Seniors: the elder-abuse bill she says she helped pass
What they say
Her campaign says she worked on a bipartisan bill at the Statehouse to prevent abuse against Iowa's seniors and helped pass it.
“At the Statehouse, I worked on a bipartisan bill to prevent abuse against Iowa’s seniors. I worked closely with many senior organizations and learned more about the unique challenges our seniors face. I was delighted to help pass a bill to crack down on physical, emotional, and financial abuse against our elder Iowans.”
Source: Christina Bohannan for Congress
What the record shows ·
Senate File 522 of the 89th General Assembly relates to older individuals and dependent adults and creates criminal offenses and civil actions with penalties. The Legislature's bill history names her as one of the three members of its first House subcommittee on March 10, 2021, Hite, Bohannan and Kaufmann, and records that subcommittee recommending passage 3 to 0 on March 25, 2021. The bill then stopped: the history marks the end of the 2021 actions with no committee report and no House floor vote. On February 28, 2022 the House named a second subcommittee on the same bill, Hite, Anderson and Kaufmann, which did not include her; it recommended passage 3 to 0 on March 3, 2022, the committee reported the bill on March 15 and the House passed it, as amended, 96 to 0 on March 23, 2022. The Senate had passed it 47 to 0 on March 9, 2021, and the history carries an effective date of July 1, 2022. She is not a sponsor or floor manager of it: the Legislature's sponsor-or-floor-manager list for her carries 33 other measures.
Sources: Iowa Legislature, Iowa Legislature
Limit: She says she worked on the bill and helped pass it, and the official history shows both: a named seat on the subcommittee that first recommended it, and a bill that passed and took effect. Her seat did not carry it to the floor. The bill advanced no further in 2021, and the subcommittee that moved it in 2022, to the committee report and the floor, did not include her. She did not sponsor or floor-manage it, and the House vote was 96 to 0, so no single member's support decided it. This desk read the bill history and not the House Journal page for March 23, 2022, so her individual floor vote is not separately confirmed here.