D Iowa Senate · District 18

Sen. Janet Petersen

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Session

Total votes

2,984

all sessions

Attendance

96%

113 missed

Lower than 81% of chamber peers

With party

97%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

About Sen. Janet Petersen

Sen. serving Iowa District 18. Member of the Democratic party. Has been in office 13 years · 7 months. Serves on 10 committees, including Appropriations, Administrative Rules Review and Capital Projects.

Sworn in

Jan 14, 2013

13 years · 7 months

Closest ally

no co-sponsorship data

How Janet votes, broken down

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Education 50% / 50%

23 support · 23 oppose

Healthcare 39% / 61%

11 support · 17 oppose

Budget & Taxes 31% / 69%

10 support · 22 oppose

Veterans 0% / 100%

0 support · 3 oppose

Immigration 83% / 17%

5 support · 1 oppose

Criminal Justice 46% / 54%

6 support · 7 oppose

Labor & Employment 27% / 73%

Transportation 50% / 50%

1 support · 1 oppose

Environment 50% / 50%

3 support · 3 oppose

Last activity

Recent legislative activity

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Voted Yea

SF 2472A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions, divisions of revenue, and funding from the secure an advanced vision for education fund, establishing a program for first-time homebuyers, modifying and making appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Nay

HF 2788A bill for an act relating to abortions including definitions, informed consent, dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs, and other abortion-related provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Nay

HF 2800A bill for an act relating to state and local government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds, making corrections, and providing for properly related matters including the national electrical code, local civil rights laws, political party state central committees, noxious weeds, nonresident deer hunting licenses, proprietary treatment systems, poultry associations, tax credits, alternative nicotine and vapor products, public assistance programs, judicial branch and county attorney salaries, civil litigation abuse, human trafficking, federal grants and loans notifications, quarterly payments to area education agencies, civic proficiency in higher education, charter schools under the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, school district incentives, extracurricular interscholastic eligibility, and levy increases, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Yea

HF 2765A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Yea

HF 1036A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Yea

4 months ago

Voted Nay

HF 2787A bill for an act prohibiting warrant resolution clinics, including enforcement mechanisms, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Nay

HF 2781A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund.

4 months ago

Voted Nay

HF 2542A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties.

4 months ago

Voted Yea

HF 2493A bill for an act relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and including applicability provisions.

4 months ago