---
type: "Bill"
title: "A bill for an act prohibiting the consideration of the deployment, implementation, or use of a motor carrier safety improvement when determining a person’s employment status."
description: "A bill for an act prohibiting the consideration of the deployment, implementation, or use of a motor carrier safety improvement when determining a person’s employment status."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ia"
legislature: "Iowa General Assembly"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SF 377"
citation: "Iowa SF 377 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["common carriers", "consideration", "contractors", "contracts", "driving", "employee benefits", "improvements", "labor and employment", "motor carriers", "motor vehicles", "safety", "trucks"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/375cafff-d0e5-456d-b7bc-5bb3e3b5a5f7"
source_url: "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=SF 377&ga=91"
source_hash: "0928d6884862f1c58b7c8e83d125e5104cd9b828edc7a12ded9301f24a53df14"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ia"]
---

# Iowa SF 377 (2025-2026) — A bill for an act prohibiting the consideration of the deployment, implementation, or use of a motor carrier safety improvement when determining a person’s employment status.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGI/91/attachments/SF377.html)
2. **Enrolled with Governor's Action** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGEG/91/attachments/SF377.html)
3. **Signed Enrolled Bill (PDF)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGE/91/Attachments/SF377_GovLetter.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGE/91/attachments/SF377.html)

## Votes

- Shall the bill pass? — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Shall the bill pass? — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION — primary (organization)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-19** Introduced, placed on calendar. `introduction`
- **2025-02-19** Committee report, approving bill. `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10** Passed Senate, yeas 47, nays 0. `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Immediate message.
- **2025-03-10** Message from Senate.
- **2025-03-11** Read first time, passed on file. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** Substituted for HF 698.
- **2025-03-13** Passed House, yeas 95, nays 0. `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Explanations of votes.
- **2025-03-13** Immediate message.
- **2025-03-17** Message from House.
- **2025-03-28** Reported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
- **2025-03-28** Signed by Governor. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/375cafff-d0e5-456d-b7bc-5bb3e3b5a5f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Iowa legislature records).