R Iowa Senate · District 29 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Sandy Salmon

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Session

Total votes

3,327

all sessions

Attendance

100%

14 missed

Higher than 91% of chamber peers

With party

98%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

About Sen. Sandy Salmon

Sen. serving Iowa District 29. Member of the Republican party. Has been in office 3 years · 8 months. Serves on 4 committees, including Veterans Affairs, Education and Health and Human Services.

Sworn in

Jan 3, 2023

3 years · 8 months

Closest ally

no co-sponsorship data

How Sandy votes, broken down

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Education 51% / 49%

25 support · 24 oppose

Healthcare 64% / 36%

18 support · 10 oppose

Budget & Taxes 70% / 30%

23 support · 10 oppose

Veterans 100% / 0%

3 support · 0 oppose

Immigration 14% / 86%

1 support · 6 oppose

Criminal Justice 50% / 50%

7 support · 7 oppose

Labor & Employment 69% / 31%

Transportation 25% / 75%

1 support · 3 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 Yea

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 Yea

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 Nay

4 months ago

Voted Yea

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

4 months ago

Voted Yea

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

4 months ago

Voted Yea

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