Wendy Larson

Voted for Senate File 469, which creates an emeritus medical license in Iowa. The board of medicine must grant one to a physician or osteopathic physician who is at least sixty years old and who mainly supervises and trains resident doctors. The emeritus licensee keeps the same scope of practice held before, so senior doctors can stay in teaching hospitals without holding a full active license. The Iowa House passed it 58-27, and it became law.

May 2, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House File 2254, which bans noncompete clauses at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. The board of regents must adopt a policy barring the hospital from putting a noncompete clause in a contract with a doctor, physician assistant, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, nurse practitioner or pharmacist. A noncompete clause limits where a worker may work after leaving the job, so staff who leave can now keep treating patients nearby. The ban covers contracts signed, renewed or extended after the act took effect. The Iowa House passed it 70-20, and it became law.

April 13, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House File 571, which creates the Medical Ethics Defense Act. A doctor, nurse, hospital or other provider may refuse to take part in a health care service that goes against their conscience, meaning their ethical, moral or religious beliefs. For an institution, conscience is read from its own governing documents. Hospitals must still provide emergency care required by federal law. A provider who refuses in good faith is immune from civil liability, criminal penalty and licensing discipline. The act also shields providers who report unsafe conditions, adds free speech protections, and lets a provider sue anyone who interferes with these rights. The Iowa House passed it 63-27, and it became law.

March 23, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate File 2480, which taxes and regulates electronic cigarettes and other nicotine products that contain no tobacco. A new tax of five cents applies to each container of up to twenty units of an alternative nicotine product, and five cents to each milliliter of vaping solution containing nicotine. The money goes to the state health care trust fund. The act also tightens who must hold a license to sell these products and what licensees must do. 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 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 House passed it 63-29, and it became law.

April 14, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House File 2527, which shields farms, fuel makers, ethanol plants and other businesses from lawsuits over harm to the climate from their greenhouse gas emissions. A person suing must name each gas and prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that the harm came directly from the business breaking a specific emissions limit or permit. Without that proof, no court may award damages or any other relief. 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 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 House passed it 56-34, and it became law.

April 28, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for House File 2254, which bans noncompete clauses at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. The board of regents must adopt a policy barring the hospital from putting a noncompete clause in a contract with a doctor, physician assistant, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, nurse practitioner or pharmacist. A noncompete clause limits where a worker may work after leaving the job, so staff who leave can now keep treating patients nearby. The ban covers contracts signed, renewed or extended after the act took effect. The Iowa House passed it 70-20, and it became law.

April 13, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for House File 2329, which raises the interest that licensed lenders may charge on regulated loans. Iowa capped the rate on a sliding scale that fell as the balance grew, from three percent a month on the first one hundred fifty dollars to one percent a month on any balance over seven hundred dollars. The act strikes that scale and sets one cap of three percent a month on the whole balance. It also changes the service charge on a consumer credit transaction from the lesser of ten percent of the amount financed or thirty dollars to the lesser of three percent or one hundred dollars. The Iowa House passed it 62-29, and it became law.

March 12, 2026Opposes Cost of Living Reduction

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Voted for Senate File 2218, which bans employing anyone the employer knows has given a Social Security number that is not their own. The workforce development department enforces the ban with a ten thousand dollar civil penalty for each violation. On a fourth violation the employer must stop operating at that location until its majority owner and the site's managers finish state training. The act also tightens identity and work eligibility checks for teacher licensing and adds United States citizenship requirements for certain state posts. The Iowa House passed it 71-20, and it became law.

April 29, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted for House File 2513, which would have barred Iowa's public universities, community colleges, and private colleges from hiring certain holders of an H-1B visa, the federal work visa for skilled foreign professionals. From July 2026 on, they could not hire an H-1B holder who is a citizen of a country the federal government names as a foreign adversary or a state sponsor of terrorism. 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 2102, which would have required every Iowa driver's license test to be given in English. The state and the private testers it uses could no longer test an applicant in another language. The bill took driver's license tests out of an exception to Iowa's law that makes English the official language of state business. The Iowa House passed it 58-30, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.

February 26, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted for House File 2296, which bans cities and counties from issuing their own identification cards to residents. The only exceptions are ID cards for a government's own employees and elected officials, and the driver's licenses and state ID cards some county treasurers already issue on the state's behalf. Local community ID programs, which mainly served residents who could not get a state ID, end as a result. The Iowa House passed it 69-22, and it became law.

February 25, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted for Senate File 2399, which makes it harder to be released before trial in Iowa. A magistrate may not set bail below the amount on the state's uniform bond schedule, or release a defendant without bail, unless the magistrate puts the reason in writing. A defendant may be released on personal recognizance, meaning without posting bail, only when charged with a nonviolent, nondrug simple or serious misdemeanor. The judicial council must revise 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, which would have listed kratom, a plant sold in shops as a supplement, as a Schedule I controlled substance. That is the class for drugs the state treats as having a high risk of abuse and no accepted medical use. Possessing kratom would have been a serious misdemeanor the first time and a felony after two earlier convictions. Before the vote, the House rejected, 44-51, an amendment to regulate kratom sales instead of banning it. 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 2584, which would have made the area within 300 feet of a homeless shelter or housing program that gets government money a drug-free zone. Selling drugs there would have added a year to the sentence, with no probation, and a fine of at least $2,000. A shelter operator who let clients have or use illegal drugs on site would have committed an aggravated misdemeanor and could have lost state homelessness grants for three years. 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 for House File 2244, which would have expanded civics teaching in Iowa schools. Students in grade seven or eight would have had to take at least half a unit of civics and United States government. High school students would have needed a full unit of civics and United States government instead of half a unit, including a test of their knowledge of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The rules would have started in 2028. The Iowa House passed it 70-26, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.

March 3, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate File 2263, which would have let people keep guns and other dangerous weapons in their vehicles in public parking lots run by the state or a city, county, or township. The weapon had to stay out of sight in the locked vehicle whenever no one was in it, and lots at National Guard sites, prisons, and jails were excluded. State rules could not bar foster parents from carrying a lawful gun in a car used to transport a foster child. The House added a ban on enforcing red flag laws, meaning orders that take guns from people not convicted of a violent felony or violent aggravated misdemeanor or otherwise disqualified, with a $50,000 penalty for each case. 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, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for House File 2718, which would have barred state and local agencies and police from enforcing any red flag law, including federal orders. The bill defined a red flag law as any order or rule that takes guns from, or bars guns for, someone not convicted of a violent felony or otherwise disqualified under Iowa law. Agencies could not take federal money to enforce such laws. An agency whose officer knowingly enforced one would have faced a $50,000 civil penalty for each case and could have been sued. The Iowa House passed it 67-29, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.

March 4, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for House File 2788, which adds rules for abortion drugs. Before any abortion, a doctor must examine the woman in person and screen for signs of coercion or abuse, and before prescribing abortion drugs must get her signed consent on the federal patient form. The drugs may be dispensed only in a health care setting, directly to the woman, except in a medical emergency. An unlicensed person who dispenses them another way can be sued for damages, while licensed providers who break the rules face license discipline instead. Miscarriage care and treatment of an ectopic pregnancy do not count as abortions, and an older fetal-heartbeat chapter that a newer chapter replaced is repealed. The Iowa House passed it 58-29, and it became law.

May 1, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for House File 2501, which makes several changes to how Iowa runs elections. Police and other agencies must tell the secretary of state at once when they investigate an election, an election official or suspected election misconduct. County auditors must cancel a voter registration that has sat incomplete or unconfirmed for ninety days when they cannot reach the voter or the voter does not fix the problem. All election equipment must carry a tamper-evident seal at all times, and the act sets when a recount of a ballot question must be held. The Iowa House passed it 63-29, and it became law.

April 7, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House File 2763, which would have required makers of farm equipment to sell or give owners and independent repair shops the manuals, parts, software, and tools they give their own dealers, on fair terms, including what is needed to reset security locks. A second part would have given farmers ownership of the data their equipment and farms produce. Farmers could get copies, move the data to another company, have it deleted, and be paid when a company profits from it. The Iowa House passed it 70-18, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.

April 27, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Voted for House File 2670, which rewrites parts of what Iowa schools must teach and test. It strikes the rule that schools teach from a multicultural and gender-fair approach, and drops the requirement that global perspectives run through every grade. Kindergarten no longer has to cover healthy emotional and social habits or human growth and development. Starting with the 2027-28 school year, students must also take a social studies test in grades eight and eleven. The science test moves from grade ten to grade eleven, and high school math units may include agriculture. The Iowa House passed it 65-28, and it became law.

April 21, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate File 473, which bars the state from ruling out a foster or adoptive parent because of that person's religious or moral beliefs about sexual orientation or gender identity. The health and human services department may not require a foster parent, a kinship caregiver or a prospective adoptive parent to affirm or support a policy on those subjects that conflicts with those beliefs. It also may not refuse to license or approve someone, or rule the person out as a placement, on that ground. That protection covers a stated intent to raise a child in line with those beliefs. The Iowa House passed it 58-34, and it became law.

April 20, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House File 2487, which would have given the attorney general new power to enforce Iowa's existing ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and practices in state and local government and at public colleges. The attorney general could investigate, demand records by subpoena, and hire outside lawyers, with the government body or college paying their fees. By fall 2028 the Board of Regents would also have had to review required university courses for such content and could order them dropped. The Iowa House passed it 62-27, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.

March 12, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate File 579, which stops cities and counties from passing civil rights laws that cover more kinds of discrimination than state law does. Cities of 29,000 or more no longer have to keep a local civil rights commission, which becomes optional. Complaints against a city or county go to the state civil rights office, and any party may move a complaint to the state if it sits unresolved for a year. The Iowa House passed it 60-26, and it became law.

March 5, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House File 2557, which would have said that raising a child in a way consistent with the child's sex is not child abuse or child endangerment. That covered using names and pronouns that match the child's sex, seeking counseling to help the child live consistent with it, and refusing consent to gender transition care. The state could not deny a foster care license or an adoption for that reason, and a court could not count it against a parent in a custody case. The Iowa House passed it 65-31, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.

March 4, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House File 2711, which removes affirmative action from Iowa law. It strikes the state's policy of applying affirmative action to correct problems in state hiring, along with the affirmative action plans and reports required of state agencies, the board of regents, the judicial branch, school districts, area education agencies and community colleges. Similar requirements for the law enforcement academy and the board of medicine also go. The bar on denying anyone a public job because of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age or disability stays in place. The Iowa House passed it 64-29, and it became law.

March 4, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House File 2539, which repeals several higher education programs. Gone are the regents' minority and women educators enhancement program and the vouchers it awarded, the college bound program, and the chapter governing the state laboratory school. The act also strikes a set of Board of Regents duties and reporting requirements tied to those programs. The state grant program for minority students remains, without its reference to the repealed vouchers. The Iowa House passed it 66-30, and it became law.

March 3, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House File 2488, which would have barred private colleges whose students receive Iowa Tuition Grants, the state's aid for students at private colleges, from running a diversity, equity, and inclusion office unless federal or state law or accreditation rules required one. Teaching, research, student groups, and health services were not covered. Anyone could report a college to the attorney general. A college that did not fix a violation within 30 days would have lost access to the tuition grant program the next school year. The Iowa House passed it 57-34, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.

February 24, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House File 2763, which would have required makers of farm equipment to sell or give owners and independent repair shops the manuals, parts, software, and tools they give their own dealers, on fair terms, including what is needed to reset security locks. A second part would have given farmers ownership of the data their equipment and farms produce. Farmers could get copies, move the data to another company, have it deleted, and be paid when a company profits from it. The Iowa House passed it 70-18, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.

April 27, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House File 2529, which would have required makers of diesel farm equipment to give owners the repair information, software updates, replacement parts, and diagnostic tools for the machine's diesel exhaust fluid system on the same terms they offer their authorized dealers. That system uses a fluid to cut nitrogen oxide pollution. Makers could not require their approval before a part or tool is used. Breaking the rules would have been an unfair trade practice, and contract terms waiving them would have been void. The Iowa House passed it 57-33, but the full Senate never voted on it, so it did not become law.

March 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House File 2527, which shields farms, fuel makers, ethanol plants and other businesses from lawsuits over harm to the climate from their greenhouse gas emissions. A person suing must name each gas and prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that the harm came directly from the business breaking a specific emissions limit or permit. Without that proof, no court may award damages or any other relief. The Iowa House passed it 66-24, and it became law.

February 26, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability

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On February 10, 2026, Wendy Larson chaired the Iowa House Education Committee when it recommended passage of the education bill formerly designated House File 2049.

February 10, 2026

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On January 26, 2026, Wendy Larson co-sponsored House File 2164, a bill concerning provisional ballots, which the House journal recorded as read for the first time and referred to the State Government Committee.

January 26, 2026

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On January 12, 2026, Wendy Larson took the oath of office as a representative-elect in the Iowa House.

January 12, 2026

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On December 8, 2025, Iowa Public Radio reported that Wendy Larson had received Republican endorsements, including one from former Representative Steve King, during the House District 7 special-election campaign.

December 8, 2025

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