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The following bills have subcommittee hearings in the Iowa Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 5. For more information about an individual bill, click on the bill number. If you’d like to watch a live stream of a specific bill, visit this link and click agenda to find the Zoom link.

9:30 a.m. – SSB 1046 – Senate Lounge – A concurrent resolution urging the members of Congress to amend federal law to increase the maximum gross weight allowed for motor vehicles operated on the interstate road system in Iowa and bordering states.  Zumbach – CHKoelker Townsend

10 a.m. – SF 128 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to immunization information requested on a medical examiner report used for investigations.  Guth – CHDonahue Salmon

10:30 a.m. – SSB 1060 – RM 315 – A bill for an act relating to cost-sharing requirements for supplemental and diagnostic breast examinations.  Driscoll – CHKoelker Trone Garriott

10:30 a.m. – SF 64 – RM 217 – A bill for an act relating to budget adjustments by school districts affected by a natural disaster.  Evans – CHTaylor Winckler

10:30 a.m. – SSB 1071 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act requiring that land within a levee or drainage district be included in an abstract of title.  Sweeney – CHStaed Westrich

11 a.m. – SSB 1052 – RM 217 – A bill for an act enacting the physician assistant licensure compact.  Warme – CHCampbell Trone Garriott

11 a.m. – SSB 1035 – RM 315 – A bill for an act relating to the Iowa lottery.  Koelker – CHAlons Townsend

11:30 a.m. – SF 135 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to the display of a validation sticker on a vehicle registration plate.  Pike – CHBlake Shipley

12 p.m. – SSB 1077 – RM 217 – A bill for an act modifying provisions related to compulsory education, truancy, and chronic absenteeism.  Evans – CHShipley Winckler

12 p.m. – SSB 1078 – RM 315 – A bill for an act relating to allowable deer hunting practices by multiple hunters and making penalties applicable.  Sweeney – CHTrone Garriott Zumbach

12 p.m. – SSB 1044 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to the combined gross weight limit for vehicles operating under a fluid milk products annual permit, and including applicability provisions.  Rozenboom – CHBennett Warme

1:30 p.m. – SSB 1051 – RM 217 – A bill for an act relating to pesticides, by providing for tort liability.  Bousselot – CHBisignano Shipley

1:30 p.m. – SSB 1093 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to fur-bearing animals, including the treatment of beaver dams, identification for traps and snares, and maximum fur dealer license fees.  Sweeney – CHCelsi Zumbach

2 p.m. – SSB 1074 – RM G15 – A bill for an act relating to pharmacy benefits managers, pharmacies, and prescription drugs and including applicability provisions.  Klimesh – CHSweeney Trone Garriott

2 p.m. – SSB 1008 – RM 217 – A bill for an act relating to family interactions during an ongoing child in need of assistance proceeding.  Bousselot – CHKnox Taylor

2:30 p.m. – SF 141 – RM 315 – A bill for an act relating to forms of payment for entry into an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition.  Shipley – CHPike Staed

2:30 p.m. SF 116 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to obscenity, including the exposure of a minor to an obscene performance and admittance of a minor to a premises with obscene performances, establishing a private civil cause of action, and providing penalties.  Westrich – CHTaylor Weiner

3:30 p.m. – SSB 1065 – Senate Lounge – A bill for an act relating to electronic devices in schools, including student access during instructional hours, school safety plans, and instruction related to the effects of social media in grades six through eight, and including effective date provisions.  Evans – CHQuirmbach Taylor

3:30 p.m. – SSB 1083 – RM 217 – A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of management, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions.  Guth – CHAlons Blake

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