Articles Tagged: Kim Reynolds

Lawmakers faced a Friday deadline for Iowa victims to have full access to the Boy Scouts settlement

Critics argue accelerated cuts hurt schools, public services

A plan to overhaul and combine Iowa’s delivery system for mental and behavioral health services is headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds to be signed into law.

The bill is a streamlined version of a proposal made earlier this year by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Also, Iowa police chiefs raise concerns over new illegal immigration law

Arguments focus on which legal standard to apply

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed dozens of bills into law Wednesday, including those related to pregnancy centers, swatting calls, retail theft, “deepfake” child pornography, and nuisance strip clubs.

The governor says the new state program will help grow existing summer meal sites; critics say it will fall well short of what the federal program would have offered.

Opponents to the new law signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds organize protests and consider a court fight.

The measure, which Gov. Kim Reynolds called for in her annual Condition of the State address in January, sailed through the Legislature with unanimous support in February.

Rules meant to carry out a blocked Iowa law banning abortions early in pregnancy will move forward, while later this week the Iowa Supreme Court will consider a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the state ban.

School, community still recovering from January school shooting

Republican Party of Iowa Chair Jeff Kaufmann also discussed the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses and the working relationship between Donald Trump and Kim Reynolds for Iowa PBS’ “Iowa Press”

The bill would remove the most senior judge in the district from the judicial nominating commission. Instead, the governor would be allowed to appoint an additional member. With the addition, the governor would be able to appoint six — or a majority — of the members to each judicial nominating commission.

Also, nicotine vapes that are not approved by the feds would be banned from sale in Iowa under a bill also moving in the House