The agenda

HELP Act

Helping Every Learner Progress

If your child needed a speech pathologist in Moravia or Moulton, Iowa's Area Education Agencies made sure our schools could provide one.

PACE Act

Pay As Costs Escalate

Iowa schools got a 2 percent raise in state aid this year. Prices rose about 2.6 percent last year. Every raise since school year 2022-23 has been smaller than the rise in prices the year before it.

OPEN Act

Oversight of Public Expenditures at Nonpublic Schools

Iowa already had school choice. Open enrollment has let families pick a public district since 1989, and private schools and homeschooling were always an option. The voucher program mostly changed who pays tuition.

Tools for Schools Act

I've designed tools and systems for a living. A good tool solves a problem and lasts for years under hard use, but none of that engineering matters without skilled hands on the shop floor to build it.

STREAM Act

Stewardship That Rewards Every Acre Managed

Protecting our water starts by ensuring conservation makes financial sense for family farms. Farmers are the stewards of our land, and keeping that heritage viable protects resources for the next generation.

FAIR Act

Farmers' Access to Independent Markets and Repair

Iowa family farmers take all the risk, do the hard work, and care for our soil. Right now they're caught in a vise. On one end, a handful of fertilizer, seed and chemical companies set the price of every input.

CARE Act

Clinics, Ambulances, Rural Hospitals and Emergency Care

When my son Asher got sick in the middle of the night, we rushed him to Monroe County Hospital in Albia. The doctor on staff knew at once and called for a life flight. That's what a hospital close to home is worth.

LABOR Act

Labor Agreements, Bargaining, and Organizing Rights

Every county in our district has sheriff's deputies and road crews on the county payroll. State law treats them differently.

FUEL Act

Fund for Uplands, Enterprise and Livestock

This isn't a bill against ethanol. It's a plan for what comes after the state's ethanol and biodiesel tax credits, which already end January 1, 2028, under current law.

RAISE Act

Raising And Indexing State Earnings

If you work full time at Iowa's minimum wage, you make $15,080 a year. Under this bill, that same job pays $23,920 starting January 1, 2029, a year later at a small business, then the floor keeps moving with Iowa's own paychecks.