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IA SF 644

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A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing for properly related matters including indigent defense and representation, the corrections capital reinvestment fund, and a corrections federal receipts fund, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.

Iowa · 2026 Regular Session · upper

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Quick answers

Did IA SF 644 pass?

Yes. IA SF 644 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-06-27): Explanations of votes.

What is IA SF 644 about?

IA SF 644 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing for properly related matters including indigent defense and representation, the corrections capital reinvestment fund, and a corrections federal receipts fund, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.”.

Who sponsors IA SF 644?

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS is the primary sponsor of IA SF 644.

Introduced
2025-04-30
Latest action
2025-06-27 — Explanations of votes.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONSprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-06-27

    Explanations of votes.

  2. 2025-06-11

    Signed by Governor.

    executive-signature

  3. 2025-05-28

    NOBA: Final

  4. 2025-05-23

    Reported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.

  5. 2025-05-20

    Explanation of vote.

  6. 2025-05-14

    Message from House.

  7. 2025-05-14

    Immediate message.

  8. 2025-05-14

    NOBA: Senate Floor

  9. 2025-05-14

    Passed House, yeas 60, nays 27.

    passage

  10. 2025-05-14

    Amendment H-1348 filed, withdrawn.

    amendment-introduction

  11. 2025-05-14

    Amendment H-1341 withdrawn.

  12. 2025-05-14

    Substituted for HF 1046.

  13. 2025-05-13

    Amendment H-1341 filed.

    amendment-introduction

  14. 2025-05-13

    Read first time, passed on file.

    reading-1

  15. 2025-05-13

    Message from Senate.

  16. 2025-05-13

    Immediate message.

  17. 2025-05-13

    Passed Senate, yeas 33, nays 13.

    passage

  18. 2025-05-13

    Amendment S-3155 adopted.

    amendment-passage

  19. 2025-05-12

    Amendment S-3155 filed.

    amendment-introduction

  20. 2025-04-30

    NOBA: Senate Full Approps

  21. 2025-04-30

    Committee report, approving bill.

    committee-passage

  22. 2025-04-30

    Introduced, placed on Appropriations calendar.

    introduction

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Shall the bill pass?

    2025-05-13 · pass · 33-13

    Member-level votes (51)
    • Alons: yes
    • Bousselot: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Costello: yes
    • Dawson: yes
    • Dickey: yes
    • Driscoll: yes
    • Evans: yes
    • Garrett: yes
    • Green: yes
    • Gruenhagen: yes
    • Guth: yes
    • Klimesh: yes
    • Koelker: yes
    • Kraayenbrink: yes
    • Lofgren: yes
    • McClintock: yes
    • Pike: yes
    • Reichman: yes
    • Rowley: yes
    • Rozenboom: yes
    • Salmon: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Shipley: yes
    • Sinclair: yes
    • Sires: yes
    • Sweeney: yes
    • Taylor: yes
    • Warme: yes
    • Webster: yes
    • Westrich: yes
    • Whitver: yes
    • Zumbach: yes
    • Bennett: no
    • Bisignano: no
    • Blake: no
    • Celsi: no
    • Donahue: no
    • Dotzler: no
    • Petersen: no
    • Quirmbach: no
    • Staed: no
    • Townsend: no
    • Trone: no
    • Garriott: no
    • Weiner: no
    • Winckler: no
    • De Witt: absent
    • Knox: absent
    • Wahls: absent
    • Zimmer: absent

  • Shall the bill pass?

    2025-05-14 · pass · 60-27

    Member-level votes (102)
    • Andrews: yes
    • Barker: yes
    • Behn: yes
    • Bergan: yes
    • Blom: yes
    • Bloomingdale: yes
    • Boden: yes
    • Bossman: yes
    • Bradley: yes
    • Cisneros: yes
    • Collins: yes
    • Determann: yes
    • Dunwell: yes
    • Fett: yes
    • Fisher: yes
    • Gearhart: yes
    • Gehlbach: yes
    • Gerhold: yes
    • Golding: yes
    • Grassley: yes
    • Harris: yes
    • Hayes: yes
    • Henderson: yes
    • Hermanson: yes
    • Holt: yes
    • Hora: yes
    • Ingels: yes
    • Jeneary: yes
    • Johnson, C.: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Kaufmann: yes
    • Kniff: yes
    • McCulla: yes
    • Latham: yes
    • Lawler: yes
    • Lohse: yes
    • Lundgren: yes
    • Meggers: yes
    • Mohr: yes
    • Mommsen: yes
    • Moore: yes
    • Nordman: yes
    • Rinker: yes
    • Sexton: yes
    • Sitzmann: yes
    • Smith: yes
    • Sorensen: yes
    • Stone: yes
    • Thompson: yes
    • Thomson: yes
    • Vondran: yes
    • Watkins: yes
    • Weldon: yes
    • Wengryn: yes
    • Williams: yes
    • Wilz: yes
    • Windschitl: yes
    • Wood: yes
    • Wulf: yes
    • Young: yes
    • Wills: yes
    • Amos: no
    • Jr.: no
    • Baeth: no
    • Bagniewski: no
    • Brown-Powers: no
    • Cooling: no
    • Gjerde: no
    • James: no
    • Johnson, R.: no
    • Judge: no
    • Konfrst: no
    • Kressig: no
    • Kurth: no
    • Madison: no
    • Matson: no
    • McBurney: no
    • Meyer, B.: no
    • Nielsen: no
    • Olson: no
    • Ramirez: no
    • Scholten: no
    • Srinivas: no
    • Turek: no
    • Wessel-Kroeschell: no
    • Wichtendahl: no
    • Wilburn: no
    • Wilson: no
    • Zabner: no
    • Croken: absent
    • Dieken: absent
    • Ehlert: absent
    • Gaines: absent
    • Gosa: absent
    • Gustoff: absent
    • Jacoby: absent
    • Levin: absent
    • Meyer, A.: absent
    • Shipley: absent
    • Sieck: absent
    • Siegrist: absent
    • Wheeler: absent

Related bills

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Official source

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=SF 644&ga=91

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