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Iowa · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SF 445: A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations and reducing appropriations, and including effective date provisions.

Passed one chamber 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

SF 445 is a bill introduced in the Iowa Senate on February 26, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations and reducing appropriations, and including effective date provisions. Primary sponsor: COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. Most recent recorded action (May 15, 2025): Rereferred to Health and Human Services.

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. Rereferred to Health and Human Services.
  2. Read first time, passed on file.
  3. Message from Senate.
  4. Fiscal note.
  5. Immediate message.
  6. Passed Senate, yeas 33, nays 14.
  7. Amendment S-3136 filed, lost.
  8. Amendment S-3135 filed, lost.
  9. Amendment S-3134 filed, lost.
  10. Amendment S-3133 filed, lost.
  11. Amendment S-3132 filed, adopted.
  12. Fiscal note.

Showing 12 most recent of 15 actions. Full history

Sources

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