IA · Officeholder
DState Representative · District 62
On the ballot Nov 3, 2026: Iowa House District 62
Jerome Amos is a Democratic state representative who has represented Iowa House District 62 since 2023 and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2] Ballotpedia lists Amos's career experience as an adjunct instructor and machinist and notes service on the Waterloo city council.[1]
Jerome Amos Jr.'s career experience includes working as an adjunct instructor with Hawkeye Community College and as a machinist with John Deere, according to Ballotpedia.[1] Amos served on the city council of Waterloo, Iowa.[1] In the 2025-2026 session Amos was assigned to the House Appropriations, Labor, Public Safety and House Veterans Affairs committees.[1]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.
Jerome Amos is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot for Iowa House District 62 as D. Not researched in depth — candidate list only.
Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Democrats voted. How topics are assigned
Most contested
Directs the state to seek federal approval to limit food stamp (SNAP) purchases to healthy foods, and, once approved, provides $1 million in grants for the Double Up Food Bucks program, which helps SNAP recipients buy fruits and vegetables.
Mar 26, 2025 · Passed 56–40 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Creates state grants of up to $100,000, matched dollar for dollar, for grocery stores whose owners have 10 or fewer stores, favoring the smallest communities, plus grants to expand processing of Iowa-grown fruits and vegetables, paid from a new fund.
Apr 24, 2025 · Failed 31–58 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to seek federal approval to require Iowa Health and Wellness Plan members to work at least 80 hours a month, with listed exemptions, and to align work rules across public assistance programs.
Mar 26, 2025 · Passed 61–35 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Allows school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to employ chaplains, or engage unpaid chaplains, to support students without a state license; bars requiring students to use them or using a chaplain instead of a school counselor.
Mar 26, 2025 · Passed 57–39 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Establishing a center for intellectual freedom at the university of Iowa
Establishes a center for intellectual freedom at the University of Iowa to teach and research ideas shaping the American constitutional order, offer free speech and civil discourse programming, and offer an American history and civil government course.
Mar 18, 2025 · Passed 60–37 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Requires regents universities to set general education requirements totaling at most 37 credit hours, including western and American heritage, and bars those courses from distorting historical events or teaching identity politics or that systemic racism or privilege is inherent in U.S. or Iowa institutions.
Mar 18, 2025 · Passed 61–36 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Changes how criminal fines are divided, from 91% for the state court administrator and 9% for counties to 85% and 8%, sending the remaining 7% to a new victim restitution fund run by the Department of Justice.
Apr 23, 2025 · Failed 35–58 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Concerning the duties of county commissioners and county auditors
Raises from $1,000 to $50,000 the cost above which county election commissioners must take bids, allows informal bidding at or below that amount, and removes many county auditor duties and a bond-indexing requirement.
Mar 27, 2025 · Passed 61–32 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Bars regents universities from requiring students to take, or faculty to include or be trained in, diversity, equity, inclusion and critical race theory content as defined. Lets the regents exempt racial, ethnic and gender studies programs and the attorney general seek a court order.
Mar 18, 2025 · Passed 63–34 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Directs the state to seek federal approval to limit food stamp (SNAP) purchases to healthy foods, and, once approved, provides $1 million in grants for the Double Up Food Bucks program, which helps SNAP recipients buy fruits and vegetables.
Mar 26, 2025 · Passed 56–40 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to seek federal approval to require Iowa Health and Wellness Plan members to work at least 80 hours a month, with listed exemptions, and to align work rules across public assistance programs.
Mar 26, 2025 · Passed 61–35 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
As introduced, requires Iowa Health and Wellness Plan members to work at least 80 hours a month, with possible exemptions, once federally approved; replaces a public assistance fund with an information technology fund; and lets couples in a disability Medicaid program exclude $21,000 in resources.
Mar 26, 2025 · Failed 32–64 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Creates Gadsden flag "Don't Tread on Me" license plates with a $50 issuance fee and $50 annual fee, sending proceeds to state grants for firearm safety and right-to-bear-arms education, and drops the requirement that plate frames leave the county name visible.
May 12, 2025 · Failed 31–58 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Requires school bus drivers to hold a commercial license with passenger and school bus endorsements, makes a state-approved driver course required only if the school district requires it, and counts federal entry-level driver training as an approved course.
May 8, 2025 · Passed 64–20 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Relating to motor vehicle window tint, and making penalties applicable
On the version voted Mar 23, 2026: Bars driving with a front windshield under 70 percent light transmittance or front side windows under 50 percent, replacing the current excessively-dark-or-reflective standard, and exempts law enforcement vehicles.
Mar 25, 2025 · Passed 72–25 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Sets state rules for on-farm anaerobic digesters tied to livestock feeding operations, requiring Department of Natural Resources construction permits with fees up to $250, design standards, separation distances, and plans for spreading digestate on cropland, with violations subject to existing penalties.
Apr 17, 2025 · Failed 32–60 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Sets fiscal 2026 budgets for the state agriculture and natural resources departments and related programs from the general fund and other state funds, including animal disease preparedness, water quality and state park upkeep, and keeps money from selling state park land for that park.
May 13, 2025 · Failed 29–62 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Bars anyone from using eminent domain to acquire land for, build or operate a pipeline primarily for carrying carbon dioxide or other carbon oxides, effective immediately for condemnation cases filed on or after that date.
Jan 21, 2026 · Passed 64–28 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Relating to county and city regulation of accessory dwelling units
Requires cities and counties to allow at least one accessory dwelling unit, up to 1,000 square feet or half the home's size, whichever is larger, on single-family lots, bars stricter rules on setbacks, parking, owner occupancy and design, and requires permit approval without discretionary review.
Apr 8, 2025 · Passed 89–7 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Apr 15, 2025: Lets county and city zoning boards of adjustment grant variances from lot size, setback, height, parking and other numerical zoning limits when an owner proves practical difficulties unique to the property, not self-created, and that the variance won't significantly alter the neighborhood.
Mar 13, 2025 · Passed 89–6 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Partially exempts from property tax homes that the federal housing department sells to owner-occupants to house people in a declared disaster area, phasing down from 80% of the home's value in the first year to 20% in the fourth year.
May 8, 2025 · Passed 79–5 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
On the version voted Apr 28, 2025: Changes the ban on flying drones over others' farms to cover flights, without the owner's consent, within 400 feet of farm animals, equipment or structures on farmsteads outside city limits with at least $15,000 in farm sales the prior year, and broadens what counts as drone surveillance.
Apr 8, 2025 · Passed 89–7 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Apr 22, 2026: Extends the sales tax exemption on central office and transmission equipment bought by phone, cable, wireless and similar providers to equipment used to provide internet access, and drops the requirement that the equipment be used primarily for telecommunications.
Apr 21, 2025 · Passed 87–4 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Apr 30, 2026: Requires websites and apps where a third or more of content is pornographic for minors to verify users' ages, bars keeping or sharing verification data, and lets the attorney general seek fines of up to $1,000 per violation, capped at $10,000 a day.
Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 88–1 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Modifying provisions related to the national guard service scholarship program
On the version voted Apr 9, 2025: Caps National Guard service scholarships at the member's tuition minus federal military tuition aid received, and removes the rule that awards cannot depend on a member's unit, drill location or Army versus Air Guard branch.
Jan 30, 2025 · Failed 31–68 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Relating to the applicability of actions of certain international organizations
Declares that actions of the United Nations, its agencies and the World Economic Forum are not binding in Iowa, bars state and local governments from enforcing them, and requires the attorney general to seek court orders against violations.
May 12, 2025 · Passed 89–1 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Voted against most of their party on 3 of 133 party-divided votes on file.
Relating to the minimum age for acquiring or carrying weapons
What it does: On the version voted Apr 7, 2025: Lowers from 21 to 18 the age to get a carry permit and to be sold, loaned or given a handgun, but bars people under 21 from getting a permit to acquire or using a carry permit to skip…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 14–18, Republicans 65–0
Mar 25, 2025Official record ↗
Relating to the practice of dental assistants without registration by the dental board
What it does: On the version voted Apr 15, 2025: Allows a person to practice as a dental assistant without a certificate of registration if they complete a term of practical training under a dentist's supervision, and directs the d…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 13–16, Republicans 57–3
Mar 20, 2025Official record ↗
Concerning the licensing and regulation of gambling games, including a moratorium on the issuance of new licenses, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions
What it does: Caps state casino and racetrack gambling licenses at 19 through June 2030, limits them to counties that had one on Jan. 1, 2025, bars new licenses that would cut an existing casino's revenue over 10%, and expands the…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 15–17, Republicans 53–14
Jan 30, 2025Official record ↗
The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank
With most of their party · Passed 56–40 · Yes 56–No 40 · Democrats 0–32, Republicans 56–8
Mar 26, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Failed 35–58 · Yes 35–No 58 · Democrats 32–0, Republicans 3–58
Apr 23, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 57–39 · Yes 57–No 39 · Democrats 0–32, Republicans 57–7
Mar 26, 2025Official record ↗
Establishing a center for intellectual freedom at the university of Iowa
With most of their party · Passed 60–37 · Yes 60–No 37 · Democrats 0–33, Republicans 60–4
Mar 18, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Failed 31–58 · Yes 31–No 58 · Democrats 31–0, Republicans 0–58
Apr 24, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 61–36 · Yes 61–No 36 · Democrats 0–33, Republicans 61–3
Mar 18, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 61–37 · Yes 61–No 37 · Democrats 0–33, Republicans 61–4
Mar 18, 2025Official record ↗
Concerning the duties of county commissioners and county auditors
With most of their party · Passed 61–32 · Yes 61–No 32 · Democrats 0–32, Republicans 61–0
Mar 27, 2025Official record ↗
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
Motion: Shall the bill pass?
Lets the state award one business a tax credit of up to 10% of its investment, paid over ten years, for a major project in a county of 50,000 people or fewer, instead of up to 5% credits for two businesses; credits are refundable and transferable.
Motion: Shall the bill pass?
On the version voted May 3, 2026: Replaces most homeowners' homestead property tax credit with an exemption of 10% of taxable value, from $5,500 to $20,000, starting in 2026, limits county and city general levies and other rate-limited levies to 2% yearly growth, and creates FirstHome Iowa savings accounts.
Motion: Shall the bill pass?
On the version voted May 3, 2026: Makes wide-ranging changes to state law and budgets, including corrections to 2026 acts, limits on standing appropriations, an insurer tax credit for health care access, a civil litigation abuse lawsuit, required American history and government courses at state universities, and judicial salary changes.
Motion: Shall amendment H–8494, to amendment H–8491, be adopted?
Amends the bill to remove its division that changes the 2023 National Electrical Code for Iowa homes (such as dropping arc-fault interrupter requirements) and bars local electrical codes stricter than the national code. (AI-written)
On the version voted May 3, 2026: Makes wide-ranging changes to state law and budgets, including corrections to 2026 acts, limits on standing appropriations, an insurer tax credit for health care access, a civil litigation abuse lawsuit, required American history and government courses at state universities, and judicial salary changes.
Motion: Shall amendment H–8490 be adopted?
On the version voted Apr 15, 2025: Proposes a state constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote of each legislative chamber to raise income tax rates or create a new state income-based tax; it goes to voters in November 2026.
Motion: Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–8488?
On the version voted Apr 15, 2025: Proposes a state constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote of each legislative chamber to raise income tax rates or create a new state income-based tax; it goes to voters in November 2026.
Motion: Shall amendment H–8487 be adopted?
On the version voted Apr 15, 2025: Proposes a state constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote of each legislative chamber to raise income tax rates or create a new state income-based tax; it goes to voters in November 2026.
Motion: Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–8486?
On the version voted Apr 15, 2025: Proposes a state constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote of each legislative chamber to raise income tax rates or create a new state income-based tax; it goes to voters in November 2026.
Motion: Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–8485?
On the version voted Apr 15, 2025: Proposes a state constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote of each legislative chamber to raise income tax rates or create a new state income-based tax; it goes to voters in November 2026.
Motion: Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H–8484?
On the version voted Apr 15, 2025: Proposes a state constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote of each legislative chamber to raise income tax rates or create a new state income-based tax; it goes to voters in November 2026.
Showing 10 of 531 votes in this collection. Coverage may be incomplete; each entry links to the official record.