HF71 • 2026

A bill for an act prohibiting quotas for traffic stops by peace officers.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: MEGGERS
Last action: 2025-01-28
Official status: Tabled until future meeting.
Effective date: Not listed

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A bill for an act prohibiting quotas for traffic stops by peace officers.

What This Bill Does

A bill for an act prohibiting quotas for traffic stops by peace officers.

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Bill History

2025-01-28 Iowa Legislature
Tabled until future meeting.
2025-01-27 Iowa Legislature
Subcommittee Meeting: 01/28/2025 2:30PM House Lounge 2.
2025-01-21 Iowa Legislature
Subcommittee: Meggers, Gosa and Henderson. H.J. 106 .
2025-01-16 Iowa Legislature
Introduced, referred to Public Safety. H.J. 85 .

Official Summary Text

A bill for an act prohibiting quotas for traffic stops by peace officers.

Current Bill Text

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House

File

71

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Introduced

HOUSE

FILE

71

BY

MEGGERS

A

BILL

FOR

An

Act

prohibiting

quotas

for

traffic

stops

by

peace

officers.

1

BE

IT

ENACTED

BY

THE

GENERAL

ASSEMBLY

OF

THE

STATE

OF

IOWA:

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71

Section

1.

Section

321.492A,

Code

2025,

is

amended

to

read

1

as

follows:

2

321.492A

Quotas

on

for

stops

and

citations

prohibited.

3

A

political

subdivision

or

agency

of

the

state

shall

not

4

order,

mandate,

require,

or

in

any

other

manner,

directly

5

or

indirectly,

suggest

to

a

peace

officer

employed

by

the

6

political

subdivision

or

agency

that

the

peace

officer

shall

7

stop

a

certain

number

of

persons

committing

an

alleged

traffic

8

violation

or

issue

a

certain

number

of

traffic

citations,

9

police

citations,

memorandums

of

traffic

violations,

or

10

memorandums

of

faulty

equipment

on

a

daily,

weekly,

monthly,

11

quarterly,

or

yearly

basis.

12

EXPLANATION

13

The

inclusion

of

this

explanation

does

not

constitute

agreement

with

14

the

explanation’s

substance

by

the

members

of

the

general

assembly.

15

Current

law

prohibits

a

political

subdivision

or

agency

of

16

Iowa

that

employs

peace

officers

from

imposing

a

quota

on

the

17

number

of

citations

issued

by

the

officers.

This

bill

also

18

prohibits

imposing

a

quota

for

the

number

of

stops

of

persons

19

committing

alleged

traffic

violations,

regardless

of

whether

a

20

citation

or

memorandum

is

issued.

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