2025 Bills Signed by Governor Kim Reynolds
Governor Kim Reynolds signed a series of bills on Friday, bringing the total number of bills signed to 27 for the 2025 legislative session thus far. See the full list and their effective dates below or in the attached PDF, and please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
All the best,
The Dentons Davis Brown Government Relations Team
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Bill Title |
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A bill for an act relating to the minimum age for acquiring or carrying weapons. (Formerly HSB 262.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act prohibiting state and local regulations on fuel-powered equipment based on the equipment’s fuel source. (Formerly HSB 214.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to solicitation by a financial institution using prescreened trigger lead information from a consumer report. (Formerly HSB 150.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to the place of trial for certain criminal offenses. (Formerly HSB 49.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to family interactions during an ongoing child in need of assistance proceeding. (Formerly HSB 40.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to the final disposition of remains. (Formerly HSB 16.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act authorizing the waiver of preplacement investigations and reports in certain adoption proceedings. (Formerly HSB 41.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to the review by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing of certain deficient practices by nursing facilities. (Formerly HSB 1.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to home inspections, including persons authorized to perform home inspections and requirements for independent home inspection reports, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly SSB 1144.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to assaults, including assaults on persons engaged in certain occupations and inmate assaults on department of corrections employees, and providing penalties. (Formerly SSB 1058.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to theft, forgery, and fraud involving a gift card, and providing penalties. Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to bank utilization of filing services offered by the secretary of state. (Formerly SSB 1034.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/18/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to county supervisors, concerning county supervisor representation plans and county supervisor vacancies, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1018.) Effective date: 04/10/2025. |
04/10/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to the use of an electronic device in a voice-activated or hands-free mode while driving, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
04/02/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to the placement of a child who is the subject of a pending delinquency petition in a supervised apartment living arrangement pursuant to a consent decree, and the circumstances under which the placement is paid by the state. (Formerly HSB 39.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to the Iowa lottery. (Formerly HSB 69.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to county commissions of veteran affairs. (Formerly HSB 28.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to controlled substances, including certain controlled substances schedules and precursor substances reporting requirements, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 25.) Effective date: 03/28/2025. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act prohibiting open containers of beverages containing tetrahydrocannabinol in the passenger area of motor vehicles on highways, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 29.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of grooming and the sex offender registry, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HSB 22.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to state income tax withholdings on winnings from sports wagering, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1152.) Effective date: 01/01/2026. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to workforce compensation and training, unemployment insurance, and other functions and programs of the department of workforce development, the workforce development board, and local government entities, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SF 222, SSB 1068.) Effective date: 03/28/2025, 07/01/2025. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act prohibiting the consideration of the deployment, implementation, or use of a motor carrier safety improvement when determining a person’s employment status. (Formerly SSB 1107.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to driver age qualifications for certain commercial motor vehicle drivers operating solely intrastate to transport hazardous material. (Formerly SSB 1015.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act modifying the costs eligible for emergency medical services fund expenditures, and including effective date provisions. Effective date: 03/28/2025. |
03/28/25 |
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A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the effective date of school district enlargements, reorganizations, changes in boundaries, and dissolutions, and including retroactive applicability provisions. (Formerly SF 16.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2025. |
03/12/25 |
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A bill for an act relating to sex and gender, including those and related terms for purposes of statutory construction, indications of a person’s sex on certain vital records, gender identity under the Iowa civil rights Act, and school curricula related to gender theory. Effective date: 07/01/2025. |
02/28/25 |