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Iowa · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Proposed Bill

HSB 735: A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to charter schools, the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, financing programs for charter schools and nonpublic schools administered by the Iowa finance authority, the statewide voluntary preschool program for four-year-old children, education savings accounts, the school start date, independent accrediting agencies, teacher training and licensure, and making appropriations, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HSB 735 is a proposed bill introduced in the Iowa House on February 12, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to charter schools, the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, financing programs for charter schools and nonpublic schools administered by the Iowa finance authority, the statewide voluntary preschool program for four-year-old children, education savings accounts, the school start date, independent accrediting agencies, teacher training and licensure, and making appropriations, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions. Primary sponsor: COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. Most recent recorded action (February 24, 2026): Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2713.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATIONPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2713.
  2. Committee vote: Yeas, 14. Nays, 9.
  3. Committee report, recommending amendment and passage.
  4. Subcommittee recommends passage.
  5. Subcommittee Meeting: 02/17/2026 12:00PM RM 103.
  6. Subcommittee: Wheeler, Ehlert and Stone.
  7. Introduced, referred to Education.

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source