2022 Iowa Legislative Session - Week 19 Summary

By: BrownWinick

After weeks of limited activity, the Senate Appropriations Committee convened Wednesday signaling the end of the 2022 legislative session is near. The Committee passed ten bills, nine of which were budgets. Most of the budget bills passed with agreed-to amendments between the Senate and House. Negotiations continue on the largest budget, Health and Human Services and on the Education budget. The Committee also passed out the “standings” bill. Usually the standings bill is the “catch all” for any technical changes or policy that didn’t make it through earlier in the session.

Both the Senate and the House are scheduled to convene on Monday at 10:00 a.m. and are expected to adjourn sine die sometime next week.

BUDGET BILL STATUS
Bill	Bill Number	Status	Last Action
House Administration & Regulation	HF 2565	PASSED HOUSE; Senate Subcommittee Assigned	03/24/2022
Senate administration & Regulation	SSB 3163	PASSED SENATE APPOPS; Floor Eligible	05/17/2022
Agriculture & Natural Resources	HF 2560	PASSED HOUSE; Passed Senate Approps with Amendment	05/17/2022
Economic Development	HF 2564	PASSED HOUSE; Passed Senate Approps with Amendment	05/17/2022
Education	HF 2575	PASSED HOUSE; Passed Senate Approps without Amendment	05/17/2022
Health & Human Services	HF 2578	PASSED HOUSE; Passed Senate Approps without Amendment	05/17/2022
Judicial Branch	HF 2558	PASSED HOUSE; Passed Senate Approps with Amendment	05/17/2022
Justice Systems	HF 2559	PASSED HOUSE; Passed Senate Approps with Amendment	05/17/2022
Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund	HF 2579	PASSED HOUSE; Passed Senate Approps with Amendment	05/17/2022
Transportation	HF 2557	PASSED HOUSE; Passed Senate Approps	04/13/2022
Standings	SSB 3162	PASSED SENATE APPROPS	05/17/2022

Governor Reynolds signed several bills into law this week:

HF 2128 - Biofuels. After failing to advance last session, the proposal makes changes to require retailers to offer higher biofuels blends. It establishes an E-15 access standard and requires retailers to sell E-15 gasoline from a minimum number of qualifying dispensers located at a site. For those retailers whose infrastructure does not support E-15, the bill includes a waiver process and a small retail motor fuel site exemption, which permits small retailers (defined as selling 300,000 gallons of gasoline or less at a site during a qualifying period between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2022) to seek an exemption.
HF 2562 - Manufactured Housing. Another bill that has had multiple years of activity passed this session. Addresses some of the issues raised by tenants and owners of mobile home parks.
HF 2475 - Changes the process for removal of a municipal utility board member.
HF 2521 - Regulates health care employment agencies.
HF 736 - Addresses overpayment of certain Medicaid claims.
HF 803 - Updates duties of physician assistants.

In the Know:

There are 10 Senate districts and 39 House districts in which one party has not fielded a candidate. Therefore, the legislators outlined in the tables below will run unopposed in the November General Election, unless an opponent is nominated in a political party convention. This can occur when there is no candidate from a political party, or the person who was nominated dies or withdraws. In order for this process to occur, candidates are required to file an affidavit of candidacy and political party convention certificate.

Senate District 4	Senate District 25
Republican Tim Kraayenbrink	No Republican Candidate
No Democratic Candidate	Democrat Herman Quirmbach
Senate District 6	Senate District 29
Republican Jason Schultz	Republican Sandy Salmon
No Democratic Candidate	No Democratic Candidate
Senate District 7	Senate District 31
Republican Kevin Alons	No Republican Candidate
No Democratic Candidate	Democrat Bill Dotzler
Senate District 9	Senate District 43
Republican Tom Shipley	No Republican Candidate
No Democratic Candidate	Democrat Zach Wahls
Senate District 15	Senate District 44
No Republican Candidate	Republican Adrian Dickey
Democrat Tony Bisignano	No Democratic Candidate

House District 1	House District 51
No Republican Candidate	Republican Dave Deyoe
Democrat J.D. Scholten	No Democratic Candidate
House District 3	House District 52
Republican Thomas Jeneary	No Republican Candidate
No Democratic Candidate	Democrat Sue Cahill
House District 7	House District 55
Republican Mike Sexton	Republican Shannon Latham
No Democratic Candidate	No Democratic Candidate
House District 8	House District 57
Republican Ann Meyer	Republican Pat Grassley
No Democratic Candidate	No Democratic Candidate
House District 10	House District 61
Republican John Wills	No Republican Candidate
No Democratic Candidate	Democrat Timi Brown-Powers
House District 11	House District 62
Republican Brian Best	No Republican Candidate
No Democratic Candidate	Democrat Jerome Amos Jr.
House District 12	House District 64
Republican Steve Holt	Republican Anne Osmundson
No Democratic Candidate	No Democratic Candidate
House District 16	House District 65
Republican David Sieck	Republican Shannon Lundgren
No Democratic Candidate	No Democratic Candidate
House District 18	House District 68
Republican Thomas Moore	Republican Chad Ingels
No Democratic Candidate	No Democratic Candidate
House District 22	House District 71
Republican Stan Gustafson	No Republican Candidate
No Democratic Candidate	Democrat Lindsay James
House District 23	House District 74
Republican Ray Sorensen	No Republican Candidate
No Democratic Candidate	Democrat Eric Gjerde
House District 24	House District 75
Republican Joel Fry	No Republican Candidate
No Democratic Candidate	Democrat Bob Kressig
House District 29	House District 77
No Republican Candidate	No Republican Candidate
Brian Meyer	Democrat Jeff Cooling
House District 33	House District 78
No Republican Candidate	No Republican Candidate
Democrat Ruth Ann Gaines	Democrat Sami Scheetz

House District 34	House District 79
No Republican Candidate	No Republican Candidate
Democrat Ako Abdul-Samad	Democrat Tracy Ehlert
House District 35	House District 82
No Republican Candidate	Republican Bobby Kaufmann
Democrat Sean Bagniewski	No Democratic Candidate
House District 44	House District 85
No Republican Candidate	No Republican Candidate
Democrat John Forbes	Democrat Amy Nielsen
House District 45	House District 86
Republican Brian Lohse	No Republican Candidate
No Democrat Candidate	Democrat Dave Jacoby
House District 49	House District 95
No Republican Candidate	Republican Taylor Collins
Beth Wessel-Kroeschell	No Democratic Candidate
House District 50
No Republican Candidate
Democrat Ross Wilburn

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