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91st General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 659: 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

Signed into law

What it does

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.

Sponsors

Appropriations committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named May 14, 2025

  • Sen. Tim Kraayenbrink (R) · tim.kraayenbrink@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Matt Blake (D) · matt.blake@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Mike Bousselot (R) · mike.bousselot@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Mark Costello (R) · mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Molly Donahue (D) · molly.donahue@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. William A. Dotzler Jr. (D) · bill.dotzler@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Julian B. Garrett (R)
  • Sen. Jesse Green (R) · jesse.green@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Dennis Guth (R) · dennis.guth@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Izaah Knox (D) · izaah.knox@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Carrie Koelker (R) · carrie.koelker@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Mark S. Lofgren (R) · mark.lofgren@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Janet Petersen (D) · janet.petersen@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Jeff Reichman (R) · jeff.reichman@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. David D. Rowley (R) · david.rowley@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Sandy Salmon (R) · sandy.salmon@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Tom Shipley (R) · tom.shipley@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Dave Sires (R) · dave.sires@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Art Staed (D) · art.staed@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Kara Warme (R) · kara.warme@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Cindy Winckler (D) · cindy.winckler@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Dan Zumbach (R) · dan.zumbach@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 5 for, 1 against

For: Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa State Education Association; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

Against: Iowa State Police Association

In plain words

  1. May 14, 2025Filed in the Senate and sent to the Appropriations committee · as SSB 1241
  2. May 14, 2025Filed in the Senate
  3. May 14, 2025Senate subcommittee named: Kraayenbrink, Blake, Bousselot, Costello, Donahue, Dotzler, Garrett, Green, Guth, Knox, Koelker, Lofgren, Petersen, Reichman, Rowley, Salmon, Shipley, Sires, Staed, Warme, Winckler and Zumbach · as SSB 1241
  4. May 14, 2025Approved by the Senate committee
  5. May 14, 2025Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 659 · as SSB 1241
  6. May 14, 2025Passed the Senate, 28–11
  7. May 14, 2025Took the place of HF 1055 on the House floor (the same legislation)
  8. May 14, 2025Passed the House, 78–3
  9. May 23, 2025Sent to the Governor
  10. June 11, 2025Signed into law

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/91/SF659