Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly
Iowa SF2354: A BILL FOR An Act relating to assistance animals in residential rental housing, including damage reimbursement, refundable income tax credits, and a landlord insurance risk pool, and providing penalties and effective date provisions
Status: In committee, February 18, 2026
An Act relating to assistance animals in residential rental housing, including damage reimbursement, refundable income tax credits, and a landlord insurance risk pool, and providing penalties and effective date provisions.
What the bill says
A bill FOR An Act relating to assistance animals in residential rental housing, including damage reimbursement, refundable income tax credits, and a landlord insurance risk pool, and providing penalties and effective date provisions.
From the introduced text, February 17, 2026:
A BILL FOR An Act relating to assistance animals in residential rental housing, including damage reimbursement, refundable income tax credits, and a landlord insurance risk pool, and providing penalties and effective date provisions. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 6120XS (2) lh/jh S.F. 2354 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 562A.9A Assistance animals ---- damage reimbursement ---- deposits ---- misrepresentation. 1. For purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires: a. "Assistance animal" means the same as defined in section 216.8B. b. "Emotional support animal" means an animal that is covered by the exclusion specified in 24 C.F.R. §5.303 and that is not a service animal. c. "Service animal" means the same as defined in section 216.8B. d. "Therapy animal" means an animal that provides therapeutic benefit but is not individually trained to perform tasks for a person with a disability and is not a service animal. 2. If a landlord suffers unreimbursed damage to a dwelling unit due to a tenant's assistance animal, emotional support animal, service animal, or therapy animal, the landlord may seek compensation pursuant to any of the following: a. A landlord may notify the department of revenue of the amount of unreimbursed damage caused to the landlord's dwelling unit by a tenant's assistance animal, emotional support animal, service animal, …
Sponsors
- Cherielynn Westrich (R, 13) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. S.J. 315 .
- : Introduced, referred to Judiciary. S.J. 302 .
Subjects: rights, rental property, income taxes, PRESERVATION BOARD, STATE, residential property, credit, risk, landlord and tenant
Common questions
- What is SF2354?
- SF2354 is a bill in the Iowa Legislature (91st General Assembly): A BILL FOR An Act relating to assistance animals in residential rental housing, including damage reimbursement, refundable income tax credits, and a landlord insurance risk pool, and providing penalties and effective date provisions.
- What does SF2354 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR An Act relating to assistance animals in residential rental housing, including damage reimbursement, refundable income tax credits, and a landlord insurance risk pool, and providing penalties and effective date provisions.
- What is the status of SF2354?
- In committee as of February 18, 2026. Latest action: Subcommittee: Schultz, Blake, and Bousselot. S.J. 315 . (February 18, 2026).
- Who sponsored SF2354?
- Cherielynn Westrich (R, 13).
- Where is the official record for SF2354?
- On the Iowa Legislature website: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=SF+2354&ga=91
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