Dave Rowley

Voted for Senate File 383, which regulates pharmacy benefit managers, the firms that run drug coverage for health plans. They may not pay an Iowa retail pharmacy less than the published national average cost of buying the drug, and may not pay an independent pharmacy less than they pay a pharmacy they own. They may not steer a patient toward a particular pharmacy through copays or reimbursement, shut a willing pharmacy out of a network, or impose accreditation terms beyond state licensing rules. The act also sets contract rules and an appeals process for pharmacies. The Iowa Senate passed it 36-14, and it became law.

April 28, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House File 516, which tries to keep more doctors in Iowa. The Board of Regents must require that at least eighty percent of the students admitted to the University of Iowa's medical and dental schools be Iowa residents or come from an Iowa college. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics must give priority for residency and fellowship places to applicants who live in Iowa, earned an Iowa undergraduate degree, or earned a medical degree in Iowa. Primary care residents must also be offered a rural rotation. The Iowa Senate passed it 34-11, and it became law.

April 14, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House File 299, which requires schools, child care centers and the state health department to tell parents about the legal exemptions from required vaccines whenever they communicate about immunizations. The exemption information must also appear on school and child care websites and in registration papers. The Iowa Senate passed it 32-16, and it became law.

April 29, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate File 304, which takes away a minor's ability to get a vaccine against a sexually transmitted infection without a parent's consent. Iowa law lets a minor consent alone to care for preventing, diagnosing or treating a sexually transmitted disease, and the act carves vaccination out of that rule. Testing and treatment still need no parental consent. The Iowa Senate passed it 33-14, and it became law.

April 7, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate File 180, which would have let a person refuse, for reasons of conscience such as religious belief, any vaccine, drug, or other medical product that is authorized for emergency use or declared a federal emergency countermeasure. Employers, businesses, health care providers, and government bodies could not fire, deny service to, segregate, fine, or otherwise penalize a person for refusing. A person treated that way could sue for damages, with triple damages or $200, whichever is greater. The Iowa Senate passed it 32-15, but the full House never voted on it, so it did not become law.

March 26, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House File 767, which changes Iowa's private sector drug testing law in employers' favor. A safety-sensitive job, where an employer may test at random, is now any job the employer designates as one where an accident could kill or seriously injure someone, rather than a job that in fact fits that description. Employers may hand over test results in person or send them electronically if the worker agrees, instead of only by certified mail. The act also narrows who can be sued for breaking the law from any person to the employer alone. The Iowa Senate passed it 31-14, and it became law.

May 14, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate File 603, which reorganizes Iowa's workforce agency and bars cities and counties from setting pay or training rules for contractors. A city or county may not require developers or contractors to pay their workers more, or train them, beyond what state law allows, or tie incentives to such terms. It also makes apprenticeship training voluntary unless state law requires it. The Iowa Senate passed the final version 32-15, and it became law.

March 19, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate File 472, which tightens Iowa's rule that public employee unions must win a new election before each contract ends to stay certified. A public employer must send the state labor board a list of the workers in the unit within 10 days of notice. Any Iowa resident may sue to force an employer that fails to send the list. The Iowa Senate passed it 32-15, and it became law.

March 10, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for House File 398, which shifts power over Iowa's prisons from the Board of Corrections to the department's director. The director once needed the board's approval to set the department budget, adopt rules for running the institutions, appoint superintendents, or start an inmate furlough program. The director now needs only the board's advice and recommendations. The act also removes a superintendent's right to be heard before the board and the director on written charges before removal. The Iowa Senate passed it 32-15, and it became law.

April 17, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted for House File 706, which raises the fines for officials who break Iowa's open meetings law. A member who takes part in a violation now pays $500 to $2,500, up from $100 to $500, and $5,000 to $12,500 for a knowing violation, up from $1,000 to $2,500. A court must now remove a member who has any prior violation, not only one that drew a fine. New officials must take a one-to-two-hour course on the open meetings and open records laws within 90 days. The act also makes two kinds of records confidential: legislative security camera footage and state employee key-card entry logs. The Iowa Senate passed it 34-13, and it became law.

April 17, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Moved to substitute House File 2603 for Senate File 2276, a measure concerning previous law-enforcement certification by other states, during Senate consideration.

March 25, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate File 615, which requires most adults on the Iowa Health and Wellness Plan, the state's Medicaid expansion, to work at least 80 hours a month to keep coverage. People under 19 or over 64, people with a disability or who are medically frail, parents of a child under six, high-risk pregnant women and people on unemployment benefits are exempt. The state must seek federal approval first. The act also lets a couple in the Medicaid program for working people with disabilities keep up to $21,000 in savings instead of $10,000. The Iowa Senate passed it 33-13, and it became law.

May 13, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for House File 295, which bars an accrediting agency from punishing an Iowa public university or community college for following state law. Accreditors review colleges, and their approval is what lets a college's students use federal aid. If an accreditor takes adverse action against an Iowa public institution because the institution obeyed a state law, or refused to break one, the institution may sue for damages and legal fees. The act also lets emergency medical training programs be approved by any federally recognized accreditor instead of only the Higher Learning Commission. The Iowa Senate passed it 32-15, and it became law.

April 17, 2025Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for House File 437, which creates a Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa. It is an independent academic unit under the Board of Regents that teaches and researches the ideas, traditions and texts behind the American constitutional order. The center hires its own tenure-track faculty, may take private and outside money, and reports to the legislature each year. An advisory council named by the regents searches for the director and sends finalists to the regents, who make the appointment. The director alone controls the center's hiring. The Iowa Senate passed it 32-15, and it became law.

April 15, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for House File 785, which changes who may sit on the governing board of an Iowa charter school. A majority of the board must still live in the area the school serves. Iowa law required every other member to live in Iowa, and the act replaces that with a requirement that they be United States citizens. It also allows one member of the board to live in another state. The Iowa Senate passed it 32-15, and it became law.

April 9, 2025Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for House File 924, which lowers the minimum age for a permit to carry a handgun in Iowa from 21 to 18, and lets an 18-year-old get a permit to acquire a pistol or revolver. Federal law still bars licensed dealers from selling handguns to anyone under 21, and the act says a permit held by someone under 21 is not valid for a dealer sale, so those buyers must use private transfers. Before this act, only professional permits, for jobs such as security work, were open at 18. The Iowa Senate passed it 33-14, and it became law.

April 7, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for Senate File 175, which adds fetal development to what Iowa schools must teach. In grades five and six, instruction in human growth and development must now cover human development inside the womb, and must include a high-definition ultrasound video showing the brain, heart and other organs as they develop. The same standards flow into the health unit high school students must take, and they apply to charter schools and innovation zone schools as well as school districts. The Iowa Senate passed it 33-16, and it became law.

April 28, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for House File 928, which rewrites how Iowa recounts and contests elections. A candidate for statewide or federal office may demand a recount only when the margin is under fifteen hundredths of one percent, and a legislative candidate only when it is under one percent or fifty votes, whichever is smaller. The recount then covers every precinct where a vote was cast for the office. Recount boards must follow the secretary of state's written guidance. The secretary may stop a county recount, take custody of the ballots and equipment, run the recount with state staff, and fine a county elections commissioner up to twenty-five thousand dollars for deliberately breaking the rules. The Iowa Senate passed it 31-14, and it became law.

April 14, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House File 856, which bars state agencies, local governments, universities and community colleges from spending any money on diversity, equity and inclusion offices, officers or programs. It defines those programs to include efforts to favor people by race, sex, color or ethnicity, and trainings on ideas such as unconscious bias or systemic oppression. Teaching, research, student groups, health services and legal compliance offices are not covered. Any person may report a violation to the attorney general, who may sue to stop it. The Iowa Senate passed it 34-16, and it became law.

May 9, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate File 418, which defines sex in state law as male or female based on a person's body at birth. It removes gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, so the act no longer bars discrimination on that basis in jobs, housing, public places and the other areas it covers. Birth certificates must record the sex assigned at birth, and the state may issue a new certificate only in the cases the act lists. It also reworded an existing ban on gender identity lessons in kindergarten through sixth grade to cover gender theory. The Iowa Senate passed it 33-15, and it became law.

February 27, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House File 767, which changes Iowa's private sector drug testing law in employers' favor. A safety-sensitive job, where an employer may test at random, is now any job the employer designates as one where an accident could kill or seriously injure someone, rather than a job that in fact fits that description. Employers may hand over test results in person or send them electronically if the worker agrees, instead of only by certified mail. The act also narrows who can be sued for breaking the law from any person to the employer alone. The Iowa Senate passed it 31-14, and it became law.

May 14, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate File 383, which regulates pharmacy benefit managers, the firms that run drug coverage for health plans. They may not pay an Iowa retail pharmacy less than the published national average cost of buying the drug, and may not pay an independent pharmacy less than they pay a pharmacy they own. They may not steer a patient toward a particular pharmacy through copays or reimbursement, shut a willing pharmacy out of a network, or impose accreditation terms beyond state licensing rules. The act also sets contract rules and an appeals process for pharmacies. The Iowa Senate passed it 36-14, and it became law.

April 28, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate File 394, which would have shielded pesticide makers from lawsuits claiming they failed to warn about health risks, as long as the product label was approved by the federal Environmental Protection Agency or matched its latest health or cancer findings. Such a label would count as a sufficient warning under Iowa law. Other kinds of lawsuits over pesticides would still be allowed. The Iowa Senate passed it 26-21, but the full House never voted on it, so it did not become law.

March 26, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Offered amendment S-5140 to House File 2490, and the Senate adopted the amendment by voice vote.

April 10, 2024

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Sponsored Senate File 2121, a bill relating to bonds and insurance policies for public officers, which received a Senate passage action in the bill history.

April 9, 2024

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Voted aye as a Ways and Means Committee member on the committee recommendation for Senate File 2398, a state-taxation measure modifying alternate and individual income tax rates.

February 26, 2024

Source: legis.iowa.gov · researched September 9, 2026