# Sandy Salmon Sandy Salmon is a Republican member of the Iowa Senate for district 29. - Party: Republican - Seat: Iowa Senate, district 29 - Serving since: 2023-01-03 - Current term: IA 2025–26 session - Open States ID: ocd-person/b51c0843-c860-4568-a3a7-3d004a377fd4 Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/b51c0843-c860-4568-a3a7-3d004a377fd4 (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 Salmon has served since 2023. ## Ideology (CSIP) CSIP score +0.45 (standard error 0.02), from 825 donors and 1,029 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 63% of State Senate Republicans score lower. ## Votes (IA 2025–26 session) 589 roll calls. Attendance 99.6% (Iowa Senate 93.9%). Party unity 97.4% (95.7%). 7 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 75 bills: 75 reached committee, 3 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 0. 4.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Iowa Senate 10.8%; rank 30 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/ - 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/ - 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 2211: A bill for an act relating to the Iowa medical freedom Act, including limitations on requiring medical interventions by businesses, governmental entities, and… (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2211/ - SF 2174: A bill for an act relating to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts provided by public institutions of higher education and school… (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2174/ - SF 2177: A bill for an act relating to policies and protection measures a library provider or third party contracting with a library provider must take if the library… (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2177/ - SF 2159: A bill for an act relating to materials used for prurient purposes, including age verification requirements for certain commercial entities, prohibitions on… (in committee, 2026-02-03) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2159/ - SF 2166: A bill for an act relating to the publication of electioneering communications containing synthetic media, and providing penalties. (in committee, 2026-02-03) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2166/ - SF 2124: A bill for an act relating to the disabled veteran homestead tax credit and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions. (in committee, 2026-01-29) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2124/ ## Campaign money (2026 cycle) Itemized receipts $39.1K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 97% 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=10754 - Campaign site: https://www.sandysalmon.org/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SenSandySalmon/ Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/b51c0843-c860-4568-a3a7-3d004a377fd4