the House floor (the same legislation)
  7. April 8, 2026Passed the House, 91–2
  8. May 5, 2026Sent to the Governor
  9. May 6, 2026Signed into law
  10. May 14, 2026Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted

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/SF2280