Prohibiting a court from ordering payment of a postsecondary education subsidy for a child under a dissolution of marriage temporary order or final judgment or decree, and providing for application to existing orders, judgments, and decrees

Where it is now

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   Done: IntroducedFebruary 10, 2025
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   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2025
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   Done: Senate committeeMarch 5, 2025
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   Done: Passes the SenateMarch 19, 202543–4
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   Done: House committeeApril 1, 2025
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   Done: Passes the HouseApril 21, 202585–6
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   Done: To the GovernorMay 6, 2025
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   Done: Signed into lawMay 6, 2025

Signed into law What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill eliminates the current option for a court to order a postsecondary education subsidy and instead prohibits a court from ordering the payment of a postsecondary education subsidy by parties to a dissolution of marriage. The bill also provides that the bill applies to a support order, decree, or judgment entered or pending on or after July 1, 2025, and that the bill shall not be the basis for modification of an order, decree, or judgment entered before July 1, 2025, that provides for a postsecondary education subsidy.

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

House subcommittee

Named March 25, 2025. On April 1, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Steven C. Holt REmail
• Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell DEmail
• Rep. Skyler Wheeler REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§598.1§598.21F§598.22§600.11

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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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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.

• SF 17 Prohibiting a court from ordering payment of a postsecondary education subsidy for a child…
  90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 386 · same title
  Cleared committee
• SF 386 Prohibiting a court from ordering payment of a postsecondary education subsidy for a child…
  90th General Assembly · Passed Senate · same title
  Passed a chamber

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