Iowa Votes

Strengthens Iowa's grain-marketing oversight by expanding the Grain Depositors and Sellers Indemnity Fund.

Makes it illegal to use a handheld electronic device (such as a phone) while driving unless it is in hands-free or voice-activated mode.

Stipulates that CO2 pipelines cannot utilize eminent domain to condemn agricultural land unless the landowner provides explicit consent.

Lowers the minimum age for acquiring or carrying weapons from 21 to 18.

Prohibits public universities and colleges governed by the Iowa Board of Regents from requiring or incentivizing students and faculty to engage in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training or critical race theory (CRT) content.

Establishes a strictly biological definition of "sex" based on birth anatomy and removes "gender identity" as a protected category under the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

Allows property owners in eminent domain cases to seek a court review of legal rights before the Iowa Utilities Board's final decision.

Creates the Iowa Film Production Incentive Program, offering up to 30% rebates for film, TV, and documentary production expenses in Iowa, with a $10 million total rebate limit.

Criminalizes illegal reentry, with penalties based on prior offenses; allows deportation orders; and grants immunity to officials enforcing the law, except for misconduct. It also bans deferred or suspended sentences for these convictions.

Amends Iowa's tax code to exclude capital gains from the sale of bullion, coins, or currency from an individual's taxable income.

Replaces "human pregnancy" with "unborn person" in Iowa law and increases penalties for harming or killing an unborn person during crimes, with life sentences for killing unborn deaths.

Repeals a 1987 law mandating gender balance, political diversity, and racial representation in appointments to state boards and commissions, rolling back these "woke" requirements.

Mandates the Department of Education (DE) to oversee the review of library materials for explicit content in schools, requiring parental consent for access to certain books, introducing curriculum changes, including restrictions on gender identity and sexuality instruction before grade five, removing specific sexual education content, and implementing a civics test requirement.

Allows guns to be in vehicles in school parking lots.

Allows raw milk dairies that comply with safety standards to sell raw milk and products derived from raw milk directly to consumers.

Required companies seeking to build carbon-capture pipelines to secure voluntary easements for 90 percent of the needed land before eminent domain could be used for the remainder.

Prohibits activities regarding gender transition procedures relative to minors.

Creates education programs and funding by establishing an education savings account program.

Provides a tax credit for putting in place and having a solar energy system.

Reduces unemployment benefits in the state by 10 weeks, reducing the number of weeks from 26 to 16.

Allows that no search warrant is needed for a peace officer to look through a person's garbage placed outside of someone's residence.

Ensures that K-12 students cannot be forced into receiving a COVID-19 vaccination.

Requires that student athletes in public schools, private schools, and universities can only play on sports teams of the gender that is stated on their birth certificate.

Removes the requirement for a permit to acquire or carry a handgun or when selling a firearm to another private person.