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Updated August 16, 2026

Iowa: US state profile

A snapshot of AI governance activity in Iowa: tracked legislation, enforcement actions, federal political money, and the labor baseline. Ask AGIS for the cross-referenced detail behind any of it.

Labor baseline

Union membership rate: 6.8% (2025). Covered by a union contract: 8.2%.

2025 annual estimates are 11-month averages excluding October; October 2025 data not collected due to the federal government shutdown. Not strictly comparable with other annual averages. Source.

Legislation

114 AI-related documents tracked.

Showing the 60 most recent of 114 tracked documents.

• Cecilia Sherwin and Joseph Sherwin v. State of Iowa enacted
  AI litigationGovernment: judicial and law enforcement
• ### 95.02 DEFINITIONS. (lemars, IA) enacted
• ### SEWER SERVICE CHARGES (lemars, IA) enacted
• ## 154.06 EXCEPTIONS FROM A SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES. (lemars, IA) enacted
• ## 154.05 OVERALL POLICY AND DESIRED GOALS FOR SPECIAL USE PERMITS FOR WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES. (lemars, IA) enacted
• ### USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS (lemars, IA) enacted
• ### 154.25 INDEMNIFICATION. (lemars, IA) enacted
• ## 154.22 PERFORMANCE SECURITY. (lemars, IA) enacted
• ## 154.09 LOCATION OF WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES. (lemars, IA) enacted
• # 154.08 SPECIAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS. (lemars, IA) enacted
• ## 122.18 CHARITABLE AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. (aurel, IA) enacted
• ### SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM (aurel, IA) enacted
• ### 96.05 CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS. (aurel, IA) enacted
• IA HF2506: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, providing civil penalties, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 674.) proposed
  Civil liabilityFinesPrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA HSB674: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, providing civil penalties, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2506.) proposed
  Civil liabilityFinesPrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA SF2208: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. proposed
  FinesPrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA HF2061: A bill for an act relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders.(See HF 22 proposed
  Privacy
• IA HF2255: A bill for an act relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders.(Formerly proposed
  Privacy
• IA SF2321: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SF 2272.) proposed
  PrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA HSB141: A bill for an act relating to personally identifiable information included in reportable disease reports.(See HF 488.) proposed
  Privacy
• IA HF346: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, providing civil penalties, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 12.) proposed
  Civil liabilityFinesPrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA SSB1071: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, providing civil penalties, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 262.) proposed
  Civil liabilityFinesPrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA HSB12: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, providing civil penalties, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 346.) proposed
  Civil liabilityFinesPrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA SF262: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, providing civil penalties, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1071.) Effective date: 01/01/2025. enacted
  Civil liabilityFinesPrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA SF2272: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, and including effective date provisions.(See SF 2321.) proposed
  PrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA HF161: A bill for an act concerning the withholding of names, addresses, and personally identifiable information of certain lottery prize winners. proposed
  Privacy
• IA SF143: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, and including retroactive applicability provisions. proposed
  PrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA HF503: A bill for an act relating to consumer data protection, and including retroactive applicability provisions. proposed
  PrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• IA HF2048: A bill for an act relating to personal data processing practices for companies, and making civil penalties applicable. proposed
  Civil liabilityFinesInput controls: Data usePrivacy
• IA HF2427: A bill for an act relating to the request for redaction of personally identifiable information from electronic documents displayed for public access by county assessors and county recorders. proposed
  Privacy
• IA SF2106: A bill for an act relating to residential rental property price fixing, and providing civil penalties. proposed
  BiasCivil liabilityDiscriminationFinancial lossFines
• IA SF370: A bill for an act relating to electronic devices in schools, including student access during instructional hours, school safety plans, and instruction related to the effects of social media in grades proposed
  Broadcasting and media productionEducationTransparency
• IA HSB106: A bill for an act relating to electronic devices in schools, including student access during instructional hours, school safety plans, and instruction related to the effects of social media in grades proposed
  Broadcasting and media productionEducationTransparency
• IA SSB1065: A bill for an act relating to electronic devices in schools, including student access during instructional hours, school safety plans, and instruction related to the effects of social media in grades proposed
  Broadcasting and media productionEducationTransparency
• A bill for an act establishing requirements and guidelines for conversational AI services, and providing civil penalties, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3011.) Effective date: 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2027. enacted
• A bill for an act relating to chatbots, including deployer requirements and interactions with minors.(See HF 2715.) proposed
  Children and minors
• A bill for an act establishing requirements and guidelines for conversational AI services, and providing civil penalties, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 611.) proposed
• A bill for an act relating to chatbots, including deployer requirements and interactions with minors.(Formerly HSB 647.) proposed
  Children and minors
• IA Deere Autonomous Ag enacted
  AgricultureReliabilitySafety
• IA AG AI Child Safety Letter enacted
  Children and minorsDetrimental contentHarm to health/safety
• IA Bargaining Gutted enacted
  Governance development
• IA Insurance AI Bulletin enacted
  FinanceGovernance development
• IA Flock ALPR Statewide enacted
  Government: judicial and law enforcementSecurityTransparencyViolation of civil or human rights, including privacy
• IA Deere Layoffs enacted
  AgricultureFinancial loss
• IA Google Water Crisis enacted
  Data centersEcological harmEnergy and utilities
• IA Deepfake Porn Law enacted
  Criminal liabilityDetrimental contentViolation of civil or human rights, including privacy
• IA Deepfake Minors Law enacted
  Children and minorsCriminal liabilityDetrimental contentSecurity: Dissemination
• IA Chatbot Safety Law enacted
  Detrimental contentDisclosureHarm to health/safetyPerformance requirements
• IA DOGE Task Force enacted
  Governance developmentGovernment study or report
• IA Coralville ALPR Cancel enacted
  Government: judicial and law enforcementSecurityViolation of civil or human rights, including privacy
• IA State GenAI Policy enacted
  PrivacyReliabilityTransparency
• IA DC Tax Reform enacted
  Data centersEnergy and utilitiesSubsidiesTransparency
• State of Iowa v. Max Amyda enacted
• Duane Arnold Restart Google Deal enacted
  BiasCivil liabilityConstructionData centersDiscriminationEnergy and utilitiesEvaluationHarm to health/safetyInterpretability and explainabilityMedicine, life sciences and public healthSubsidiesTransparency
• A bill for an act relating to water efficiency of data centers, including requirements for water-efficient cooling technologies and encouragement for the use of nonpotable and recycled water sources, providing civil penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions. proposed
  Data centersEcological harmEnergy and utilitiesFinesPerformance requirements
• A bill for an act relating to investment requirements for data center businesses that claim certain sales tax exemptions and sales and use tax refunds.(Formerly HSB 727.) proposed
  Business services and analyticsData centersSubsidies
• A bill for an act relating to investment requirements for data center businesses that claim certain sales tax exemptions and sales and use tax refunds.(See HF 2688.) proposed
  Business services and analyticsData centersSubsidies
• A bill for an act relating to water and energy use for data centers, including reporting and tariff requirements, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2690.) proposed
  Data centersEcological harmEnergy and utilitiesTransparency
• IA HF2198: A bill for an act relating to the disclosure of tax incentives provided to web search portal businesses and data center businesses, and including effective date provisions. proposed
  Data centersDisclosure: Of AI useEnergy and utilitiesSubsidiesTransparency
• IA SSB3181: A bill for an act making certain sales and use tax exemptions relating to nuclear electric generation facilities, web search portal businesses, and data center businesses contingent upon making contri proposed
  Data centersEnergy and utilitiesSubsidies

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Enforcement

No enforcement actions recorded for Iowa. When a state attorney general, a federal agency, or a court takes an action involving an AI system here, it will be listed with the respondent, outcome, and any penalty.

Money

$4,187 in tracked political contributions across 68 records.

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