Iowa 2026 ballot measures
As of September 29, 2025, zero statewide ballot measures were certified to appear on the ballot in Iowa on November 3, 2026.
Potential measures
| Type | Title | Subject | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| LRCA | Two-Thirds Legislative Vote Requirement for Income Tax Increase Bills Amendment | Taxes | Require a two-thirds vote of both chambers of the state legislature to pass a bill that would increase the individual or corporate income tax rate |
| LRCA | Prohibit Graduated Individual Income Tax Rates Amendment | Taxes | Prohibit graduated individual income tax rates and requiring any tax levied on an individual's income to be one single rate |
Getting measures on the ballot
Citizens
Iowa is one of the 24 states that do not have initiative or veto referendum processes. Thus, Iowa citizens cannot qualify a ballot measure for the statewide ballot by collecting signatures. Voters of Iowa have never voted on a ballot measure to authorize a statewide initiative and referendum process.
Legislature
To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on the ballot for voter ratification, a simple majority vote is required in both the Iowa State Senate and the Iowa House of Representatives in two successive legislative sessions with an election for state legislators in between. Every two years, half of the state senators and all of the members of the state House are up for election. Once an amendment is on the ballot, it must be approved by a simple majority of voters in order to become part of the constitution. For constitutional amendments to appear on the 2026 ballot, they must be approved during the 2023-2024 legislative session and the 2025-2026 legislative session.
Publication process
When a constitutional amendment has passed the general assembly in the first session and thus been referred to the succeeding legislature, the state legislature is required by Article X in the Iowa Constitution to publish the amendment in two newspapers in each of Iowa's congressional districts and on the legislature's website once per month for three months.[1] Before the approval of House File 764 of 2019, this was the duty of the Secretary of State. House File 764 of 2019 also provided that a proposed amendment that has been agreed to by two succeeding sessions of the general assembly cannot be invalidated due to an error or omission in the publication process.[2]
Information on the publication of proposed constitutional amendments may be found here.
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