State House · IA-100
Blaine Watkins
463 bills with a recorded vote
HF 2801 · Oct 2Iowa bill would offer tax credits for major business projectsPass 75–17Watkins:YesHF 2542 · May 2Habitual offenders would face longer minimum and maximum sentencesPass 68–18Procedural vote · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · May 2Watkins:YesSF 2490 · May 2Iowa would tax oil and gas and limit local rulesPass 65–21Watkins:YesHF 2800 · May 2Damaged bill fragment appears to remove and repeal provisionsFail 28–56Procedural vote · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · May 2Watkins:NoSF 2484 · May 2A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund, technology reinvestment fund, and renewable fuel infrastructure fund, providing for related matters including financial assistance eligibility for regional sports authority districts, department of health and human services information technology systems, the railway tracks overpass and underpass fund, and eligibility for entities to receive financial assistance from both the Iowa major events and tourism fund and the sports tourism infrastructure program, and including effective date provisions.Pass 59–26Watkins:YesHF 2799 · May 2Iowa authority may approve tax credits for headquarters jobsPass 78–7Watkins:YesSF 2472 · May 2Iowa sets property-tax limits and provides exemptions for homeownersPass 62–22Watkins:YesSF 639 · May 2Iowa establishes a court for certain complex business disputesFail 8–77Procedural vote · Excluded from alignmentWatkins:No
District alignment compares this member’s votes with the majority position of verified users in the district. District alignment needs ten comparable bills, each with enough verified constituent votes. Your personal score starts with one comparable bill. Only qualifying yes/no votes in the scored service period count. Procedural votes stay in the record but do not count toward either alignment score. How scoring works