Bills › 91st General Assembly
SF 445Died when the session ended · April 23, 2025
Relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations and reducing appropriations, and including effective date provisions
Sponsored by the Senate Education Committee
Topics:State budgetK–12 educationFamilies & human servicesChild care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 18, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 18, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 25, 2025
- Done: Passes the SenateApril 23, 202533–14
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
Lobbyist declarations
For · 16Against · 2Undecided · 26
- Common Good IowaAgainst
- Iowa Atheists and FreethinkersAgainst
- Association of Early Childhood Iowa Area Boards and AdvocatesFor
- Easterseals IowaFor
- Governor's OfficeFor
- Greater Des Moines PartnershipFor
- Iowa Advocates for Choice in EducationFor
- Iowa Alliance of YMCA'sFor
- Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI)For
- Iowa Association of School BoardsFor
- Iowa Business CouncilFor
- Iowa Catholic ConferenceFor
- Iowa Chamber AllianceFor
- Iowa Coalition for Public Charter SchoolsFor
- Iowa Department of EducationFor
- Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory CouncilFor
- National Alliance for Public Charter SchoolsFor
- Quad Cities Chamber of CommerceFor
- Association of Early Childhood Iowa Area Boards and AdvocatesUndecided
- Blank Childrens HospitalUndecided
- Cedar Rapids Metro Economic AllianceUndecided
- Common Good IowaUndecided
- Des Moines Public SchoolsUndecided
- Easterseals IowaUndecided
- Greater Des Moines PartnershipUndecided
- Iowa ACEs 360Undecided
- Iowa Alliance of YMCA'sUndecided
- Iowa Association of Christian SchoolsUndecided
- Iowa Association of School BoardsUndecided
- Iowa Chapter-American Academy of PediatricsUndecided
- Iowa Community Action AssociationUndecided
- Iowa Head Start AssociationUndecided
- Iowa State Education AssociationUndecided
- League of Women Voters of IowaUndecided
- MH/DS of East Central RegionUndecided
- Personal Interest- Tony ThompsonUndecided
- Professional Educators of IowaUndecided
- Quad Cities Chamber of CommerceUndecided
- Rural School Advocates of IowaUndecided
- Save the Children Action NetworkUndecided
- School Administrators of IowaUndecided
- United Way of Central IowaUndecided
- United Ways of IowaUndecided
- Urban Education Network of IowaUndecided