Relating to the filing of complaints with the Iowa public information board

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 4, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 4, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeFebruary 19, 2025
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

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What’s in it

This bill provides that a person has days, rather than days under current law, to file a complaint with the Iowa public information board after an alleged violation of Code chapter (open meetings) or Code chapter (open records) occurred or the complainant could have become aware of the alleged violation.

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 4, 2025. On February 12, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Sen. Carrie Koelker REmail
• Sen. Art Staed DEmail
• Sen. Scott Webster REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§23.7

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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Tried before

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

• HF 333 Relating to the filing of complaints with the Iowa public information board
  90th General Assembly · Passed House · same title
  Passed a chamber

Similar bills this General Assembly

• HF 2294 Relating to the filing of complaints with the Iowa public information board
  91st General Assembly · Passed House
  Nearly identical

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.