Iowa · Current officeholder
Beth Wessel-Kroeschell
Democratic Iowa House, District 49
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Sponsored legislation
60 bills in the current data (60 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HJR 2008 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to worker rights. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2026 |
| HF 2384 | A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2026 |
| HF 2380 | A bill for an act providing for a community-based wage enforcement program for purposes of the state wage payment collection and minimum wage laws. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2026 |
| HF 2378 | A bill for an act increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2026 |
| HR 109 | A resolution honoring the Jordan House Museum for more than 180 years of historical service to the people of Iowa. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 30, 2026 |
| HR 112 | A resolution recognizing the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Northern Iowa. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 25, 2026 |
| HF 2740 | A bill for an act relating to the confidentiality of certain information filed with the secretary of state by foreign persons holding agricultural land. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2026 |
| HF 2738 | A bill for an act establishing a state-based health insurance subsidy, and making an appropriation. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| HF 2736 | A bill for an act modifying provisions related to area education agency funding, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| HF 2735 | A bill for an act relating to programs administered by the Iowa finance authority including the firsthome program and home ownership assistance program for military members, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| HF 2733 | A bill for an act relating to water quality, including a water quality monitoring network and the water quality initiative, an agricultural best management practices tax credit, an Iowa clean water farm program and property tax credit, and water quality practices loans, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| HF 2729 | A bill for an act establishing a temporary prohibition on an increase in rates or charges by gas and electric public utilities, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 9, 2026 |
| HF 2708 | A bill for an act relating to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and causing injury, and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 23, 2026 |
| HF 2455 | A bill for an act relating to abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 16, 2026 |
| HF 2421 | A bill for an act relating to funding of supplemental nutrition assistance program assistance benefits. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| HF 2418 | A bill for an act providing for county control of the siting and management of confinement feeding operations. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| HF 2416 | A bill for an act relating to the regulation of confinement feeding operations, including by providing for partially roofed structures and prohibiting the construction, including expansion, of structures, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| HF 2394 | A bill for an act creating a food bank donation matching fund and making appropriations. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2026 |
| HF 2373 | A bill for an act establishing a retirement savings plan trust, providing penalties, and including implementation provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2026 |
| HF 2364 | A bill for an act relating to the enactment of supplemental state aid and the suspension and forfeiture of legislative pay. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2026 |
| HF 2264 | A bill for an act relating to the minimum per hour wage provided to home health aides under the Medicaid program, and making an appropriation. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2026 |
| HF 2259 | A bill for an act relating to an insurer’s use of credit information for a motor vehicle financial liability coverage policy. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2026 |
| HF 2237 | A bill for an act relating to the discharge of toxic pollutants associated with coal ash into water sources. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2026 |
| HF 2206 | A bill for an act relating to the manufacture, delivery, and possession of marijuana, the licensure of retail marijuana, providing fees, including excise taxes, establishing funds, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 29, 2026 |
| HF 2152 | A bill for an act repealing the school tuition organization tax credit available against the individual and corporate income taxes and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 26, 2026 |
| HF 2151 | A bill for an act making appropriations to the department of education for the therapeutic classroom incentive grant program. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 26, 2026 |
| HF 2142 | A bill for an act relating to limitations on activities related to paid claims under the Medicaid program, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| HR 101 | A resolution honoring Staff Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, Staff Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, and their families. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | January 15, 2026 |
| HR 16 | A resolution recognizing and commending the National Conference of State Legislatures on its fiftieth anniversary. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 2, 2025 |
| HF 812 | A bill for an act requesting that the legislative council establish an interim study committee to plan an Iowa education summit to be held in 2026. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 6, 2025 |
| HR 8 | A resolution to recognize Archie and Nancy Martin and the contributions of the Martin family to the education of Black students in Iowa. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 4, 2025 |
| HF 727 | A bill for an act relating to the maximum finance charge on a consumer credit sale. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2025 |
| HF 688 | A bill for an act relating to products and materials purchased by state agencies. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 687 | A bill for an act relating to projects involving state moneys or tax credits. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 685 | A bill for an act relating to state agency contracts involving steel. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 684 | A bill for an act relating to the purchase of steel by state agencies. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 682 | A bill for an act relating to the recapture of tax expenditures and disbursed by departments of the state to businesses that violate child labor laws. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 681 | A bill for an act establishing a wage and hour division in the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 676 | A bill for an act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and making penalties applicable. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 675 | A bill for an act requiring employers to provide employees with meal periods and rest periods and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 673 | A bill for an act requiring certain weekly workers’ compensation benefits to be calculated by including an employee’s overtime and premium pay, and to include an annual cost-of-living adjustment. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 672 | A bill for an act relating to mandatory subjects of negotiation for public employee collective bargaining and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 671 | A bill for an act relating to eligible parties to a valid marriage. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 662 | A bill for an act appropriating moneys to the department of health and human services for refugee resettlement assistance, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 661 | A bill for an act relating to child care, including the child and dependent care tax credit, a child care workforce matching grant program, a small business child care tax credit, and state child care assistance, and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HF 560 | A bill for an act relating to the rights of parents, guardians, and minors including those relating to gender transition procedure-related activities for minors, and providing effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| HF 554 | A bill for an act relating to public schools, including by modifying provisions related to school district library programs and requests to remove educational materials from classrooms and school libraries. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| HF 462 | A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring civil actions by victims of sexual abuse and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 19, 2025 |
| HF 455 | A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2025 |
| HF 412 | A bill for an act relating to unhoused persons participating in the state child care assistance program. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 13, 2025 |
| HF 411 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance program copayments for unhoused persons. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 13, 2025 |
| HF 410 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance program reimbursements to certain child care providers. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 13, 2025 |
| HF 368 | A bill for an act relating to water quality standards, including by providing for the regulation of animal feeding operations, providing penalties, and making penalties applicable. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 13, 2025 |
| HF 333 | A bill for an act providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms and making an appropriation. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| HF 251 | A bill for an act requiring the state board of education to publish information related to nonpublic schools that are accredited by an approved independent accrediting agency. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 6, 2025 |
| HJR 5 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to citizen initiatives to amend the Constitution of the State of Iowa and the Iowa Code and referendums to approve certain bills passed by the general assembly. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| HJR 4 | A joint resolution designating the regal fritillary as the official state butterfly of the state of Iowa. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| HJR 3 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right of the people to a clean environment. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| HF 152 | A bill for an act relating to the federal summer electronic benefits transfer for children program, making an appropriation, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| HF 151 | A bill for an act relating to surface water quality by requiring the establishment and maintenance of riparian protection measures, providing for financing, and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |