Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau

At a school tour in Des Moines, Reynolds also announced her legislative proposal to align all per-pupil state funding for public schools to charter schools.

Iowa Senate Republican lawmakers advanced a proposal Tuesday that would allow Iowa to revoke public pension benefits from public employees convicted of felonies, while acknowledging the bill’s current language is overly broad and will require changes.

Drey, who was elected to represent northwest Iowa’s Senate District 1 in an August special election, breaking the chamber’s Republican supermajority, said she learned of her diagnosis five days before the legislative session started.

Democrat Taylor Wettach is ending his congressional bid to run for Iowa state auditor, reshaping the Democratic primary in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District. Meanwhile, Republican state Rep. Shannon Lundgren has suspended her bid for Congress in eastern Iowa, clearing the way for GOP front-runner Joe Mitchell.

Iowa corn growers are expressing frustration toward congressional lawmakers after attempts to pass legislation allowing year-round sales 15 percent corn ethanol blend gasoline, or E15, were omitted from a House funding bill advanced Thursday as farmers in the state grapple with losses in the farm economy.

The Republican Attorneys General Association donated $1 million to Bird’s re-election campaign on New Year’s Eve.

The bill adds elected officials to an existing program that allows police officers, judges and other officials to have their home addresses redacted from records with county assessors and county recorders.

Bill Dotzler has served in the Iowa Legislature since 1997 and the Iowa Senate since 2003.

Also, proposed legislation would prohibit fire sprinkler requirements for townhouses

Iowa schools will be required to show a fetal development video to students in grades five through 12 as part of human growth and development curriculum after the Iowa State Board of Education confirmed the implementation of a law passed last year.

House Republicans’ latest legislative proposal would ban the use of eminent domain for carbon dioxide pipeline projects

Sixth-generation farmer Wade Dooley of central Iowa announced he is seeking the Democratic nomination for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture in 2026.

Clean water advocate and author Chris Jones announced he is formally launching a campaign for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, centering his bid on what he calls Iowa’s worsening water-quality crisis and the influence of industrial agribusiness.

Iowa Sen. Art Staed, D-Cedar Rapids, will propose legislation banning a Chinese-manufactured pesticide, saying he believes it could be linked to Parkinson’s disease, which he is battling.

A former Baxter police chief is charged with theft and misconduct in office