# Bill Dotzler

Bill Dotzler is a Democratic member of the Iowa Senate for district 31.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Iowa Senate, district 31
- Serving since: 1997-01-13
- Current term: IA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/c1174a56-68c9-4103-aaee-fa3f1a2b25ca

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/c1174a56-68c9-4103-aaee-fa3f1a2b25ca (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

100% of Dotzler’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Iowa, in the top quarter of State Senate Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.59 (standard error 0.02), from 163 donors and 938 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 60% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Votes (IA 2025–26 session)

589 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Iowa Senate 93.9%). Party unity 93.8% (95.7%). 31 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 nay · 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 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 nay · 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 82 bills: 82 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0. 2.4% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Iowa Senate 10.8%; rank 36 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 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 2350: A bill for an act relating to the use of automatic registration plate readers, and providing penalties. (in committee, 2026-02-17) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2350/
- 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 2241: A bill for an act relating to charter school requirements, including reporting requirements, governance standards, financial accountability, and oversight by… (in committee, 2026-02-16) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2241/
- SF 2249: A bill for an act relating to customer classes for large energy use facilities, and including applicability provisions. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2249/
- SF 2245: A bill for an act relating to audits of governmental subdivisions by the state auditor concerning suspected embezzlement, theft, or other significant… (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2245/
- SF 2244: A bill for an act relating to the education savings account program, including the establishment and requirements of qualified nonpublic schools. (in committee, 2026-02-16) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2244/
- SJR 2009: A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to corporate participation in the political process. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SJR2009/
- SF 2266: A bill for an act relating to clean water monitoring by requiring agencies to publish disaggregated data, including data associated with contributions by… (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/ia/bills/2025-2026/SF2266/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $14.7K (State Senate Democrats median $55.5K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.senate.iowa.gov/senator/dotzler/
- X: https://x.com/dotzlerbill
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bill.dotzler/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbill/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/c1174a56-68c9-4103-aaee-fa3f1a2b25ca