Caleb McCullough, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau

Iowa House CO2 pipeline bill andlimits on gender identity teaching are likely to clear ‘funnel.’

The move would contradict the guidance of several major medical groups, including the American Medical Association, the American Pediatric Association and the American Association of Psychiatrists.

There are at least 10 Iowa cities that have traffic cameras in place, including Cedar Rapids.

But the House bill faces an uncertain fate in Senate as ethanol industry says it spells ruin.

The House bill would require pipeline companies to obtain 90 percent of the miles along their proposed route through voluntary easements before being granted eminent domain authority.

A proposal to fix a state error in how property taxes are calculated -- which cities, counties and other local governments say will leave them in a lurch -- is headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk after House lawmakers passed the bill Wednesday.

Representatives from Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa, as well as people who have experience working in and receiving care from crisis pregnancy centers, said at a news conference Wednesday the proposed $1.5 million increase in funding to the 55 centers in the state would further erode reproductive health care.

Measure would would remove the provision in Iowa law requiring schools to teach about “the availability of a vaccine to prevent HPV” in grades seven and eight, making the instruction optional.

Proposed pipeline-related legislation in this session mostly has come from Sen. Jeff Taylor, a Republican from Sioux Center, though none of the bills he has proposed has advanced.

LGBT groups back the proposal, but the legislation has stalled in the Iowa Senate.

Energy companies and landowners would be limited on where they can set up solar panel arrays under a bill advanced Monday in the Iowa Senate.

Weeks after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a sweeping law creating taxpayer-funded education savings accounts for private schools, Iowa lawmakers are advancing a bill to loosen testing requirements for students taking advantage of the program.

The bill, expected to be signed into law, would cap non-economic damages at $2 million for hospitals and $1 million for doctors.

Unlike the public ceremony that marked Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signing of a private school funding bill last month, the bill that increases funding to Iowa’s public schools was signed in private on Tuesday.

In an Iowa House Government Oversight committee meeting Monday evening, the parents, many of them activists with the conservative group Moms for Liberty, read passages from books they found offensive.