Iowa Senate Bill 445

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Sponsorship: Committee Bill
Status: Engrossed on April 23 2025 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2025-05-15 - Rereferred to Health and Human Services. H.J. 1221.
Pending: House Health and Human Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations and reducing appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1135.)

A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations and reducing appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1135.)

Senate Education Committee

2025-04-23 - Senate - Shall the bill pass? (Y: 33 N: 14 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2025-04-23 - Senate - Shall amendment S–3136 be adopted? (Y: 14 N: 33 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [FAIL]
2025-04-23 - Senate - Shall amendment S–3135 be adopted? (Y: 14 N: 33 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [FAIL]
2025-04-23 - Senate - Shall amendment S–3134 be adopted? (Y: 14 N: 33 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [FAIL]
2025-04-23 - Senate - Shall amendment S–3133 be adopted? (Y: 14 N: 33 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [FAIL]
2025-02-26 - Senate - Senate Education Report (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-05-15	House	Rereferred to Health and Human Services. H.J. 1221.
2025-04-24	House	Read first time, passed on file. H.J. 1054.
2025-04-24	House	Message from Senate. H.J. 1054.
2025-04-23	Senate	Fiscal note.
2025-04-23	Senate	Immediate message. S.J. 877.
2025-04-23	Senate	Passed Senate, yeas 33, nays 14. S.J. 877.
2025-04-23	Senate	Amendment S-3136 filed, lost. S.J. 876.
2025-04-23	Senate	Amendment S-3135 filed, lost. S.J. 875.
2025-04-23	Senate	Amendment S-3134 filed, lost. S.J. 874.
2025-04-23	Senate	Amendment S-3133 filed, lost. S.J. 874.
2025-04-23	Senate	Amendment S-3132 filed, adopted. S.J. 873.
2025-04-22	Senate	Fiscal note.
2025-04-03	Senate	Placed on calendar under unfinished business. S.J. 689.
2025-02-26	Senate	Committee report, approving bill. S.J. 369.
2025-02-26	Senate	Introduced, placed on calendar. S.J. 364.

HSB145 (Related) 2025-02-27 - Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 623.
SSB1135 (Related) 2025-02-25 - Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 445.
HF623 (Similar To) 2025-05-15 - Rereferred to Health and Human Services. H.J. 1221.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=91&ba=SF445
Text	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGI/91/attachments/SF445.html
Text	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGR/91/attachments/SF445.html
Supplement	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/FN/1524468.pdf
Supplement	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/FN/1526559.pdf
Roll Call	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/SJNL/20250226_SJNL.pdf#369
Roll Call	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/SJNL/20250423_SJNL.pdf#874
Roll Call	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/SJNL/20250423_SJNL.pdf#875
Roll Call	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/SJNL/20250423_SJNL.pdf#876
Roll Call	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/SJNL/20250423_SJNL.pdf#877