IA SF 296

enacted

A bill for an act allowing police service dogs to receive emergency veterinary medical services while on duty.

Iowa · 2026 Regular Session · upper

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Did IA SF 296 pass?

Yes. IA SF 296 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-05-06): Signed by Governor.

What is IA SF 296 about?

IA SF 296 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “A bill for an act allowing police service dogs to receive emergency veterinary medical services while on duty.”.

Who sponsors IA SF 296?

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY is the primary sponsor of IA SF 296.

Introduced: 2025-02-12
Latest action: 2025-05-06 — Signed by Governor.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Committees

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Action timeline

Newest first

2025-05-06
Signed by Governor.
executive-signature
2025-05-06
Reported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
2025-04-22
Message from House.
2025-04-21
Immediate message.
2025-04-21
Passed House, yeas 90, nays 1.
passage
2025-04-10
Placed on calendar under unfinished business.
2025-03-25
Placed on calendar.
2025-03-25
Committee vote: Yeas, 22. Nays, 1.
2025-03-25
Committee report, recommending passage.
committee-passage
2025-03-20
Subcommittee recommends passage.
committee-passage-favorable
2025-03-19
Subcommittee Meeting: 03/20/2025 12:30PM RM 102.
2025-03-13
Subcommittee: Vondran, Gjerde and Wills, J.
2025-03-12
Read first time, referred to Public Safety.
reading-1
2025-03-12
Message from Senate.
2025-03-11
Immediate message.
2025-03-11
Passed Senate, yeas 47, nays 0.
passage
2025-02-12
Committee report, approving bill.
committee-passage
2025-02-12
Introduced, placed on calendar.
introduction

Versions

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Documents

Votes

Shall the bill pass?
2025-03-11 · pass · 47-0
Member-level votes (50)
- Alons: yes
- Bisignano: yes
- Blake: yes
- Bousselot: yes
- Campbell: yes
- Costello: yes
- Dawson De Witt: yes
- Dickey: yes
- Donahue: yes
- Dotzler: yes
- Driscoll: yes
- Evans: yes
- Garrett: yes
- Green: yes
- Gruenhagen: yes
- Guth: yes
- Klimesh: yes
- Knox: 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
- Bennett: absent
- Celsi: absent
- Koelker: absent
Shall the bill pass?
2025-04-21 · pass · 90-1
Member-level votes (103)
- 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
- Dunwell: yes
- Ehlert: yes
- Fett: yes
- Fisher: yes
- Gaines: yes
- Gearhart: yes
- Gehlbach: yes
- Gerhold: yes
- Gjerde: yes
- Golding: yes
- Gosa: 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
- Kniff: yes
- McCulla: yes
- Konfrst: yes
- Kressig: yes
- Kurth: yes
- Latham: yes
- Lawler: yes
- Lohse: yes
- Lundgren: yes
- Madison: yes
- Matson: yes
- McBurney: yes
- Meggers: yes
- Meyer, A.: yes
- Meyer, B.: yes
- Mohr: yes
- Mommsen: yes
- Moore: yes
- Nielsen: yes
- Nordman: yes
- Olson: yes
- Rinker: yes
- Scholten: yes
- Shipley: yes
- Sitzmann: yes
- Smith: yes
- Sorensen: yes
- Srinivas: yes
- Stone: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Thomson: yes
- Turek: yes
- Vondran: yes
- Watkins: yes
- Weldon: yes
- Wengryn: yes
- Wessel-Kroeschell: yes
- Wichtendahl: yes
- Wilburn: yes
- Williams: yes
- Wills: yes
- Wilz: yes
- Windschitl: yes
- Wood: yes
- Wulf: yes
- Young: yes
- Zabner: yes
- Speaker: yes
- Grassley: yes
- Levin: no
- Dieken: absent
- Gustoff: absent
- Kaufmann: absent
- Open: absent
- Sexton: absent
- Sieck: absent
- Siegrist: absent
- Wheeler: absent
- Wilson: absent

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https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=SF 296&ga=91

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