IowaIowa offers job-search services and supports hands-on training
Unemployment claimants who are no longer attached to work receive individualized services, while colleges and apprenticeship programs may seek conditional help for training facilities.
What it does
Community colleges and apprenticeship programs may seek state help to build training facilities or buy equipment. Projects must train more workers for high-demand jobs that Iowa employers need.
Unemployment claimants who are no longer attached to work receive individualized help through a state reemployment program. Some partially or temporarily unemployed people are exempt from related work-search rules.
Iowa school boards are encouraged to offer students training that can prepare them for apprenticeships, including skilled-trade classes and work-based learning.
Argument forWorkers may gain access to more training for jobs employers need if colleges and apprenticeship programs secure funding for facilities or equipment.
Argument againstColleges and apprenticeship programs may miss out if their training is online or duplicates local offerings, even when students want those courses.
More detail
The workforce department administers a program that provides financial help for training facilities and equipment. Community colleges and private-sector apprenticeship programs may seek help to train workers in high-demand fields in Iowa. Applicants must show that the project will increase the number of workers trained for high-demand jobs and that Iowa employers want the training. Online training projects cannot receive assistance. The department gives priority to projects that do not duplicate training offered elsewhere. Assistance depends on money available for the program. The program is scheduled to end July 1, 2030; the text gives no start date.
The workforce department provides individualized reemployment services to certain unemployment claimants. The services are for unemployment claimants who are no longer attached to work. The program serves claimants who are no longer attached to work. People who are partially or temporarily unemployed are exempt from the related work-search rules described here. Services start as soon as the week after an initial claim and no later than two weeks after it is filed.
School boards are encouraged to offer apprenticeship preparation and work-based learning at secondary schools. This encouragement applies to the board of directors of each Iowa school district and its secondary schools. Boards may partner with apprenticeship sponsors and the Iowa office of apprenticeship. They are encouraged to seek private, sponsor, and nonprofit funding or in-kind support.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed 1st Chamber
- Passed 2nd Chamber
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- Jun 2Signed by Governor Kim Reynolds.Became Law
- May 20Fiscal note.
- May 18Reported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.To Governor
- May 2Message from House.
- May 2Explanation of vote.
- May 1Immediate message.
- Vote recorded Shall the bill pass? Result: pass.Lower
- May 1Passed House, yeas 87, nays 0.Major
- May 1House concurred in Senate amendment H-8453.
- May 1Fiscal note.
- May 1Senate amendment H-8453 filed.Minor
- May 1Message from Senate.
- Apr 30Immediate message.
- Vote recorded Shall the bill pass? Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 30Passed Senate, yeas 40, nays 0.Major
- Apr 30Senate concurred with S-5187, as amended.
- Apr 30Amendment S-5233 adopted.Major
- Apr 30Amendment S-5241 filed, withdrawn.Minor
- Apr 29Amendment S-5233 to S-5187 filed.
- Apr 16Fiscal note.
- Apr 16Message from House, with amendment S-5187.
- Apr 15Immediate message.
- Vote recorded Shall the bill pass? Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 15Passed House, yeas 95, nays 0.Passed 2nd Chamber
- Apr 15Committee amendment H-8344 adopted, as amended.Major
- Apr 15Amendment H-8363 to amendment H-8344 adopted.Major
- Apr 14Amendment H-8363 filed.Minor
- Apr 9Placed on Appropriations calendar.
- Apr 9Committee amendment H-8344 filed.Minor
- Apr 8Committee vote: Yeas, 24. Nays, 0. Excused, 1.
- Apr 8Committee report, recommending amendment and passage.Minor
- Apr 7Subcommittee recommends passage.Minor
- Apr 2Subcommittee Meeting: [].
- Apr 2Subcommittee: Collins, Cooling and Stone.
- Mar 12Referred to Appropriations.Minor
- Mar 9Fiscal note.
- Mar 5Read first time, passed on file.Minor
- Vote recorded Shall amendment S-5073 be adopted? Result: fail.Upper
- Vote recorded Shall the bill pass? Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 5Message from Senate.
- Mar 5Immediate message.
- Mar 5Passed Senate, yeas 28, nays 14.Passed 1st Chamber
- Mar 5Amendment S-5073 filed, lost.Minor
- Mar 5Amendment S-5070 adopted.Major
- Mar 5Point of order raised on S-5070, ruled in order.
- Mar 5Amendment S-5070 filed.Minor
- Mar 5Amendment S-5071 filed, adopted.Major
- Mar 5Point of order raised on S-5072, ruled not germane.
- Mar 5Amendment S-5072 filed.Minor
- Mar 5Deferred.
- Feb 20Fiscal note.
- Feb 2Committee report, approving bill.Minor
- Feb 2Introduced, placed on calendar.Introduced
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