Iowa State Representative

Ruth Gaines 2025-2026 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Iowa 2025-2026 Regular Session

Iowa House Bill HF662

Introduced
2/28/25  
A bill for an act appropriating moneys to the department of health and human services for refugee resettlement assistance, and including effective date provisions.
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Iowa House Bill HF671

Introduced
2/28/25  
A bill for an act relating to eligible parties to a valid marriage.
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Iowa House Bill HF375

Introduced
2/13/25  
A bill for an act establishing a state minimum hourly wage for direct care professionals.
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Iowa House Bill HF207

Introduced
2/5/25  
A bill for an act relating to certain involuntary hospitalization reporting requirements.
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Iowa House Bill HF251

Introduced
2/6/25  
A bill for an act requiring the state board of education to publish information related to nonpublic schools that are accredited by an approved independent accrediting agency.
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Iowa House Bill HF273

Introduced
2/10/25  
A bill for an act relating to student access to personal electronic devices in schools.
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Iowa House Bill HF283

Introduced
2/10/25  
A bill for an act increasing the state minimum hourly wage and providing for subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits.
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Iowa House Bill HR101

A resolution honoring Staff Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, Staff Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, and their families.
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Iowa House Bill HF152

Introduced
1/30/25  
A bill for an act relating to the federal summer electronic benefits transfer for children program, making an appropriation, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.
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Iowa House Bill HR18

A resolution honoring and congratulating the Grand View University wrestling team on its historic National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics wrestling national championship win.
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Iowa House Bill HR109

A resolution honoring the Jordan House Museum for more than 180 years of historical service to the people of Iowa.
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Iowa House Bill HF2733

Introduced
3/9/26  
A bill for an act relating to water quality, including a water quality monitoring network and the water quality initiative, an agricultural best management practices tax credit, an Iowa clean water farm program and property tax credit, and water quality practices loans, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions.
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Iowa House Bill HF2206

Introduced
1/29/26  
A bill for an act relating to the manufacture, delivery, and possession of marijuana, the licensure of retail marijuana, providing fees, including excise taxes, establishing funds, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.
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Iowa House Bill HF2212

Introduced
1/29/26  
A bill for an act establishing a state minimum hourly wage for direct care professionals.
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Iowa House Bill HF2223

Introduced
1/30/26  
A bill for an act relating to local and state government finances by modifying provisions relating to homestead property tax credits, providing a residential property tax rebate, modifying provisions relating to retirement systems, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions.