Which bills did Iowa lawmakers pass in 2024? Which failed to pass?

DES MOINES — It may have seemed many times that there was only one piece of legislation being considered by state lawmakers this year at the Iowa Capitol — an overhaul of Iowa area education agencies’ funding and operations. But in fact hundreds of bills were introduced during the session that concluded this weekend.

Which bills were approved by the 2024 Session of the 90th General Assembly? Which failed?

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The following lists show which bills were passed by both legislative chambers, including those that have already been signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds and those that await her approval or veto.

Reynolds has 30 days from the end of the legislative session to decide whether to sign any bill passed by the Iowa Legislature.

Signed into law

Area education agency funding and operations changes, teacher salary increases, K-12 public school funding (House File 2612)

State income tax reductions (Senate File 2442)

Mental and behavioral health care delivery redesign (House File 2673)

Civil statute of limitations extension for Boy Scouts settlement (Senate File 2431)

Legal protections to allow school staff to carry firearms (House File 2586)

Legal protections for expression of religious beliefs (Senate File 2095)

Reducing state boards and commissions (Senate File 2385)

Repeal gender balance requirements for government boards and commissions (Senate File 2096)

Allowing state to operate program to fund pregnancy centers that oppose abortion (Senate File 2252)

Disclosure requirements and penalties for foreign farmland owners (Senate File 2204)

State immigration crime of illegal reentry (Senate File 2340)

Adding artificial intelligence or other digital images to child pornography laws (Senate File 2243)

Required reporting of grooming behavior (House File 2487)

Heightened penalties for swatting (Senate File 2161)

Establishing crime of organized retail theft (House File 2594)

Allowing local funding for religious charities (House File 2264)

Staff retention bonuses and state requirements waived for Perry schools (House File 2653)

Regulating topsoil and stormwater at construction sites (Senate File 455)

Distributing digitally altered image or video portraying sex act as harassment (House File 2240)

Mandatory minimum sentences and earned time accrued (House File 2191)

Passed, awaiting governor

Regulating automated traffic enforcement cameras (House File 2681)

Early literacy proficiency and instruction (House File 2618)

Medicaid postpartum care expansion and limitation (Senate File 2251)

Penalties for cities that enact firearm regulations that exceed state’s (House File 2556)

Conservative-written social studies curriculum (House File 2545)

Requirement to publish schools’ vaccine exemptions (Senate File 2196)

Community college funding formula (Senate File 2405)

Allow landlords to require documentation for need for service animal (Senate File 2268)

Creates state crime of looting (House File 2598)

Creates state crime of grooming (House File 2602)

Meat substitute labeling requirement and limits on egg substitute products (Senate File 2391)

Regulating potency of hemp-derived products and retailers (House File 2605)

Vape product regulation (House File 2677)

Loosening gas stations’ E15 requirement deadlines (House File 2687)

Tax incentives for $1 billion investments (Senate File 574)

Requiring insurance to cover biomarker testing (House File 2668)

Pharmacy benefits managers regulation (House File 2099)

Prohibition of guaranteed basic income programs (House File 2319)

Prohibiting use of merchant code to identify gun shops (House File 2464)

Ignition interlock device requirements (Senate File 2261)

Expanding police and firefighter health care benefits (House File 2680)

Sheriffs’ retirement benefits and assaulting officers (House File 2661)

Allowing cities to address nuisance adult cabarets (House File 2531)

Expanding teen driving permissions (Senate File 2109)

Penalties for violating open meetings law (House File 2539)

Increased penalties for trespassing while hunting (House File 2310)

Tax increase on tobacco inhalation products (Senate File 345)

Eliminating requirement for periodic state inspections of hotels (House File 2426)

Trespassing by drone near agricultural buildings (House File 572)

Study accessibility of Iowa’s state parks (House File 2364)

Assaults in violation of protective orders (House File 2098)

Expanded penalties for witness and juror tampering (House File 2250)

Amend Iowa Constitution to require two-thirds legislative approval to increase state income tax (House Joint Resolution 2006)

Amend Iowa Constitution to require one state income tax rate (Senate Joint Resolution 2004)

Failed to pass

Fetal homicide penalties and “unborn person” in state law (House File 2575)

Allowing landowners to ask court review of eminent domain (House File 2664)

Birth control without a prescription (House File 2584)

Early voting changes, banning ballot drop boxes, and candidate guidelines (House File 2610)

Opioid settlement allocations (Senate File 2395)

Defining “man” and “woman” in state law (House File 2389)

Legal protections for pesticide manufacturers over labeling (Senate File 2412)

Allowing CPA to audit state agencies instead of state auditor (Senate File 2311)

Prohibit Department of Natural Resources from purchasing land at auction (Senate File 2324)

Collective bargaining unit decertification for employer’s failure to comply (Senate File 2374)

Tuition cap, diversity, equity and inclusion program constraints at public universities (House File 2558)

Ban on citizen police review boards (Senate File 2325)

Require employers to use E-Verify for all workers (Senate File 108)

Human smuggling penalties and barring undocumented immigrants from public assistance (House File 2608)

Requiring anti-abortion human growth and development curriculum (House File 2617)

Composition of district judicial nominating commissions (Senate File 2436)

County supervisor board representation (Senate File 2439)

Film production tax credit (House File 2662)

Capping rates charged by staffing agencies for temporary nurses (House File 2391)

Additional cannabidiol dispensary licenses (Senate File 2335)

Financial assistance for rural attorneys (House File 2407)

Gadsden flag license plates (House File 2639)

Increasing legislator salaries (House File 2700)

Soil and water resource management (House File 2642)

Rural development tax credit (House File 2674)

Increased civil liability for hemp-derived beverage sellers (Senate File 2425)

Limiting revocation of police officers’ certification (House Study Bill 738)

Paternal support requirements through pregnancy (House File 2363)

Fire alarms and school shootings (Senate File 2191)

Civil asset forfeiture constraints (House File 2560)

Cancer treatment coverage in firefighter retirement benefits (House File 2482)

Work search requirements for unemployment benefits (Senate File 2106)

State rule-making process changes (Senate File 2370)

Legal protections for physicians with religious-based objections to health care practices (Senate File 2286)

Eliminating state Certificate of Need process (Senate File 506)

Requiring hands-free mobile device use while driving (Senate File 547)

Ban automated traffic enforcement cameras and require hands-free mobile device use while driving (Senate File 2337)

Prioritizing Highway 30 expansion (House File 2569)

Expanding ban on traffic stop quotas (House File 2304)

Banning cruising in left late of traffic (Senate File 2116)

Requirement to honor patient’s request for known blood donor (Senate File 2369)

Radon control requirements for new houses (House File 2491)

Drug paraphernalia regulation (Senate File 345)

Medical standards for certifying medical conditions for medical cannabis (House File 2573)

Banning use of bots to buy event tickets in bulk (Senate File 2322)

Regulations for teenage workers in child care centers (House File 2305)

Legal protections for pesticide manufacturers (Senate File 2392)

Allowing animal feedlots to operate under proposed manure plans before state approval (Senate File 2371)

Placing right to collectively bargain in Iowa Constitution (House Joint Resolution 2003)

Removing gender identity from Iowa Civil Rights Act (House File 2082)

Prohibiting local bans on conversion therapy (Senate File 2037)

Freezing tuition at regents universities (House File 2352)

Canceling student organizations that support terrorism (House File 2077)

Requiring administrators to also teach (House File 2072)

Public library operations (Senate version) (Senate File 3168)

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

State-funded teacher spending accounts (Senate File 2009)

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

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

Making local elections partisan (House Study Bill 633)

Allowing cities to limit rent increases (House File 2221)

Death penalty for murder of peace officer (Senate Study Bill 3085)

Banning “social credit scores” (Senate Study Bill 3094)

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

Restricting minors from using tanning beds (House File 2169)

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

Adding right to contraception in state law (Senate File 2135)

Reinstating state-funded family planning program (Senate File 2137)

Nursing home patients’ Medicaid allowance (Senate File 2303)

Nursing home oversight (Senate File 2304)

Minimum wage for direct care workers (Senate File 2305)

Home health care for seniors funding (Senate File 2306)

County zoning to restrict pipeline projects (Senate File 2097)

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

Registration of “ghost guns” (House File 488)

Homelessness funding and criminal charges (Senate Study Bill 3175)

Driving after consuming medical cannabidiol (Senate File 2074)

Civil liability for pornography on social media (House File 2051)

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