Which Iowa bills survived the first deadline of the 2024 legislative session?

DES MOINES — Fewer bills will be considered by state lawmakers for the remainder of the year after the first legislative deadline of the 2024 session Friday.

To qualify for further consideration for the remainder of the 2024 session of the Iowa Legislature, bills had to be cleared by Friday through the first two steps of the legislative process: approval by a House or Senate subcommittee and full committee.

The hurdle is shorter for the first legislative funnel; many bills survive, but some do not. More funnel deadlines await, with higher hurdles to clear, as the session progresses.

The following lists show which bills survived the first funnel and remain eligible, and which did not survive and are thus ineligible for further consideration.

As always, leaders have multiple legislative tools at their disposal to resurrect “dead” bills, if they choose. That is why a well-known phrase in the Iowa Legislature is that no bill is truly “dead” until lawmakers adjourn for the year.

Bills dealing with state spending or tax policy are not subject to the first funnel deadline, and are not included in these lists.

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House Study Bill 713: Area Education Agencies operations (House version)

Senate Study Bill 3073: Area Education Agencies operations (Senate’s version)

House Study Bill 714: Teacher salaries

House Study Bill 712: K-12 public school funding

Senate File 2075: Preschool for low-income families

House Study Bill 650: Early literacy requirements (House version)

Senate File 3069: Early literacy requirements (Senate version)

Senate File 2017: School fire alarm policy requirements

House File 2330: Social studies curriculum from conservative group

House File 2031: Requiring anti-abortion video in human development teaching

House Study Bill 675: School safety/arming teachers

House File 2139: Banning disciplinary action in schools for refusal to acknowledge pronouns

House Study Bill 568: Adding grooming to mandatory reporting behaviors

House Study Bill 575: Adding criminal offense, defining grooming

House File 2327: Tuition increase cap at regents universities

House Study Bill 697: State election voting options and deadlines

Senate Study Bill 3165: Training elections workers

House Study Bill 599: Prohibiting artificial intelligence in elections equipment

Senate Study Bill 3016: Traffic cameras and hands-free driving (Senate version)

House Study Bill 707: Traffic cameras and hands-free driving (House version)

House Study Bill 618: Operating while intoxicating and ignition interlock devices

House Study Bill 642: Birth control without prescription

House Study Bill 643: Post-birth Medicaid coverage

House File 2103: Child support payments during pregnancy

House Study Bill 621: Charges for death of “unborn person”

House File 2230: Allowing civil wrongful death action for embryo or fetus

House File 2057: Lowering requirements for pregnancy crisis center programs

Senate Study Bill 3006: Allowing doctors to object to medical procedures on moral grounds

Senate File 2214: Insulin price cap

House Study Bill 536: Pharmacy benefits managers requirements

House File 2183: Medical benefits for retired law enforcement officers with cancer

House File 71: Insurance coverage of diagnostic breast cancer exams

House File 2170: Radon mitigation

House File 2157: Insurance coverage for biomarker testing

Senate File 431: Comparing prices for medical care

Senate File 2064: Requiring parental consent for HPV vaccine

House Study Bill 691: Nursing home staffing and inspections

House File 2199: Nursing home temporary staffing agency Medicaid charges

House File 537: Allowing cameras in nursing homes to check residents’ care

House Study Bill 653: Mental and behavioral health services delivery

Senate Study Bill 3163: Pesticide labeling lawsuits

House File 2389: “Man” and “woman” definitions and gender identity documentation

Senate File 2096: Repealing gender balance requirement for state boards

Senate Study Bill 3113: Foreign land ownership reporting requirements

Senate Study Bill 3129: Public land acquisition constraints

House Study Bill 674: Soil and water resource management

House File 2083: Allowing county attorneys to be armed

Senate Study Bill 3158: Public worker union recertification requirements

House Study Bill 608: Lawsuits against pipeline projects

House Study Bill 614: Religious freedom protections

House File 2097: Governor cannot order churches closed

House File 2255: Parental consent for minors’ social media accounts

House File 2114: Age verification required for porn sites

Senate File 2176: Barring minors at drag shows

House Study Bill 552: Barring local guaranteed basic income programs

House Study Bill 634: Civil asset forfeiture requirements

House Study Bill 534: Requiring police officers to be legal residents

Senate File 2211: Allowing state enforcement of immigration laws

House File 2112: Barring undocumented immigrants from public assistance

House File 2128: Barring undocumented immigrants from in-state tuition price

Senate File 108: Requiring employers to use E-Verify to check workers’ immigration status

Senate Study Bill 3100: Increasing the number of medical cannabidiol dispensaries

House Study Bill 665: Regulating hemp and hemp products

Senate Study Bill 3162: Meat substitute labeling and research

Senate File 2311: Allowing private CPAs to audit state government agencies instead of the state auditor

House Study Bill 710: Reducing the number of state boards and commissions (House version)

Senate Study Bill 3172: Reducing the number of state boards and commissions (governor’s version)

Senate Study Bill 3119: State rule-making process

House File 2299: Open records and meetings requirements

House File 2062: Open records and meetings violation fines

Senate File 2283: County supervisor elections by district

Senate Study Bill 3026: Penalties for “swatting”

House File 2046: Penalties for disseminating obscene materials to minors

House File 2048: Adding digital depictions to harassment laws

House File 2049: Adding digital depictions to sexual exploitation laws

Senate Study Bill 3004: Adding artificial intelligence images to revenge porn laws

House File 2259: Establishing criminal offense of looting

Senate Study Bill 3023: Penalties for assaulting prison staff and others

House File 2334: Public safety nuisances at strip clubs

House File 2056: Teenage child care worker regulations

House Study Bill 636: Raccoon bounty program

House File 2020: State budget cuts if no budget bill

Senate Study Bill 3098: Requiring notice to lawmakers of constitutional court challenge

Senate Study Bill 3099: Allowing lawmakers to file legal briefs in appeals court

House File 2010: Ban on traffic stop quotas

Senate Study Bill 3064: Hotel inspection requirements

Senate Study Bill 3039: Barring HOAs from banning American flag displays

House Study Bill 531: Making arrest photos no longer public records

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Failed to advance

House File 2082: Removing gender identity from Iowa Civil Rights Act

Senate File 2037: Prohibiting local bans on conversion therapy

House File 2352: Freezing tuition at regents universities

House File 2077: Canceling student organizations that support terrorism

House File 2072: Requiring administrators to also teach

Senate File 3168: Public library operations (Senate version)

House Study Bill 678: Public library operations (House version)

Senate File 2009: State-funded teacher spending accounts

House Study Bill 587: Requiring the national anthem to be sung daily in school

House Study Bill 604: Requiring teaching about patriotic holidays in public schools

House Study Bill 633: Making local elections partisan

House File 2221: Allowing cities to limit rent increases

Senate Study Bill 3085: Death penalty for murder of peace officer

Senate Study Bill 3094: Banning “social credit scores”

House Study Bill 532: Adding raw cannabis flower to medical cannabidiol program

House File 2169: Restricting minors from using tanning beds

Senate Joint Resolution 2001: Putting the right to abortion services in the Iowa Constitution

Senate File 2135: Adding right to contraception in state law

Senate File 2137: Reinstating state-funded family planning program

Senate File 2303: Nursing home patients’ Medicaid allowance

Senate File 2304: Nursing home oversight

Senate File 2305: $15 minimum wage for direct care workers

Senate File 2306: Home health care for seniors funding

Senate File 2097: County zoning to restrict pipeline projects

House File 2354: Requiring water pollution permit for CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations)

House File 488: Registration of “ghost guns”

Senate Study Bill 3175: Homelessness funding and criminal charges

Senate File 2074: Driving after consuming medical cannabidiol

House File 2051: Civil liability for pornography on social media

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