Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
2 instruments in Iowa. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▼Restricts benefitsRescinds the rules that described how to apply for the war orphans educational assistance, leaving the statutory scholarship with no published application process.
The Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs rescinded and reserved 801 Iowa Administrative Code chapter 9, "War Orphans Educational Assistance Fund", filed April 2, 2026 and effective June 3, 2026. The filing’s own purpose statement reads: "The purpose of this rulemaking is to rescind Chapter 9 with no replacement." No public comments were received at either the January 5 or January 6, 2026 hearing. Iowa Code section 35A.13, subsection 9 was not repealed: the war orphans educational assistance account still exists, the pre-September 11, 2001 tier still caps assistance at $600 a year and $3,000 for a lifetime, the post-September 11 tier still reaches the highest Regents resident undergraduate tuition rate five times over, and the department still advertises the programme as the Children of the Fallen, or Branstad-Reynolds, Scholarship Fund. Tracked and flagged because a live statutory scholarship now has no published rule describing how to apply, what documents to file, how financial need is established, or what a reasonably necessary expense is, and because section 35A.13, subsection 9, paragraph "d" makes the commission’s eligibility decision final with no statutory appeal. Recorded also because the filing cites its legal authority as Iowa Code section 35A.14, the injured veterans grant programme, rather than section 35A.13, which creates the fund it rescinded the rules for. The same bulletin carried ARC 0249D and ARC 0250D rescinding the Vietnam conflict veterans bonus rules, which match statutes that had already repealed themselves.
▲Expands benefitsCut the lifetime fur harvester license fee to $5.
Amended Iowa Code section 483A.24, subsection 17 to strike the authority for the Natural Resource Commission to set the fee by rule and to fix it in the statute instead: the department shall issue a lifetime fur harvester licence "upon payment of a fee of five dollars, and any processing fee" to a resident of Iowa who served on federal active duty and was disabled during military service, with "disabled" meaning entitled to a service connected rating under 38 U.S.C. chapter 11. Tracked and flagged because the Natural Resource Commission fee schedule at 571 Iowa Administrative Code 15.10(1), paragraph "aa" as published still prices the lifetime fur harvester licence for a disabled veteran at $59.50. The act was approved on June 2, 2026, after the rule page was published, and the statute governs, so a veteran quoted $59.50 at a licence agent is being quoted a superseded figure of more than eleven times the statutory fee. The subsection itself was added only recently, which is why the rule and the statute have not yet met.
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