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163 bills in the 91st General Assembly, newest first.
SF 2168 · Relating to workforce matters including apprenticeships and other career training, unemployment insurance, and membership of the state workforce development board, making appropriations, and including effective date provisionsSigned by GovernorJune 2, 2026
HF 1023 · Relating to benefits and contributions for members of the Iowa public employees’ retirement system who are employed in a protection occupationSigned by GovernorJune 2, 2026
SF 472 · Relating to retention and recertification elections for public employee collective bargaining units and including effective date and applicability provisions. Applicability date: 05/19/2026Signed by GovernorMay 19, 2026
SF 487 · Relating to employer recordkeeping and auditing requirements for purposes of unemployment insurance and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedMarch 4, 2026
SF 2089 · Relating to information provided to the department of workforce development during the fact-finding process for claims for unemployment benefitsDied when the session endedMarch 3, 2026
HF 2513 · Prohibiting institutions of higher education from entering into employment contracts with citizens of federally designated foreign adversaries and state sponsors of terrorism holding certain visasDied when the session endedMarch 3, 2026
HF 2466 · Relating to apprenticeships and other career training and making appropriationsDied when the session endedMarch 2, 2026
SF 2412 · Relating to qualifications for state and local government employment and professional licensureDied when the session endedFebruary 25, 2026
HF 2574 · Relating to the penalty for public employees and public officials taking money from a public employerDied when the session endedFebruary 19, 2026
HF 2607 · Exempting service performed for certain employers from eligibility for unemployment insurance, and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 19, 2026
HF 2631 · Relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employersDied when the session endedFebruary 19, 2026
HF 2319 · Exempting service performed for certain employers from eligibility for unemployment insurance, and including applicability provisionsRenumbered as HF 2607February 19, 2026
HF 2088 · Relating to fraudulent practices including providing a false social security number to an employer or prospective employer, and making penalties applicableRenumbered as HF 2611February 19, 2026
SF 2414 · Relating to automated decision systems used by employersDied when the session endedFebruary 19, 2026
HSB 675 · Relating to education programs and systems, including career and technical education expenditures and definitions, statewide lower division general education framework and common course numbering systems, and the implementation of a statewide corequisite model in Iowa community collegesRenumbered as HF 2610February 19, 2026
HF 2611 · Relating to unlawful practices involving providing a false social security number to an employer or prospective employer, or to a potential employee, and making penalties applicableDied when the session endedFebruary 19, 2026
SSB 3163 · Relating to education programs and systems, including career and technical education expenditures and definitions, statewide lower division general education framework and common course numbering systems, and the implementation of a statewide corequisite model in Iowa community collegesRenumbered as SF 2391February 18, 2026
HF 2129 · Establishing a water and wastewater operator apprenticeship and work release pilot program for inmates, and making appropriationsRenumbered as HF 2588February 18, 2026
HF 2480 · Providing for a veterans’ benefits and services poster for employers to display in the workplaceDied when the session endedFebruary 18, 2026
SSB 3169 · Relating to qualifications for state employment and professional licensureRenumbered as SF 2412February 18, 2026
HF 2588 · Establishing a water and wastewater operator apprenticeship and work release pilot program for inmates, and making appropriationsDied when the session endedFebruary 18, 2026
HF 2457 · Establishing the credential-attainment program within the department of workforce development, making appropriations, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 16, 2026
HF 2456 · Relating to employment of persons with disabilitiesDied when the session endedFebruary 16, 2026
HSB 674 · Relating to apprenticeships and other career training and making appropriationsRenumbered as HF 2466February 16, 2026
HF 2458 · Establishing the teacher and para-educator grant program within the department of workforce development, and making appropriationsDied when the session endedFebruary 16, 2026
SF 2302 · Providing for career development information for students newly enrolling in institutions of higher education and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 12, 2026
HF 2368 · Relating to the Iowa medical freedom Act, including limitations on requiring medical interventions by businesses, governmental entities, and educational institutions, modifying state authority during public health disasters, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 12, 2026
SF 2272 · Providing for a veterans’ benefits and services poster for employers to display in the workplaceDied when the session endedFebruary 11, 2026
SF 2277 · Relating to rights of employees and requirements of employers with respect to labor union membershipDied when the session endedFebruary 11, 2026
SSB 3006 · Providing for career development information for students newly enrolling in institutions of higher education and including applicability provisionsRenumbered as SF 2302February 11, 2026
HF 2378 · Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefitsDied when the session endedFebruary 10, 2026
HF 2384 · Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit yearDied when the session endedFebruary 10, 2026
HF 2385 · Prohibiting the misclassification of employees as independent contractors, providing penalties, and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 10, 2026
HF 2380 · Providing for a community-based wage enforcement program for purposes of the state wage payment collection and minimum wage lawsDied when the session endedFebruary 10, 2026
HJR 2008 · Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to worker rightsDid not passFebruary 10, 2026
SF 2248 · Providing for paid family and medical leave to certain employees who have a child receiving inpatient care in a neonatal intensive care unitDied when the session endedFebruary 10, 2026
SF 2239 · Relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employersDied when the session endedFebruary 9, 2026
HF 2321 · Relating to membership in the protection occupation category of the Iowa public employees’ retirement system for certain social workersDied when the session endedFebruary 6, 2026
HF 2327 · Relating to programs and procedures of the department of workforce development and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 6, 2026
HF 2318 · Relating to eligibility for unemployment benefits for participants in strikes or other labor disputesDied when the session endedFebruary 6, 2026
HSB 556 · Relating to programs and procedures of the department of workforce development and including effective date provisionsRenumbered as HF 2327February 6, 2026
SF 2211 · Relating to the Iowa medical freedom Act, including limitations on requiring medical interventions by businesses, governmental entities, and educational institutions, modifying state authority during public health disasters, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 5, 2026
HF 2267 · Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit yearDied when the session endedFebruary 3, 2026
HF 2266 · Providing for family medical leave for grandparents and providing penalties and remediesDied when the session endedFebruary 3, 2026
SF 2169 · Relating to apprenticeshipsDied when the session endedFebruary 2, 2026
HSB 544 · Creating an endowment tax on the endowment value of certain Iowa colleges and universities, limited charges relating to certain endowment funds, making appropriations to workforce grant and incentive programs, and making appropriations to supplement tuition grants for high-wage and high-demand jobsRenumbered as HF 2240January 30, 2026
HF 2240 · Creating an endowment tax on the endowment value of certain Iowa colleges and universities, limiting charges relating to certain endowment funds, making appropriations to workforce grant and incentive programs, and making appropriations to supplement tuition grants for high-wage and high-demand jobsDied when the session endedJanuary 30, 2026
SSB 3004 · Providing for an online platform for professionals to provide career information to studentsDied when the session endedJanuary 29, 2026
SSB 3072 · Relating to apprenticeshipsRenumbered as SF 2169January 29, 2026
SSB 3044 · Relating to programs and procedures of the department of workforce development and including effective date provisionsRenumbered as SF 2168January 29, 2026
SSB 3051 · Relating to public retirement systems by allowing for the forfeiture of certain portions of the pension of a public employee who commits a felonyDied when the session endedJanuary 28, 2026
SF 2102 · Relating to health care coverage of certain public school district personnel under the state health insurance plan, providing fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 26, 2026
HF 2156 · Relating to the eligibility of certain individuals employed by educational institutions for unemployment insurance benefits between two successive academic years or termsDied when the session endedJanuary 26, 2026
SSB 3071 · Relating to state law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration and customs enforcementDied when the session endedJanuary 26, 2026
SF 2087 · Relating to work search requirements for unemployment benefits for certain individuals with disabilitiesDied when the session endedJanuary 22, 2026
HF 2017 · Creating a state work opportunity tax credit available against the individual and corporate income taxes, and including retroactive applicability provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 22, 2026
SSB 3003 · Relating to information provided to the department of workforce development during the fact-finding process for claims for unemployment benefitsRenumbered as SF 2089January 21, 2026
SSB 3005 · Relating to work search requirements for unemployment benefits for certain individuals with disabilitiesRenumbered as SF 2087January 21, 2026
HF 2080 · Relating to bona fide retirement and subsequent employment as school district support staff under the Iowa public employees’ retirement systemDied when the session endedJanuary 15, 2026
SF 2045 · Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefitsDied when the session endedJanuary 14, 2026
SF 2046 · Relating to wage payment collection issues arising between employers and employees, providing penalties and remedies, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 14, 2026
SF 2041 · Providing for payroll deduction for membership dues to an employee organization under public employee collective bargaining, and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 13, 2026
HF 2006 · Relating to health care coverage of certain nonstate public employees and officials under the state health insurance plan, providing fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 13, 2026
SF 2031 · Relating to arbitrator awards concerning base wages in public employee collective bargaining and including effective date and applicability provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 12, 2026
SF 2009 · Relating to certain employees of the department of corrections, including collective bargaining, health insurance for a surviving spouse and children of certain employees of the department, and certain operational and employment matters involving the department, and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 12, 2026
SF 2016 · Relating to the maximum age of a peace officer for the department of public safetyDied when the session endedJanuary 12, 2026
HF 767 · Concerning private sector employee drug testingSigned by GovernorJune 6, 2025
SF 607 · Relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employersSigned by GovernorJune 5, 2025
HF 889 · Relating to government employee paid leaveSigned by GovernorMay 27, 2025
HF 248 · Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicableSigned by GovernorMay 19, 2025
HF 441 · Concerning the functions of the employment appeal board; the workers’ compensation commissioner; and the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing relating to contested cases, judicial review, and liabilitySigned by GovernorMay 19, 2025
SF 110 · Concerning private sector employee drug testingWithdrawnMay 14, 2025
HF 980 · Relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employersWithdrawnMay 14, 2025
HF 967 · Relating to benefits and contributions for members of the Iowa public employees’ retirement system who are employed in a protection occupationRenumbered as HF 1023April 17, 2025
SF 603 · Relating to workforce compensation and training, unemployment insurance, and other functions and programs of the department of workforce development, the workforce development board, and local government entities, and including effective date provisionsSigned by GovernorMarch 28, 2025
HSB 315 · Relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employersRenumbered as HF 980March 27, 2025
HSB 265 · Relating to benefits for members of the Iowa public employees’ retirement system who are employed in a protection occupationRenumbered as HF 967March 18, 2025
SF 315 · Relating to pharmacy benefits manager reverse auctions and group insurance for public employees and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedMarch 17, 2025
SF 504 · Relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employersRenumbered as SF 607March 12, 2025
SF 222 · Relating to workforce training, unemployment insurance, adult education, and other functions and programs of the department of workforce development, the workforce development board, and local workforce development boards, and making appropriationsRenumbered as SF 603March 11, 2025
SF 308 · Relating to disclosure to the general assembly of information concerning nongovernmental employers and providing remediesDied when the session endedMarch 10, 2025
HSB 78 · Relating to government employee paid leaveRenumbered as HF 889March 7, 2025
HF 818 · Relating to contribution rates to the Iowa public employees’ retirement system and the municipal fire and police retirement systemDied when the session endedMarch 6, 2025
HSB 26 · Concerning private sector employee drug testingRenumbered as HF 767March 5, 2025
HF 742 · Establishing requirements relating to heat response in work areas and providing penaltiesDied when the session endedMarch 5, 2025
HF 804 · Requiring schools to perform criminal history checks prior to engaging any person to construct a new attendance center or to perform certain specified renovations or remodeling workDied when the session endedMarch 5, 2025
SF 530 · Relating to support of direct care services and the direct care workforce, establishing a state minimum hourly wage for direct care workers under the Medicaid program, and including a contingent effective dateDied when the session endedMarch 5, 2025
HSB 68 · Relating to workforce training, unemployment insurance, adult education, and other functions and programs of the department of workforce development, the workforce development board, and local workforce development boards, and making appropriationsRenumbered as HF 722March 4, 2025
HF 48 · Prohibiting employer control of employee political candidacy and contributions, and making penalties applicableDied when the session endedMarch 4, 2025
SF 502 · Requiring certain employers to include pay scale information in communications offering employment, and providing penaltiesDied when the session endedMarch 4, 2025
SF 509 · Relating to employment status and employment benefits and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedMarch 4, 2025
SF 480 · Relating to state employee paid bereavement leaveDied when the session endedMarch 3, 2025
SSB 1165 · Relating to employer recordkeeping and auditing requirements for purposes of unemployment insurance and including applicability provisionsRenumbered as SF 487March 3, 2025
SF 482 · Relating to duties of the attorney general concerning public employees killed as a result of criminal action while in the scope of employmentDied when the session endedMarch 3, 2025
SSB 1189 · Relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employersDied when the session endedMarch 3, 2025
HF 716 · Relating to health care coverage of certain nonstate public employees and officials under the state health insurance plan, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedMarch 3, 2025
SSB 1173 · Relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employersRenumbered as SF 504March 3, 2025
HF 676 · Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicableDied when the session endedFebruary 28, 2025
HF 673 · Requiring certain weekly workers’ compensation benefits to be calculated by including an employee’s overtime and premium pay, and to include an annual cost-of-living adjustmentDied when the session endedFebruary 28, 2025
HF 675 · Requiring employers to provide employees with meal periods and rest periods and providing penaltiesDied when the session endedFebruary 28, 2025
HF 661 · Relating to child care, including the child and dependent care tax credit, a child care workforce matching grant program, a small business child care tax credit, and state child care assistance, and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 28, 2025
HF 677 · Designating correctional officers as public safety employees for purposes of the public employment relations Act and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 28, 2025
HF 674 · Providing paid leave to state employees for volunteer activitiesDied when the session endedFebruary 28, 2025
HF 672 · Relating to mandatory subjects of negotiation for public employee collective bargaining and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 28, 2025
SF 466 · Providing for disqualification for unemployment benefits due to separation from short-term employment with a fixed end date and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 27, 2025
SF 452 · Relating to employment matters involving public employees including collective bargaining, educator employment matters, personnel records and settlement agreements, city civil service requirements, and health insurance matters, and including effective date, applicability, and transition provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 26, 2025
SF 454 · Relating to standards for determination of loss or permanent impairment for purposes of permanent partial disability under workers’ compensation and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 26, 2025
SF 455 · Requiring certain weekly workers’ compensation benefits to be calculated by including an employee’s overtime and premium pay, and to include an annual cost-of-living adjustmentDied when the session endedFebruary 26, 2025
SF 456 · Relating to the choice of doctor to treat injured employees under workers’ compensation laws and including effective date and applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 26, 2025
HF 611 · Providing for increased wage rates for required work on certain holidays and making penalties and remedies applicableDied when the session endedFebruary 26, 2025
SSB 1111 · Providing for disqualification for unemployment benefits due to separation from short-term employment with a fixed end date and including applicability provisionsRenumbered as SF 466February 25, 2025
SSB 1172 · Relating to retention and recertification elections for public employee collective bargaining units and including effective date and applicability provisionsRenumbered as SF 472February 25, 2025
HF 538 · Relating to employment of persons with disabilitiesDied when the session endedFebruary 20, 2025
SF 372 · Concerning eligibility for unemployment benefitsDied when the session endedFebruary 19, 2025
SSB 1119 · Creating a deduction available against the individual income tax for educational expenses at institutions of higher education for career-related programs and apprenticeship programs, and including retroactive applicability provisionsRenumbered as SF 379February 19, 2025
SF 380 · Relating to prohibitions on noncompete covenants involving nurses and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 19, 2025
HF 478 · Requiring the payment of local prevailing wage rates to persons working on public improvements for public bodies, providing remedies and penalties, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 19, 2025
SF 381 · Relating to youth employment and providing penaltiesDied when the session endedFebruary 19, 2025
HF 465 · Relating to disclosure to the general assembly of information concerning nongovernmental employers and providing remediesDied when the session endedFebruary 19, 2025
SF 355 · Relating to overtime pay earned by state employeesDied when the session endedFebruary 18, 2025
SF 358 · Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year to an individual laid off due to an employer going out of businessDied when the session endedFebruary 18, 2025
SF 346 · Relating to procedures for grievances under the merit system for state employeesDied when the session endedFebruary 18, 2025
HF 455 · Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit yearDied when the session endedFebruary 18, 2025
SSB 1110 · Relating to disqualification for unemployment benefits for other compensation received and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 18, 2025
HF 421 · Relating to injuries subject to workers’ compensation and including retroactive applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 17, 2025
HF 432 · Relating to eligibility for financial assistance from the department of workforce development for certain apprenticeship programsDied when the session endedFebruary 17, 2025
HSB 18 · Concerning the functions of the employment appeal board; the workers’ compensation commissioner; and the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing relating to contested cases, judicial review, and liabilityRenumbered as HF 441February 17, 2025
HF 375 · Establishing a state minimum hourly wage for direct care professionalsDied when the session endedFebruary 13, 2025
SF 20 · Relating to disclosure to the general assembly of information concerning nongovernmental employers and providing remediesRenumbered as SF 308February 13, 2025
HF 349 · Relating to the state minimum hourly wageDied when the session endedFebruary 12, 2025
HF 348 · Prohibiting the misclassification of employees as independent contractors, providing penalties, and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 12, 2025
SF 263 · Relating to employment matters involving public employees including collective bargaining, educator employment matters, and city civil service requirements, and including effective date, applicability, and transition provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 11, 2025
HF 281 · Repealing provisions of law concerning rights relating to labor organization membershipDied when the session endedFebruary 10, 2025
HF 282 · Relating to eligibility for unemployment benefits for participants in strikes or other labor disputesDied when the session endedFebruary 10, 2025
HF 283 · Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefitsDied when the session endedFebruary 10, 2025
HF 26 · Relating to the treatment of adoptive parent employees and making penalties applicableRenumbered as HF 248February 6, 2025
HF 232 · Relating to credit for accrued sick leave of public safety employeesDied when the session endedFebruary 6, 2025
SSB 1068 · Relating to workforce training, unemployment insurance, adult education, and other functions and programs of the department of workforce development, the workforce development board, and local workforce development boards, and making appropriationsRenumbered as SF 222February 5, 2025
SF 196 · Relating to employment matters involving public employees including collective bargaining, educator employment matters, personnel records and settlement agreements, city civil service requirements, and health insurance matters, and including effective date, applicability, and transition provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 4, 2025
SF 187 · Relating to wage discrimination under the Iowa civil rights Act of 1965 and making penalties applicableDied when the session endedFebruary 3, 2025
SF 185 · Establishing a retirement savings plan trust, and including implementation provisionsDied when the session endedFebruary 3, 2025
HF 184 · Relating to civil liability for employers of minorsDied when the session endedJanuary 30, 2025
HSB 114 · Relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employersDied when the session endedJanuary 30, 2025
SF 157 · Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit yearDied when the session endedJanuary 29, 2025
SF 155 · Prohibiting employers and employment agencies from seeking the criminal record or criminal history from applicants for employment under certain circumstances, establishing a criminal history employment application task force, providing penalties, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 29, 2025
SSB 1040 · Relating to government employee paid leaveDied when the session endedJanuary 28, 2025
SF 147 · Relating to wage payment collection issues arising between employers and employees, providing penalties and remedies, and including effective date provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 28, 2025
SF 134 · Requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and providing civil penaltiesDied when the session endedJanuary 23, 2025
SF 33 · Providing credit for accrued sick leave for certain law enforcement officersDied when the session endedJanuary 22, 2025
SSB 1014 · Concerning private sector employee drug testingRenumbered as SF 110January 22, 2025
SF 101 · Increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefitsDied when the session endedJanuary 22, 2025
SF 109 · Relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employersDied when the session endedJanuary 22, 2025
SF 30 · Relating to employees of the department of corrections and including applicability provisionsDied when the session endedJanuary 14, 2025
HF 18 · Establishing a diminished salary offset for unemployment benefitsDied when the session endedJanuary 14, 2025