Bills › 91st General Assembly

SF 659Signed by Governor · June 11, 2025

Relating to state government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers; authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds; providing for properly related matters including crystalline polymorph psilocybin, medical residency and fellowship positions, state membership in the Iowa individual health benefit reinsurance association, student abuse by school employees, modified supplemental amounts for school budgets, wagering taxes, a state fire marshal study, certain legislative interim studies, and 911 emergency communications services; making corrections; and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions

Sponsored by the Senate Appropriations Committee

Topics:State budgetK–12 educationPublic safety & emergencies

Same legislation: HSB 335, SSB 1241, HF 1055

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedMay 14, 2025
  2. Done: SubcommitteeMay 14, 2025
  3. Done: Senate committeeMay 14, 2025
  4. Done: Passes the SenateMay 14, 202528–11
  5. Skipped: House committeeSkipped
  6. Done: Passes the HouseMay 14, 202578–3
  7. Done: To the GovernorMay 23, 2025
  8. Done: Signed into lawJune 11, 2025

Signed into law What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

APPROPRIATIONS, DISTRIBUTIONS, TRANSFERS, AND EXPENDITURE AUTHORITY.35. The bill authorizes salary adjustments to be funded as determined by the department of management from unappropriated moneys in certain special funds.21 due to the enactment of 2023 Iowa Acts, chapter 5, must be used in lieu of a like amount of other general fund moneys to pay foundation aid under Code chapter 257 for FY 2025-2026. CORRECTIVE PROVISIONS. The bill makes technical corrections to, or as the result of, legislation enacted or considered during the 2025 legislative session.

Read the full explanation

Certain provisions take effect or apply retroactively based on the underlying 2025 legislation. CRYSTALLINE POLYMORPH PSILOCYBIN. The bill removes the trade name specifications for crystalline polymorph psilocybin in 2025 Iowa Acts, House File 383, which provides for the rescheduling of that substance upon recommendation by the United States food and drug administration. MEDICAL RESIDENCY AND FELLOWSHIP POSITIONS —— RESIDENTS OF IOWA. The bill amends the definition of “resident of Iowa” in 2025 Iowa Acts, House File 516.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Changed since by amendments H-1361, S-3195; see Amendments. Full bill text · What changed before it passed

Senate subcommittee

Named May 14, 2025 (as SSB 1241). It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§257.35

Cites§144E.3§515.137A

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Lobbying

5 for · 1 against · 25 undecided · Who →

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