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The following bills are in subcommittee in the Iowa Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 19. For more information about an individual bill, click on the bill number. To view a live Zoom of a certain subcommittee, visit this link and click on “agenda” for the specific bill and a Zoom address will appear.

 

8:30 a.m. – HF 117 – RM 217 – A bill for an act establishing the national guard service professional qualification scholarship program.(Formerly HSB 3.)  Salmon – CHPike Winckler

8:30 a.m. – SF 300 – Senate Lounge -A bill for an act relating to replacement certificates of title for vehicles, providing fees, and including retroactive applicability provisions.  Lofgren – CHDickey Zimmer

9:30 a.m. – SSB 1126 – RM 217 -A bill for an act relating to statutory corrections which may adjust language to reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions, delete redundancies and inaccuracies, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts, remove ambiguities, and provide for Code editor directives.  Lofgren – CHBlake Green

11 a.m. – SF 294 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to temporary orders of child custody in dissolution proceedings.  Evans – CHDickey Petersen

11:30 a.m. – SSB 1099 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to school safety by requiring the creation of threat assessment teams and authorizing information sharing between certain governmental agencies.  Dawson – CHPetersen Shipley

11:30 a.m. – SJR 6 – RM G15 – A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa by repealing the natural resources and outdoor recreation trust fund, and dedicating a portion of state revenue from sales and use taxes imposed for the benefit of property tax relief.  Bousselot – CHGreen Staed

12 p.m. – SSB 1114 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act related to the regulation of certain licensed professionals by counties and cities, including prohibiting contractor licensing and limiting permit fees.  Webster – CHLofgren Wahls

12 p.m. – SSB 1108 – RM 217 – A bill for an act relating to county and city landscaping regulation in commercial zones.  Westrich – CHQuirmbach Sires

12 p.m. – SSB 1132 – RM 315 – A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa providing that the people of the state have a right to hunt, fish, trap, and harvest wildlife.  Sweeney – CHTrone Garriott Zumbach

12:30 p.m. – SSB 1075 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements and employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf.  Taylor – CHGarrett Trone Garriott

12:30 p.m. – SF 161 – RM 217 – A bill for an act prohibiting the regulation of certain residential gardens by state agencies and local governments.  Westrich – CHQuirmbach Sires

1 p.m. – SF 186 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to school districts, including by modifying provisions related to the executive officers of the boards of directors of school districts and authorizing residents and employees to request audits of school districts.  Campbell – CHKraayenbrink Quirmbach

1 p.m. – SF 293 – RM 217 – A bill for an act relating to the allocation of special nonresident deer hunting licenses.  Shipley – CHPike Trone Garriott

1 p.m. – SSB 1142 – RM 315 – A bill for an act relating to digital financial asset transaction kiosks.  McClintock – CHBennett Sires

1:30 p.m. – SSB 1135 – RM 217 – A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, and establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services.  Evans – CHShipley Zimmer

1:30 p.m. – SF 254 – RM 315 – A bill for an act prohibiting municipalities and fire departments from purchasing fire fighter equipment that does not contain a label regarding perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.  Westrich – CHLofgren Wahls

2 p.m. – SF 243 – RM 217 – A bill for an act relating to tuition, degree programs, employment, and related matters pertaining to students enrolled at regents institutions.  Green – CHGruenhagen Quirmbach

2 p.m. – SF 237 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act directing the department of education to convene a working group to study the impact of technology on the cognitive function and academic performance of students.  Taylor – CHCampbell Winckler

2 p.m. – SF 292 – RM 315 – A bill for an act relating to the acquisition of certain vehicles by a vehicle recycler, and making penalties applicable.  Shipley – CHBennett Koelker

2:30 p.m. – SF 290 – RM 315 – A bill for an act relating to train accidents resulting in personal injury or death, and making penalties applicable.  Shipley – CHTownsend Warme

3 p.m. – SSB 1134 – RM 315 – A bill for an act relating to requirements for licensure as a professional land surveyor.  Sweeney – CHEvans Zimmer

3 p.m. – SF 298 – RM G15 –A bill for an act creating a muskellunge fishing fee.  Pike – CHBennett Sires

3 p.m. – SSB 1106 – Senate Lounge -A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority and the Iowa finance authority including the strategic infrastructure program, brownfield, grayfield, and redevelopment tax credits, community attraction and tourism, vision Iowa, sports tourism marketing, the historic preservation tax credit, homelessness, the title guaranty board, and arts and culture, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions.  Koelker – CHAlons Blake

3 p.m. – SSB 1061 – RM 217 -A bill for an act relating to eligibility requirements for financial institutions in which public funds may be deposited.  Campbell – CHBisignano Reichman

3:30 p.m. – SSB 1100 – RM 217 – A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the calculation of the teacher salary supplement district cost per pupil, teacher preparation requirements, out-of-state placement of certain specified students requiring special education, the duties of the department of education, and minimum teacher salaries, and including effective date provisions.  Evans – CHPike Quirmbach

3:30 p.m. – SSB 1138 – RM G15 – A bill for an act relating to a review of anti-obesity medications by the department of health and human services and the department of administrative services for purposes of the medical assistance program and health insurance plans for public employees.  Klimesh – CHSalmon Wahls

3:30 p.m. – SSB 1130 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to the administration of elections.  Rozenboom – CHAlons Winckler

4 p.m. – SF 265 – RM 217 – A bill for an act implementing requirements related to organizations that sponsor or administer extracurricular interscholastic athletics, including the creation of a conference realignment committee.  Salmon – CHGruenhagen Zimmer

4 p.m. – SF 331 – RM 217 – A bill for an act relating to the purchasing of a youth deer hunting license and tag.  Costello – CHSires Staed

4 p.m. – SSB 1128 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act prohibiting the use of ranked choice and instant runoff voting in elections in this state.  Rozenboom – CHAlons Winckler

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