PASSED – HF2586 – Students First Safety Act – A bill for an act relating to school security, including the use of school security personnel by school districts and authorizing school employees to be issued professional permits to carry weapons, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 675.)
PASSED – HF2652 – School Security Infrastructure – A bill for an act relating to school security, including by modifying provisions related to the issuance of school bonds, requiring schools to conduct school safety reviews and have access to a public safety answering point, establishing the firearm detection software grant program within the department of homeland security and emergency management, requiring the department of public safety to convene a task force related to the safety and security standards of schools and school infrastructure
PASSED – HF2464 – Second Amendment Privacy Act – A bill for an act relating to merchant category codes for transactions involving firearms and ammunition, firearm registries and records, and providing civil penalties. (Formerly HSB 671.)
PASSED – HF2556 – Preemption Clarity and Strengthening – A bill for an act relating to damages against participants in firearms regulation violations by political subdivisions, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 518.)
PASSED – HF2421 – FFL Liability Limits – A bill for an act relating to firearms by limiting civil liability of federal firearms licensees who enter into voluntary firearm hold agreements with individuals. (Formerly HF 2080.)
DIED FROM INACTION* – HF2639 – A bill for an act relating to vehicle registration plates, including registration plate frames and Gadsden flag special registration plates.(Formerly HF 2424, HSB 615.) *Bipartisan support and passed the House, passed Senate subcommittee and committee, placed on debate calendar, but never debated and never passed by Republican-controlled Senate.
DIED FROM INACTION* – HF654 – A bill for an act relating to the carrying, transportation, and possession of and educational programs about weapons, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 173.) *Passed House in the previous year and Senate placed this bill on “unfinished business” in 2023 – The Republican-controlled Senate didn’t take action in 2024.
DIED – HF2409 – An Act relating to discrimination in the provision of financial services
DIED – HF2461 – Repeal manner of conveyance statute re long guns in vehicles on a highway and restrictions on guns on ATV/snowmobiles
DIED – HF2560 – An Act relating to the forfeiture of property for criminal offenses and repealing civil forfeiture.
DIED – SJR12 – A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa providing that the people of the state have a right to hunt, fish, trap, and harvest wildlife.
DEFEATED – SF 2245 – “Red Flag” gun confiscation
DEFEATED – HF 2297 – Bans the sale or transfer of ammunition feeding devices accepting or that may be “readily converted” to accept more than 15 rounds. Aggravated misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison and fines of $855 to $8540.
DEFEATED – HF 2129 – “Weapon Violence Research and Report” The bill appropriates $75,000 to the University of Iowa to research and report on “weapon violence” in the state and to research and report on “policies and practices” in other states.
DEFEATED – HF 2130 – Requires DPS/NICS background checks via FFLs for transfers of all firearms, including private transfers. The only significant exceptions are for intra-family transfers.
DEFEATED – SF 2085 – Requires DPS/NICS background checks via FFLs to “acquire” pistols and revolvers in private (non-FFL) transfers. No exclusion for intra-family transfers.
DEFEATED – SF2080 – Bans the sale or transfer of ammunition feeding devices accepting or that may be “readily converted” to accept more than 15 rounds. Aggravated misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison and fines of $855 to $8540.

PASSED – HF317 – An Act relating to taking certain animals that are deemed a nuisance
HF654* – Safer Families Act – *Passed by the House, placed on unfinished business in the Senate at the end of the session.  A mini-omnibus bill, this was IFC’s highest priority in the 90^th General Assembly (2023/2024)Provisions of this failed bill included:

• A much-needed correction to an erroneous word introduced into Chapter 724.15 in 2021. The error has resulted in the Iowa Courts wrongly prohibiting persons sentenced for certain misdemeanors from possessing firearms for two or three years.
• “Cleanup” language (Chapters 724, 483A, 321G) in wake of changes made in 2021, including:
  • Repeal of the obsolete “Manner of Conveyance” hunting statute that prohibits having a long gun in a vehicle on a public highway unless it and its magazines are unloaded and the gun is broken down or cased
  • Repeal of obsolete and confusing statutory language regarding carrying firearms on ATVs/snowmobiles
• Elimination of several of the few phony “No Guns” zones remaining in Iowa law:
  • Publicly accessible and non-secure state and local government parking lots
  • Correctional facility parking lots (in locked vehicles in non-secure lots)
  • Regents’ university and community colleges (weapons in locked private vehicles)
  • Vehicles transporting children in foster care
  • Repeals the prohibition on casino management approving lawful carry of guns
• Firearm Safety and Hunter Safety Instruction Programs in Schools
• Allowed certain qualified retired law enforcement officers to carry firearms on school grounds
• Persons with a Permit to Carry Weapons may have a concealed pistol or revolver in their vehicle while picking up or dropping off at a school

DIED – HF73 – An act relating to firearm education in schools
DIED – HF246 – An Act relating to the purchasing of a youth deer hunting license and tag
DIED – HJR6 – A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa providing that the people of the state have a right to hunt, fish, trap, and harvest wildlife.
DIED – HSB180 – Anti-ESG Bill
DIED – SF22 – Lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for disabled veterans
DIED – SF79 – Lifetime trapping license for disabled veterans
DIED – SF209 – An Act relating to the purchase of youth deer hunting license and tag
DIED – SF507 – Anti-ESG Bill
DEFEATED – HF 168 – Creates a misdemeanor crime of failing to report a lost or stolen firearm within 48 hours.
DEFEATED – HF 488 – Requires state assigned identification numbers (gun registration) to be permanently affixed to a personally manufactured firearm and restricts the manufacture of certain “plastic” firearms. Class B felony, up to 25 years in prison.
DEFEATED – SF 2080 – Bans the sale or transfer of ammunition feeding devices accepting or that may be “readily converted” to accept more than 15 rounds. Aggravated misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison and fines of $855 to $8540.

PASSED – SF2334 – Authorized hunting turkeys with .410 or 28 ga. Shotguns
PASSED – SF581 – Relating to fishing and hunting licenses
DIED – SF 2250 – Prohibited public or private employers from restricting the otherwise lawful carrying, possession, or transportation of firearms and ammunition that is out of sight in a locked private vehicle. 
DIED – SF 2317 – Unless otherwise permitted by law, current law generally prohibits a person from having or carrying a [long] gun in or on a vehicle on a public highway unless the gun is taken down or totally contained in a fastened case and with its barrels and attached magazines unloaded. A person conveying an assembled, unloaded gun is subject to a scheduled fine of $35. A person conveying a loaded gun is subject to a scheduled fine of $70. This bill repeals the prohibition and strikes the associated scheduled fines.
DIED – HF2121 – July 4^th sales tax holiday on firearms/ammo
DIED – SF2173 – Relating to use of a simulated firearm or explosive in a robbery
DIED – SF2076 – Hunting, trapping and fishing privileges for disabled veterans
DIED – SF2250 – Allowed firearms/ammo in locked private vehicles on employer-owned parking
DIED – HF456 – Allowed expedited relief in actions involving 1^st Amendment rights
DIED – SF2317 – Repeal manner of conveyance statute re long guns in vehicles on a highway
DIED – FH2476 – Repeal manner of conveyance statute re long guns in vehicles on a highway
DEFEATED – SF 2252 – Requires state assigned identification numbers (gun registration) to be permanently affixed to a personally manufactured firearm and restricts the manufacture of certain “plastic” firearms. Class B felony, up to 25 years in prison.
DEFEATED – HF 2370 – “Lead Ban” Required only tungsten shot, #10 or larger, be permitted for hunting turkeys with .410 or 28 ga. Shotguns.
DEFEATED – HF 2065 – Established the Iowa Violent Death Reporting System to collect Iowa data for a federal CDC database.

PASSED – HF756 – Constitutional Carry & More – An act establishing Constitutionally based carry, carry for emergency care workers on school property, strengthening of Preemption, and protection of tenants using subsidized living spaces from lawful firearm ownership and possession   
PASSED – HF621 – Firearms Industry Protection Act – An act establishing which actions may be brought against firearm, firearm accessory, and ammunition manufacturers, distributors, importers, trade associations, or dealers 
PASSED – SJR7 – (Freedom Amendment) – Right to Keep and Bear Arms Amendment – now to be placed on ballot for ratification of a vote by the people of Iowa
PASSED – SF581 – Regarding deer population management
DIED – HF343 – School parking lot carry and campus carry
DIED FROM INACTION* – HF831 – *PASSED HOUSE and DIED IN THE SENATE – Expungement of certain Class D felonies
DEFEATED – HF253 – This bill bans 3D printing of guns and gun parts, etc. and mandates 72 hour reporting for lost or stolen guns.
DEFEATED – HF24 – ERPOs and RED FLAG LAWS ignoring due process
DEFEATED – HF65 – Roll back from SHALL ISSUE to MAY ISSUE (Jim Crow Law)
DEFEATED – HF252 – Another ERPO (Extreme Risk Protection Order) bill ignoring due process
DEFEATED – HF119 – Imposes new liability on parents and guardians when children cause damage with a firearm.
DEFEATED – HF126 – Ban on Capitol Building Carry
DEFEATED – HF127 – Ban on semi-autos and triggers
DEFEATED – HF128 – Universal Back Ground Checks
DEFEATED – HF129 – Magazine Ban
DEFEATED – HF131 – Semi-auto sales ban
DEFEATED – SF24 – Misdemeanor to possess a gun on property with a “No Guns” sign