(Des Moines) On Tuesday, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed the following bills into law:
SF 278: A bill for an act relating to robotics extracurricular activities, including requiring the Department of Education to provide technical assistance to school districts related to chartering career and technical student organizations related to robotics and authorizing high school athletic organizations to sponsor interscholastic contests related to robotics.
HF 300: A bill for an act enacting the physician assistant licensure compact.
HF 303: A bill for an act relating to prior authorization and utilization review organizations.
HF 299: A bill for an act relating to the provision of information relating to immunization exemptions.
HF 865: A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the harassment or bullying of students enrolled in school districts or accredited nonpublic schools.
SF 608: A bill for an act regulating the marketing of grain, by providing for fees paid by grain dealers and warehouse operators into the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund, and the payment of claims to reimburse sellers and depositors for losses covered by the fund, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
HF 901: A bill for an act relating to the law enforcement academy, including military veterans with active duty military police experience and former federal law enforcement officers.
HF 393: A bill for an act relating to the Iowa school performance profiles published by the Department of Education, including how dropout students affect school performance grades contained in the profiles.
HF 306: A bill for an act relating to the dissemination and exhibition of obscene material to minors and providing penalties.
HF 615: A bill for an act relating to the offense of intentional misrepresentation of an animal as a service animal or service-animal-in-training.
HF 835: A bill for an act relating to school personnel training, including by implementing provisions related to emergency care planning, authorizations for assisting, and limitations of liability concerning students with epilepsy or seizure disorder, and requiring the Department of Education to convene a health care-related training for school personnel work group.
HF 1025: A bill for an act relating to certain state highways not designated as part of the interstate road system, including the operation of implements of husbandry on such highways, and including applicability provisions.
HF 933: A bill for an act relating to pediatric palliative care centers, and including effective date provisions.
SF 462: A bill for an act relating to weapons, including mandatory minimum sentences relating to the control, possession, receipt, or transportation of a firearm or offensive weapon by a felon, and the sharing of identifying information of persons prohibited from acquiring a pistol or revolver by court order, and providing penalties.
HF 856: A bill for an act prohibiting public entities from engaging in certain activities relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions.
SF 369: A bill for an act requiring students to pass the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Naturalization Civics Test as a condition of high school graduation and high school equivalency diplomas.
Gov. Reynolds released the following statement after signing SF 369:
“Requiring high school graduates to pass the U.S. Citizenship Test ensures Iowa students are fully prepared to be responsible and engaged citizens.”
HF 889: A bill for an act relating to government employee paid leave.
Gov. Reynolds released the following statement after signing HF 889:
“After working on it for three years, the families first bill is finally state law. We are giving state employees paid parental leave, joining 24 other states and the federal government. This bill will provide the crucial time needed for employees to bond with their newborn children.”
