Articles Tagged: Iowa House

Among the bills that need at least some movement to survive this week’s funnel deadline are Republicans’ attempts to address what they consider transparency in public school curriculum.

Changes may be coming to Iowa’s recycling law, regardless of how beverage wholesalers and grocery stores feel about it, one state lawmaker Monday during a legislative hearing on the latest proposal in the seemingly annual effort to make changes to the state recycling law, more commonly known as the “bottle bill.”

Transgender girls and women are no longer allowed to participate in girls’ and women’s sports in Iowa under a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Transgender girls and women will not be allowed to play sports with other girls and women under a proposal that has passed the Iowa Legislature. The bill needs only Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signature to become law.

Iowa workers will see a gradual reduction in the state tax on their paychecks over the next five years, thanks to legislation signed into law Tuesday by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. The tax cuts will be phased in over five years, at which point they will provide tax relief — and thus also reduce state revenue — by $1.9 billion.

Most Iowa workers would pay a 3.9 percent state income tax — a large reduction for the state’s highest wage earners and a modest decrease for low-income workers — under a new proposal that is likely to become law soon.

Two Republican state lawmakers said they believe procedures by which Iowa schools consider complaints from parents about books and other classroom materials are not working.

A proposal that would shift sales taxes in Iowa and, in the process, finally finance the state fund for conservation and water quality projects appears to be on life support at the Iowa Capitol.

Workers at child care centers would be allowed to watch more children, potentially creating new child care slot openings, under a proposal from Iowa Senate Republicans.

Roughly $9 of every $10 in state revenue would be poured into next year’s state budget, while the remaining money would be set aside, under the myriad proposals from Republicans at the Iowa Capitol.

Banning transgender girls from girls sports and requiring E15 ethanol at all gas stations are among the living; restricting eminent domain and requiring video cameras in classrooms are among the dead.

Ten Iowa middle- and high-school girls — two of them transgender — spoke Thursday at a legislative hearing on legislation that would ban transgender girls from competing in girls athletics in Iowa. Also, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed her first bill of the session: a $3.6 billion K-12 public education package.

Proposed income tax cuts are on the move, and work on the next state budget has started earlier than normal.

A proposal to enable parents to start legal proceedings against schools or educators who distribute books or materials the parents deem obscene advanced Wednesday at the Iowa Capitol. Also advancing was a bill that would require Iowa, ISU and UNI sports teams to schedule games against each other.

Iowa elections’ recount procedures would be streamlined, funding from private groups to help elections operations would be prohibited, and an additional signature requirement for votes cast by mail would be added under a new proposal being considered by state lawmakers.