Kenan Judge

Democratic · IA · Iowa State Representative, District 27

Kenan Judge is ranking member of the Iowa House Commerce Committee. He also serves on the Statewide Fire and Police Retirement System Board of Trustees.

Supports

AI Regulation (6 records), Healthcare Affordability (43 records), Reduce Wealth Gap (1 record),

Opposes

Cost of Living Reduction (1 record)

Mixed record

Environment and Public Health (14 support · 1 oppose), Labor Rights (16 support · 1 oppose), Immigration (4 support · 4 oppose),

Track record

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AI Regulation · 6 support

Voted for Senate File 2417, which required artificial-intelligence chatbot disclosures, protections for minors and suicide-response protocols and restricted claims of licensed mental-health services. The House passed it 95–0; the governor signed it on 2026-05-02.
April 15, 2026Supports AI Regulation
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Voted for House File 2609, which proposed prominent synthetic-media labels on campaign materials and made the person paying for their publication solely responsible for including the disclosure. The House passed it 89–2, but it did not become law.
March 12, 2026Supports AI Regulation
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Voted for House File 2635, which barred insurers from using artificial intelligence alone to deny, delay or downgrade medically necessary prior authorization and added audit and authorization-processing standards. The House passed it 87–0; the governor signed it on 2026-05-13.
March 5, 2026Supports AI Regulation
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Voted for House File 2240, which expanded harassment law to nonconsensual altered/deepfake nude or sexual depictions and required adult offenders to register as sex offenders. The House passed it 93-0; it became law.
March 25, 2024Supports AI Regulation
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Voted for Senate File 2243, which expanded sexual-exploitation law to altered/deepfake sexual depictions of identifiable minors. The House passed it 93-0; it became law.
March 6, 2024Supports AI Regulation
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Voted for House File 2549, a proposal banning artificial intelligence in voting machines and penalizing undisclosed fraudulent election deepfakes within 90 days of an election. The House passed it 93-1; it did not become law.
March 6, 2024Supports AI Regulation
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Healthcare Affordability · 43 support

Voted against Senate File 2422, which changed public-assistance verification and federal food-assistance eligibility rules and restricted retroactive Medicaid eligibility, including a waiver request for other adults. The House passed it 60–24; the governor signed it on 2026-06-02.
April 30, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2254, which bans noncompete clauses at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. The Iowa House passed it 70-20, and it became law.
April 13, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: legiscan.com
Voted for House File 2635, which barred insurers from using artificial intelligence alone to deny, delay or downgrade medically necessary prior authorization and added audit and authorization-processing standards. The House passed it 87–0; the governor signed it on 2026-05-13.
March 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2292, which proposed doubling inpatient psychiatric beds at state mental-health institutes, contingent on federal approval of a Medicaid institution-for-mental-diseases waiver. The House passed it 90–0, but it did not become law.
February 26, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2641, which proposed transition planning and assisted-living services under the elderly Medicaid waiver, addressing access to services and changes in care settings. The House passed it 90–0, but it did not become law.
February 26, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Senate File 383, which required pharmacy-benefit managers to pass through rebates, protect patient pharmacy choice and meet pharmacy reimbursement and appeal standards. The House passed it 75–15; the governor signed it on 2025-06-11.
May 12, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 972, which directed a rural hospital hub-and-spoke approval request and consolidated health-professional recruitment and loan-repayment programs into an incentive program. The House passed it 95–1; the governor signed it on 2025-05-28.
March 26, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 663, a bill restoring the Medicaid family-planning network's June 2017 benefits and eligibility rules and replacing the separate state program after federal approval. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 665, a bill requiring public colleges to offer mental-health awareness, staff training, peer support and partnerships with community providers. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 607, a bill raising Medicaid income eligibility for pregnant women and infants to 375 percent of poverty and providing 12 months of postpartum coverage. It remained in committee.
February 26, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 605, a bill allowing pharmacists to dispense up to a year's supply of hormonal contraception without a separate prescription and requiring private-insurance and Medicaid coverage. It remained in committee.
February 26, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 318, which proposed diagnostic and supplemental breast-examination cost sharing no less favorable than screening mammograms, with an exception for high-deductible plans. The House passed it 92–0, but it did not become law.
February 20, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 330, which removed annual and lifetime autism-treatment coverage caps and visit limits for applied behavior analysis and autism services in covered group plans. The House passed it 92-0; the governor signed it on 2025-06-11.
February 20, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Senate File 2395, a House opioid-settlement proposal establishing grant review and funding treatment campuses and post-surgery prevention services. The House passed it 96-0; the chambers did not agree on final text.
April 18, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 626, which protected medically stable patients from nonmedical prescription-coverage changes during a plan year, with specified exceptions. The House passed it 94-1; it became law.
April 17, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 2668, which required health-insurance coverage for certain biomarker tests, including Medicaid and Iowa's children's health-insurance program. The House passed it 97-1; it became law.
April 15, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 2401, a proposal requiring pass-through pharmacy pricing and competitive online bidding for public-plan drug benefits. The House passed it 93-3; it did not become law.
March 12, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 2488, a proposal setting health prior-authorization deadlines and insurer pilot programs exempting selected providers. The House passed it 95-0; the chambers did not agree on final text.
February 29, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 2489, which required insurance coverage for diagnostic/supplemental breast examinations, subject to the Act's terms. The House passed it 97-0; it became law.
February 21, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 2099, which barred pharmacy-benefit managers from retaliating against pharmacies for complaints and strengthened fee and pricing protections. The House passed it 97-0; it became law.
February 21, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 424, which allowed qualified physician assistants to practice without physician supervision, while retaining initial-supervision and certain service restrictions. The House passed it 88-6; it became law.
May 1, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 694, a bill capping insured patients' out-of-pocket costs at $25 for an up-to-31-day supply of covered insulin. It remained in committee.
April 10, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against Senate File 538, which prohibited specified gender-transition medical care for minors. The House passed it 58-39; it became law.
March 8, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 423, which barred discriminatory reimbursement and contract restrictions against pharmacies and providers participating in the federal 340B discounted-drug program. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
March 7, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 274, which revised Iowa's psychiatry training program to nine residency and two fellowship positions annually with state funding. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
March 7, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 93, which made mental-health-professional noncompetition/location/patient-contact practice restrictions void and unenforceable. The House passed it 95-0; it became law.
January 26, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2384, which regulated pharmacy benefit managers, the companies that administer prescription-drug benefits, including fees and patients' copays. The House passed it 93-0; it became law.
May 25, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 2573, which changed opioid-settlement administration and treatment funding and school access to opioid antagonists. The House passed it 91-4; it became law.
May 24, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 2411, which required medically necessary replacement of prosthetic devices for covered work injuries and set funding rules for repairs and replacement. The House passed it 95-0; it became law.
May 24, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 2549, which created loan repayment up to $40,000 for nonprescribing mental-health professionals serving shortage areas. The House passed it 83-0; it became law.
May 23, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 294, which proposed equal insurer reimbursement for mental-health services delivered through telehealth and in person. The House passed it 95-1, but it did not become law.
March 8, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 688, a bill funding local health boards' drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinics with coronavirus-relief money. It remained in committee.
February 24, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 687, a bill removing patient costs and prior-authorization requirements for COVID-19 testing and diagnosis and vaccine administration. It remained in committee.
February 24, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 659, a bill providing $200 million over three years for public schools' pandemic recovery, including academic support, mental-health services and preschool programs. It remained in committee.
February 23, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 612, a bill requiring insurers to reimburse telehealth services at the same rate and on the same basis as in-person care. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 263, a proposal capping insured patients' cost sharing at $100 for a 31-day prescription of covered insulin. The House passed it 89-2; it did not become law.
February 8, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 2553, a proposal banning drug-benefit managers from charging plans more than they paid pharmacies and adding reimbursement and patient-price protections. The House passed it 100-0; it did not become law.
March 10, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 2466, a bill creating a $24.2 million annual risk pool to help regional mental-health and disability-service systems cover required services. It remained in committee.
February 20, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 2467, a bill allocating $1.5 million to expand the 1st Five program for young children's mental development into Iowa's remaining 11 counties. It remained in committee.
February 20, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 2465, a bill requiring pharmacy benefit managers to pass at least 51 percent of prescription-drug rebates to patients through lower out-of-pocket costs. It remained in committee.
February 20, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 2327, a bill barring health insurers, including agricultural-organization plans, from denying coverage or excluding benefits for preexisting conditions. It remained in committee.
February 10, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for House File 690, which established a statewide children's behavioral-health system, board and core services. The House passed it 83-14; it became law.
March 21, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 630, a bill creating mental-health professional fellowships in shortage areas, school suicide-prevention committees and student mental-health services. It remained in committee.
March 6, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Environment and Public Health · 14 support · 1 oppose

Voted for Senate File 2480, which taxes and regulates electronic cigarettes and other tobacco-free nicotine products. The Iowa House passed it 67-18, and it became law.
May 2, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted for Senate File 2417, which required artificial-intelligence chatbot disclosures, protections for minors and suicide-response protocols and restricted claims of licensed mental-health services. The House passed it 95–0; the governor signed it on 2026-05-02.
April 15, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Sponsored House File 2733, a bill funding water monitoring and conservation, creating refundable farm-conservation tax credits and a $5-per-acre property-tax credit, and providing no-interest loans and grants. It remained in committee.
March 9, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted for House File 2527, which shields farms, fuel makers and other businesses from climate change lawsuits. The Iowa House passed it 66-24, and it became law.
February 26, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
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Voted for Senate File 2395, a House opioid-settlement proposal establishing grant review and funding treatment campuses and post-surgery prevention services. The House passed it 96-0; the chambers did not agree on final text.
April 18, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
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Co-sponsored House File 2356, a bill providing free menstrual products in at least half of public-school restrooms serving grades 6-12. It remained in committee.
February 7, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted for House File 2573, which changed opioid-settlement administration and treatment funding and school access to opioid antagonists. The House passed it 91-4; it became law.
May 24, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted for House File 2412, which required radon testing and remediation planning in public school buildings. The House passed it 93-2; it became law.
March 7, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted against House File 2298, which prohibited COVID-19 vaccination requirements for school/child-care attendance. The House passed it 57-36; it became law.
February 28, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted against House File 889, which restricted proof-of-COVID-vaccination requirements for entry and tied violations to state grants/contracts. The House passed it 58-35; it became law.
April 28, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health
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Co-sponsored House File 688, a bill funding local health boards' drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinics with coronavirus-relief money. It remained in committee.
February 24, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health
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Co-sponsored House File 687, a bill removing patient costs and prior-authorization requirements for COVID-19 testing and diagnosis and vaccine administration. It remained in committee.
February 24, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health
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Voted for Senate File 583, which established distributed-generation and net-metering billing rules and customer protections. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
March 3, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
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Co-sponsored House File 2467, a bill allocating $1.5 million to expand the 1st Five program for young children's mental development into Iowa's remaining 11 counties. It remained in committee.
February 20, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
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Introduced House File 2432, a bill regulating consumable hemp products through registration, testing and labeling rules and allowing qualifying imports. His bill remained in committee.
February 18, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health
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Reduce Wealth Gap · 1 support

Co-sponsored House File 659, a bill creating $15 million in annual low-income housing tax credits, raising first-time homebuyer tax deductions and providing $50 million for exterior-home repairs. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
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Labor Rights · 16 support · 1 oppose

Voted for House File 2502, which removed federal Family and Medical Leave Act eligibility as a prerequisite for state employees' paid leave following a birth or adoption. The House passed it 90-3; it became law.
April 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
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Voted for House File 2254, which bans noncompete clauses at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. The Iowa House passed it 70-20, and it became law.
April 13, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: legiscan.com
Co-sponsored House File 661, a bill expanding child-care assistance and tax credits, funding child-care workers' wages and benefits, and creating small-business child-care tax credits. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Labor Rights
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Co-sponsored House File 455, a bill restoring the maximum unemployment-benefit duration from 16 to 26 weeks. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2025Supports Labor Rights
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Voted for House File 2630, a proposal raising minimum teacher salaries to $47,500 then $50,000 and funding support-staff wages. The House passed it 93-1; it did not become law. He later opposed the combined regional-education-service and pay bill.
March 7, 2024Supports Labor Rights
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Voted against Senate File 542, which expanded permitted youth-employment hours/tasks and exemptions while retaining specified hazardous-work restrictions. The House passed it 60-34; it became law.
May 2, 2023Supports Labor Rights
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Voted for House File 93, which made mental-health-professional noncompetition/location/patient-contact practice restrictions void and unenforceable. The House passed it 95-0; it became law.
January 26, 2023Supports Labor Rights
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Voted for House File 2411, which required medically necessary replacement of prosthetic devices for covered work injuries and set funding rules for repairs and replacement. The House passed it 95-0; it became law.
May 24, 2022Supports Labor Rights
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Voted against House File 2198, which allowed 16-year-old child-care staff to work without direct adult supervision and raised child-to-staff ratios for 2- and 3-year-olds. The House passed it 52-42; it became law.
April 26, 2022Supports Labor Rights
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Voted against House File 2355, which reduced maximum regular unemployment benefits from 26 to 16 weeks and changed suitable-work wage requirements. The House passed it 58-37; it became law.
March 23, 2022Supports Labor Rights
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Voted for House File 301, a proposal matching local funding dollar for dollar for child-care workforce pay, education and retention programs. The House passed it 92-2; it did not become law.
February 10, 2021Supports Labor Rights
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Voted for House File 370, a proposal giving employers Iowa tax credits matching the federal credit for providing child care, with a five-year carryforward. The House passed it 88-6; it did not become law.
February 10, 2021Supports Labor Rights
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Voted against Senate File 2296, which treated qualifying truck owner-operators as independent contractors rather than employees under workers' compensation, wage and unemployment laws. The House passed it 51-46; it became law.
June 3, 2020Supports Labor Rights
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Co-sponsored House File 2579, a bill requiring employers to give adoptive parents the same employment benefits and protections as biological parents during the first year. It remained in committee.
February 27, 2020Supports Labor Rights
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Voted for Senate File 507, which excluded unexplained level-surface falls from workers' compensation coverage. The House passed it 55-44; it became law.
April 9, 2019Opposes Labor Rights
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Voted against House File 531, a proposal removing extra unemployment benefits after an employer closed and changing shared-work rules. The House passed it 53-44; the chambers did not agree on final text.
March 21, 2019Supports Labor Rights
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Voted against House File 327, which limited when franchisors count as employers under specified employment/civil-rights laws. The House passed it 51-45; it became law.
March 12, 2019Supports Labor Rights
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Anti-Corruption · 5 support

Voted for House File 2490, which required online meeting notices and low-cost record production, made separation pay public, and allowed safeguarded court injunctions against vexatious record requests. The House passed it 89–0; the governor signed it on 2026-05-15.
April 22, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
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Voted for House File 706, which increased open-meetings penalties and required training for new government-body members, while protecting legislative security-camera and state access-card data. The House passed it 83–10; the governor signed it on 2025-06-06.
April 23, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption
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Voted against Senate File 478, which restricted the state auditor's access to certain records and sent access disputes to an arbitration panel. The House passed it 55-41; it became law.
April 20, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
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Co-sponsored House File 689, a bill creating legislative oversight of federal COVID-19 funds and requiring continuous state audits of executive-branch pandemic spending. It remained in committee.
February 24, 2021Supports Anti-Corruption
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Co-sponsored House File 2371, a bill requiring disclosure of electioneering advertisements and coordinated campaign spending and lowering the political-committee reporting threshold from $1,000 to $250. It remained in committee.
February 13, 2020Supports Anti-Corruption
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Government Efficiency · 6 support

Voted for Senate File 2488, which created an early-childhood and family-services system with district plans, advisory councils and a dedicated fund, restructuring coordination of services. The House passed it 83–2; the governor signed it on 2026-06-02.
May 2, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted for House File 2490, which required online meeting notices and low-cost record production, made separation pay public, and allowed safeguarded court injunctions against vexatious record requests. The House passed it 89–0; the governor signed it on 2026-05-15.
April 22, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted for House File 972, which directed a rural hospital hub-and-spoke approval request and consolidated health-professional recruitment and loan-repayment programs into an incentive program. The House passed it 95–1; the governor signed it on 2025-05-28.
March 26, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
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Voted for House File 2401, a proposal requiring pass-through pharmacy pricing and competitive online bidding for public-plan drug benefits. The House passed it 93-3; it did not become law.
March 12, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
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Co-sponsored House File 2245, a bill removing routine license-renewal requirements for educators with a bachelor's degree and 30 years' experience while retaining criminal-history checks. It remained in committee.
January 31, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
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Co-sponsored House File 689, a bill creating legislative oversight of federal COVID-19 funds and requiring continuous state audits of executive-branch pandemic spending. It remained in committee.
February 24, 2021Supports Government Efficiency
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Cost of Living Reduction · 1 oppose

Voted for House File 2329, which raises the interest that licensed lenders may charge on regulated loans. The Iowa House passed it 62-29, and it became law.
March 12, 2026Opposes Cost of Living Reduction
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Immigration · 4 support · 4 oppose

Voted against Senate File 2422, which changed public-assistance verification and federal food-assistance eligibility rules and restricted retroactive Medicaid eligibility, including a waiver request for other adults. The House passed it 60–24; the governor signed it on 2026-06-02.
April 30, 2026Supports Immigration
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 2218, which bans employing anyone the employer knows gave a Social Security number that is not theirs. The Iowa House passed it 71-20, and it became law.
April 29, 2026Opposes Immigration
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Voted for House File 2513, a bill to bar Iowa colleges from hiring certain H-1B visa holders. The Iowa House passed it 68-27, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 3, 2026Opposes Immigration
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Voted for House File 2296, which bans cities and counties from issuing their own identification cards. The Iowa House passed it 69-22, and it became law.
February 25, 2026Opposes Immigration
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Co-sponsored House Resolution 14, a nonbinding resolution urging federal citizenship legislation for foreign-born adoptees excluded from the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. The House adopted it.
March 27, 2025Supports Immigration
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Co-sponsored House File 662, a bill providing $2.5 million to nonprofit agencies assisting refugees resettling in Iowa. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Immigration
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Voted for Senate File 2340, which created a state illegal-reentry crime after certain federal exclusion or deportation actions and allowed court-ordered returns to a foreign country. The House passed it 64-30; it became law.
March 19, 2024Opposes Immigration
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Voted against House File 2608, a proposal requiring immigration-status checks for public assistance and creating noncitizen-smuggling offenses. The House passed it 60-32; it did not become law.
March 7, 2024Supports Immigration
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Government Spending Reduction · 1 support · 50 oppose

Voted for Senate File 2488, which created an early-childhood and family-services system with district plans, advisory councils and a dedicated fund, restructuring coordination of services. The House passed it 83–2; the governor signed it on 2026-06-02.
May 2, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted against Senate File 2422, which changed public-assistance verification and federal food-assistance eligibility rules and restricted retroactive Medicaid eligibility, including a waiver request for other adults. The House passed it 60–24; the governor signed it on 2026-06-02.
April 30, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 2757, which created sales-and-use-tax exemptions and refunds for nuclear-generation facilities and a nuclear-energy-workforce fund for the state's public universities. The House passed it 83–2; the governor signed it on 2026-06-01.
April 30, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Sponsored House File 2733, a bill funding water monitoring and conservation, creating refundable farm-conservation tax credits and a $5-per-acre property-tax credit, and providing no-interest loans and grants. It remained in committee.
March 9, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2292, which proposed doubling inpatient psychiatric beds at state mental-health institutes, contingent on federal approval of a Medicaid institution-for-mental-diseases waiver. The House passed it 90–0, but it did not become law.
February 26, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2641, which proposed transition planning and assisted-living services under the elderly Medicaid waiver, addressing access to services and changes in care settings. The House passed it 90–0, but it did not become law.
February 26, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2514, which established child-care assistance eligibility for children of qualifying child-care workers, with work-hour and facility-agreement requirements and owner exclusions. The House passed it 86–3; the governor signed it on 2026-04-09.
February 23, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 1032, which proposed matching grants for grocery-store reinvestment and expanded Iowa produce-processing capacity, with eligibility and application requirements. The House passed it 89–0, but it did not become law.
April 24, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 661, a bill expanding child-care assistance and tax credits, funding child-care workers' wages and benefits, and creating small-business child-care tax credits. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 659, a bill creating $15 million in annual low-income housing tax credits, raising first-time homebuyer tax deductions and providing $50 million for exterior-home repairs. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 662, a bill providing $2.5 million to nonprofit agencies assisting refugees resettling in Iowa. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 607, a bill raising Medicaid income eligibility for pregnant women and infants to 375 percent of poverty and providing 12 months of postpartum coverage. It remained in committee.
February 26, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 605, a bill allowing pharmacists to dispense up to a year's supply of hormonal contraception without a separate prescription and requiring private-insurance and Medicaid coverage. It remained in committee.
February 26, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 455, a bill restoring the maximum unemployment-benefit duration from 16 to 26 weeks. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 152, a bill enrolling Iowa in federal summer food benefits for children in 2025 and funding state administration. It remained in committee.
January 30, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 2395, a House opioid-settlement proposal establishing grant review and funding treatment campuses and post-surgery prevention services. The House passed it 96-0; the chambers did not agree on final text.
April 18, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 2668, which required health-insurance coverage for certain biomarker tests, including Medicaid and Iowa's children's health-insurance program. The House passed it 97-1; it became law.
April 15, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 2634, a proposal removing the $7 million annual limit on real-estate transfer-tax revenue sent to the housing trust fund. The House passed it 95-0; it did not become law.
March 26, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 2658, which updated half-day child-care-assistance reimbursement to the 65th–80th percentile of Iowa's 2023 market-rate survey. The House passed it 92-1; it became law. He backed the earlier 2020-survey rates in 2023.
March 25, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 2630, a proposal raising minimum teacher salaries to $47,500 then $50,000 and funding support-staff wages. The House passed it 93-1; it did not become law. He later opposed the combined regional-education-service and pay bill.
March 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted against House File 2319, which prohibited cities/counties from operating guaranteed-income programs. The House passed it 55-43; it became law.
March 4, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 2356, a bill providing free menstrual products in at least half of public-school restrooms serving grades 6-12. It remained in committee.
February 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted against Senate File 494, which changed public-assistance eligibility and verification, including a SNAP asset test. The House passed it 58-41; it became law.
April 13, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 274, which revised Iowa's psychiatry training program to nine residency and two fellowship positions annually with state funding. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
March 7, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted against House File 68, which established private-school education savings accounts, phased toward eligibility for all Iowa students. The House passed it 55-45; it became law.
January 23, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 2573, which changed opioid-settlement administration and treatment funding and school access to opioid antagonists. The House passed it 91-4; it became law.
May 24, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 2549, which created loan repayment up to $40,000 for nonprescribing mental-health professionals serving shortage areas. The House passed it 83-0; it became law.
May 23, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 2128, which expanded E15/biodiesel retail requirements and renewable-fuel infrastructure incentives. The House passed it 81-13; it became law.
April 26, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted against House File 2355, which reduced maximum regular unemployment benefits from 26 to 16 weeks and changed suitable-work wage requirements. The House passed it 58-37; it became law.
March 23, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 848, which expanded the rural broadband grant program and financing framework. The House passed it 94-0; it became law.
March 29, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 688, a bill funding local health boards' drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinics with coronavirus-relief money. It remained in committee.
February 24, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 659, a bill providing $200 million over three years for public schools' pandemic recovery, including academic support, mental-health services and preschool programs. It remained in committee.
February 23, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 657, a bill providing $50 million for eviction and foreclosure prevention and extending Iowa's residential-eviction moratorium through January 31, 2022. It remained in committee.
February 23, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 608, a bill providing $100 million for pandemic relief to small businesses and expanding eligibility to sole proprietors and businesses with up to 50 workers. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 609, a bill providing $5 million for 20 million food-bank meals and exempting nonprofit food banks' charitable purchases from sales and use taxes. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 301, a proposal matching local funding dollar for dollar for child-care workforce pay, education and retention programs. The House passed it 92-2; it did not become law.
February 10, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 302, which established graduated child-care-assistance eligibility phase-out above the ordinary income limit. The House passed it 94-0; it became law.
February 10, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 2605, a bill allocating state money to broadband grants connecting Iowa farms, schools and communities. It remained in committee.
March 5, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 2604, a bill providing $1 million annually for local and volunteer fire and emergency-response equipment, facilities and training. It remained in committee.
March 5, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 2578, a bill creating a $5 million loan fund for small Iowa businesses, with five-year loans up to $50,000. It remained in committee.
February 27, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 2545, a bill offering grants up to $50,000 to open or expand child-care centers and homes, with at least 20 percent of children from assistance-eligible families. It remained in committee.
February 25, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 2466, a bill creating a $24.2 million annual risk pool to help regional mental-health and disability-service systems cover required services. It remained in committee.
February 20, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 2467, a bill allocating $1.5 million to expand the 1st Five program for young children's mental development into Iowa's remaining 11 counties. It remained in committee.
February 20, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 2426, a bill funding antibullying training, expanding school incident reporting and allowing schools to address harmful off-campus bullying. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 546, which extended school-infrastructure sales-tax funding and changed how that money is distributed and used. The House passed it 95-4; it became law.
April 25, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 772, which provided rural broadband and workforce-housing incentives. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
April 23, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted against House File 531, a proposal removing extra unemployment benefits after an employer closed and changing shared-work rules. The House passed it 53-44; the chambers did not agree on final text.
March 21, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Voted for House File 690, which established a statewide children's behavioral-health system, board and core services. The House passed it 83-14; it became law.
March 21, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 630, a bill creating mental-health professional fellowships in shortage areas, school suicide-prevention committees and student mental-health services. It remained in committee.
March 6, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 394, a bill increasing state funding per public-school pupil and adding funding based on school transportation costs. It remained in committee.
February 14, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Co-sponsored House File 383, a bill setting public-school aid growth at 3 percent for the 2019-2020 budget year and revising property-tax replacement payments. It remained in committee.
February 14, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction
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Public Safety and Crime Control · 22 support

Voted for House File 2542, which increased habitual-offender minimum confinement to seven years and maximum terms to twenty years and changed probation reporting and sentencing rules. The House passed it 66–20; the governor signed it on 2026-06-02.
May 2, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for Senate File 2399, which makes it harder to be released before trial by limiting bail below the uniform bond schedule. The Iowa House passed it 72-21, and it became law.
April 14, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 2133, a bill to list kratom as a Schedule I controlled substance. The Iowa House passed it 69-26, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 17, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 2624, a bill to require DNA samples from people arrested for a felony. The Iowa House passed it 64-30, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 10, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 2584, a bill to make the area within 300 feet of a homeless shelter a drug-free zone. The Iowa House passed it 70-21, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
February 25, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted against Senate File 303, which restricted city and county prohibitions on using consumer fireworks on July 3, July 4 and December 31, limiting local control on those dates. The House passed it 51–39; the governor signed it on 2025-05-19.
May 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 1036, which added human-trafficking screening and protections for victims and extended civil-action time limits for claims arising from human trafficking. The House passed it 91–0; the governor signed it on 2026-05-15.
May 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for Senate Joint Resolution 9, which proposed limiting defendants' confrontation rights for children and witnesses with mental illness or specified disabilities. The House passed it 87-6 as the first legislative approval; it was not yet part of Iowa's constitution.
April 17, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for Senate File 22, which expanded restrictions on electronic-device use while driving, allowing voice-operated or hands-free use and specified emergency and other exceptions. The House passed it 84–11; the governor signed it on 2025-04-02.
March 26, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 792, a bill to make giving someone fentanyl that causes their death first-degree murder. The Iowa House passed it 69-27, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 26, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 546, a bill to set a minimum $100,000 bond at first court appearance for six violent or gun crimes. The Iowa House passed it 64-31, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 2240, which expanded harassment law to nonconsensual altered/deepfake nude or sexual depictions and required adult offenders to register as sex offenders. The House passed it 93-0; it became law.
March 25, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 2602, which created the criminal offense of grooming a child or person believed to be a child for unlawful sexual conduct. The House passed it 94-0; it became law.
March 7, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for Senate File 2243, which expanded sexual-exploitation law to altered/deepfake sexual depictions of identifiable minors. The House passed it 93-0; it became law.
March 6, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 699, a proposal for evidence-based juvenile prevention, treatment and reentry services, contingent on funding. The House passed it 94-0; it did not become law.
May 1, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 657, a proposal preserving biological evidence, screening jailhouse-witness reliability and providing postconviction file access. The House passed it 94-0; it did not become law.
March 21, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for Senate File 522, which established elder-abuse offenses/protections and dependent-adult-abuse changes. The House passed it 96-0; it became law.
March 23, 2022Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 775, which created offenses for unauthorized agricultural sampling and use of cameras/electronic surveillance while trespassing on private property; the camera prohibition is not limited to agricultural facilities. The House passed it 72-20; it became law.
April 12, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for House File 2647, which restricted police chokeholds and changed certification, training and independent attorney-general prosecution authority. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
June 11, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Co-sponsored House File 2604, a bill providing $1 million annually for local and volunteer fire and emergency-response equipment, facilities and training. It remained in committee.
March 5, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Co-sponsored House File 2426, a bill funding antibullying training, expanding school incident reporting and allowing schools to address harmful off-campus bullying. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Voted for Senate File 519, which created agricultural-production-facility trespass offenses for deceptive entry/employment intended to cause physical or economic harm. The House passed it 65-32; it became law.
March 12, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
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Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 13 support · 4 oppose

Voted for House File 2542, which increased habitual-offender minimum confinement to seven years and maximum terms to twenty years and changed probation reporting and sentencing rules. The House passed it 66–20; the governor signed it on 2026-06-02.
May 2, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 1036, which added human-trafficking screening and protections for victims and extended civil-action time limits for claims arising from human trafficking. The House passed it 91–0; the governor signed it on 2026-05-15.
May 12, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 472, which created expedited dismissal, litigation stays, appeal rights and fee shifting for lawsuits covered by protections for public speech and petitioning. The House passed it 89–0; the governor signed it on 2025-05-19.
April 24, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Senate Joint Resolution 9, which proposed limiting defendants' confrontation rights for children and witnesses with mental illness or specified disabilities. The House passed it 87-6 as the first legislative approval; it was not yet part of Iowa's constitution.
April 17, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 639, which required proof that pipelines serve as common carriers and added landowner protections, insurance requirements and utility-commission participation safeguards. The House passed it 85–10, but it was vetoed on 2025-06-11 and did not become law.
March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 2664, a proposal giving pipeline landowners early judicial review of eminent-domain authority and eliminating specified appeal bonds. The House passed it 86-7; it did not become law.
March 28, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against House File 2575, a proposal defining an unborn person from fertilization for nonconsensual injury/death crimes and increasing specified penalties. The House passed it 58-36; it did not become law.
March 7, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 2560, which proposed replacing civil forfeiture with a criminal-forfeiture system. The House passed it 94-0, but it did not become law.
March 7, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 2191, which removed earned-time reductions from specified mandatory minimum prison sentences. The House passed it 75-22; it became law.
February 27, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 699, a proposal for evidence-based juvenile prevention, treatment and reentry services, contingent on funding. The House passed it 94-0; it did not become law.
May 1, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted against Senate File 496, which restricted K-6 instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, limited school-library materials and required parental notification of requests to affirm a student's gender identity. The House passed it 57-38; it became law.
April 20, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 349, a proposal shortening probation through compliance, education and employment credits, capped at 40% of the term. The House passed it 93-1; it did not become law.
March 21, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 657, a proposal preserving biological evidence, screening jailhouse-witness reliability and providing postconviction file access. The House passed it 94-0; it did not become law.
March 21, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 2507, which reformed juvenile placement and guardianship procedures, including kinship preferences and guardian-ad-litem duties. The House passed it 94-0; it became law.
April 26, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for Senate File 2296, which allowed warrantless collection of garbage placed for disposal by removing a reasonable-expectation-of-privacy claim under state law. The House passed it 58-36; it became law.
March 22, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 819, a proposal requiring strong justification for state interference in parental custody and presuming parents fit. The House passed it 94-0; it did not become law.
March 25, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Voted for House File 2647, which restricted police chokeholds and changed certification, training and independent attorney-general prosecution authority. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
June 11, 2020Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
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Housing Affordability · 12 support

Voted for Senate File 592, which required cities and counties to allow a qualifying accessory dwelling unit and limited local occupancy, parking and design restrictions on these homes. The House passed it 89–7; the governor signed it on 2025-05-01.
April 8, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 659, a bill creating $15 million in annual low-income housing tax credits, raising first-time homebuyer tax deductions and providing $50 million for exterior-home repairs. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
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Sponsored House File 481, a bill limiting mobile-home park rent increases to once a year, with exceptions for specified insurance and infrastructure costs. A subcommittee recommended passage, but it did not advance to a floor vote.
February 19, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
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Sponsored House File 482, a bill allowing mobile-home park landlords to cancel rental agreements only after a tenant materially violated the agreement. It remained in committee.
February 19, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 266, a bill requiring landlords to refund half the application fee to applicants rejected as tenants. It remained in committee.
February 6, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted for House File 2634, a proposal removing the $7 million annual limit on real-estate transfer-tax revenue sent to the housing trust fund. The House passed it 95-0; it did not become law.
March 26, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted for House File 547, a proposal allowing documented crime victims to end rental leases early, with privacy and retaliation protections. The House passed it 94-0; it did not become law.
March 21, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted for House File 2562, which added mobile-home-park tenant protections for rent-increase notice and lease/eviction procedures. The House passed it 60-37; it became law.
April 5, 2022Supports Housing Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 657, a bill providing $50 million for eviction and foreclosure prevention and extending Iowa's residential-eviction moratorium through January 31, 2022. It remained in committee.
February 23, 2021Supports Housing Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 2610, a bill raising workforce-housing tax incentives from $25 million to $30 million annually and adding repairs and accessibility improvements to older single-family homes. It remained in committee.
March 5, 2020Supports Housing Affordability
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Co-sponsored House File 2351, a bill expanding mobile-home tenant protections with 180 days' rent-increase notice, limits on utility markups and remedies for landlords' failure to provide essential services. A subcommittee recommended passage, but it did not advance to a floor vote.
February 12, 2020Supports Housing Affordability
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Voted for House File 772, which provided rural broadband and workforce-housing incentives. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
April 23, 2019Supports Housing Affordability
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Social Programs and Welfare · 28 support

Voted for Senate File 2488, which created an early-childhood and family-services system with district plans, advisory councils and a dedicated fund, restructuring coordination of services. The House passed it 83–2; the governor signed it on 2026-06-02.
May 2, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against Senate File 2422, which changed public-assistance verification and federal food-assistance eligibility rules and restricted retroactive Medicaid eligibility, including a waiver request for other adults. The House passed it 60–24; the governor signed it on 2026-06-02.
April 30, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for House File 2292, which proposed doubling inpatient psychiatric beds at state mental-health institutes, contingent on federal approval of a Medicaid institution-for-mental-diseases waiver. The House passed it 90–0, but it did not become law.
February 26, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for House File 2641, which proposed transition planning and assisted-living services under the elderly Medicaid waiver, addressing access to services and changes in care settings. The House passed it 90–0, but it did not become law.
February 26, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for House File 2514, which established child-care assistance eligibility for children of qualifying child-care workers, with work-hour and facility-agreement requirements and owner exclusions. The House passed it 86–3; the governor signed it on 2026-04-09.
February 23, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 661, a bill expanding child-care assistance and tax credits, funding child-care workers' wages and benefits, and creating small-business child-care tax credits. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 663, a bill restoring the Medicaid family-planning network's June 2017 benefits and eligibility rules and replacing the separate state program after federal approval. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 662, a bill providing $2.5 million to nonprofit agencies assisting refugees resettling in Iowa. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 607, a bill raising Medicaid income eligibility for pregnant women and infants to 375 percent of poverty and providing 12 months of postpartum coverage. It remained in committee.
February 26, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 605, a bill allowing pharmacists to dispense up to a year's supply of hormonal contraception without a separate prescription and requiring private-insurance and Medicaid coverage. It remained in committee.
February 26, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 455, a bill restoring the maximum unemployment-benefit duration from 16 to 26 weeks. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 152, a bill enrolling Iowa in federal summer food benefits for children in 2025 and funding state administration. It remained in committee.
January 30, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for House File 2668, which required health-insurance coverage for certain biomarker tests, including Medicaid and Iowa's children's health-insurance program. The House passed it 97-1; it became law.
April 15, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for House File 2634, a proposal removing the $7 million annual limit on real-estate transfer-tax revenue sent to the housing trust fund. The House passed it 95-0; it did not become law.
March 26, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2658, which updated half-day child-care-assistance reimbursement to the 65th–80th percentile of Iowa's 2023 market-rate survey. The House passed it 92-1; it became law. He backed the earlier 2020-survey rates in 2023.
March 25, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against House File 2608, a proposal requiring immigration-status checks for public assistance and creating noncitizen-smuggling offenses. The House passed it 60-32; it did not become law.
March 7, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against House File 2319, which prohibited cities/counties from operating guaranteed-income programs. The House passed it 55-43; it became law.
March 4, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 2356, a bill providing free menstrual products in at least half of public-school restrooms serving grades 6-12. It remained in committee.
February 7, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against Senate File 494, which changed public-assistance eligibility and verification, including a SNAP asset test. The House passed it 58-41; it became law.
April 13, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for House File 2507, which reformed juvenile placement and guardianship procedures, including kinship preferences and guardian-ad-litem duties. The House passed it 94-0; it became law.
April 26, 2022Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against House File 2355, which reduced maximum regular unemployment benefits from 26 to 16 weeks and changed suitable-work wage requirements. The House passed it 58-37; it became law.
March 23, 2022Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 657, a bill providing $50 million for eviction and foreclosure prevention and extending Iowa's residential-eviction moratorium through January 31, 2022. It remained in committee.
February 23, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 609, a bill providing $5 million for 20 million food-bank meals and exempting nonprofit food banks' charitable purchases from sales and use taxes. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for House File 302, which established graduated child-care-assistance eligibility phase-out above the ordinary income limit. The House passed it 94-0; it became law.
February 10, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 2545, a bill offering grants up to $50,000 to open or expand child-care centers and homes, with at least 20 percent of children from assistance-eligible families. It remained in committee.
February 25, 2020Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Co-sponsored House File 2466, a bill creating a $24.2 million annual risk pool to help regional mental-health and disability-service systems cover required services. It remained in committee.
February 20, 2020Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 531, a proposal removing extra unemployment benefits after an employer closed and changing shared-work rules. The House passed it 53-44; the chambers did not agree on final text.
March 21, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for House File 690, which established a statewide children's behavioral-health system, board and core services. The House passed it 83-14; it became law.
March 21, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Public Education Quality · 15 support

Voted for House File 2757, which created sales-and-use-tax exemptions and refunds for nuclear-generation facilities and a nuclear-energy-workforce fund for the state's public universities. The House passed it 83–2; the governor signed it on 2026-06-01.
April 30, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
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Voted for House File 782, which required school policies restricting students' personal electronic devices during classroom instruction, with health and disability-plan exceptions and emergency protocols. The House passed it 92–4; the governor signed it on 2025-04-30.
April 8, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
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Voted for House File 316, which adds career planning lessons in grades five and six. The Iowa House passed it 61-28, and it became law.
March 10, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
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Co-sponsored House File 665, a bill requiring public colleges to offer mental-health awareness, staff training, peer support and partnerships with community providers. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
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Co-sponsored House File 251, a bill requiring annual public reports identifying privately accredited nonpublic schools, their accreditation standards and waivers. It remained in committee.
February 6, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
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Voted for House File 2618, which changed science-of-reading literacy instruction, teacher assessment, student plans and parent retention-request procedures. The House passed it 92-3; it became law.
April 2, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2630, a proposal raising minimum teacher salaries to $47,500 then $50,000 and funding support-staff wages. The House passed it 93-1; it did not become law. He later opposed the combined regional-education-service and pay bill.
March 7, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
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Co-sponsored House File 2431, a bill requiring state support for student robotics organizations and allowing school athletic associations to sponsor robotics competitions. It remained in committee.
February 12, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
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Voted against Senate File 391, which changed school curriculum, program and staffing requirements, including previously mandatory offerings. The House passed it 60-36; it became law.
April 20, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
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Co-sponsored House File 659, a bill providing $200 million over three years for public schools' pandemic recovery, including academic support, mental-health services and preschool programs. It remained in committee.
February 23, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
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Co-sponsored House File 2426, a bill funding antibullying training, expanding school incident reporting and allowing schools to address harmful off-campus bullying. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2020Supports Public Education Quality
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Voted for House File 546, which extended school-infrastructure sales-tax funding and changed how that money is distributed and used. The House passed it 95-4; it became law.
April 25, 2019Supports Public Education Quality
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Co-sponsored House File 630, a bill creating mental-health professional fellowships in shortage areas, school suicide-prevention committees and student mental-health services. It remained in committee.
March 6, 2019Supports Public Education Quality
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Co-sponsored House File 394, a bill increasing state funding per public-school pupil and adding funding based on school transportation costs. It remained in committee.
February 14, 2019Supports Public Education Quality
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Co-sponsored House File 383, a bill setting public-school aid growth at 3 percent for the 2019-2020 budget year and revising property-tax replacement payments. It remained in committee.
February 14, 2019Supports Public Education Quality
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Gun Control · 5 support

Voted against House File 2586, which authorized professional carry permits for school employees and related school security/firearm provisions. The House passed it 62-36; it became law.
April 15, 2024Supports Gun Control
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 654, a proposal expanding guns in vehicles at public lots, colleges and school pickup areas and adding firearm-safety courses. The House passed it 62-37; it did not become law.
April 12, 2023Supports Gun Control
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 756, which removed firearm purchase/carry permit requirements for otherwise eligible adults and changed related firearm rules. The House passed it 60-37; it became law.
March 17, 2021Supports Gun Control
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate Joint Resolution 7, which proposed a constitutional right to keep and bear arms, with all restrictions subject to strict scrutiny. House vote: 58-41.
January 28, 2021Supports Gun Control
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2502, which limited local government regulation of firearms, weapons and shooting ranges. The House passed it 52-44; it became law.
February 27, 2020Supports Gun Control
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Women's Reproductive Rights · 7 support

Co-sponsored House File 663, a bill restoring the Medicaid family-planning network's June 2017 benefits and eligibility rules and replacing the separate state program after federal approval. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 607, a bill raising Medicaid income eligibility for pregnant women and infants to 375 percent of poverty and providing 12 months of postpartum coverage. It remained in committee.
February 26, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 605, a bill allowing pharmacists to dispense up to a year's supply of hormonal contraception without a separate prescription and requiring private-insurance and Medicaid coverage. It remained in committee.
February 26, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 732, which prohibited most abortions after detection of fetal cardiac activity, with certain exceptions. The House passed it 56-34; it became law.
July 11, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 529, which prohibited assisted-reproduction fraud/nonconsensual reproductive-material use and created private civil remedies. The House passed it 83-1; it became law.
May 23, 2022Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House Joint Resolution 5, which proposed declaring that Iowa's Constitution provides no right to abortion and does not require public funding for abortion. House vote: 54-38.
May 18, 2021Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 594, which added a 24-hour abortion waiting requirement alongside provisions concerning withdrawal of life support from minor children. The House passed it 53-42; it became law.
June 13, 2020Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Election Integrity · 2 support

Voted for House File 2609, which proposed prominent synthetic-media labels on campaign materials and made the person paying for their publication solely responsible for including the disclosure. The House passed it 89–2, but it did not become law.
March 12, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2549, a proposal banning artificial intelligence in voting machines and penalizing undisclosed fraudulent election deepfakes within 90 days of an election. The House passed it 93-1; it did not become law.
March 6, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Limit Foreign Influence · 1 support

Voted for Senate File 2204, which strengthened foreign agricultural-land ownership reporting and enforcement. The House passed it 95-0; it became law.
February 26, 2024Supports Limit Foreign Influence
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Personal Income Tax Reduction · 8 support

Voted for House File 2755, which proposed mandatory Iowa participation in the federal tax-credit program for contributions to scholarship-granting organizations and state agency administration. The House passed it 89–3, but it did not become law.
April 8, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Sponsored House File 2733, a bill funding water monitoring and conservation, creating refundable farm-conservation tax credits and a $5-per-acre property-tax credit, and providing no-interest loans and grants. It remained in committee.
March 9, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 661, a bill expanding child-care assistance and tax credits, funding child-care workers' wages and benefits, and creating small-business child-care tax credits. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 659, a bill creating $15 million in annual low-income housing tax credits, raising first-time homebuyer tax deductions and providing $50 million for exterior-home repairs. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2317, which established a 3.9% flat individual income-tax rate starting in 2026, retirement-income exclusion and other tax changes. The House passed it 61-34; it became law.
February 24, 2022Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 712, a proposal giving child-care facility developers construction-tax refunds and investment credits, capped at $200,000 per project. The House passed it 87-6; it did not become law.
March 9, 2021Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 370, a proposal giving employers Iowa tax credits matching the federal credit for providing child care, with a five-year carryforward. The House passed it 88-6; it did not become law.
February 10, 2021Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 2609, a bill raising income-tax credits for volunteer firefighters, emergency medical personnel and reserve peace officers from $100 to $500. It remained in committee.
March 5, 2020Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Data Privacy · 5 support · 2 oppose

Voted against House File 2464, which barred firearm-specific payment-card retailer codes and registries of privately owned firearms, with criminal-investigation and other legal exceptions. The House passed it 73-24; it became law.
April 16, 2024Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2240, which expanded harassment law to nonconsensual altered/deepfake nude or sexual depictions and required adult offenders to register as sex offenders. The House passed it 93-0; it became law.
March 25, 2024Supports Data Privacy
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Voted for Senate File 2243, which expanded sexual-exploitation law to altered/deepfake sexual depictions of identifiable minors. The House passed it 93-0; it became law.
March 6, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 547, a proposal allowing documented crime victims to end rental leases early, with privacy and retaliation protections. The House passed it 94-0; it did not become law.
March 21, 2023Supports Data Privacy
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Voted for Senate File 262, which created rights over personal data and duties for companies handling that data, enforced by the attorney general. The House passed it 97-0; it became law.
March 15, 2023Supports Data Privacy
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 2296, which allowed warrantless collection of garbage placed for disposal by removing a reasonable-expectation-of-privacy claim under state law. The House passed it 58-36; it became law.
March 22, 2022Opposes Data Privacy
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Voted for House File 309, which restricted public agencies' access to and disclosure of nonprofit donors' and supporters' personal information, with exceptions. The House passed it 84-9; it became law.
February 23, 2021Supports Data Privacy
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Civil Rights · 14 support

Voted against Senate File 140, which barred requested satellite absentee-voting sites on school property for certain school ballot measures and extended voting-site material-obscuring requirements to public measures. The House passed it 63-29; it became law.
April 7, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 671, a bill making marriage statutes gender-neutral and expressly permitting otherwise eligible parties to marry regardless of gender. It remained in committee.
February 28, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 2096, which removed gender-balance requirements for specified public boards/commissions. The House passed it 62-33; it became law.
February 26, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 496, which restricted K-6 instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, limited school-library materials and required parental notification of requests to affirm a student's gender identity. The House passed it 57-38; it became law.
April 20, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 482, which required school restroom/changing-facility use based on sex at birth, subject to stated exceptions. The House passed it 57-39; it became law.
March 16, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 538, which prohibited specified gender-transition medical care for minors. The House passed it 58-39; it became law.
March 8, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2437, which proposed protections against government treating religious activities more restrictively than comparable secular activities and created legal remedies. The House passed it 93-1, but it did not become law.
March 17, 2022Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2416, which restricted girls'/women's interscholastic and intercollegiate athletics participation according to sex assigned at birth. The House passed it 55-39; it became law.
February 21, 2022Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 802, which restricted specified race/sex-related concepts in mandatory government and school training. The House passed it 53-35; it became law.
May 6, 2021Supports Civil Rights
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Voted against House File 228, which removed school-district diversity/desegregation plans as grounds to deny open enrollment. The House passed it 56-37; it became law.
April 20, 2021Supports Civil Rights
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Voted against Senate File 413, which restricted voting and absentee-ballot procedures and changed enforcement rules for election officials. The House passed it 57-37; it became law.
February 24, 2021Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 2348, which defined discharge of felony sentences for voting-right restoration, contingent on a constitutional amendment that did not pass; these provisions never took effect. The House passed it 51-45; it became law.
June 3, 2020Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House Joint Resolution 14, which proposed restoring voting eligibility after completion of a felony sentence. House vote: 95-2.
March 28, 2019Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 327, which limited when franchisors count as employers under specified employment/civil-rights laws. The House passed it 51-45; it became law.
March 12, 2019Supports Civil Rights
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Corporate Accountability · 44 support · 1 oppose

Voted for Senate File 2417, which required artificial-intelligence chatbot disclosures, protections for minors and suicide-response protocols and restricted claims of licensed mental-health services. The House passed it 95–0; the governor signed it on 2026-05-02.
April 15, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2635, which barred insurers from using artificial intelligence alone to deny, delay or downgrade medically necessary prior authorization and added audit and authorization-processing standards. The House passed it 87–0; the governor signed it on 2026-05-13.
March 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2527, which shields farms, fuel makers and other businesses from climate change lawsuits. The Iowa House passed it 66-24, and it became law.
February 26, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: legiscan.com
Co-sponsored House File 2483, a bill requiring notices and itemized fees for nonconsensual towing, free retrieval of personal belongings and 30 days to reclaim abandoned vehicles. It remained in committee.
February 16, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 383, which required pharmacy-benefit managers to pass through rebates, protect patient pharmacy choice and meet pharmacy reimbursement and appeal standards. The House passed it 75–15; the governor signed it on 2025-06-11.
May 12, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 639, which required proof that pipelines serve as common carriers and added landowner protections, insurance requirements and utility-commission participation safeguards. The House passed it 85–10, but it was vetoed on 2025-06-11 and did not become law.
March 26, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 605, a bill allowing pharmacists to dispense up to a year's supply of hormonal contraception without a separate prescription and requiring private-insurance and Medicaid coverage. It remained in committee.
February 26, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 318, which proposed diagnostic and supplemental breast-examination cost sharing no less favorable than screening mammograms, with an exception for high-deductible plans. The House passed it 92–0, but it did not become law.
February 20, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 330, which removed annual and lifetime autism-treatment coverage caps and visit limits for applied behavior analysis and autism services in covered group plans. The House passed it 92-0; the governor signed it on 2025-06-11.
February 20, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Sponsored House File 481, a bill limiting mobile-home park rent increases to once a year, with exceptions for specified insurance and infrastructure costs. A subcommittee recommended passage, but it did not advance to a floor vote.
February 19, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
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Sponsored House File 482, a bill allowing mobile-home park landlords to cancel rental agreements only after a tenant materially violated the agreement. It remained in committee.
February 19, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
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Co-sponsored House File 266, a bill requiring landlords to refund half the application fee to applicants rejected as tenants. It remained in committee.
February 6, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for House File 626, which protected medically stable patients from nonmedical prescription-coverage changes during a plan year, with specified exceptions. The House passed it 94-1; it became law.
April 17, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2668, which required health-insurance coverage for certain biomarker tests, including Medicaid and Iowa's children's health-insurance program. The House passed it 97-1; it became law.
April 15, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2664, a proposal giving pipeline landowners early judicial review of eminent-domain authority and eliminating specified appeal bonds. The House passed it 86-7; it did not become law.
March 28, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for House File 2401, a proposal requiring pass-through pharmacy pricing and competitive online bidding for public-plan drug benefits. The House passed it 93-3; it did not become law.
March 12, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2523, a proposal requiring parental authorization for minors' social-media accounts and parental access to messages and account controls. The House passed it 88-6; it did not become law.
March 6, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2488, a proposal setting health prior-authorization deadlines and insurer pilot programs exempting selected providers. The House passed it 95-0; the chambers did not agree on final text.
February 29, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for Senate File 2204, which strengthened foreign agricultural-land ownership reporting and enforcement. The House passed it 95-0; it became law.
February 26, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for House File 2489, which required insurance coverage for diagnostic/supplemental breast examinations, subject to the Act's terms. The House passed it 97-0; it became law.
February 21, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for House File 2099, which barred pharmacy-benefit managers from retaliating against pharmacies for complaints and strengthened fee and pricing protections. The House passed it 97-0; it became law.
February 21, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 694, a bill capping insured patients' out-of-pocket costs at $25 for an up-to-31-day supply of covered insulin. It remained in committee.
April 10, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted against Senate File 228, which limited certain noneconomic damages in commercial-motor-vehicle accident litigation. The House passed it 58-42; it became law.
March 28, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for House File 565, a proposal requiring 90% voluntary or preexisting easements before carbon-dioxide pipeline eminent domain and expanding landowner damage remedies. The House passed it 73-20; it did not become law.
March 22, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for House File 547, a proposal allowing documented crime victims to end rental leases early, with privacy and retaliation protections. The House passed it 94-0; it did not become law.
March 21, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for Senate File 262, which created rights over personal data and duties for companies handling that data, enforced by the attorney general. The House passed it 97-0; it became law.
March 15, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for House File 423, which barred discriminatory reimbursement and contract restrictions against pharmacies and providers participating in the federal 340B discounted-drug program. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
March 7, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 161, which limited noneconomic damages in medical-malpractice actions, with different provider/hospital caps and certain exceptions. The House passed it 54-46; it became law.
February 8, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2384, which regulated pharmacy benefit managers, the companies that administer prescription-drug benefits, including fees and patients' copays. The House passed it 93-0; it became law.
May 25, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2562, which added mobile-home-park tenant protections for rent-increase notice and lease/eviction procedures. The House passed it 60-37; it became law.
April 5, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted against House File 621, which limited firearm/ammunition manufacturers' liability for lawful manufacture/sale followed by unlawful use. The House passed it 60-37; it became law.
March 17, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted for House File 294, which proposed equal insurer reimbursement for mental-health services delivered through telehealth and in person. The House passed it 95-1, but it did not become law.
March 8, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
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Co-sponsored House File 687, a bill removing patient costs and prior-authorization requirements for COVID-19 testing and diagnosis and vaccine administration. It remained in committee.
February 24, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
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Co-sponsored House File 612, a bill requiring insurers to reimburse telehealth services at the same rate and on the same basis as in-person care. It remained in committee.
February 18, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 263, a proposal capping insured patients' cost sharing at $100 for a 31-day prescription of covered insulin. The House passed it 89-2; it did not become law.
February 8, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 2338, which limited recoverable medical-expense damages and added COVID-19 liability protections. The House passed it 52-44; it became law.
June 5, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 2296, which treated qualifying truck owner-operators as independent contractors rather than employees under workers' compensation, wage and unemployment laws. The House passed it 51-46; it became law.
June 3, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2553, a proposal banning drug-benefit managers from charging plans more than they paid pharmacies and adding reimbursement and patient-price protections. The House passed it 100-0; it did not become law.
March 10, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 583, which established distributed-generation and net-metering billing rules and customer protections. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
March 3, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 2465, a bill requiring pharmacy benefit managers to pass at least 51 percent of prescription-drug rebates to patients through lower out-of-pocket costs. It remained in committee.
February 20, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
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Introduced House File 2432, a bill regulating consumable hemp products through registration, testing and labeling rules and allowing qualifying imports. His bill remained in committee.
February 18, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
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Co-sponsored House File 2351, a bill expanding mobile-home tenant protections with 180 days' rent-increase notice, limits on utility markups and remedies for landlords' failure to provide essential services. A subcommittee recommended passage, but it did not advance to a floor vote.
February 12, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
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Co-sponsored House File 2327, a bill barring health insurers, including agricultural-organization plans, from denying coverage or excluding benefits for preexisting conditions. It remained in committee.
February 10, 2020Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 260, which raised the principal threshold for certain regulated loans from $10,000 to $30,000 and allowed a service fee capped at the lesser of 10% or $30. The House passed it 53-46; it became law.
March 13, 2019Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 327, which limited when franchisors count as employers under specified employment/civil-rights laws. The House passed it 51-45; it became law.
March 12, 2019Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: legis.iowa.gov

Public Infrastructure · 8 support

Voted for House File 2757, which created sales-and-use-tax exemptions and refunds for nuclear-generation facilities and a nuclear-energy-workforce fund for the state's public universities. The House passed it 83–2; the governor signed it on 2026-06-01.
April 30, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
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Voted for House File 2128, which expanded E15/biodiesel retail requirements and renewable-fuel infrastructure incentives. The House passed it 81-13; it became law.
April 26, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2412, which required radon testing and remediation planning in public school buildings. The House passed it 93-2; it became law.
March 7, 2022Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 848, which expanded the rural broadband grant program and financing framework. The House passed it 94-0; it became law.
March 29, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 2605, a bill allocating state money to broadband grants connecting Iowa farms, schools and communities. It remained in committee.
March 5, 2020Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 2604, a bill providing $1 million annually for local and volunteer fire and emergency-response equipment, facilities and training. It remained in committee.
March 5, 2020Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 546, which extended school-infrastructure sales-tax funding and changed how that money is distributed and used. The House passed it 95-4; it became law.
April 25, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 772, which provided rural broadband and workforce-housing incentives. The House passed it 98-0; it became law.
April 23, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: legis.iowa.gov

General · 112 records

Voted for House File 2801, which expanded state economic-development incentives to allow one rural-county project a refundable, transferable investment tax credit up to 10%, paid over ten years. The House passed it 75–17; the governor signed it that day.
October 2, 2026
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Received the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO's endorsements for Iowa House District 27 in 2022, 2024 and 2026.
September 29, 2026
Source: voteunioniowa.org
Received the Iowa Corn Growers Association PAC's endorsement for the 2026 election.
September 21, 2026
Source: iowacorn.org
Received the Iowa Industry Political Action Committee's endorsement for Iowa House District 27.
September 10, 2026
Source: iowaabi.org
Voted for Senate File 2472, which changed property-tax and local-budget rules, including limits and formulas for county levy growth, assessment and funding changes, and first-time-homebuyer provisions. The House passed it 62–22; the governor signed it on 2026-05-18.
May 3, 2026
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate Joint Resolution 11, which advanced a constitutional amendment requiring two-thirds legislative approval for a new state income tax or an increase in state income-tax rates. The House passed it 57–21, advancing the proposal to the November 2026 electorate; it was not yet an adopted constitutional amendment.
May 3, 2026
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 469, which creates an emeritus medical license for doctors 60 and older who train residents. The Iowa House passed it 58-27, and it became law.
May 2, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2788, which adds rules for abortion drugs, including an in-person exam and signed consent. The Iowa House passed it 58-29, and it became law.
May 1, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against Senate File 2039, which allowed legislative leaders to intervene in court review of agency actions and allowed other legislators to join the intervention motion. The House passed it 59–25; the governor signed it on 2026-06-02.
April 30, 2026
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 472, which tightens the rule that public employee unions must win a new election before each contract ends. The Iowa House passed it 56-34, and it became law.
April 28, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2763, a bill to make farm equipment makers share manuals, parts and tools with owners and repair shops. The Iowa House passed it 70-18, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
April 27, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2670, which rewrites parts of what Iowa schools must teach, dropping the multicultural and gender-fair approach. The Iowa House passed it 65-28, and it became law.
April 21, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2717, which proposed expanded legislative review and approval of major administrative rules, along with changes to executive-branch rulemaking and agency administration. The House passed it 60–32, but it did not become law.
April 20, 2026
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 473, which bars the state from ruling out foster parents over their beliefs about sexual orientation or gender identity. The Iowa House passed it 58-34, and it became law.
April 20, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2754, which changed charter-school governance, funding and operations and added a University of Northern Iowa route for approving charter-school applications. The House passed it 53–34; the governor signed it on 2026-05-12.
April 16, 2026
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 2263, a bill to let people keep guns in their vehicles in public parking lots. The Iowa House passed it 60-26, but the two chambers never agreed on the same text, so it did not become law.
April 16, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against Senate File 304, which takes away a minor's ability to get a sexually transmitted infection vaccine without a parent's consent. The Iowa House passed it 63-29, and it became law.
April 14, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2501, which makes several changes to how Iowa runs elections, including cancelling registrations with matching records. The Iowa House passed it 63-29, and it became law.
April 7, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 571, which creates the Medical Ethics Defense Act, letting providers refuse care that goes against their conscience. The Iowa House passed it 63-27, and it became law.
March 23, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted for House File 853, which proposed independent court interpretation of law without deference to non-licensing state agencies, with unresolved ambiguity limiting agency authority. The House passed it 76–19, but it did not become law.
March 17, 2026
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2487, a bill to give the attorney general new power to enforce the ban on diversity offices. The Iowa House passed it 62-27, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 12, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against Senate File 579, which stops cities and counties from passing civil rights laws broader than state law. The Iowa House passed it 60-26, and it became law.
March 5, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2557, a bill to say raising a child consistent with the child's sex is not child abuse. The Iowa House passed it 65-31, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 4, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2718, a bill to bar state and local agencies from enforcing any red flag gun law. The Iowa House passed it 67-29, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 4, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2711, which removes affirmative action from Iowa law. The Iowa House passed it 64-29, and it became law.
March 4, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2244, a bill to expand civics teaching in Iowa schools. The Iowa House passed it 70-26, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 3, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2539, which repeals several higher education programs, including minority educator vouchers. The Iowa House passed it 66-30, and it became law.
March 3, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2529, a bill to make farm equipment makers share repair tools for diesel exhaust fluid systems. The Iowa House passed it 57-33, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 2, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2102, a bill to require every driver's license test to be given in English. The Iowa House passed it 58-30, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
February 26, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 2488, a bill to bar private colleges whose students get state tuition grants from running diversity offices. The Iowa House passed it 57-34, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
February 24, 2026
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against Senate File 2201, which set state and categorical school-funding growth at 2% and changed transportation-equity funding, property-tax provisions and education-support-personnel supplements. The House passed it 58–35; the governor signed it on 2026-02-26.
February 19, 2026
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2104, which proposed prohibiting the use of eminent domain for pipelines primarily transporting carbon oxide, limiting compulsory acquisition of land for those projects. The House passed it 64–28, but it did not become law.
January 21, 2026
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Served as a non-voting legislative representative on the Municipal Fire and Police Retirement System of Iowa board of trustees.
January 8, 2026
Source: mfprsi.org
Voted against Senate File 607, which reduced the wage base subject to unemployment-insurance taxes and restructured employer contribution rates and the unemployment compensation system. The House passed it 60–27; the governor signed it on 2025-06-05.
May 14, 2025
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 189, which allowed qualifying private-school students to join public-school athletics through agreements between the public district and the nonpublic school. The House passed it 59–26; the governor signed it on 2025-06-06.
May 14, 2025
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 615, which requires most adults on Medicaid expansion to work 80 hours a month to keep coverage. The Iowa House passed it 56-30, and it became law.
May 14, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 856, which bars governments and public colleges from spending money on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The Iowa House passed it 59-32, and it became law.
May 13, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 516, which requires 80 percent of University of Iowa medical and dental students to be Iowans. The Iowa House passed it 61-30, and it became law.
April 22, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against Senate File 175, which adds fetal development lessons, including an ultrasound video, in grades five and six. The Iowa House passed it 60-31, and it became law.
April 17, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against Senate File 369, which makes passing a civics test a condition of graduating from high school. The Iowa House passed it 60-33, and it became law.
April 17, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 767, which changes the private sector drug testing law in employers' favor. The Iowa House passed it 60-32, and it became law.
March 27, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 943, which proposed excluding liquefied-carbon-dioxide pipelines from the utility exception to restrictions on taking agricultural land through eminent domain. The House passed it 82–12, but it did not become law.
March 26, 2025
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 884, which proposed allowing school chaplains without educator credentials, while barring them from replacing school counselors or coercing student participation. The House passed it 57–39, but it did not become law.
March 26, 2025
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Received the Hoover Uncommon Public Service Award for service beyond his legislative duties.
March 26, 2025
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 970, which paired $1 million for produce-purchase assistance with a request for federal permission to restrict foods eligible for purchase with federal food assistance. The House passed it 56–40, but it did not become law.
March 26, 2025
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 946, a bill to penalize police and sheriffs who refuse to follow Iowa's immigration enforcement law. The Iowa House passed it 61-35, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 26, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 785, which lets United States citizens from outside Iowa sit on charter school boards. The Iowa House passed it 60-36, and it became law.
March 26, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 954, which changed election administration, including political-party qualification, voter-registration procedures and responsibilities of election officials. The House passed it 65–31; the governor signed it on 2025-06-02.
March 25, 2025
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 928, which limits election recounts to very close margins and rewrites how contests are run. The Iowa House passed it 66-31, and it became law.
March 25, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against Senate File 603, which reorganizes the state workforce agency and bars cities from setting pay rules for contractors. The Iowa House passed it 64-34, and it became law.
March 18, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 401, a bill to set general education requirements, including western and American heritage courses, at public universities. The Iowa House passed it 61-36, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 18, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 269, a bill to bar public universities from requiring diversity or critical race theory courses for a degree. The Iowa House passed it 63-34, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.
March 18, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 437, which creates a Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa. The Iowa House passed it 60-37, and it became law.
March 18, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 440, which requires 30 days' notice of proposed tuition increases at Iowa's public universities. The Iowa House passed it 64-33, and it became law.
March 18, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 295, which bars an accrediting agency from punishing an Iowa public college for following state law. The Iowa House passed it 65-32, and it became law.
March 18, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 398, which shifts power over Iowa's prisons from the Board of Corrections to the department's director. The Iowa House passed it 62-29, and it became law.
March 11, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against House File 299, which makes schools and child care centers tell parents about legal vaccine exemptions. The Iowa House passed it 58-30, and it became law.
March 10, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted against Senate File 418, which defines sex by a person's body at birth and removes gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. The Iowa House passed it 60-36, and it became law.
February 27, 2025
Source: legiscan.com
Voted for Senate File 2431, which created a limitations exception for child-sexual-abuse claims against a congressionally chartered organization's bankruptcy estate in proceedings initiated February 18, 2020. The House passed it 90-1; it became law.
April 19, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 2442, which moved the flat individual income-tax rate to 2025 and reduced it from 3.9% to 3.8%, alongside other state and local fiscal changes. The House passed it 68-24; it became law.
April 19, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate Joint Resolution 2004, which proposed requiring a single state income-tax rate for individuals and prohibiting graduated rates. House vote: 58-35.
April 19, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2673, which reorganized behavioral-health, mental-health/disability and substance-use service administration into statewide districts/system. The House passed it 88-8; it became law.
April 18, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 2385, which consolidated or eliminated certain state boards and commissions and created a review process. The House passed it 54-42; it became law.
April 16, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2681, which required state traffic-camera permits and changed review and approval procedures. The House passed it 85-12; it became law.
April 9, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 2251, which extended postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to 12 months while reducing the pregnancy income limit from 300% to 215% of the federal poverty level. The House passed it 70-25; it became law.
April 3, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2612, which reworked area education agency services, funding and state oversight while raising teacher salary minimums to $47,500/$60,000 in 2024-25 and $50,000/$62,000 in 2025-26. The House passed it 51-43; it became law.
March 21, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2655, a proposal applying residential property-tax assessment limits to qualifying commercial child-care facilities. The House passed it 94-1; it did not become law.
March 19, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Sponsored House File 2235, a bill requiring owners to ratify appointees to their property association's board at an annual or special meeting. The amended bill passed the House 99-0 but did not pass the Senate.
March 11, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2558, a higher-education proposal restricting diversity, equity and inclusion programs and faculty governance while adding four-year tuition freezes and employer-paid degree programs. The House passed it 56-39; it did not become law.
February 29, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 2095, which required government to justify substantial burdens on religious exercise using a compelling public interest and the least restrictive means, and created legal remedies. The House passed it 61-33; it became law.
February 29, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2554, a proposal expanding advance utility-ratemaking rules to energy storage and smaller generation facilities and reviewing performance-based rates. The House passed it 64-33; it did not become law.
February 27, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 2300, a bill extending the sales-tax holiday to August 1-14, raising the per-item limit from $100 to $250 and adding school supplies, musical instruments and sports equipment. It remained in committee.
February 5, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House Resolution 102, a nonbinding resolution recognizing "brain health" as a synonym for mental health to reduce stigma and encourage treatment. The House adopted it.
January 17, 2024
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 718, which changed property-tax assessment limits, levies and exemptions. The House passed it 94-1; it became law.
May 2, 2023
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 685, which changed Medicaid third-party recovery, managed-care premium taxation and hospital/nursing-facility financing. The House passed it 91-3; it became law.
May 1, 2023
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 318, which created state apprenticeship administration/regulation provisions. The House passed it 62-33; it became law.
April 19, 2023
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 507, a proposal restricting $50,000-plus public contracts with companies using specified social-investment or industry-boycott policies, with exemptions. The House passed it 63-34; it did not become law.
March 15, 2023
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 514, which reorganized state executive agencies and responsibilities. The House passed it 58-39; it became law.
March 15, 2023
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 2378, which allowed more retailers to opt out of bottle redemption and raised fees paid to redemption centers. The House passed it 73-17; it became law.
April 12, 2022
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2577, a school-transparency proposal requiring curriculum and library disclosures, parental book-review procedures and civil penalties. The House passed it 60-36; it did not become law.
March 29, 2022
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2488, a proposal opening government-related Iowa public-broadcasting records and limiting copyright enforcement for specified pre-2010 material. The House passed it 54-39; it did not become law.
March 14, 2022
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2481, which changed judicial nominations and residency requirements and gave the governor appointment authority over certain associate judges. The House passed it 58-33; it became law.
March 10, 2022
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2485, a proposal giving legislative committees access to confidential judicial-discipline records during related investigations. The House passed it 57-39; it did not become law.
March 9, 2022
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House Resolution 108, a nonbinding resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine and affirming Ukrainian sovereignty and self-government. The House adopted it.
March 8, 2022
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2203, a proposal expanding experimental/off-label treatments and shielding COVID-care providers from licensing discipline, with misconduct exceptions. The House passed it 62-36; it did not become law.
March 2, 2022
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2373, which extended public investment/contract restrictions on companies boycotting Israel to their parent, subsidiary and affiliate companies. The House passed it 61-35; it became law.
February 23, 2022
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Was appointed ranking member of the Iowa House Commerce Committee.
January 10, 2022
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Served as a non-voting legislative member of the Iowa Finance Authority board, which administers housing and community financing programs.
November 3, 2021
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 621, which established new congressional and legislative districts based on the 2020 census. The House passed it 93-2; it became law.
October 28, 2021
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 902, which required specified employer COVID-vaccine waivers and preserved unemployment eligibility after vaccine-refusal discharge. The House passed it 68-27; it became law.
October 28, 2021
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 847, which changed education funding and private-school tax credits and prohibited specified school/local mask mandates. The House passed it 53-35; it became law.
May 19, 2021
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 342, which changed policing and criminal law, including officer protections and public-records provisions. The House passed it 56-35; it became law.
May 18, 2021
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 619, which changed taxes and mental-health financing, including inheritance-tax phaseout and state mental-health funding. The House passed it 64-28; it became law.
May 18, 2021
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 813, which established an additional charter-school authorization model independent of local school-board approval. The House passed it 55-40; it became law.
March 25, 2021
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 605, which changed extra school funding for English-language learners from a .22 weighting to .26 for intensive students and .21 for intermediate students. The House passed it 96-0; it became law.
March 8, 2021
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 160, which required schools to offer full-time in-person instruction during COVID-19. The House passed it 59-39; it became law.
January 28, 2021
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Was appointed ranking member of the Iowa House Agriculture Committee.
January 11, 2021
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Received the Human Rights Campaign's endorsement for Iowa House District 44.
August 13, 2020
Source: hrc.org
Voted against House File 2627, which overhauled professional licensing, including criminal-record disqualification, rehabilitation exceptions and recognition of out-of-state licenses. The House passed it 62-35; it became law.
June 12, 2020
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 2486, which required Legislative Council approval for election emergency powers and changed elector procedures and county-seal requirements. The House passed it 95-2; it became law.
June 11, 2020
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 2413, which changed agricultural and food regulation, including animal-disease response and food-operation trespass. The House passed it 59-37; it became law.
June 5, 2020
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2589, which expanded medical-cannabidiol diagnoses and certifiers, replacing the 3% THC cap with a 4.5-gram/90-day limit with exceptions, and changed unlawful-marijuana unemployment provisions. The House passed it 52-48; it became law.
March 10, 2020
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 2309, a proposal awarding reasonable attorney fees and costs to successful challengers of prohibited local employment rules. The House passed it 51-44; it did not become law.
March 5, 2020
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Endorsed Cory Booker for president during the 2020 Democratic campaign.
July 1, 2019
Source: presidency.ucsb.edu
Voted against Senate File 634, which added county/city property-tax budget hearings and required a two-thirds governing-body vote for increases above 102% of prior-year tax dollars. The House passed it 53-47; it became law.
April 25, 2019
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 188, which prohibited public-college governing boards from banning possession or carrying of stun guns. The House passed it 64-34; it became law.
April 23, 2019
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for Senate File 617, which authorized regulated sports wagering and fantasy-sports contests, with licensing, taxes and fees. The House passed it 67-31; it became law.
April 22, 2019
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against House File 752, a proposal reviewing all occupational licenses every six years and offering criminal-record eligibility reviews before application. The House passed it 54-44; it did not become law.
April 1, 2019
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted for House File 732, which expanded medical-cannabidiol eligibility and replaced the 3% THC cap with a 25-gram/90-day cap. The House passed it 96-3, but the governor vetoed it.
March 26, 2019
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Voted against Senate File 274, which established public higher-education speech, expression and association protections and civil remedies. The House passed it 52-44; it became law.
March 14, 2019
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Co-sponsored House File 135, a bill moving Medicaid long-term care from private managed-care contracts to direct state fee-for-service administration after a 60-day transition. It remained in committee.
January 25, 2019
Source: legis.iowa.gov
Received Hy-Vee's 2015 Officer of the Year award for operations and its Chairman's Spirit of Hy-Vee Award.
January 15, 2016
Source: perishablenews.com

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