The list below includes first the bills that survived the first funnel, followed by the bill that died in the first funnel.
LIVE BILLS
Broadband & Technology
Prohibits the state or political subdivisions from entering into contracts with, or providing tax incentives or other benefits to, certain companies that censor online content.
Education
Allows school districts to prohibit connecting to social media sites using school servers.
Allows a private school student needing special education courses to be placed in those courses without prior approval by the AEA and removes requirement that the holder of a teacher librarian endorsement have a master's degree.
Requires school district to publish course syllabi and requires high school government classes to test students using the US citizenship test.
Makes provision for rights of parents and guardians of students.
Makes several provisions related to education.
Requires schools to designate an administrator to ensure that no obscene material or hard-core pornography is available in school libraries.
First Amendment/Free Speech
Requires schools to designate an administrator to ensure that no obscene material or hard-core pornography is available in school libraries.
Local Government
Defines protecting information from cyber-attacks as an essential county/corporate purpose.
Other
Places requirements for local government lobbying and contracts.
Tax
The House's tax reform bill.
DEAD BILLS
Broadband & Technology
Prohibits a company from preventing an elected official from using its online marketplace, video sharing network, or social media network.
Requires the smart phone and tablet manufacturers sold in Iowa to have automatic filters to prevent downloading material harmful to minors.
Budgets
Appropriates $250,000 for the Iowa reading research center.
Civil Rights
Removes gender identity as a protected class under the Iowa civil rights act.
Excludes refusing access to a bathroom, locker room, or other public accommodation designated for a biological sex to a person of the other biological sex from protections under the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
Prohibits a person from entering a single and multiple occupancy bathroom in a school that does not correspond with the person's biological sex.
Prohibits gender identify instruction for grades 1-6.
Prohibits someone of a different biological sex from using a school bathroom designated for the other biological sex.
Crime & Courts
Creates penalties for a person affiliated with a public school or library who knowingly provides obscene materials to minors.
Education
Creates a teach recruitment and retention task force.
Prohibits public libraries and elementary and secondary schools from knowingly allowing a minor to be exposed to or participate in "inappropriate" programming.
Allows school districts to share school resource officers.
Allows students to be excused from sexual orientation or gender identity instruction.
Requires schools to install cameras in classrooms to livestream footage for parents/guardians to watch their children's classrooms.
Makes operational functioning of information technology eligible for supplemental weighting funding for shared school operations.
Allows school districts to raise additional amounts of property tax or income surtax for certain school resource officer expenses.
First Amendment/Free Speech
Prohibits a social media platform from censoring the expression of a user based on the viewpoint represented or the viewpoint of another user or the location of the user.
Proposes a state constitutional amendment that prohibits the legislature from making any law restricting the books or other written instructional materials in educational institutions.
Local Government
Provides for electronic publication of public notices by certain governmental bodies and officers.
Other
Prohibits any group that receives tax funds from providing training that teaches, advocates, encourages, promotes, or act upon stereotyping, scapegoating, or prejudice toward others on the basis of demographic membership or identity.
Makes it an aggravated misdemeanor or Class D felony for a school employee or public librarian to knowingly give obscene material to a minor.
Requires internet sites and applications containing obscene content to prohibit access by minors.
Allows city councils to overturn a library's decision to place materials in a particular location within the library when residents express concerns.
Prohibits certain libraries from prohibiting the use of the library or denying services offered by the library to any person where the minimum tax is levied and paid or an area from where the minimum monetary equivalent is provided.
Moves the date to not allowing public funds to be spent on lodging if the lodging provider has not certified compliance with human trafficking training to June 30, 2022.
Allows a governmental body to conduct a meeting electronically even when it is possible or practical to conduct the meeting in person.
Provides that a court shall apply the compelling interest test when reviewing a law that burdens a person's exercise of religion.
Professional Licensing/Scope of Practice
Prohibits a licensing board from limiting the number of continuing education hours that a person can get remotely.
Public Health
Prohibits employers from requiring employees or applicants from having to receive a vaccine that has not been approved by the FDA.
Makes several provisions related to vaccinations and immunizations.
Sex Offenses
Prohibits access to obscene internet material by minors. Makes changes to minor sexual abuse and sexually motivated and exploitation offenses.
Makes provision for digital content-blocking and creates a human trafficking and child exploitation prevention fund.
Tax
Repeals individual income tax and increases the state sales and use tax.
The Senate's tax reform bill. Parts of this bill were incorporated into the tax reform compromise, HF 2317, that was sent to the Governor.
Governor's Tax Plan. Parts of this bill were incorporated into the tax reform compromise, HF 2317, that was sent to the Governor.
