# Dave Sires

Dave Sires is a Republican member of the Iowa Senate for district 38.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Iowa Senate, district 38
- Serving since: 2025-01-02
- Current term: IA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/b261b6a8-cb30-4808-b750-df2e7963d6c8

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/b261b6a8-cb30-4808-b750-df2e7963d6c8 (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

Sires reported $2,125 in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom tenth of State Senate Republicans (median $46.2K).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.39 (standard error 0.04), from 219 donors and 243 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 55% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (IA 2025–26 session)

589 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Iowa Senate 93.9%). Party unity 94.3% (95.7%). 17 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 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 9 bills: 9 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0. 22.2% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Iowa Senate 10.8%; rank 6 of 48).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SR 111: A resolution recognizing the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Northern Iowa. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-25) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SR111/
- 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/
- 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/
- SJR 2004: A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to corporate participation in the political process. (in committee, 2026-01-22) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SJR2004/
- 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 410: A bill for an act relating to public comment periods during regular meetings and special meetings of the boards of directors of school districts. (in committee, 2025-03-04) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF410/
- SF 404: A bill for an act creating the Iowa tourism advertising fund, and making appropriations. (in committee, 2025-02-25) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF404/
- SF 402: A bill for an act relating to the deduction of nursing facility expenses for purposes of the individual income tax, and including retroactive applicability… (in committee, 2025-03-03) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF402/
- SF 403: A bill for an act relating to the investment of public moneys in digital assets and precious metals. (in committee, 2025-02-24) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF403/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $2,125 (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?personID=37464&ga=91
- Campaign site: https://www.siresforsenate.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SiresforSenate/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/b261b6a8-cb30-4808-b750-df2e7963d6c8
