Concerning county and city administration, and including effective date and applicability provisions

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 6, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 6, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeMarch 3, 2025
4. ✕
   Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

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

What’s in it

This bill provides that a county board of supervisors or a city council shall only discharge from employment the county manager, county administrator, city manager, city administrator, or similar county or city executive, even if a different nomenclature is used to describe the position, by motion or resolution with a majority vote of the board or council, respectively.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Senate subcommittee

Named February 3, 2026. On February 12, 2026 it recommended passage.

• Sen. Scott Webster REmail
• Sen. Herman C. Quirmbach DEmail
• Sen. Dave Sires REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§331.301§364.2

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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