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Iowa Acts Chapters - 88 (2019 Regular GA)

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ENROLLED BILLS

Chapter	BillBook \| Details	Chapter Title
Chapter 1	HF 306	School finance — state percents of growth — property tax replacement payments
Chapter 2	HF 307	School finance — regular state cost per pupil — school transportation funding
Chapter 3	SF 519	Agricultural production facility trespass
Chapter 4	SF 220	Taxation of corporations and financial institutions — increased expensing allowance deduction
Chapter 5	SF 113	Habitual offenders — operating while intoxicated third or subsequent offenders
Chapter 6	SF 367	Iowa communications network — elimination of education and regional telecommunications councils
Chapter 7	HF 482	Peace officers — designated department of transportation employees — repeal extended
Chapter 8	HF 668	Regulation of alcoholic beverages — business interests of manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers
Chapter 9	HF 288	Injured veterans grants and expedited professional or occupational licensing for spouses of military forces members
Chapter 10	HF 487	Wireless telecommunications infrastructure installations — restrictions
Chapter 11	SF 274	Speech and expression at public institutions of higher education
Chapter 12	SF 556	Life and health insurance guaranty association — membership and assessments
Chapter 13	SF 304	Student loan delinquencies and defaults — licensing sanctions prohibited
Chapter 14	SF 534	Solid waste — recovery and conversion — gasification and pyrolysis facilities
Chapter 15	SF 555	Implements of husbandry — weight limitations
Chapter 16	SF 559	Portable electronics insurance — electronic notices to consumer
Chapter 17	HF 266	Civil commitment of sexually violent predators
Chapter 18	SF 210	Hospitalization — discharges — designation of lay caregivers
Chapter 19	SF 558	Domestic surplus lines insurer requirements
Chapter 20	HF 264	Domestic stock insurers — plans of division
Chapter 21	HF 327	Employers and employees — franchise relationships
Chapter 22	SF 140	Special minor’s driver’s licenses — accredited nonpublic school students — maximum driving distance
Chapter 23	SF 208	Maximum allowable length for stinger-steered automobile transporters
Chapter 24	SF 333	Nonsubstantive Code corrections
Chapter 25	SF 532	Construction defects in new construction — class actions — notice and opportunity to repair
Chapter 26	SF 569	Limited liability companies — uniform protected series Act
Chapter 27	HF 260	Loans — permissible interest rates and charges
Chapter 28	HF 390	Aircraft certificates of registration
Chapter 29	HF 698	Pioneer cemeteries — jurisdiction and management
Chapter 30	SF 159	Teacher preparation program assessments — minimum scores — waivers
Chapter 31	SF 245	Skilled workforce shortage tuition grant program — eligibility and reporting requirements
Chapter 32	SF 246	All Iowa opportunity scholarship program — eligibility requirements
Chapter 33	HF 650	Negligent hiring of persons with public offense convictions — limitations on liability
Chapter 34	SF 112	Certification of trust requirements
Chapter 35	SF 402	Submission to credit union division — good faith requirement
Chapter 36	SF 403	Superintendent of credit unions — subpoena powers
Chapter 37	SF 506	Credit union mergers — notice and approval requirements
Chapter 38	SF 507	Workers’ compensation — falls on level surfaces
Chapter 39	HF 323	Dependent adult abuse — exploitation of physical or financial resources
Chapter 40	HF 393	Ethics — gift reporting by executive branch
Chapter 41	HF 418	Commercial driver’s licensing requirements
Chapter 42	HF 518	Hospice benefits in nursing facilities — dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid and Medicaid-only members
Chapter 43	HF 701	Zoning — preexisting nonconforming uses by manufactured, modular, and mobile homes and site-built dwelling units — continuance
Chapter 44	SF 475	Notarial acts — use of communications technology — electronic documents
Chapter 45	SF 158	Postconviction relief procedure
Chapter 46	SF 282	Honey creek premier destination park bond program — repeal
Chapter 47	SF 346	Female genital mutilation
Chapter 48	SF 379	Practice of law — qualifications — pro hac vice appointments
Chapter 49	SF 412	Homeowner’s insurance — repairs or services on residential real estate — assignment of rights to residential contractors
Chapter 50	SF 528	Self-service storage facilities — use, rental agreements, and liens
Chapter 51	SF 590	Indigent defense — payments to privately retained attorneys
Chapter 52	SF 600	Appropriations — transportation
Chapter 53	HF 391	Travel trailer dealer’s license — surety bond amount
Chapter 54	HF 392	Ethics — sales of services by governmental officials and employees — exemption
Chapter 55	HF 532	Physician workforce support — residency programs — study
Chapter 56	HF 591	Minor guardianship proceedings
Chapter 57	HF 610	Adult guardianship and adult and minor conservatorship proceedings
Chapter 58	HF 623	Medication-assisted treatment — Medicaid — prior authorization
Chapter 59	HF 679	Substantive Code corrections
Chapter 60	HF 681	Criminal history checks of care providers
Chapter 61	HF 690	Children’s behavioral health system
Chapter 62	HF 691	County mental health and disability services — cash flow amount restrictions
Chapter 63	HF 719	Dissolution of marriage — court-ordered conciliation
Chapter 64	SF 170	County agricultural extension councils — vacancies — publication duties
Chapter 65	SF 341	Assistance animals and service animals
Chapter 66	SF 364	Sobriety and drug monitoring program — miscellaneous changes
Chapter 67	SF 435	Towable recreational vehicles, travel trailers, and fifth-wheel travel trailers
Chapter 68	SF 447	City zoning authority — residential property rental permit caps
Chapter 69	HF 304	Dependent adult abuse reports — disposition of reports of minor acts or omissions
Chapter 70	HF 325	Weapons requirements for nonambulatory hunters
Chapter 71	HF 516	Joint 911 service boards — voting membership
Chapter 72	HF 598	Public elementary school classroom assignments — siblings at same grade level
Chapter 73	SF 265	Mushroom sales at farmers markets
Chapter 74	SF 283	Ethics — conflicts of interest in government contracts
Chapter 75	SF 302	Operation of motor vehicles — automated driving systems
Chapter 76	SF 303	Replacement of driver’s licenses or nonoperator’s identification cards — persons attaining age twenty-one
Chapter 77	SF 319	Driver education instructors — peace officers and retired peace officers
Chapter 78	SF 531	Pediatric congenital heart surgery — data reporting — patient education
Chapter 79	HF 387	Towed vehicles — distance requirements
Chapter 80	HF 389	Registration and titling of vessels, snowmobiles, and all-terrain vehicles
Chapter 81	HF 423	Medical assistance — suspension — inmates of public institutions
Chapter 82	HF 570	Medicaid home and community-based services brain injury waiver maximum
Chapter 83	HF 606	Social work, marital and family therapy, and mental health counseling — continuing education — online credits
Chapter 84	HF 643	Driver’s licenses and nonoperator’s identification cards — deaf or hard-of-hearing status notations
Chapter 85	HF 766	Appropriations — health and human services
Chapter 86	SF 86	Licenses issued by department of natural resources — organ donor status
Chapter 87	HF 637	School employee misconduct — reports to board of educational examiners
Chapter 88	SF 563	Management of prescription drug benefits — reports on fees and rebates
Chapter 89	SF 638	State and local government and regulatory matters — appropriations and miscellaneous changes
Chapter 90	HF 694	Emergency medical services personnel licensure interstate compact
Chapter 91	HF 731	Mandatory child abuse and dependent adult abuse reporter training requirements
Chapter 92	HF 743	Uniform electronic legal material Act
Chapter 93	SF 139	Educational standards — financial literacy
Chapter 94	SF 188	Carrying weapons producing nonprojectile high-voltage pulses at community colleges or regents universities
Chapter 95	SF 306	Lake Manawa state park and Waubonsie state park user fee pilot programs
Chapter 96	SF 394	Educational standards — online learning alternatives
Chapter 97	SF 409	Department of natural resources — administrative procedures
Chapter 98	SF 548	Water pollution control projects — real property acquisition by private entities for sale or donation to government entities — funding restricted
Chapter 99	SF 567	Professional licensure — eligibility — criminal convictions
Chapter 100	HF 421	Department of human services institutions and transfer of persons with mental illness
Chapter 101	HF 596	School districts — whole grade sharing, reorganization, or dissolution incentives
Chapter 102	HF 604	Commercial fishing — removal of underused, undesirable, and injurious organisms — licensing requirements
Chapter 103	HF 609	Legalizing act — Bennett community school district instructional support program
Chapter 104	HF 689	Removal of county veterans service officers
Chapter 105	SF 93	Abandoned buildings — abatement process
Chapter 106	SF 267	Massage therapy — unlawful practices — affirmative defenses
Chapter 107	SF 323	Alcoholic beverage regulation — canned cocktails
Chapter 108	SF 337	Child labor prohibitions — exceptions
Chapter 109	SF 502	Public employee whistleblower protection
Chapter 110	SF 505	Regulation of landscape architects
Chapter 111	SF 570	Disaster emergency assistance by licensed architects and professional engineers — immunity
Chapter 112	SF 605	Child support — nonassistance — fees
Chapter 113	SF 618	Alcoholic beverage regulation and control
Chapter 114	HF 224	Lascivious conduct with a minor
Chapter 115	HF 263	Consumer loan application fees
Chapter 116	HF 291	Medicaid — community spouse resource allowance
Chapter 117	HF 303	Statewide welcome center program
Chapter 118	HF 328	Vulnerable elder — definition changes
Chapter 119	HF 422	Civil commitment unit for sexual offenders — telehealth
Chapter 120	HF 486	Community catalyst building remediation grants — emergency projects
Chapter 121	HF 537	Public utilities — fees for use of public rights-of-way
Chapter 122	HF 569	Dependent adult abuse — personal degradation by caretaker
Chapter 123	HF 595	Salaries for deputy county auditors in charge of election administration
Chapter 124	HF 625	Integration of Medicaid and healthy and well kids in Iowa program administration
Chapter 125	HF 642	Department of human services records — confidentiality — disclosure
Chapter 126	HF 644	Juvenile justice — foster care providers — parent visitation in child in need of assistance proceedings
Chapter 127	HF 707	Juvenile delinquency and termination of the parent-child relationship proceedings — service of process
Chapter 128	HF 750	Powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship
Chapter 129	HF 764	Constitutional amendments — procedure and publication requirements
Chapter 130	SF 599	Regulation of hemp
Chapter 131	SF 609	Appropriations — agriculture and natural resources
Chapter 132	SF 617	Sports wagering and fantasy sports contests
Chapter 133	SF 632	Appropriations — gambling treatment program
Chapter 134	HF 756	Federal block grant appropriations and other federal funding
Chapter 135	HF 758	Appropriations — education
Chapter 136	HF 759	Appropriations — administration and regulation
Chapter 137	HF 765	Appropriations — infrastructure and capital projects
Chapter 138	HF 769	Gross weight of special trucks — requirements and restrictions
Chapter 139	SF 228	Bioscience economic development
Chapter 140	SF 589	Criminal law and procedure
Chapter 141	SF 597	Sales tax — sales to nonprofit blood centers
Chapter 142	SF 619	Regulation of motor vehicle or residential services contracts and service companies
Chapter 143	HF 289	Gambling games — distribution of receipts for charitable purposes
Chapter 144	HF 305	Enhance Iowa board — member terms — duties
Chapter 145	HF 485	Targeted small business procurement — state agency purchasing requirements
Chapter 146	HF 499	Use of non-school bus motor vehicles for student transport
Chapter 147	HF 590	Regulation of tax return preparers
Chapter 148	HF 692	State and local elections — miscellaneous changes
Chapter 149	HF 734	Postconviction DNA profiling
Chapter 150	HF 741	City general obligation bonds — flood mitigation projects
Chapter 151	HF 767	Motor vehicle taxes and fees — electric vehicle registration fees — electric and hydrogen fuel excise taxes
Chapter 152	HF 779	Taxation and tax law administration — miscellaneous changes
Chapter 153	SF 377	Emergency response services by nonprofit corporations for municipalities — liability exemption
Chapter 154	SF 608	Appropriations — economic development
Chapter 155	SF 616	Appropriations — judicial branch
Chapter 156	HF 634	Department of human rights — division of criminal and juvenile justice planning — boards and councils
Chapter 157	HF 685	Prisoners of county jails — medical aid payment review
Chapter 158	SF 629	Vehicles of excessive size and weight — permits — raw forest product transport
Chapter 159	HF 772	Economic incentives for broadband and workforce housing development
Chapter 160	SF 230	Manufacturers of alcoholic beverages
Chapter 161	HF 768	Iowa finance authority and agricultural development — beginning farmer tax credits
Chapter 162	HF 778	Sale of farming business real property — capital gain deduction
Chapter 163	SF 615	Appropriations — justice system
Chapter 164	SF 603	Concurrent enrollment programs — weighting — education standards — accredited nonpublic schools
Chapter 165	SF 634	City and county budget practices and property taxation
Chapter 166	HF 546	School finance and extension, distribution, and use of secure an advanced vision for education funding
Chapter 167	SJR 17	Sales of merchandise at children’s benefit on capitol grounds
Chapter 168	SJR 18	Proposed constitutional amendment — right to keep and bear arms

AUXILIARY DOCUMENTS

Title	Description
Index	Lists in alphabetical order standardized terms describing subject matters and law concepts and the locations of these subject matters and law concepts in the 2019 Iowa Acts Chapters 1-168.