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R Iowa Senate · District 29 On the 2026 ballot

Sen. Sandy Salmon

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Total votes
3,327
all sessions
Attendance
100%
14 missed
Higher than 90% of chamber peers
With party
98%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
332
bills & resolutions
Higher than 82% of chamber peers
Committees
4
assignments
3,327 roll-call votes

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
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SF 252
A bill for an act relating to students who are pregnant or who recently gave birth who attend state institutions of higher education governed by the board of regents and community colleges.
Yea
Passed
48–0
Mar 22, 2023
SF 494
A bill for an act relating to public assistance program oversight.
Nay
Failed
16–32
Mar 22, 2023
HF 248
A bill for an act relating to electric power generating facility emission plans and projects, and including effective date and applicability provisions.
Yea
Passed
41–9
Mar 22, 2023
SF 525
A bill for an act relating to criminal law including the disclosure of a defendant’s privileged records, no-contact orders, commencement limitations for certain sexual offenses, sexually predatory offenses, victim rights, discovery, postconviction relief actions, criminal appeals, and pretrial bond amounts for certain felonies.
Yea
Passed
37–13
Mar 22, 2023
HF 557
A bill for an act relating to conducting elections for benefited recreational lake and water quality districts.
Yea
Passed
48–0
Mar 22, 2023
SF 250
A bill for an act relating to disbursements from the computer science professional development incentive fund and including applicability provisions.
Yea
Passed
48–0
Mar 22, 2023
SF 506
A bill for an act relating to health facilities and health services including licensing and the certificate of need process, and including effective date provisions.
Yea
Passed
27–21
Mar 22, 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.
Yea
Passed
31–17
Mar 22, 2023
SF 525
A bill for an act relating to criminal law including the disclosure of a defendant’s privileged records, no-contact orders, commencement limitations for certain sexual offenses, sexually predatory offenses, victim rights, discovery, postconviction relief actions, criminal appeals, and pretrial bond amounts for certain felonies.
Nay
Failed
16–32
Mar 22, 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
Failed
16–32
Mar 22, 2023
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