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DState Senator · District 43
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
Sets the school funding growth percent at 2 percent for the budget year starting July 1, 2026, caps transportation equity aid at $1 million per district, appropriates $7 million for education support personnel pay, and adds a January adjusted-enrollment count.
Feb 23, 2026 · Passed 27–20 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Adds grade 8 and 11 social studies assessments (from 2027-28), drops "common core" from assessment alignment, ends state equity coordinator standards, removes "multicultural, gender-fair" and global-perspectives language from accreditation rules, and lets agriculture coursework count toward math units.
Apr 14, 2026 · Passed 30–17 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Repealing certain programs and other matters relating to higher education
Repeals higher education programs and functions, including the College Bound Program, the Regents' Minority and Women Educators Enhancement Program, laboratory schools, and various purchasing, policy and reporting requirements.
Apr 14, 2026 · Passed 30–17 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Relating to the commission on uniform state laws
Restructures the commission on uniform state laws into three members appointed by the governor, House speaker, and Senate president, sets two-year terms, and requires the commission to report its expenses and recommended legislation.
Mar 9, 2026 · Passed 28–17 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Sends local civil rights complaints involving a local government to the state Office of Civil Rights, lets any party move unresolved complaints there after 12 months, makes city commissions optional for cities of 29,000 or more, and sets two-year commissioner terms.
Mar 9, 2026 · Passed 29–16 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Mar 18, 2025: Bars state entities, including local governments and community colleges, from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion offices or officers, and bars private colleges from having such offices or lose tuition grant eligibility; lets the attorney general, students, alumni, or employees seek enforcement.
May 9, 2025 · Passed 34–16 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Relating to unemployment insurance taxes on employers
Cuts the wage base on which employers pay unemployment insurance taxes from two-thirds to one-third of the statewide average wage, replaces the tax rate tables with four tables of nine ranks topping out at 5.4 percent, and changes the ranks assigned to new employers.
May 14, 2025 · Failed 16–31 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Appropriates money for fiscal year 2025-26 to state administration and regulation agencies, including Revenue, Secretary of State, Auditor and Insurance, and sends captive insurance premium taxes to the Captive Insurance Regulatory and Supervision Fund.
May 14, 2025 · Passed 31–15 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Sets fiscal 2026 state funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Health and Human Services, including Medicaid, Hawki, child care assistance and the veterans home, and bars Medicaid funds from paying for gender-transition surgery or hormone therapy.
May 14, 2025 · Passed 31–15 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Allows medical practitioners and health care institutions to refuse to take part in or pay for health care services that violate their conscience, bars discrimination and liability for doing so, and bars discrimination for whistleblowing and licensing sanctions for protected speech.
Mar 9, 2026 · Passed 30–16 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Relating to the provision of information relating to immunization exemptions
Requires information on immunization exemptions and their requirements in state vaccine recommendation communications, in school, child care and college communications about immunizations, and on school and child care websites and registration documents.
Apr 29, 2025 · Passed 32–16 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Sets fiscal 2026 state funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Health and Human Services, including Medicaid, Hawki, child care assistance and the veterans home, and bars Medicaid funds from paying for gender-transition surgery or hormone therapy.
May 14, 2025 · Passed 31–15 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Relating to pesticides, by providing for tort liability
Provides that an EPA-approved pesticide label, or one consistent with EPA health or cancer assessments, satisfies state-law warning and labeling duties, including common-law failure-to-warn claims, without barring other state-law claims.
Mar 26, 2025 · Passed 26–21 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
On the version voted May 13, 2025: 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 12, 2025 · Passed 34–14 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
May 12, 2025 · Failed 22–28 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Relating to the use of personal flotation devices on personal watercraft
Requires everyone aboard a personal watercraft to wear a life jacket while under way, except passengers 18 or older when the craft is going 10 miles per hour or slower or is in a no-wake zone; violations carry a $30 fine.
Mar 9, 2026 · Passed 29–17 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Mar 26, 2025: Bars drivers from holding or using electronic devices unless in voice-activated or hands-free mode, raises the fine from $45 to $100, makes a violation a moving violation, and requires officers to issue only warnings until January 1, 2026.
Mar 18, 2025 · Failed 13–35 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Relating to the default speed limit for all vehicular traffic, and making penalties applicable
On the version voted Apr 22, 2026: Raises the default speed limit from 55 to 60 mph and extends to zones up to 60 mph the rule that a driver's first two speeding violations of 10 mph or less in 12 months are not counted against them.
Mar 18, 2025 · Passed 36–12 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Changes rental and eviction law: allows notices by door posting plus email with the recipient's written consent, extends the peaceable-possession bar on eviction suits from 30 to 60 days, and requires sealing eviction court records in set cases.
May 12, 2025 · Passed 34–16 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Relating to fire protection sprinkler systems in certain residential properties
Requires the state building code to bar mandatory fire sprinkler systems in detached single-family homes of 6,500 square feet or less and in a series of attached single-family homes totaling 18,000 square feet or less, and bars local building rules from requiring them.
Mar 2, 2026 · Passed 30–14 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Requires state building code rule proposals to include a report on estimated effects on home construction costs, and bars cities and counties from requiring licenses or fees for general contractors and subcontractors or imposing construction-site stormwater rules stricter than plat approval.
Mar 25, 2025 · Passed 37–12 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
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 28, 2025 · Passed 42–8Official record ↗
Bars state and local agencies from releasing Iowa drivers' or vehicle owners' personal information for use in collecting fines from out-of-state traffic cameras, and requires anyone requesting information by license plate number to state the reason under penalty of perjury, starting January 1, 2026.
Mar 26, 2025 · Passed 40–7 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Relating to veterans services and making appropriations
As introduced, lets recognized veterans service organizations represent veterans in VA claims, ties county veterans-office grants to performance after the first year, requires a statewide electronic claims system, and raises the veterans trust fund threshold for sharing lottery money with counties from $50 million to $75 million.
Mar 10, 2026 · Passed 34–12 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Mar 23, 2026: Bars state licensing of hospitals and other health care facilities owned by the governments or citizens of China, Russia or North Korea, or by companies majority-owned by those governments or their citizens.
Mar 25, 2025 · Passed 47–1 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Voted against most of their party on 13 of 96 party-divided votes on file.
Most often on: Education & families (3), Health & care (3), Jobs & cost of living (3)
Relating to open enrollment, student transfers, and interscholastic athletic eligibility requirements, and including effective date provisions
What it does: Sets a 140-calendar-day varsity athletic ineligibility period for grade 9-12 students who open-enroll or transfer schools, replacing the current 90 school days for open enrollment. Directs state rules letting eighth g…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 5–12, Republicans 30–0
Apr 14, 2026Official record ↗
Creating regulations for cigar bars, modifying the smokefree air Act, and including effective date provisions
What it does: Exempts qualifying cigar bars from the smokefree air Act: venues barring anyone under 21, holding a class C alcohol license, selling only premium cigars, preparing no food, and earning at least 35 percent of revenue f…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 1–15, Republicans 26–3
Mar 9, 2026Official record ↗
Relating to the ability of property owners to protest proposed changes in zoning districts
What it does: On the version voted Apr 29, 2026: Repeals the right of property owners to file a written protest against a proposed zoning district change, which currently requires a three-fourths council vote to override when filed…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 7–8, Republicans 28–1
Mar 2, 2026Official record ↗
Providing for intervention by members of the general assembly in proceedings for judicial review of agency action under the Iowa administrative procedure Act
What it does: On the version voted Apr 30, 2026: Allows the Senate majority and minority leaders, the House speaker, and the House minority leader each to intervene in court review of state agency action, and lets other legislators…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 6–11, Republicans 30–0
Feb 23, 2026Official record ↗
Relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, including establishment training programs, schools of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, and course of study
What it does: On the version voted May 14, 2025: Creates a training program letting barbershops and salons employ unlicensed workers supervised by a licensee, after two hours of education and written notice to customers; trainees c…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 2–14, Republicans 28–6
May 12, 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 27–20 · Yes 27–No 20 · Democrats 0–17, Republicans 27–3
Feb 23, 2026Official record ↗
Relating to the approval and publication of meeting minutes of county boards of supervisors
With most of their party · Passed 29–17 · Yes 29–No 17 · Democrats 0–17, Republicans 29–0
Mar 10, 2026Official record ↗
Relating to the use of personal flotation devices on personal watercraft
With most of their party · Passed 29–17 · Yes 29–No 17 · Democrats 0–17, Republicans 29–0
Mar 9, 2026Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 30–17 · Yes 30–No 17 · Democrats 0–17, Republicans 30–0
Apr 14, 2026Official record ↗
Repealing certain programs and other matters relating to higher education
With most of their party · Passed 30–17 · Yes 30–No 17 · Democrats 0–17, Republicans 30–0
Apr 14, 2026Official record ↗
Relating to the commission on uniform state laws
With most of their party · Passed 28–17 · Yes 28–No 17 · Democrats 0–16, Republicans 28–1
Mar 9, 2026Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 29–16 · Yes 29–No 16 · Democrats 0–16, Republicans 29–0
Mar 9, 2026Official record ↗
Relating to pesticides, by providing for tort liability
With most of their party · Passed 26–21 · Yes 26–No 21 · Democrats 0–15, Republicans 26–6
Mar 26, 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 amendment S–5262 be adopted?
Amends the bill to require businesses receiving major economic growth attraction program incentives to stay neutral in any labor union organizing effort for the agreement term and maintenance period. (AI-written)
Lets the state give one business investing over $1 billion in a county of 50,000 people or fewer a tax credit of up to 10% of the investment, paid over ten years, instead of 5% credits for two businesses.
Motion: Shall amendment S–5261 be adopted?
Lets the state give one business investing over $1 billion in a county of 50,000 people or fewer a tax credit of up to 10% of the investment, paid over ten years, instead of 5% credits for two businesses.
Motion: Shall the bill pass?
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 the bill pass?
Requires an in-person exam screening for coercion or abuse before an abortion, requires doctors to obtain signed forms and disclose specific risks before prescribing abortion pills, requires in-person dispensing in a health care setting, and lets women sue unlawful dispensers not licensed in medicine or pharmacy.
Motion: Shall the bill pass?
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?
Prohibits warrant resolution clinics, events letting people with outstanding warrants resolve them without immediate arrest. Makes knowing violations simple misdemeanors, adds removal from office for officials and civil penalties up to $10,000 for private organizers, and overrides local policies.
Motion: Shall the bill pass?
On the version voted Mar 31, 2026: Requires foundations affiliated with the University of Iowa, Iowa State, and Northern Iowa to invest at least 1 percent of endowment assets in state-certified innovation funds by July 1, 2027, with one-year waivers from the foundation board and annual reporting.
Motion: Shall the bill pass?
Bars the governor from closing or regulating places of worship for any reason, and bars disaster proclamations from changing election rules without legislative approval, regulating conduct in private homes, or requiring vaccinations; health-disaster orders may only recommend business closures.
Motion: Shall the bill pass?
Requires thoroughbred and quarter horse racing seasons to be separate, non-overlapping meets, with no races for both breeds on the same day, unless the breed owners' associations and the Polk County track licensee agree in writing to a mixed meet.
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