D Iowa Senate · District 36

Sen. Tom Townsend

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Total votes

586

all sessions

Attendance

98%

12 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

96%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

2%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Sponsored

80

bills & resolutions

Higher than 88% of chamber peers

Committees

8

assignments

Biography

About Sen. Tom Townsend

Sen. serving Iowa District 36. Member of the Democratic party. Has been in office 1 year · 8 months. Serves on 8 committees, including Transportation, All-Terrain Vehicles and Off-Road Utility Vehicles on Highways Interim and Fuel Distribution Percentage Formula Review.

Sworn in

Jan 2, 2025

1 year · 8 months

Closest ally

-

no co-sponsorship data

Top topic

71 votes tracked

Voting record · by topic

How Tom votes, broken down

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Education 49% / 51%

24 support · 25 oppose

Healthcare 44% / 56%

12 support · 15 oppose

Budget & Taxes 39% / 61%

13 support · 20 oppose

Veterans 0% / 100%

0 support · 3 oppose

Immigration 57% / 43%

4 support · 3 oppose

Criminal Justice 36% / 64%

5 support · 9 oppose

Labor & Employment 23% / 77%

3 support · 10 oppose

Technology 0% / 100%

0 support · 6 oppose

Housing 33% / 67%

3 support · 6 oppose

Energy 33% / 67%

1 support · 2 oppose

Transportation 75% / 25%

3 support · 1 oppose

Environment 50% / 50%

3 support · 3 oppose

Last activity

Recent legislative activity

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Voted Yea

SF 2472A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions, divisions of revenue, and funding from the secure an advanced vision for education fund, establishing a program for first-time homebuyers, modifying and making appropriations, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Nay

HF 2788A bill for an act relating to abortions including definitions, informed consent, dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs, and other abortion-related provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Nay

HF 2800A bill for an act relating to state and local government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys in special funds, making corrections, and providing for properly related matters including the national electrical code, local civil rights laws, political party state central committees, noxious weeds, nonresident deer hunting licenses, proprietary treatment systems, poultry associations, tax credits, alternative nicotine and vapor products, public assistance programs, judicial branch and county attorney salaries, civil litigation abuse, human trafficking, federal grants and loans notifications, quarterly payments to area education agencies, civic proficiency in higher education, charter schools under the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, school district incentives, extracurricular interscholastic eligibility, and levy increases, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Yea

HF 2765A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Yea

HF 1036A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Yea

HF 1036A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Nay

HF 2787A bill for an act prohibiting warrant resolution clinics, including enforcement mechanisms, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions.

4 months ago

Voted Yea

HF 2781A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund.

4 months ago

Voted Yea

HF 2542A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties.

4 months ago

Voted Yea

HF 2493A bill for an act relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and including applicability provisions.

4 months ago