# Dennis Guth Dennis Guth is a Republican member of the Iowa Senate for district 28. - Party: Republican - Seat: Iowa Senate, district 28 - Serving since: 2023-01-03 - Current term: IA 2025–26 session - Open States ID: ocd-person/1e11235a-f4c8-4124-9f3a-3bb7a219636d Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/1e11235a-f4c8-4124-9f3a-3bb7a219636d (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set]. ## Headline Guth reported $2,050 in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom tenth of State Senate Republicans (median $46.2K). ## Ideology (CSIP) CSIP score +0.60 (standard error 0.04), from 76 donors and 467 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 83% of State Senate Republicans score lower. ## Votes (IA 2025–26 session) 589 roll calls. Attendance 93.8% (Iowa Senate 93.9%). Party unity 97.8% (95.7%). 6 votes against the party majority. Key votes: - 2026-10-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2801 A bill for an act modifying the major economic growth attraction program, and including effective date provisions. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2801/ - 2026-05-03 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · SF 2472 A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions,… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2472/ - 2026-05-03 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2788 A bill for an act relating to abortions including definitions, informed consent, dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs, and other abortion-related… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2788/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2765 A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2765/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 1036 A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF1036/ - 2026-05-02 · voted nay · Shall amendment S-5251 be adopted? · HF 1036 A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and… · fail · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF1036/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2787 A bill for an act prohibiting warrant resolution clinics, including enforcement mechanisms, providing penalties, and including effective date… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2787/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2781 A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2781/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2542 A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties. · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2542/ - 2026-05-02 · voted yea · Shall the bill pass? · HF 2493 A bill for an act relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and… · pass · https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/HF2493/ ## Legislation (IA 2025–26 session) Sponsored 37 bills: 37 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 0. 5.4% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Iowa Senate 10.8%; rank 25 of 48). Recent sponsored bills: - SF 2315: A bill for an act relating to eligibility for the Medicaid for employed persons with disabilities program. (in committee, 2026-02-24) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2315/ - SJR 2008: A joint resolution supporting devolution of power from the United States department of education to the states. (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SJR2008/ - SF 2162: A bill for an act providing for the care and disposition of domestic animals, and providing penalties. (in committee, 2026-02-11) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2162/ - SR 104: A resolution recognizing and honoring the Young Men’s Christian Association (in committee, 2026-01-21) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SR104/ - SF 2071: A bill for an act relating to immunization information requested on a medical examiner report used for investigations. (in committee, 2026-01-22) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2071/ - SF 2079: A bill for an act relating to parole eligibility for a person under the age of twenty-one convicted of a class “A” felony and making penalties applicable. (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2079/ - SR 101: A resolution honoring Staff Sergeant William Nathaniel Howard, Staff Sergeant Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, and their families. (passed one chamber, 2026-01-15) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SR101/ - SF 2049: A bill for an act relating to autologous and directed blood donations at blood banks and hospitals. (in committee, 2026-01-21) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2049/ - SF 2051: A bill for an act relating to the elimination of the exemption of gaming floors from the prohibitions of the smokefree air Act. (in committee, 2026-01-26) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2051/ - SF 2052: A bill for an act relating to the issuance of driver’s licenses and nonoperator’s identification cards, including physical forms of such identification and… (in committee, 2026-01-15) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2052/ ## Campaign money (2026 cycle) Itemized receipts $2,050 (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors. ## Links - Official site: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator/legislatorAllYears?personID=10726 - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guth4senate/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-guth-4ab8312a9/ Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/1e11235a-f4c8-4124-9f3a-3bb7a219636d