Current Iowa state senator for District 14. Campaign affiliation: Democratic.
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Background, stated goals, record, and money
Background comes from official records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so; goals are summarized from the campaign's own platform and stay attributed; the record lines are official actions with the government source attached; money is shown as filed, with the filing window and the reconciliation in the note under the table, and is not evidence of why any position was taken.
Sarah Trone Garriott
Background
A sitting Iowa state senator for District 14, serving since January 2021 and now in her third General Assembly, the 91st. Iowa Legislature
Her campaign biography traces a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer, Harvard Divinity School, hospital chaplaincy and ordained Lutheran ministry, a congregation in Clive from 2013 and interfaith work for the Des Moines Area Religious Council food pantry network, before her first run for the Iowa Senate in 2020. Sarah for Iowa
What they say they want to do
Roll back this year's Medicaid cuts, extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, let Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices, and expand mental health and substance use treatment and rural providers. Sarah for Iowa
Crack down on corporate price gouging, end a tariff policy she says raises prices, expand the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit, and eliminate junk fees and surprise medical bills. Sarah for Iowa
Protect the Department of Education and the federal money that reaches Iowa classrooms, raise teacher pay, expand early childhood education, and open community college and trade programs to all. Sarah for Iowa
Pass the PRO Act to strengthen the right to organize, enforce the Davis-Bacon Act so federally funded work pays prevailing wages, and raise the minimum wage. Sarah for Iowa, X
Ban stock trading by members of Congress, the White House and their staff, cap congressional service at twelve years, make the Supreme Court's ethics code enforceable, and ban corporate PACs and super PACs. Sarah for Iowa, X
What the official record shows
Sole sponsor of Senate File 481 (2025), on benefits received by children in foster care, introduced and referred to Health and Human Services on March 3, 2025 with a subcommittee assigned and no further action. Iowa Legislature
One of sixteen Senate sponsors of Senate File 2239 (2026) and one of fifteen of Senate File 109 (2025), both creating a paid family and medical leave insurance program; each was introduced, referred to Workforce and assigned a subcommittee without further action. Iowa Legislature, Iowa Legislature
One of sixteen Senate sponsors of Senate File 2045 (2026), increasing the state minimum hourly wage, introduced and referred to Workforce on January 14, 2026. Iowa Legislature
One of fifteen Senate sponsors of Senate File 63 (2025), creating an Iowa cancer research program, introduced and referred to Health and Human Services on January 16, 2025; she sat on its subcommittee. Iowa Legislature
Is listed as a sponsor or floor manager on 88 bills and resolutions in the 91st General Assembly, 74 in the 90th and 61 in the 89th, 223 in all. Iowa Legislature, Iowa Legislature
Campaign money from other committees, by type
Transfers from joint fundraising committees (line 12) 5 committees
$86,620
Contributions from joint fundraising committees (line 11C) 2 committees
$11,061
Conduit entries for earmarked individual contributions 1 committee
$2,225,200
Leadership PACs 36 committees
$128,500
Membership organization PACs 4 committees
$15,990
Labor organization PACs 13 committees
$77,000
Party committees 3 committees
$10,435
Other candidates' committees 14 committees
$29,400
Other PACs (no organization type recorded) 41 committees
$177,400
Committees listed without an FEC id in the filing 1 committee
Itemized receipts from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through June 30, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the contributing committee. The conduit row is the exception: it holds what the campaign's own fundraising platform passed through, which the FEC records as a hybrid political action committee rather than by organization type. Table rows other than the transfer and conduit rows sum to $450,786.02, equal to the FEC summary's other-committee plus party contributions. Not in the table: a $120 contribution from the candidate on line 11D, a $491.33 line-14 offset, and the memo entries outside the conduit row. A memo entry restates money the report already counts elsewhere, so adding one would count it twice: they include $12,764.08 restating the transfer row and $213,005.48 that donors earmarked to the campaign through eleven other political committees and through her own committee's own line.
Words and record
Where statements meet the record
Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule, and states its own limit.
Sarah Trone Garriott
Foster care: survivor benefits
Matches stated record claim
What they say
She says she spent three years advocating to let foster children keep their social security survivor benefits.
“For the past 3 years, I advocated to let foster children keep their social security survivor benefits instead of the state using them to cover foster care costs.”
She is the sole sponsor of Senate File 481 (2025), a bill on benefits received by children in foster care, introduced and referred to Health and Human Services on March 3, 2025 with a subcommittee assigned, on which she sat, and no further action. Her post says the change was announced by Governor Reynolds rather than enacted by that bill.
Limit: A sponsor list records bills, not advocacy in other forms, so the three-year span her post claims is not something this record can confirm or contradict: the Legislature lists one bill from her on the subject, introduced in March 2025, and none in either earlier General Assembly. Her post says the change was announced by the Governor rather than enacted by her bill, and this card does not say her advocacy brought it about.
Sarah Trone Garriott
Costs: paid family and medical leave
Matches stated direction
What they say
Her campaign says she would make life more affordable for Iowa families.
She is one of sixteen Senate sponsors of Senate File 2239 (2026), one of fifteen of Senate File 109 (2025) and one of sixteen of the same bill in the 90th General Assembly (Senate File 95, 2023), each creating a paid, job-protected family and medical leave insurance program. Each was introduced, referred to the Workforce Committee and assigned a subcommittee, with no further action.
Limit: Sponsorship in the minority caucus is an official action in the direction the platform calls for; none of these bills reached a committee vote, and each carries fourteen or fifteen other sponsors. The check reads the sponsor lines and histories the Legislature publishes; floor amendments, committee votes she cast and advocacy outside the bill list would not appear.
Sarah Trone Garriott
Work: the minimum wage and the right to organize
Matches stated direction
What they say
She says she would pass the PRO Act and raise the minimum wage in Congress.
“In Congress, I’ll continue to show up for workers: pass the PRO Act, raise the minimum wage…”
She is one of sixteen Senate sponsors of Senate File 2045 (2026), increasing the state minimum hourly wage, introduced and referred to the Workforce Committee on January 14, 2026 with a subcommittee assigned. She is also among the sponsors of Senate File 147 (2025) and Senate File 2046 (2026) on wage-payment collection, and of Senate File 263 (2025) on public-employee collective bargaining. None advanced out of committee.
Limit: A state minimum-wage bill is not the federal measure she names, and the PRO Act has no state analogue; the direction of her sponsorships matches the direction of the statement, and none of the bills advanced. The check reads the sponsor lines and bill histories the Legislature publishes for her; floor amendments and committee votes she cast would not appear.
Sarah Trone Garriott
Health care: affordability and access
Matches stated direction
What they say
Her campaign says health care should be affordable and available when people need it.
“Health care that’s affordable and there when you need it”
“In Congress, I will fight to stop the corruption in Washington, make life more affordable, and restore healthcare access, and end this war.”
What the record shows ·
She is among the Senate sponsors of an Iowa cancer research program (Senate File 63, 2025), prescription-drug affordability (Senate File 264, 2025), insulin coverage (Senate File 209, 2025) and lung-cancer screening coverage (Senate File 417, 2025), and she is the sole sponsor of a second insulin-coverage bill (Senate File 2322, 2026) and of a bill on Medicaid and children's health insurance coverage for mental health services in school-based settings (Senate File 478, 2025). Each was introduced and referred to committee; none advanced.
Limit: These are state bills in the minority caucus, two of them hers alone and the rest with other sponsors, and none reached a floor vote. The card does not weigh whether any of them would have the effect the platform describes.
Sarah Trone Garriott
Government accountability: a stock-trading ban
Matches stated direction
What they say
She says she wants an outright ban on stock trading in Congress, covering all politicians, with criminal penalties.
“I want a real stock trading ban in Congress: no trades outright, including all politicians, with real jail time as punishment.”
“I will support a real ban and real accountability.”
What the record shows ·
She is one of six Senate sponsors of Senate File 557 (2025), a bill restricting transactions in covered financial instruments by members of the Iowa general assembly, legislative staff and their immediate family on the basis of nonpublic information, and providing penalties; it was introduced and referred to State Government on March 6, 2025, assigned a subcommittee on March 11, and went no further.
Limit: A state bill covering state legislators is not the congressional ban she calls for, and no state senate seat can legislate one; the state bill turns on trading on the basis of nonpublic information rather than the outright ban with jail time her statement describes, and it did not advance out of committee. The check covers the descriptions the Legislature publishes for all 223 bills and resolutions it lists for her across the 89th, 90th and 91st General Assemblies; a floor amendment would not appear.
The Iowa Secretary of State's 2026 general candidate list, last updated August 19, showed two candidates for the third district, Zach Nunn and Sarah Trone Garriott, when The Stated Record read it on September 10.