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The following bills are in subcommittee on Tuesday, Feb. 21 in the Iowa House of Representatives. You can find individual links to live video of each meeting here.

8 a.m. – HSB 167 – House Lounge – A bill for an act relating to insurance policy terms and public policy considerations.

8 a.m. – HF 299 – RM 19 – A bill for an act relating to entering property for surveying purposes, and providing penalties.

10:30 a.m. – HF 228 – House Lounge – A bill for an act relating to Medicare supplement policies and an annual open enrollment period.

10:30 a.m. – HF 233 – House Lounge 2 – A bill for an act relating to determination of school district enrollments and education savings account participation and including effective date and applicability provisions.

11 a.m. – HF 220 – RM 304.1 – A bill for an act requiring school districts to provide information related to the Iowa tuition grant program to students enrolled in grades ten through twelve.

11 a.m. – HF 73 – House Lounge 2 – A bill for an act relating to firearm education in schools, including requiring the director of the department of education to develop and distribute age-appropriate model programs for firearm safety instruction and modifying provisions related to the required instruction in public schools and accredited nonpublic schools in grades six through twelve.

11 a.m. – HF 283 – House Lounge – A bill for an act relating to private instruction, including modifying provisions related to independent private instruction and the reports and evidence of immunizations required under competent private instruction.

11 a.m. – HF 368 – RM 19 – A bill for an act relating to specified utility construction project requirements, and including effective date and applicability provisions.

12 p.m. – HSB 99 – House Lounge 2 – A bill for an act relating to homeowner’s and renter’s insurance policies and certain dog breeds, and including effective date and applicability provisions.

12 p.m. – HF 221 – RM 304 – A bill for an act relating to requirements for professional licensure, including licenses issued by the board of educational examiners to applicants from other states or countries.

12 p.m. – HSB 159 – House Lounge – A bill for an act relating to nonsubstantive Code corrections, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.

12 p.m. – HSB 173 – RM 19 – A bill for an act relating to the transferring, carrying, transportation, and possession of weapons by certain persons and in certain locations, and including effective date provisions.

12 p.m. – HSB 126 – RM 103 – A bill for an act relating to the organization, structure, and functions of state government, providing for salaries of appointed state officers, providing for penalties, making appropriations, providing Code editor directives and transition provisions, and including applicability and effective date provisions.

12:30 p.m. – HSB 154 – House Lounge – A bill for an act relating to the use of certain technology, including the legal effect of the use of distributed ledger technology or smart contracts and affirmative defenses associated with the use of cybersecurity programs.

12:30 p.m. – HSB 176 – RM 102 – A bill for an act relating to mental health and disability services provided by the state and judicial procedures relating to child in need of assistance proceedings, adoptions, and the confinement of persons found incompetent to stand trial.

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