Bills › 91st General Assembly

SF 644Signed by Governor · June 11, 2025

Relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing for properly related matters including indigent defense and representation, the corrections capital reinvestment fund, and a corrections federal receipts fund, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

Sponsored by the Senate Appropriations Committee

Topics:State budgetCrime & corrections

Same legislation: SSB 1232, HSB 339, HF 1046

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedApril 28, 2025
  2. Done: SubcommitteeApril 28, 2025
  3. Done: Senate committeeApril 30, 2025
  4. Done: Passes the SenateMay 13, 202533–13
  5. Skipped: House committeeSkipped
  6. Done: Passes the HouseMay 14, 202560–27
  7. Done: To the GovernorMay 23, 2025
  8. Done: Signed into lawJune 11, 2025

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What’s in it

This bill relates to and makes appropriations to the justice system. The bill makes appropriations for FY 2025-2026 from the general fund of the state to the departments of justice, corrections, public defense, public safety, and homeland security and emergency management, and the Iowa law enforcement academy, office of the state public defender, and board of parole. The bill also appropriates moneys from the commerce revolving fund to the office of consumer advocate of the department of justice; from the gaming enforcement revolving fund to the department of public safety; from the 911 emergency communications fund to the department of homeland security and emergency management; and from the consumer education and litigation fund to the department of justice for farm mediation services and for criminal prosecutions, criminal appeals, and performing certain duties.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Changed since by amendment S-3155; see Amendments. Full bill text · What changed before it passed

Senate subcommittee

Named April 28, 2025 (as SSB 1232). On April 29, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.

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Lobbying

1 for · 1 against · 21 undecided · Who →

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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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

  • SF 2434 Relating to and making appropriations to the justice system
    90th General Assembly · Withdrawn · very similar
    Didn’t advance

Similar bills this General Assembly

  • SF 2481 Relating to and making appropriations to the justice system
    91st General Assembly · Withdrawn
    Nearly identical
  • SSB 1224 Relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, including a corrections capit…
    91st General Assembly · In committee
    Very similar

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.