IA SF 278

enacted

A bill for an act relating to robotics extracurricular activities, including requiring the department of education to provide technical assistance to school districts related to chartering career and technical student organizations related to robotics and authorizing high school athletic organizations to sponsor interscholastic contests related to robotics.

Iowa · 2026 Regular Session · upper

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Did IA SF 278 pass?

Yes. IA SF 278 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-05-27): Signed by Governor.

What is IA SF 278 about?

IA SF 278 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “A bill for an act relating to robotics extracurricular activities, including requiring the department of education to provide technical assistance to school districts related to chartering career and technical student organizations related to robotics and authorizing high school athletic organizations to sponsor interscholastic contests related to robotics.”.

Who sponsors IA SF 278?

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION is the primary sponsor of IA SF 278.

Introduced: 2025-02-12
Latest action: 2025-05-27 — Signed by Governor.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Action timeline

Newest first

2025-05-27
Signed by Governor.
executive-signature
2025-05-19
Reported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
2025-03-10
Explanation of vote.
2025-03-05
Message from House.
2025-03-04
Immediate message.
2025-03-04
Passed House, yeas 95, nays 0.
passage
2025-03-04
Substituted for HF 514.
2025-02-20
Read first time, passed on file.
reading-1
2025-02-19
Message from Senate.
2025-02-18
Immediate message.
2025-02-18
Passed Senate, yeas 46, nays 0.
passage
2025-02-12
Committee report, approving bill.
committee-passage
2025-02-12
Introduced, placed on calendar.
introduction

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Votes

Shall the bill pass?
2025-02-18 · pass · 46-0
Member-level votes (50)
- Alons: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Bisignano: yes
- Bousselot: yes
- Campbell: yes
- Celsi: yes
- Costello: yes
- Dawson: yes
- Dickey: yes
- Donahue: yes
- Dotzler: yes
- Driscoll: yes
- Evans: yes
- Garrett: yes
- Green: yes
- Gruenhagen: yes
- Klimesh: yes
- Koelker: yes
- Kraayenbrink: yes
- Lofgren: yes
- McClintock: yes
- Petersen: yes
- Pike: yes
- Quirmbach: yes
- Reichman: yes
- Rowley: yes
- Rozenboom: yes
- Salmon: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Shipley: yes
- Sinclair: yes
- Sires: yes
- Staed: yes
- Sweeney: yes
- Taylor: yes
- Townsend: yes
- Trone: yes
- Garriott: yes
- Wahls: yes
- Warme: yes
- Webster: yes
- Weiner: yes
- Westrich: yes
- Whitver: yes
- Winckler: yes
- Zimmer: yes
- Zumbach: yes
- Blake De Witt: absent
- Guth: absent
- Knox: absent
Shall the bill pass?
2025-03-04 · pass · 95-0
Member-level votes (102)
- Amos: yes
- Jr.: yes
- Andrews: yes
- Baeth: yes
- Bagniewski: yes
- Barker: yes
- Behn: yes
- Bergan: yes
- Blom: yes
- Bloomingdale: yes
- Boden: yes
- Bossman: yes
- Bradley: yes
- Brown-Powers: yes
- Cisneros: yes
- Collins: yes
- Cooling: yes
- Croken: yes
- Determann: yes
- Dieken: yes
- Dunwell: yes
- Ehlert: yes
- Fett: yes
- Fisher: yes
- Gearhart: yes
- Gehlbach: yes
- Gerhold: yes
- Gjerde: yes
- Golding: yes
- Gosa: yes
- Grassley: yes
- Gustoff: yes
- Harris: yes
- Hayes: yes
- Henderson: yes
- Hermanson: yes
- Holt: yes
- Hora: yes
- Ingels: yes
- Jacoby: yes
- James: yes
- Jeneary: yes
- Johnson, C.: yes
- Johnson, R.: yes
- Jones: yes
- Judge: yes
- Kaufmann: yes
- Kniff: yes
- McCulla: yes
- Konfrst: yes
- Kressig: yes
- Kurth: yes
- Latham: yes
- Lawler: yes
- Levin: yes
- Lohse: yes
- Lundgren: yes
- Madison: yes
- Matson: yes
- McBurney: yes
- Meggers: yes
- Meyer, A.: yes
- Mohr: yes
- Mommsen: yes
- Moore: yes
- Nielsen: yes
- Nordman: yes
- Olson: yes
- Rinker: yes
- Scheetz: yes
- Scholten: yes
- Sexton: yes
- Sieck: yes
- Siegrist: yes
- Sitzmann: yes
- Smith: yes
- Sorensen: yes
- Srinivas: yes
- Stone: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Thomson: yes
- Turek: yes
- Vondran: yes
- Weldon: yes
- Wengryn: yes
- Wessel-Kroeschell: yes
- Wheeler: yes
- Wichtendahl: yes
- Wilburn: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wilz: yes
- Windschitl: yes
- Wood: yes
- Wulf: yes
- Young: yes
- Zabner: yes
- Wills: yes
- Gaines: absent
- Meyer, B.: absent
- Open: absent
- Shipley: absent
- Williams: absent

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https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=SF 278&ga=91

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