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Iowa Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad (D)

35th district

January 20, 2026 at 2:30pm CST

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Environmental Protection

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January 20, 2026 at 12:15pm CST

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Human Resources

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January 21, 2026 at 4:00pm CST

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February 2, 2026 at 12:00pm CST

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January 20, 2026 at 10:30am CST

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Email Address: ako.abdul-samad@legis.iowa.gov

Phone: (515) 281-3221

Office Address:
1506 18th St, Des Moines, IA 50314

IA - Administration and Regulation Appropriations Subcommittee

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IA - International Relations Committee

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IA - Legislative Council

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IA - HF228 A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of manufacturing, delivering, selling, or possessing drug paraphernalia by exempting hypodermic needles or syringes delivered, sold, or possessed through an approved needle exchange program.

IA - HF145 A bill for an act relating to the sale or transfer of firearms, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions.

IA - HF65 A bill for an act providing for a world language education pilot program and making appropriations.

IA - HF157 A bill for an act prohibiting the sale or transfer of semiautomatic assault weapons, providing penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions.

IA - HF287 A bill for an act concerning the issuance of temporary visitor driver’s licenses to certain foreign nationals.

IA - HF172 A bill for an act relating to and making an appropriation for reductions in the waiting lists for all Medicaid home and community-based services waivers.

IA - HF449 A bill for an act relating to child support obligations for incarcerated parents.

IA - HF81 A bill for an act repealing the declaration that the English language is the official language of the state of Iowa.

IA - HF88 A bill for an act modifying the elements defining hate crimes, and providing penalties.

IA - HF97 A bill for an act relating to the choice of doctor to treat an injured employee under workers’ compensation laws and including applicability date provisions.

IA - HF98 A bill for an act requiring certain weekly workers’ compensation benefits to be calculated by including an employee’s overtime and premium pay, and to include an annual cost-of-living adjustment.

IA - HF105 A bill for an act providing for an increase in the state minimum hourly wage and subsequent increases by the same percentage as the increase in federal social security benefits.

IA - HF115 A bill for an act relating to drug overdose prevention, including by limiting criminal and civil liability, and modifying penalties.

IA - HF141 A bill for an act authorizing a voter-approved increase in the regular program district cost per pupil and including applicability provisions.

IA - HF192 A bill for an act prohibiting employers and employment agencies from seeking the criminal record or criminal history from applicants for employment under certain circumstances, establishing a criminal history employment application task force, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.

IA - HF193 A bill for an act requiring the adoption of rules requiring the use of nontoxic shot to hunt doves and providing penalties.

IA - HF194 A bill for an act providing for the registration of eligible electors to vote upon review of electronic records received from driver’s license and nonoperator’s identification card applications, and including effective date provisions.

IA - HF199 A bill for an act relating to the compassionate use of medical cannabis Act, reclassifying marijuana, including tetrahydrocannabinols, from a schedule I controlled substance to a schedule II controlled substance, providing for civil and criminal penalties and fees, and including effective date provisions.

IA - HF200 A bill for an act relating to the possession, manufacture, or delivery of marijuana and the possession of drug paraphernalia, and providing penalties.

IA - HF219 A bill for an act providing for an annual appropriation to the renewable fuels infrastructure fund.

IA - HF267 A bill for an act establishing a low-income program supplement for school districts to provide programs serving low-income pupils.

IA - HF338 A bill for an act establishing a drug court in each judicial district and making appropriations.

IA - HF490 A bill for an act prohibiting the use of gender in determining premium rates or assessments for certain insurance policies, and including penalties and applicability dates.

IA - HF491 A bill for an act relating to preexisting condition exclusions in certain coverage for health care services, and including effective and applicability date provisions.

IA - HF492 A bill for an act requiring health care benefit coverage for certain preventive services, and including effective date and applicability provisions.

IA - HF493 A bill for an act relating to unfair or discriminatory employment practices based upon issues relating to reproductive health, and including effective date provisions.

IA - HF506 A bill for an act exempting the sale of feminine hygiene products from the sales tax.

IA - HF587 A bill for an act relating to the appointment of a special prosecutor after a peace officer discharges a firearm while on duty that results in a bodily injury, serious injury, or death.

IA - HF594 A bill for an act providing for the transfer of dogs and cats by research facilities to certain persons, providing for limitations on liability, and making penalties applicable.

IA - HF610 A bill for an act relating to wage payment collection issues arising between employers and individuals who provide services to employers, providing penalties and remedies, and including effective date provisions.

IA - HF2002 A bill for an act relating to health care coverage including the establishment of a healthy Iowans for a public option and the administration of the Medicaid program, and including effective date provisions.

IA - HF2076 A bill for an act prohibiting employers and employment agencies from seeking the criminal record or criminal history from applicants under certain circumstances and providing penalties.

IA - HF2104 A bill for an act relating to the termination of Medicaid managed care contracts, and including effective date provisions.

IA - HF2134 A bill for an act requiring that a person submit a bond with a manure management plan associated with a confinement feeding operation, and including effective date provisions.

IA - HF2141 A bill for an act relating to telecoil assistive devices and providing applicability dates.

IA - HF2144 A bill for an act prohibiting the manufacture, possession, shipment, transportation, or receipt of a multi-burst trigger activator, and providing penalties.

IA - HF2155 A bill for an act relating to the applicability of beverage containers control provisions and the handling fees pursuant to those provisions.

IA - HF2181 A bill for an act relating to the sale or transfer of firearms, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions.

IA - HF2326 A bill for an act relating to the medical cannabidiol Act, by amending the definition of medical cannabidiol and altering the composition and duties of the medical cannabidiol board.

IA - HF2335 A bill for an act providing a preference to veterans participating in a program to lease certain agricultural land from the department of natural resources, and including effective date provisions.

IA - HF2362 A bill for an act providing for the inclusion of the state as a member of the United States climate alliance.

IA - HR16 A resolution recognizing the month of April 2017 as Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month.

IA - HR20 A resolution recognizing the national significance of Actor John Wayne’s accomplishments and designating May 26, 2017, as John Wayne Day in Iowa.

IA - HR104 A resolution honoring and commemorating the city of Buxton.

IA - HR109 A resolution to recognize and honor Officers Susan Farrell and Carlos Puente-Morales posthumously for their service to this state.

IA - HR122 A resolution calling on President Donald Trump and the United States Congress to immediately engage in constructive dialogue and to negotiate beneficial trade regulations with other countries in order to discontinue trade practices that have an adverse impact on the people of Iowa and on Iowa’s economy.

IA - HR123 A resolution expressing support and extending appreciation to the Iowa Department of Justice and Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller for their efforts to advocate for and protect the interests of Iowans in state-federal relations.

IA - HCR104 A concurrent resolution urging Congress and the President of the United States to reclassify cannabis as a schedule II controlled substance under the United States Controlled Substances Act.

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