Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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StateIowa Senate

Bill Dotzler Lame duck: leaving office Jan 11

State senator, Senate District 31

Leaving office Jan 11. Will be replaced by Timi Brown Powers (Democrat), who won this seat Nov 3 (unofficial results). See Timi Brown Powers’s profile

Party
Democrat
District
Senate District 31See it on a street map
Committees
6 committees
Tracked votes
75
The record

Voting record

Votes on the education bills we track. Each bill links to its history, text and who sponsored it.

Campaign money

Who funds their campaign

Money given to Bill Dotzler’s campaign for the Iowa Senate, from reports it files with the state. It doesn’t include money raised for any other race, such as a run for Congress, which is reported to the Federal Election Commission instead. We show totals; we don’t name individual donors.

$14,650raised in 2025–26, through Dec 12, 2025

  • Individuals
  • PACs
From Iowa
100%
of money with an address on the report
Small gifts
32%
of individuals’ money came in gifts of $100 or less; 15% in gifts of $1,000 or more

Biggest donors

PACs, party committees, other campaigns and organizations.

  1. Hy-Vee, Inc. Employees' Political Action CommitteePAC$3,500
  2. RPAC Iowa - REALTORS Political Action CommitteePAC$1,000
  3. Associated General Contractors of Iowa PACPAC$1,000
  4. Iowa BEV PAC #6098PAC$1,000
  5. Iowa Health PACPAC$500
  6. Iowa Association of Nurse Anesthetists PACPAC$300
  7. Iowa LawpacPAC$250
  8. Iowa Optometric AssociationPAC$250
  9. Iowans For A Skilled WorkforcePAC$250
  10. Iowa Chiropractic Society PacPAC$100
See the numbers
Where the money came from, 2025–26
SourceAmountShare
Individuals People giving their own money$6,50044%
PACs Political action committees: unions, businesses, causes$8,15056%
Party committees State and county party committees$00%
Other candidates Other politicians’ campaign committees$00%
Businesses and other Businesses, groups, unregistered committees and unitemized gifts$00%
In-kind gifts (included above)$1801%

Totals cover their campaign committee only, not money spent by outside groups. In-kind gifts count at their reported value. Party money often passes through caucus committees, which show up here as PACs. How we count campaign money

From Iowa Campaign Contributions Received, published by the Iowa Ethics & Campaign Finance Disclosure Commission under CC BY-NC 4.0. We total and summarize the reports as campaigns filed them. Last checked Nov 7.

Where bills start

Committees

Where they serve

Senate District 31

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Bill Dotzler represents Senate District 31, which is in Black Hawk County.

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District lines from the US Census Bureau, drawn in Iowa’s 2021 redistricting. Street map © OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenFreeMap.

Legislator details from Open States. Votes last checked Nov 6. Report a mistake