Iowa · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SF 2280: A bill for an act relating to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons, establishing the criminal offenses of threatening and the malicious sharing of personal information of a general assembly member or a judicial officer or a general assembly member’s or a judicial officer’s immediate family, and considering true threats to public officials as harassment, and providing penalties.

Enacted Last action May 14, 2026: Fiscal note.

Plain-language summary

SF 2280 is a bill introduced in the Iowa Senate on February 11, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: A bill for an act relating to the safety of persons in certain professions involved with the judicial system, including authorizing a member of the general assembly, judicial officer, attorney general, deputy attorney general, or assistant attorney general to be issued a professional permit to carry weapons, establishing the criminal offenses of threatening and the malicious sharing of personal information of a general assembly member or a judicial officer or a general assembly member’s or a judicial officer’s immediate family, and considering true threats to public officials as harassment, and providing penalties. Primary sponsor: COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY. Most recent recorded action (May 14, 2026): Fiscal note.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY.