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

1%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

2,551

voted in favor

Nay

762

voted against

Absent

14

missed votes

Total cast

3,327

across all sessions

Crossed party

58

votes against own party

This page

3,327

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

SF 2231

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the protected speech and expression rights of students, modifying provisions related to the duties of the department of education, and modifying eligibility and participation requirements for certain education programs, preschool programs, and tax provisions, providing civil penalties, and including retroactive applicability provisions.

Yea

Passed

29–14

Apr 20, 2026

HF 2562

A bill for an act relating to care facility placement decisions for certain adults, and including effective date provisions.

Yea

Passed

43–0

Apr 20, 2026

SF 2491

A bill for an act providing for the rural veterinarian loan repayment program, including by allowing a loan repayment recipient to exclude net income attributable to loan payments received under the program.

Yea

Passed

43–0

Apr 20, 2026

SF 274

A bill for an act relating to forms of payment for entry into an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition.

Yea

Passed

43–0

Apr 20, 2026

HF 2490

A bill for an act relating to public meetings and records, including public notice requirements for meetings of a governmental body, supervision and fees associated with examining and copying public records, employment separation information for certain government employees, contractors, or appointees, and injunctions to restrain vexatious requesters.

Yea

Passed

43–0

Apr 20, 2026

SF 2496

A bill for an act relating to Iowa’s urban renewal law by modifying the division of revenue for certain emergency medical services property tax levies, and including effective date and applicability provisions.

Yea

Passed

43–0

Apr 20, 2026

SF 2490

A bill for an act relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, pooling orders, negotiation of surface damage, imposition and distribution of a tax, and jurisdiction, and providing civil penalties.

Yea

Passed

33–13

Apr 16, 2026

HF 2707

A bill for an act relating to alignment of delivery of health and human services programs and services, aging and disability services, and volunteer services, and including applicability and effective date provisions.

Yea

Passed

33–13

Apr 16, 2026

SF 2379

A bill for an act relating to victim protections including victim counselors, protective orders, sex offender registration, rights of sexual abuse victims, mental competency and civil commitment, restitution, and victim rights, and including effective date provisions.

Yea

Passed

46–0

Apr 16, 2026

SF 2220

A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the Iowa statewide assessment of student progress and programs for gifted and talented children, and by requiring school districts to develop an advanced mathematics pathway and implement procedures for subject acceleration and whole-grade acceleration, and including applicability provisions.

Yea

Passed

43–3

Apr 16, 2026