In another step toward adjournment, lawmakers finished the 2nd self-imposed deadline to winnow the number of bills still eligible for debate last week. Except for bills dealing with taxes and appropriations, the only bills still eligible for debate this year have been approved by a House and Senate Committees.
This list includes bills still alive in both the House and Senate are below and also available in this pdf.
Agriculture
List of Eligible Bills
HF 2344 Drainage district mergers, annexation of land, bidding procedures, and providing limited liability (Senate Calendar)
HF 2401 Changes to Beginning Farmer Tax Credit (House Ways and Means Committee)
HF 2405 Spay and neuter program for pets of low-income owners (House Ways and Means Committee)
HF 2427 Increases corn promotion check-off and establishes an Iowa Corn Check-off Task Force (Senate Calendar)
SF 2191 Drainage or levee district financing (House Calendar)
SF 2273 Drainage or levee district trustees (House Calendar)
Appropriations
All Bills in Appropriations Committee are Eligible
SF 2110 Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Supplemental (House Appropriations Committee)
SF 2130 FY 2015 Transportation Budget (Senate Unfinished Business Calendar)
FY 2015 Administration and Regulation Budget (Starts in the Senate)
FY 2015 Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget (Starts in the House)
FY 2015 Economic Growth Budget (Starts in the House)
FY 2015 Education Budget (Starts in the Senate)
FY 2015 Health and Human Services Budget (Starts in the House)
FY 2015 Infrastructure and Capitals Budget (Starts in the Senate)
FY 2015 Judicial Branch Budget (Starts in the House)
FY 2015 Justice Systems Budget (Starts in the House)
FY 2015 Standings and Miscellaneous Provisions (Starts in the House)
One-Time Spending Bill (Starts in the Senate)
Commerce
List of Eligible Bills
HF 514 Requires pawn shops to return merchandise at no cost when identified stolen by law enforcement (Senate Calendar)
HF 2109 Prohibits persons under the age of 18 years from possessing an e-cigarette and requires retailers to obtain permits (Senate Calendar)
HF 2296 Retailers don’t have to report unclaimed/unused gift certificates/gift cards to the State Treasurer as unclaimed property (Senate Calendar)
HF 2324 Allows for mortgage lenders to follow federal guidelines and increases monetary jurisdictional limit of the Iowa Consumer Credit Code to match the federal truth in lending law limits (Senate Calendar)
HF 2329 Governor’s broadband initiative (House Ways and Means Committee) (similar to SF 2324)
HF 2370 Requires that patient care services related to orthotics, prosthetics, and pedorthics be provided under the supervision of a licensed orthotist or licensed prosthetist (Senate Calendar)
HF 2408 Makes changes and updates to Iowa’s One Call notification system (Senate Calendar)
SF 2195 Modifying provisions regarding regulatory authority of the Iowa Utilities Board (House Calendar)
SF 2254 Makes changes to the regulation and fees for commercial establishment that keep companion animals (Senate Ways and Means Committee)
SF 2255 Civil liability immunity for architects and engineers in declared disasters (House Calendar)
SF 2324 Broadband initiative (Senate Appropriations Committee) (similar to HF 2329)
Governor Action
HF 2130 Division of Banking omnibus bill (Signed; effective 7/1/14)
HF 2131 Allows for utility company to file/record a memorandum of a mortgage or deed of trust for real estate instead of the full mortgage (Signed; effective 7/1/14)
HF 2297 Regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (Signed; effective 7/1/14)
SF 2104 Makes changes to the Holding Company statute as modeled after the National Association of Insurance Commissioners language (To Governor)
SF 2105 Annual Insurance Division Omnibus bill (Signed; effective 7/1/14)
SF 2131 Requires insurance companies to follow a different formula for reserves for their life insurance policies known as standard valuation law (To Governor)
SF 2133 Makes changes to the Iowa law to match federal law concerning a federal home loan bank that has been established under federal law (Signed; effective 7/1/14)
SF 2205 Credit Union Division omnibus bill (Signed; Various Effective Dates)
Economic Growth
List of Eligible Bills
HF 2192 Agreements between rural and municipal water associations to (Senate Calendar)
HF 2287 Brownfield and Grayfield tax credits redesign (House Ways and Means Committee) (companion to SF 2256)
HF 2305 Merges parts of the Enterprise Zone program with High Quality Jobs and Creates a Workforce Housing program (House Ways and Means Committee)
HF 2353 Creates a first time homebuyer savings account program (House Ways and Means Committee)
HF 2373 Hiring and promotion preference to veterans and some veterans’ spouses (House Calendar)
HF 2407 260F and Apprenticeship job training programs (House Ways and Means Committee) (similar to SF 2317)
HF 2415 Removes the lottery-based historic preservation tax credit reservation system and credit wait list (House Ways and Means Committee) (companion to SF 2281)
HF 2428 Moves the Ag Development Authority into IFA. (Ways and Means Committee) (companion to SF 2328)
HF 2445 Creates a new infrastructure fund under the control of the Economic Development Authority. (Way and Means Calendar) (companion to SF 2180)
SF 2180 Creates a new infrastructure fund under the control of EDA (Senate Appropriations) (companion to HF 2445)
SF 2256 Brownfield and Grayfield tax credits redesign (Senate Ways and Means Committee) (companion to HF 2287)
SF 2281 Removes the lottery-based historic preservation tax credit reservation system and credit wait list (Senate Ways and Means Committee) (companion to HF 2415)
SF 2317 260F and Apprenticeship job training programs (Senate Ways and Means Committee) (similar to HF 2407)
SF 2324 Expansion and Availability of Broadband (Senate Appropriations Committee) (similar to HF 2329)
SF 2328 Moves the Ag Development Authority into IFA (House Calendar) (companion to HF 2428)
Governor Action
SF 2206 Moves Iowa Finance Authority (IFA) yearly project bond cap to $50 million (To Governor)
Education
List of Eligible Bills
HF 2194 School funding every other year with 6% state aid amendment (Senate Calendar)
HF 2271 Operational sharing program modifications (Senate Calendar) (Companion to SF 2269)
HF 2360 Transportation assistance (House Ways and Means Committee)
HF 2388 Foster care student credit transfer (Senate Calendar)
HF 2389 Student and teacher relationship 90-day delay codified (Senate Calendar)
HF 2409 Anti-bullying House version (House Calendar) (similar to SF 2318)
SF 220 Retirement incentives (House Calendar)
SF 339 School vehicle Inspections (House Ways and Means Committee)
SF 2257 College Student Aid Commission code clean up (House Calendar)
SF 2261 Suicide prevention and trauma informed care (Senate Appropriations Committee)
SF 2268 Preschool program expansion (Senate Appropriations Committee)
SF 2269 Operational sharing program modifications (Senate Calendar) (Companion to HF 2271)
SF 2270 Refugee family support through Early Childhood Iowa (Senate Appropriations Committee)
SF 2271 College Student Aid Commission State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA) (House Ways and Means Calendar)
SF 2318 Anti-bullying and anti-harassment office and grant program (Senate Calendar) (Similar to HF 2409)
SF 2319 Early literacy professional development and dyslexia definition (House Calendar)
Governor’s Action
HF 2170 Instructional time hours and days technical fix (Signed, effective 7/1/14)
SF 2056 Whole grade sharing incentive program extension (To Governor)
SF 2230 Department of Education code corrections (Signed, effective 7/1/14)
Environmental Protection
List of Eligible Bills
SF 2212 Land disposal of yard waste from storm damage or invasive tree pests (House Calendar)
Governor Action
SF 2197 Eliminating conditional air and water permits for electric utilities (Signed, effective 7/1/14)
Human Resources
List of Eligible Bills
HF 2159 Increase the eligibility amount for the Miller Trust (Senate Calendar)
HF 2268 Creates a state income tax credit equal to adoption expenses (House Ways & Means Committee)
HF 2378 Creates a provisional license in psychology (Senate Calendar)
HF 2379 Requires the Department of Human Services to accredit and certify crisis stabilization programs (Senate Calendar)
HF 2417 Code clean-up bill relating to the new mental health and disability service system redesign (Senate Calendar)
SF 2080 Allows Board of Pharmacy to contract with a prescription database on monitoring program (House Calendar)
SF 2120 Allows for the professional use of the acronym ARNP for Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (House Calendar)
SF 2121 Updates the schedule of controlled substances (House Calendar)
SF 2156 Updates limited-use pharmacy and telepharmacy licenses (House Calendar)
SF 2167 Makes changes regarding various procedures at facilities under the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals (Senate Unfinished Business Calendar)
SF 2196 Iowa Department of Public Health Omnibus bill (House Calendar)
SF 2239 Defines elder abuse and sets penalties for elder abuse (House Calendar)
SF 2251 Establishes a pilot program regarding changes to the child care assistance program (House Calendar)
SF 2276 Requires a pre-placement and post-placement investigation of adoptive parents (House Calendar)
SF 2320 Allows a legal guardian to also be a consumer-directed attendant care provider (House Calendar)
SF 2330 Allows community mental health centers to use a different reimbursement methodology under Medicaid (House Calendar)
Governor Action
SF 2083 Updates licensure requirements for dietitians, including association name change (Signed, effective 7/1/14)
SF 2193 Establishes admissions and retention criteria for Adult Day Services (Signed, effective 7/1/14)
Judiciary
List of Eligible Bills
HF 2132 Creates Gideon Fellowship in the office of the State Public Defender (Senate Calendar)
HF 2278 Restricts disclosure of information by a regional transit district (Senate Calendar)
HF 2279 Relates to civil protective orders and criminal no-contact orders (Senate Calendar)
HF 2325 Amending Articles of Incorporation for corporations organized before 1971 (Senate Calendar)
HF 2326 Payments from the indigent defense fund by the state public defender (Senate Calendar)
HF 2375 Defines the term “use restriction” for filing a verified claim on real estate (House Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to SF 2315)
HF 2387 Sending of notice of garnishment and levy to a defendant in the action (Senate Calendar)
HF 2421 Allows a court in a CINA proceeding to transfer guardianship of the child to a custodian and allows the case to be transferred to probate court (Senate Calendar) (companion to SF 2298)
HF 2422 Uniform Power of Attorney Act (House Unfinished Business) (companion to SF 2168)
HF 2423 Substantive code corrections (Senate Calendar)
HF 2429 Relates to temporary restricted licenses and ignition interlock devices for operating while intoxicated violators (House Unfinished Business Calendar) (similar to SF 2299)
HF 2440 Excluding capital gains tax from the sale of a business (House Unfinished Business Calendar)
SF 383 Provides a process to automatically seal juvenile records (House Calendar)
SF 2091 Creates a presumption of joint tenancy with rights of survivorship when conveying property to two or more grantees (House Calendar)
SF 2092 Modifies the criminal offense of fraudulent practice (House Calendar)
SF 2118 Expands domestic abuse protective orders to pets or companion animals (House Calendar)
SF 2168 Uniform Power of Attorney Act (House Calendar) (companion to HF 2422)
SF 2201 Increases penalties for kidnapping where the victim is 16 years old or younger and for repeat kidnappers (House Calendar)
SF 2211 Defining a sexually violent predator for civil commitment (House Calendar)
SF 2239 Defines elder abuse and sets penalties for elder abuse (House Calendar)
SF 2297 Creates the “Contagious or Infectious Disease Transmission Act” and establishes crimes relating to the transmission of a contagious or infectious disease (House Calendar)
SF 2298 Allows a court in a CINA proceeding to transfer guardianship of the child to a custodian and allows the case to be transferred to probate court (Senate Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to HF 2421)
SF 2299 Relates to temporary restricted licenses and ignition interlock devices for operating while intoxicated violators (House Calendar) (similar to HF 2429)
SF 2311 Relates to enticing a minor, prostitution, sexual exploitation of a minor, and human trafficking (House Calendar)
SF 2312 Clarifies provisions related to multiple housing cooperatives and horizontal property regimes (House Calendar)
SF 2313 Changes the procedure for appointment and removal of clerks of the district court (House Calendar)
Governor Action
SF 2169 Probate Code Update (To Governor)
SF 2200 Iowa Business Corporation Act update (To Governor)
SF 2240 Nonsubstantive code corrections (To Governor)
Labor
List of Eligible Bills
HF 2199 Voluntary Shared Work Program conformity (Senate Calendar)
Governor Action
HF 2172 Makes changes to Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) requirements allowing for electronic filing (Signed, effective 7/1/14)
Local Government
List of Eligible Bills
HF 642 Notice of local option sales tax (House Ways and Means Committee)
HF 2183 City utility delinquent accounts on waste water and sewer (Senate Calendar)
HF 2266 Marriage license fees (House Ways and Means Committee)
HF 2267 Recorders’ technical bill (House Ways and Means Committee)
HF 2273 Treasurers’ technical bill (Senate Ways and Means Committee) (Companion to SF 2265)
HF 2402 Delinquent building fund (House Appropriations Committee)
SF 366 School Radon Reporting (House Calendar)
SF 2265 Treasurer’s technical bill (Senate Ways and Means Committee) (Companion to HF 2273)
SF 2266 Vehicle registration and delinquent parking fines (House Ways and Means Committee)
Natural Resources
List of Eligible Bills
HF 2171 Authorizes paddle fishing on the Missouri and Big Sioux Rivers (House Ways and Means Committee) (companion to SF 2198)
HF 2346 Defines steel slag to allow for use as a byproduct (Senate Calendar)
HF 2397 Provides liability protection to certain volunteers on state land (Senate Calendar)
SF 2198 Authorizes paddle fishing on the Missouri and Big Sioux Rivers (Senate Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to HF 2171)
SF 2248 Creates Emerald Ash Borer task force and interim committee (House Calendar)
Governor Action
HF 2067 Allows youth to hunt beyond the youth wild turkey hunting season (Signed, effective 3/14/14)
HF 2216 Redefines off-road utility vehicles (Signed, effective 7/1/14)
Public Safety
List of Eligible Bills
HF 159 Adds four new substances to be defined as precursors of a controlled substance (Senate Calendar)
HF 475 Allows for a peace officer to apply for a search warrant for the placement, tracking, or monitoring of a global positioning (GPS) device (Senate Calendar)
HF 2371 Creates a statewide mass notification and emergency messaging system fund (House Appropriations Committee) (companion to SF 2232)
HF 2289 Unmanned aerial vehicles/drones (Senate Calendar)
HF 2368 Security freezes put on a child’s or an incapacitated or protected person’s credit report to protect from ID theft (Senate Calendar)
SF 2121 Adds various types of substances to the list of controlled substances to comply with changes made by the federal Drug Enforcement Agency (House Calendar)
SF 2187 Requires ILEA to develop training standards for the use of electronic weapons (House Calendar)
SF 2232 Creates a statewide mass notification and emergency messaging system fund (House Appropriations Committee) (companion to HF 2371)
SF 2259 Updating language regarding notification requirements due to a security breach of personal information (House Calendar)
SF 2296 Establishing payment for treatment of persons whose competency is being restored for trial (House Calendar)
SF 2303 Creates a task force to study outdoor emergency notification systems (House Calendar)
SF 2310 Social host and underage consumption (House Calendar)
Governor Action
SF 2305 Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management – mutual aid agreements (Signed, effective 7/1/14)
State Government
List of Eligible Bills
HF 2274 Internet site for state agency fees (Senate Calendar)
HF 2288 Eliminates obsolete reports/publications (Senate Calendar)
HF 2354 County auditor’s bill on voter registration and absentee ballots (House Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to SF 2301)
HF 2365 Department of Inspections and Appeals department bill (Senate Calendar) (companion to SF 2167)
HF 2366 City elections and electronic storage of voter registration forms (Senate Calendar)
HF 2383 Fantasy sports contests regulated as bona fide contests (House Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to SF 2148)
HF 2406 Bans greyhound racing in Iowa (House Ways and Means Committee)
SF 293 Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board fix to sale of services for officials (House Calendar)
SF 379 Board of Medicine disciplinary procedures (House Calendar)
SF 2119 Campaign finance (House Calendar)
SF 2148 Fantasy sports contests regulated as bona fide contests (Senate Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to HF 2383)
SF 2156 Telepharmacy license and nonresident pharmacy practices (House Calendar)
SF 2167 Department of Inspections and Appeals department bill (Senate Calendar) (companion to HF 2365)
SF 2185 Changes requirements for native horses as it relates to pari-mutuel wagering (House Calendar)
SF 2233 Public Pensions (Senate Appropriations Committee)
SF 2283 Escheatment of U.S. savings bonds presumed abandoned (House Calendar)
SF 2301 County auditor’s bill on voter registration and absentee ballots (House Calendar) (companion to HF 2354)
Governor Action
HF 381 Horse Racing (To Governor)
Transportation
List of Eligible Bills
HF 2181 Increases the upper weight limit for vehicles covered under the lemon law (Senate Calendar)
HF 2230 Creates weight exemption to equipment used for construction of permanent conservation practices on agricultural land (Senate Calendar)
HF 2351 Exempts the initial fee for military service license plates (House Ways and Means Committee)
HF 2357 Establishes fee for motor vehicles given to nonprofit organizations to repurpose (House Ways and Means Committee)
HF 2361 Iowa DOT omnibus bill (House Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to SF 2325)
HF 2441 Tax on compressed and liquefied natural gas (House Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to SF 2338)
SF 2192 Defines motorized bicycle (House Calendar)
SF 2228 Minor’s school license for participation in extracurricular activities (House Calendar)
SF 2282 Sullivan brothers award of valor license plates (House Calendar)
SF 2287 All-Terrain Vehicles on highways (Senate Unfinished Business Calendar)
SF 2288 Revocation of a special minor’s driver’s license (House Calendar)
SF 2290 Exempts railroad train operators from showing a driver’s license to law enforcement (House Calendar)
SF 2291 Exempts registration fee for certain vehicles modified and resold by an equipment dealer (House Calendar)
SF 2292 Iowa employment rides initiative (Senate Appropriations Committee)
SF 2325 Iowa DOT omnibus bill (Senate Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to HF 2361)
SF 2338 Tax on compressed and liquefied natural gas (Senate Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to HF 2441)
Governor Action
SF 2250 Defines scrapping (To Governor)
Veterans Affairs
List of Eligible Bills
HF 2223 Removes the Iowa residency requirement to be eligible for the National Guard Educational Assistance Program (House Appropriations Committee)
HF 2316 Appropriates $2 million to Iowa Workforce Development for linking military occupational education, training, and service to existing licensing requirements in Iowa and marketing (House Appropriations Committee)
HF 2317 Increases the state appropriation by $900,000 to Iowa Finance Authority for the Military Home Ownership Assistance Program for a total of $2.5 million (House Appropriations Committee)
HF 2351 Eliminates the initial fee for military service license plates (House Ways & Means Committee)
HF 2359 Exempts military survivor benefits received from the federal government from state income taxes (House Ways & Means Committee)
HF 2372 Exempts state income tax from the first $10,000 of National Guard pay (House Ways & Means Committee)
HF 2374 One-time state income tax credit for those who were serving in the U.S. Armed forces during the conflicts in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama and the Persian Gulf (House Ways & Means Committee)
SF 2138 Expands the Veterans Homestead Property Tax Credit (Senate Ways & Means Committee)
SF 2249 Free U.S. Veteran license plate to a person with at least a 50% service connected disability (Senate Appropriations Committee)
SF 2321 Establishes response and reporting requirements regarding sexual abuse in the state military forces (House Calendar)
Ways and Means
All Bills in the Ways And Means Committee are Eligible
HF 2273 Treasurers’ technical bill (Senate Ways and Means) (Companion to SF 2265)
HF 2435 Updates Iowa Code references to changes in the Internal Revenue Code (Senate Calendar)
HF 2436 Updates Iowa Code to reflect changes in the Streamlined Sales Tax Agreement (Senate Calendar)
HF 2438 Department of Revenue Technical Bill (Senate Calendar) (companion to SF 2272)
HF 2440 Excluding capital gains tax from the sale of a business (House Unfinished Business Calendar)
HF 2441 Clarifies the definition of compressed natural gas used as a special fuel (House Unfinished Business Calendar) (Companion to SF 2338)
HF 2443 Provides a tax exemption for supplies used in manufacturing, similar to the exemption already in place for replacement parts (House Unfinished Business Calendar)
HF 2444 Department of Revenue Efficiency Bill (House Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to SSB 3204)
HF 2445 Creates a new infrastructure fund under the control of the Economic Development Authority. (House Unfinished Business Calendar) (companion to SF 2180)
SF 303 Exempts military retirement pay from income tax (House Ways and Means Committee)
SF 2198 Authorizes paddle fishing on the Missouri and Big Sioux Rivers (Senate Ways and Means Committee)
SF 2256 Brownfield and Grayfield tax credits redesign (Senate Ways and Means Committee) (companion to HF 2287)
SF 2271 College Student Aid Commission State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA) (House Calendar)
SF 2272 Department of Revenue Technical Bill (Senate Calendar) (companion to HF 2438)
SF 2291 Exempts registration fee for certain vehicles modified and resold by an equipment dealer (House Calendar)
SF 2338 Clarifies the definition of compressed natural gas used as a special fuel (Senate Calendar) (Companion to HF 2441)
SSB 3162 Extends the sales tax rebate at automobile racetrack facilities and changes requirements to qualify for the rebate (Senate Calendar)
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