Total votes
740
all sessions
Attendance
100%
2 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
95%
of cast votes
Lower than 91% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
3%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 89% of chamber peers
Sponsored
39
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
0
assignments
740 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
629
voted in favor
Nay
109
voted against
Absent
2
missed votes
Total cast
740
across all sessions
Crossed party
34
votes against own party
This page
740
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HF 648
A bill for an act providing for the expungement of information regarding investment advisers and investment adviser representatives authorized to do business in this state.
Yea
Passed
94–0
May 1, 2023
SF 575
A bill for an act relating to the economic development authority, including renewable chemical production, workforce housing, and innovation fund tax credits, the Iowa wine, beer, and spirits promotion board, and the beer and liquor control fund, and including applicability provisions.
Yea
Passed
94–0
May 1, 2023
HF 699
A bill for an act relating to juvenile justice delinquency prevention programs and services, and including effective date provisions.
Yea
Passed
94–0
May 1, 2023
HF 603
A bill for an act relating to purchasing of tires from the state by certain volunteer emergency services providers.
Yea
Passed
94–0
May 1, 2023
HF 617
A bill for an act relating to Iowa utilities board review of specified provisions and utility ratemaking procedures.
Yea
Passed
94–0
May 1, 2023
HF 685
A bill for an act relating to health care services and financing, including nursing facility licensing and financing and the Medicaid program including third-party recovery and taxation of Medicaid managed care organization premiums.
Yea
Passed
91–3
May 1, 2023
SF 478
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.
Yea
Failed
35–61
Apr 20, 2023
SF 478
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.
Nay
Passed
55–41
Apr 20, 2023
SF 391
A bill for an act relating to education, including modifying provisions related to comprehensive school improvement plans, teacher librarians and guidance counselors, required days or hours of instruction in elementary and secondary schools, agreements between school districts and community colleges to teach certain courses, and required courses in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools, and authorizing school districts to offer sequential units in one classroom.
Nay
Passed
60–36
Apr 20, 2023
SF 496
A bill for an act relating to children and students, including establishing a parent’s or guardian’s right to make decisions affecting the parent’s or guardian’s child, authorizing the parent or guardian of a student enrolled in a school district to enroll the student in another attendance center within the same school district in certain specified circumstances, prohibiting instruction related to gender identity and sexual orientation in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools in kindergarten through grade six, and modifying provisions related to student health screenings, school district library programs, the educational program provided to students enrolled in school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and charter schools, other duties of school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, the department of education, the board of educational examiners, and the governing boards of charter schools and innovation zone schools, competent private instruction, and special education, and including effective date provisions.
Nay
Passed
57–38
Apr 20, 2023
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