# Art Staed Art Staed is a Democratic member of the Iowa Senate for district 40. - Party: Democrat - Seat: Iowa Senate, district 40 - Serving since: 2023-01-01 - Current term: IA 2025–26 session - Open States ID: ocd-person/57925a0b-3010-440d-a012-c8465535c13e Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/57925a0b-3010-440d-a012-c8465535c13e (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 1.0% of the 102 bills Staed sponsored got out of committee, the lowest of 48 in the Iowa Senate. ## Ideology (CSIP) CSIP score −0.74 (standard error 0.02), from 418 donors and 995 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 36% of State Senate Democrats score lower. ## Votes (IA 2025–26 session) 589 roll calls. Attendance 98.4% (Iowa Senate 93.9%). Party unity 100% (95.7%). 23 votes against the party majority. Key votes: - 2026-10-02 · voted nay · 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 not voting · 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 not voting · 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 yea · 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 nay · 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 nay · 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 102 bills: 102 reached committee, 1 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0. 1.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Iowa Senate 10.8%; rank 48 of 48). Recent sponsored bills: - SF 2360: A bill for an act relating to partial payments of property taxes and including applicability provisions. (in committee, 2026-02-24) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2360/ - SF 2356: A bill for an act relating to monitoring the application of manure originating from a confinement feeding operation, and making penalties applicable. (in committee, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2356/ - SF 2344: A bill for an act relating to Parkinson’s disease prevention, research, and care, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (in committee, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2344/ - SF 2305: A bill for an act regulating the application of manure originating from an animal feeding operation, and making penalties applicable. (in committee, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2305/ - SF 2316: A bill for an act prohibiting a pesticide containing paraquat, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. (in committee, 2026-02-14) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2316/ - SF 2270: A bill for an act regulating animal feeding operations, including rulemaking requirements, and making penalties applicable. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2270/ - SF 2271: A bill for an act relating to captioning requirements for motion picture theaters. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2271/ - SF 2272: A bill for an act providing for a veterans’ benefits and services poster for employers to display in the workplace. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2272/ - SF 2269: A bill for an act appropriating moneys to Iowa state university of science and technology for use by the Iowa nutrient research center in supporting the Iowa… (in committee, 2026-02-11) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2269/ - SF 2258: A bill for an act relating to animal feeding operations by providing for certain air and water quality regulations, including when two or more related… (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2258/ ## Campaign money (2026 cycle) Itemized receipts $5,405 (State Senate Democrats median $55.5K). 91% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors. Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/57925a0b-3010-440d-a012-c8465535c13e