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Relating to statutory corrections which may adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, remove ambiguities, and provide for Code editor directives
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 13, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 13, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 19, 2025
- Done: Passes the SenateApril 8, 202547–0
- Skipped: House committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 11, 202591–0
- Done: To the GovernorApril 24, 2025
- Done: Signed into lawApril 25, 2025
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What’s in it
_____ adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, or remove ambiguities.76: Changes a reference from “chapter” to “subchapter” to reflect the 2024 transfer of Code sections in Code chapter 8B to Code chapter 8, subchapter XI.85: Corrects a Code citation to the meaning of “cloud computing solutions”.209: Changes uses of the word “their” to “the agency’s” to clarify the identified party.506: Modifies language regarding posting certain publications to a board’s internet site to align with similar language that is referenced in the provision.
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511: Corrects grammar relating to duties of the director of inspections, appeals, and licensing.412: Revises language relating to the innovation and commercialization development fund to correct grammar and enhance readability.8: Revises language relating to claims against the state to enhance readability.9: Revises language relating to public agency obligations and agreements to enhance readability.2: Changes references from “the board” to “such board” in provisions relating to employees of an agricultural commodity promotional board to eliminate confusion with the defined term “board” in Code chapter 68B.35: Eliminates full references to the “Iowa ethics and campaign disclosure board” because “board” is defined in Code chapter 68B to mean the Iowa ethics and campaign disclosure board.21: Revises language relating to the Iowa student internship fund to correct grammar and enhance readability.7: Revises a provision relating to unemployment compensation to enhance readability and amends an internal reference to the Code subunit.11: Adds commas to enhance readability of sentence clauses within lists.30: Corrects two references to a special class “C” retail native wine license that omitted the word “wine”.44: Revises language to enhance readability of a list of individuals within the department of revenue.22B: Clarifies references to “council” to mean the council on health and human services, following elimination of the advisory council on brain injuries in 2024 Iowa Acts, chapter 1170.1: Adds serial commas to several portions of the definition of “hospital”.14: Eliminates an unnecessary portion of a reference to the Iowa administrative procedure Act.16: Revises a provision relating to licensure and regulation of hospitals to correct grammar.5: Modifies a reference to “registrars” to clarify that the reference is to “county registrars”.20: Changes a reference from “adoption services provider” to “adoption service provider” to align with the proper term used in the Code.80: Adjusts commas in a provision relating to licensure of health-related professions to enhance readability.88: Eliminates unnecessary portions of references to the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing.3A: Eliminates outdated clauses specifying applicability relating to licensure for interpreting or transliterating services. _____ the scope of the list actions under subsection 2.4: Amends a reference to “secretary” to specify that the reference is to the secretary of the Iowa state horticulture society and not the secretary of agriculture.14E: Amends language by eliminating the use of “their” and inserting “the person’s” when describing a person’s employment with a registrant under that Code chapter.3: Modifies the phrase “salary range established by the general assembly” to include a specific Code section reference based on changes to salaries of appointed state officers in 2024 Iowa Acts, chapter 1182, including the director of the Iowa office of civil rights.8B: Amends language in a provision relating to assistance animals and service animals to enhance readability.8C: Adds “via” in subsection 1, paragraph “d”, preceding “telehealth” to conform with similar instances of that terminology. Changes references in subsections and from “commission” to “agency” to reflect changes to the Iowa office of civil rights in 2024 Iowa Acts, chapter 1170, that were not codified in Code 2025 due to harmonization of conflicting enactments.15: Modifies comma placement in several provisions to enhance readability.30: Modifies a possessive reference to the department of health and human services’ duties to correct grammar.33: Modifies references in several provisions to align with the defined terms “greatest economic need” and “greatest social need”.16: Primarily modifies the use and placement of commas to enhance readability.11: Changes the term “financial literacy” to “finance literacy” to align with similar uses of the term. _____ board of regents to improve grammar, update obsolete language, and enhance readability.31: Modifies possessive reference to a school officer’s duties to correct grammar.37: Replaces a reference to “hereunder” in subsection with “under this chapter” to provide specificity to the reference and amends subsection to enhance readability.17: Replaces references to “herein” and “hereof” with language specifying “this chapter” and eliminates an unnecessary use of “thereof”.6: Replaces instances of “its” with “the district’s” in a provision governing rural water districts.12: Adds a comma to enhance readability of a provision governing real estate improvement districts.20: Strikes “the” and inserts the indefinite article “a” in a provision relating to the effective date of a merger relating to annexing property within a real estate improvement district.9: Adds a comma to lists of Code chapters specified as comprising the “City Code of Iowa” and identifying the City Code of Iowa’s applicability.2: Replaces an incorrect reference to “subsection” with “paragraph” and inserts the correct date for a reference to an “effective date”.14: Replaces semicolons with periods at the end of certain paragraphs to conform with preferred Code style and makes other changes to enhance readability.6: Replaces “their” with “member’s” in a provision governing the retirement system for police officers and fire fighters.27: Specifies that the definitions provided in each Code section are for the purposes of that Code section.133: Adds a comma to correct punctuation in a provision relating to duties of the environmental protection commission.266: Adds serial commas to two lists of crops to clarify the crops identified.9: Adds serial commas in two provisions identifying items to be kept by a public utility.2: Strikes a definition of “commission”, meaning the commission of deaf services, due to the applicability of a different similar definition.4: Provides full references to the “commission on deaf services” to avoid confusion with references to the “utilities commission” in the same Code sections.4: Replaces several instances of “it” with proper identification of “the petition”, “the commission”, or “the franchise proceeding”, as applicable.30: Establishes a definition of “commissioner” to mean a member of a compensation commission established under the Code section to avoid ambiguity with members of the Iowa utilities commission.6: Eliminates a semicolon in a provision relating to the natural resource commission and separates the provision into several sentences to enhance readability.34: Amends provisions to conform to preferred Code style and enhance readability.103: Adjusts punctuation to enhance readability, corrects an incorrect cross reference, and corrects grammar.11 to the beginning of the Code chapter.12A: Corrects a date reference of “July 1, 1996” to “July 1, 2023” to align with the effective date of the Code section in 2023 Iowa Acts, chapter 127. _____ or exceeds” to clarify income ranges for certain eligibility.20.3: Strikes an unnecessary reference to the location where the terms “central routing unit” and “data processing center” are defined.2510: Revises a cross reference to the Code chapter under which motor vehicle dealers are licensed to align with similar references throughout the Code.62: Revises two cross references that include multiple Code sections to conform to the preferred style of such references.3: Replaces “agree” with “agrees” to correct grammar.6: Adjusts use of commas in lists and other provisions to enhance readability.1: Changes an internal reference from subparagraph (1) to paragraph “d” to align the applicable definitions with their scope of use in the Code section.19: Strikes an internal reference to the same Code section that was inadvertently included following a change in the 2018 substantive Code editor’s bill.1: Strikes “permits” and inserts “permitting” to correct grammar and conform language within a list of criminal acts.301B: Adds serial comma to a list in a Code section governing the duties of a director of a judicial district department of correctional services.37: Combines applicable definitions into a list within a single paragraph.26.
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Named February 13, 2025. On February 19, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Iowa Code it changes
Amends§10A.506§10A.511§123.30§123.44§135.22B§135B.1§135B.14§135B.16§144.20§144.5§147.80§147.87§147.88§15.412§154E.3§154E.3A§155A.18§186.4§204.14E§216.15§216.3§216.8C§217.30§231.14§231.23§231.33§232.10§232.3A§232.44§232.49§25.8§252D.16§256.11§262.9§277.31§28E.7§28E.9§321.37§327D.16§327D.17and 53 more
Repeals§509A.11
Cites§364.2
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- HF 2462 Relating to statutory corrections which may adjust language to reflect current practices, …90th General Assembly · Signed by Governor · same titleBecame law
- SF 2351 Relating to statutory corrections which may adjust language to reflect current practices, …90th General Assembly · Withdrawn · same titleDidn’t advance
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