Iowa · Current officeholder
Molly Donahue
Democratic Iowa Senate, District 37
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Sponsored legislation
136 bills in the current data (136 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SR 111 | A resolution recognizing the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Northern Iowa. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 25, 2026 |
| SF 2360 | A bill for an act relating to partial payments of property taxes and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2026 |
| SF 2350 | A bill for an act relating to the use of automatic registration plate readers, and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 17, 2026 |
| SF 2244 | A bill for an act relating to the education savings account program, including the establishment and requirements of qualified nonpublic schools. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 16, 2026 |
| SF 2241 | A bill for an act relating to charter school requirements, including reporting requirements, governance standards, financial accountability, and oversight by the state board of education. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 16, 2026 |
| SJR 2009 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to corporate participation in the political process. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2272 | A bill for an act providing for a veterans’ benefits and services poster for employers to display in the workplace. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2271 | A bill for an act relating to captioning requirements for motion picture theaters. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2267 | A bill for an act relating to clean water projects and programs by requiring agencies to publish data regarding progress in meeting certain benchmarks. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2261 | A bill for an act relating to confinement feeding operations by requiring the installation and operation of pollution monitoring systems, and making penalties applicable. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2249 | A bill for an act relating to customer classes for large energy use facilities, and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2248 | A bill for an act providing for paid family and medical leave to certain employees who have a child receiving inpatient care in a neonatal intensive care unit. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2247 | A bill for an act relating to persons prohibited from participating in economic development programs. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2245 | A bill for an act relating to audits of governmental subdivisions by the state auditor concerning suspected embezzlement, theft, or other significant financial irregularities. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2243 | A bill for an act relating to the operation of state government, including the commencement of audits, information made available to the auditor of state, and disputes between governmental agencies. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2242 | A bill for an act relating to radon testing and mitigation for the conveyance of single-family residences, and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2239 | A bill for an act relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| SF 2269 | A bill for an act appropriating moneys to Iowa state university of science and technology for use by the Iowa nutrient research center in supporting the Iowa water quality information systems. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2026 |
| SF 2226 | A bill for an act relating to the use of automated adjudication systems by health carriers, and including civil penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2026 |
| SF 2225 | A bill for an act relating to property law, including rental properties, manufactured home communities, mobile home parks, and actions relating to such properties, making penalties applicable, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2026 |
| SF 2179 | A bill for an act relating to the definition of beverage for purposes of beverage container deposits, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 9, 2026 |
| SF 2133 | A bill for an act relating to administrator licenses granted by the board of educational examiners and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2026 |
| SF 2128 | A bill for an act relating to securing firearms and establishing a private cause of action and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2026 |
| SF 2127 | A bill for an act relating to firearm safety training requirements for a permit to acquire pistols or revolvers, and making penalties applicable. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2026 |
| SF 2125 | A bill for an act relating to lost or stolen firearms, and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2026 |
| SF 2123 | A bill for an act relating to identification markings on firearms and firearm parts, and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2026 |
| SF 2108 | A bill for an act relating to facial coverings worn by peace officers and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2026 |
| SF 2106 | A bill for an act relating to residential rental property price fixing, and providing civil penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2026 |
| SF 2103 | A bill for an act relating to the cessation of appropriations to the Iowa resources enhancement and protection fund. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2026 |
| SF 2098 | A bill for an act relating to firearms, including background checks for acquiring pistols or revolvers, identification markings on firearms and firearm parts, trigger locks, extreme risk protective orders, mental health funding, certain firearm transfers, and certain related crimes, and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2026 |
| SF 2109 | A bill for an act relating to a review of fire safety code requirements and enforcement mechanisms for basement egress windows. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2026 |
| SF 2102 | A bill for an act relating to health care coverage of certain public school district personnel under the state health insurance plan, providing fees, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2026 |
| SF 2080 | A bill for an act relating to area education agency employee access to student records. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2026 |
| SF 2076 | A bill for an act relating to a waiver of tuition and mandatory fees at accredited private institutions and regents institutions for students during student teaching experiences in the state. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2026 |
| SF 2110 | A bill for an act relating to the natural organic reduction of human remains. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 26, 2026 |
| SF 2104 | A bill for an act relating to water usage reporting requirements for large water use facilities. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 26, 2026 |
| SJR 2005 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right of all youths of this state to a comprehensive public education. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SF 2056 | A bill for an act relating to billing methods for distributed generation customers. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SF 2047 | A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage for prescription insulin drugs. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 22, 2026 |
| SF 2073 | A bill for an act relating to the minimum amounts required for motor vehicle financial responsibility, and making penalties applicable. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| SF 2048 | A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for annual lung cancer screenings for at-risk individuals. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| SF 2014 | A bill for an act creating the restroom emergency access Act, and providing civil penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| SJR 2003 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to reproductive care. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 20, 2026 |
| SR 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 |
| SF 2046 | A bill for an act relating to wage payment collection issues arising between employers and employees, providing penalties and remedies, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 14, 2026 |
| SF 2045 | 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 | January 14, 2026 |
| SF 2018 | A bill for an act relating to special education, including by requiring accredited nonpublic schools to provide special education services to students enrolled in the school who require such services and modifying the responsibilities of area education agencies, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 13, 2026 |
| SJR 10 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa limiting years of service for members of the general assembly. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| SF 562 | A bill for an act relating to utilization review organizations, prior authorizations and exemptions, medical billing, and independent review organizations. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| SF 561 | A bill for an act allowing the use of ranked choice and instant runoff voting in local government elections in this state. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| SF 560 | A bill for an act relating to participation in the electronic registration information center. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| SF 505 | A bill for an act codifying a firsthome program administered by the Iowa finance authority. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2025 |
| SF 559 | A bill for an act relating to speech language pathologist assistants and the medical assistance program, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2025 |
| SF 558 | A bill for an act relating to Medicaid program improvements, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2025 |
| SF 556 | A bill for an act relating to eligibility requirements for pregnant women, postpartum women, and infants under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2025 |
| SF 485 | A bill for an act establishing requirements related to nonpublic schools that receive tuition payments from parents or guardians whose students are participating in the education savings account program. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2025 |
| SF 453 | A bill for an act relating to school district and area education agency funding and education savings accounts, and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2025 |
| SF 452 | A bill for an act relating to employment matters involving public employees including collective bargaining, educator employment matters, personnel records and settlement agreements, city civil service requirements, and health insurance matters, and including effective date, applicability, and transition provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2025 |
| SF 440 | A bill for an act imposing fines for hazardous conditions caused by a person having control over a hazardous substance, providing penalties, and making appropriations. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2025 |
| SF 439 | A bill for an act allowing cities to certify taxes for a general fund levy for libraries. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2025 |
| SF 438 | A bill for an act relating to the establishment of a 988 emergency service fund, making an appropriation, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2025 |
| SF 436 | A bill for an act removing the maximum annual amount of real estate transfer tax receipts that may be transferred into the housing trust fund. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2025 |
| SF 434 | A bill for an act relating to the creation of a child care solutions fund, and making an appropriation. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2025 |
| SF 456 | A bill for an act relating to the choice of doctor to treat injured employees under workers’ compensation laws and including effective date and applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 27, 2025 |
| SF 455 | 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 27, 2025 |
| SF 454 | A bill for an act relating to standards for determination of loss or permanent impairment for purposes of permanent partial disability under workers’ compensation and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 27, 2025 |
| SJR 8 | 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. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2025 |
| SF 441 | A bill for an act relating to the payment of dependent care expenses from campaign funds, and making penalties applicable. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2025 |
| SF 437 | A bill for an act relating to certain persons who leave legislative or executive branch service, including prohibiting certain employment, lobbying activities, and use of influence, and making penalties applicable. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2025 |
| SF 435 | 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 | February 26, 2025 |
| SF 414 | A bill for an act relating to the review and approval by the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing of housing and health care facility acquisitions by private equity firms. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2025 |
| SF 417 | A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for annual lung cancer screenings for at-risk individuals. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 25, 2025 |
| SF 401 | A bill for an act relating to the defenses of justification and diminished capacity for certain violent crimes. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 25, 2025 |
| SF 79 | A bill for an act creating a lifetime trapping license for disabled veterans. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| SF 382 | A bill for an act relating to education, including by prohibiting the use of certain mascots to represent schools and institutions of higher education, establishing grant programs to assist schools and institutions of higher education in adopting alternative mascots, modifying provisions related to the Iowa tuition grants program, and making appropriations. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| SF 381 | A bill for an act relating to youth employment and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| SF 380 | A bill for an act relating to prohibitions on noncompete covenants involving nurses and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| SF 372 | A bill for an act concerning eligibility for unemployment benefits. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| SF 357 | A bill for an act establishing a neighborhood housing revitalization assistance program within the Iowa finance authority. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| SF 353 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance income eligibility requirements, and child care provider reimbursement rates. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| SF 352 | A bill for an act relating to state child care assistance program benefits. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| SF 339 | A bill for an act relating to eligibility of pregnant women and infants for the Medicaid program. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| SF 336 | A bill for an act relating to the ordering and dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by a pharmacist pursuant to statewide protocols. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| SF 327 | A bill for an act relating to dental provider reimbursement under the dental wellness plan and the dental wellness plan kids. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| SF 324 | A bill for an act relating to provision of the state family planning services under the Medicaid program, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| SF 358 | A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year to an individual laid off due to an employer going out of business. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 19, 2025 |
| SF 355 | A bill for an act relating to overtime pay earned by state employees. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 19, 2025 |
| SF 264 | A bill for an act relating to prescription drug affordability, including the creation of a prescription drug affordability board. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2025 |
| SF 262 | A bill for an act requiring the establishment of the state percent of growth and categorical state percent of growth for two consecutive budget years during the first regular session of the general assembly, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 17, 2025 |
| SF 263 | A bill for an act relating to employment matters involving public employees including collective bargaining, educator employment matters, and city civil service requirements, and including effective date, applicability, and transition provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2025 |
| SF 223 | A bill for an act appropriating moneys to the department of health and human services for refugee resettlement assistance. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2025 |
| SF 199 | A bill for an act repealing the education savings account program. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SF 194 | A bill for an act relating to the amount of compensation paid to school district employees, including by establishing an educator supplement for all fund to be administered by the department of education, and modifying the amount of compensation paid to teachers, certain employees with a license, endorsement, certification, authorization, or statement of recognition issued by the board of educational examiners, and teaching assistants, and making appropriations. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2025 |
| SF 209 | A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage for prescription insulin drugs. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| SF 203 | A bill for an act relating to the taking of black bears, gray wolves, and mountain lions, and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| SF 196 | A bill for an act relating to employment matters involving public employees including collective bargaining, educator employment matters, personnel records and settlement agreements, city civil service requirements, and health insurance matters, and including effective date, applicability, and transition provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| SF 188 | A bill for an act relating to health insurance coverage for contraceptive devices, drugs, and services. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| SF 185 | A bill for an act establishing a retirement savings plan trust, and including implementation provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2025 |
| SF 195 | A bill for an act relating to animal torture and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2025 |
| SF 192 | A bill for an act relating to authorized uses of moneys in the victim compensation fund. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2025 |
| SF 191 | A bill for an act relating to sexual abuse evidence collection kits, including testing, retention, and inventory requirements. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2025 |
| SF 190 | A bill for an act establishing certain privileges for communications made regarding incidents of sexual assault, harassment, or discrimination and creating a special motion for expedited relief in such actions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2025 |
| SF 189 | A bill for an act relating to medical malpractice by exempting claims involving sexual assault from the limitations on noneconomic damages. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2025 |
| SF 187 | A bill for an act relating to wage discrimination under the Iowa civil rights Act of 1965 and making penalties applicable. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2025 |
| SF 184 | A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring civil actions by victims of sexual abuse, human trafficking, or sexual exploitation. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2025 |
| SF 183 | 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 4, 2025 |
| SF 99 | A bill for an act relating to the regulation of tanning facilities, and making penalties applicable. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| SF 157 | A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| SF 147 | A bill for an act relating to wage payment collection issues arising between employers and employees, providing penalties and remedies, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| SF 134 | A bill for an act requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on pregnancy or childbirth and providing civil penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| SF 133 | A bill for an act relating to the provision of period products. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| SF 132 | A bill for an act relating to Medicaid coverage of maternity care including doula care. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| SF 131 | A bill for an act relating to evidence-based maternal and infant home visiting services. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| SF 129 | A bill for an act relating to the submission and posting of certain hospital policies. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| SF 122 | A bill for an act relating to the eligibility of children of a minor parent for the state child care assistance program. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2025 |
| SF 144 | A bill for an act relating to the creation of land redevelopment trusts. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 29, 2025 |
| SF 88 | A bill for an act requiring boards of directors of school districts and the authorities in charge of accredited nonpublic schools to adopt policies related to excusing the absences of students enrolled in grades nine through twelve for civic or political events. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SF 86 | A bill for an act authorizing the boards of directors of school districts to appoint student liaisons to the boards. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SF 80 | A bill for an act relating to the eligibility of students with individualized education programs to participate in extracurricular interscholastic athletic games or competitions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SF 78 | A bill for an act relating to certain specified skilled trades, including modifying provisions related to department of workforce development internship programs, the Iowa summer youth corps program, college student aid commission programs, the senior year plus program, the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics collaborative initiative within the innovation division of the department of education, and curricula provided in school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and charter schools to include the skilled trades, and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SF 58 | A bill for an act relating to school lunch and breakfast programs provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SF 124 | A bill for an act relating to the issuance of a subpoena or search warrant for menstrual health data. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SF 123 | A bill for an act relating to funding of approved local preschool programs and including applicability provisions. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SF 113 | A bill for an act relating to children and students, including by modifying provisions related to a parent’s or guardian’s rights to make decisions affecting the parent’s or guardian’s child, the educational program and human growth and development curriculum provided to students enrolled in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools, student health screenings, school district library programs, special education, and other duties of school districts and the governing boards of charter schools and innovation zone schools. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SF 102 | A bill for an act relating to public school personnel training concerning mental health. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SF 100 | A bill for an act relating to mental health resources for students enrolled in school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SJR 1 | A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the right to reproductive care. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SF 130 | A bill for an act relating to health insurance coverage for infertility. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SF 107 | A bill for an act prohibiting the declawing of cats, and providing penalties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SF 87 | A bill for an act relating to insurance coverage for acupuncture. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 23, 2025 |
| SF 84 | A bill for an act relating to noneconomic, punitive, and exemplary damage awards against health care providers and hospitals. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 23, 2025 |
| SF 77 | A bill for an act relating to tort liability in civil actions involving commercial motor vehicles, including employer liability, noneconomic damages, punitive damages, and exemplary damages. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 23, 2025 |
| SF 66 | A bill for an act relating to testimony by certain witnesses by two-way closed-circuit equipment. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 23, 2025 |
| SF 109 | A bill for an act relating to a family leave and medical leave insurance program that provides for paid, job-protected leave for certain family leave and medical leave reasons for eligible employees of specified employers. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 23, 2025 |
| SF 101 | 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 | January 23, 2025 |
| SF 63 | A bill for an act relating to the creation of an Iowa cancer research program, and making an appropriation. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2025 |