Sen. Tom Shipley
Republican Iowa Senate · District 9 · Iowa
+0.431Left–right score (within Senate)−1 = most liberal, +1 = most conservative in this chamber. Only compare with others in the same chamber.
#30 of 47Chamber rank, liberal→conservative#1 is the most liberal ranked member of this chamber.
99.5%Party unityHow often they vote the same way as most of their own party.
586Roll calls (0 missed/absent)Recorded votes we have for this session; “missed” means they didn’t vote.
In office since 2023-01-03 · tom.shipley@legis.iowa.gov · iowasenaterepublicans.com/…/tom-shipley · legis.iowa.gov/…/legislator?ga=88&personI · legis.iowa.gov/…/legislator?ga=89&personI · legis.iowa.gov/…/legislator?personID=1481 · Open States ID d1167ce2-5a24-4eb8-bce8-3800ea24a4d0
Capitol: 1007 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines, IA 50319 515-281-3371
Where they sit in the Iowa Senate
Each gray bar counts how many ranked members of the Iowa Senate have a score in that range, from most liberal (left) to most conservative (right). The colored line is Tom Shipley. Scores are relative to this chamber only.
Chamber, by party
Each tick is one ranked member, placed by their score (blue D, red R, purple I/other). The tall tick is Tom Shipley.
Committees
- Agriculture
- Appropriations
- Education
- Ethics (vice chair)
- Judiciary
- Natural Resources and Environment (vice chair)
- Transportation
Recent votes (latest 60 of 586 in the current session data)
| Date | Bill / motion | Vote | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-03 | SF 2472 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions, divisions of revenue, and funding from the secure an advanced vision fo | Yea | Pass 41–1 |
| 2026-05-03 | HF 2788 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to abortions including definitions, informed consent, dispensing of abortion-inducing drugs, and other abortion-related provisions. | Yea | Pass 30–11 |
| 2026-05-03 | HF 2800 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to state and local government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys i | Yea | Pass 29–11 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 639 Shall amendment H-8456 be adopted? A bill for an act creating a specialty business court, and including effective date provisions. | Absent | Fail 8–77 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2765 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act providing for the regulation of mining, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions. | Yea | Pass 46–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 1036 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and prot | Yea | Pass 45–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2770 Shall amendment H-8451, to amendment H-8414, be adopted? A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing fees, and including applicability provisions. | Absent | Pass 82–3 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2800 Shall amendment H-8494, to amendment H-8491, be adopted? A bill for an act relating to state and local government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys i | Absent | Fail 28–56 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 1036 Shall amendment S-5251 be adopted? A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and prot | Nay | Fail 17–28 |
| 2026-05-02 | SJR 11 Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-8485? A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to requirements for certain state tax law changes. | Absent | Fail 21–57 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2787 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act prohibiting warrant resolution clinics, including enforcement mechanisms, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. | Yea | Pass 31–12 |
| 2026-05-02 | SJR 11 Shall amendment H-8490 be adopted? A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to requirements for certain state tax law changes. | Absent | Fail 21–57 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2480 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to the taxation and regulation of alternative nicotine products and vapor products, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. | Absent | Pass 67–18 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2465 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to agriculture, including by providing for the powers and duties of the department of agriculture and land stewardship, including the promotion and regulation of commodities and products, the r | Absent | Pass 81–4 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2785 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act extending the biodiesel blended fuel tax credit. | Absent | Pass 84–1 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2781 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to allocations of moneys from the juvenile detention home fund. | Yea | Pass 34–9 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2770 Shall amendment H-8416, to amendment H-8414, be adopted? A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing fees, and including applicability provisions. | Absent | Fail 27–58 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2770 Shall amendment H-8417, to amendment H-8414, be adopted? A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing fees, and including applicability provisions. | Absent | Fail 29–56 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2794 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act establishing a sexual assault forensic examination center grant program and trust fund. | Absent | Pass 85–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2797 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, and providing fees. | Absent | Pass 85–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2542 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties. | Yea | Pass 39–6 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2617 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to abandoned vehicles. | Absent | Pass 85–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2493 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and including applicability provisions. | Yea | Pass 46–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | SJR 11 Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-8482? A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to requirements for certain state tax law changes. | Absent | Fail 22–56 |
| 2026-05-02 | SJR 11 Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-8488? A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to requirements for certain state tax law changes. | Absent | Fail 21–57 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2531 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to interests in minerals owned by counties and cities, and including effective date provisions. | Yea | Pass 45–1 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2797 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to the peace officer, public safety, and emergency personnel bill of rights, and providing fees. | Yea | Pass 44–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 654 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to wildlife, including the treatment of beaver dams, identification for traps, snares, and tree stands, maximum fur dealer license fees, and deer depredation, and making penalties applicable. | Yea | Pass 32–12 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2488 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to early childhood and family services, including the creation of an early childhood and family services system, making appropriations, convening an early childhood Iowa interim study committee | Absent | Pass 83–2 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 469 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act creating an emeritus license to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. | Absent | Pass 58–27 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2480 Shall amendment H-8467 be adopted? A bill for an act relating to the taxation and regulation of alternative nicotine products and vapor products, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions. | Absent | Fail 30–55 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2490 Shall amendment H-8477 be adopted? A bill for an act relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, pooling orders, negotiation of surface damage, impositi | Absent | Fail 25–61 |
| 2026-05-02 | SJR 11 Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-8484? A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to requirements for certain state tax law changes. | Absent | Fail 21–57 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2770 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the justice system, providing fees, and including applicability provisions. | Absent | Pass 54–31 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 1003 Shall the House concur in the Senate amendment H-8459? A bill for an act relating to child placements. | Absent | Pass 57–28 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2769 Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-8454, to amendment H-8449? A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch. | Absent | Fail 27–57 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 1003 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to child placements. | Absent | Pass 85–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2484 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund, technology reinvestment fund, and renewable fuel infrastructure fund, providing for related matters including financial a | Absent | Pass 59–26 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2769 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations to the judicial branch. | Absent | Pass 56–29 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2478 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund and the primary road fun | Absent | Pass 85–1 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2756 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to licensing of service companies, motor vehicle service contracts, and residential service contracts, and providing civil penalties and including effective date provisions. | Yea | Pass 46–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2490 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, pooling orders, negotiation of surface damage, impositi | Yea | Pass 35–11 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2542 Shall the House concur in the Senate amendment H-8470? A bill for an act relating to habitual offenders, and providing penalties. | Absent | Pass 68–18 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2602 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to the licensure of massage establishments, and making penalties applicable. | Yea | Pass 45–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2472 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to state and local government taxes, fees, financial authority, and budgets, by modifying property assessment provisions, divisions of revenue, and funding from the secure an advanced vision fo | Absent | Pass 62–22 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2453 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act providing for investment by regents institutions in certified innovation funds and including effective date provisions. | Yea | Pass 39–5 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2799 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority, the utilities commission, and the department of education, including creation of the headquarters expansion and development f | Absent | Pass 78–7 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2800 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to state and local government and finances, including by making, modifying, limiting, or reducing appropriations, distributions, or transfers, authorizing expenditure of unappropriated moneys i | Absent | Pass 58–26 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2497 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act providing for an assignment of assets for the benefit of creditors, exempting the related tax on the transfer of real estate, and including effective date provisions. | Yea | Pass 45–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | SJR 11 Shall the rules be suspended to consider amendment H-8481? A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to requirements for certain state tax law changes. | Absent | Fail 21–57 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 639 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to hazardous liquid pipelines, including common carrier requirements, proceedings under the Iowa utilities commission, including commission member attendance at hearings and informational meeti | Absent | Pass 79–6 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2497 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act providing for an assignment of assets for the benefit of creditors, exempting the related tax on the transfer of real estate, and including effective date provisions. | Absent | Pass 86–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | SJR 11 Shall the joint resolution be adopted and agreed to? A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to requirements for certain state tax law changes. | Absent | Pass 57–21 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2694 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to the regulation of certain places and activities by the governor. | Yea | Pass 31–14 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2794 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act establishing a sexual assault forensic examination center grant program and trust fund. | Yea | Pass 45–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2484 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to and making appropriations from the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund, technology reinvestment fund, and renewable fuel infrastructure fund, providing for related matters including financial a | Yea | Pass 45–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2615 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to thoroughbred and quarter horse racing seasons. | Yea | Pass 30–16 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2480 Shall amendment H-8468 be adopted? A bill for an act providing for a veterans’ benefits and services poster for employers to display in the workplace. | Absent | Fail 28–57 |
| 2026-05-02 | HF 2799 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the economic development authority, the utilities commission, and the department of education, including creation of the headquarters expansion and development f | Yea | Pass 41–0 |
| 2026-05-02 | SF 2490 Shall the bill pass? A bill for an act relating to oil and gas production, including filing requirements, the authority of the department of natural resources, confidential information, pooling orders, negotiation of surface damage, impositi | Absent | Pass 65–21 |