Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

State lawmakers advance constitutional amendment as U.S. justices agree to hear abortion case

Advocates differ on whether care will get better or worse after the state -- not local property taxes -- starts funding it. There is a two-year transition.

Legislators are waiting on the Census Bureau to provide the granular data needed to complete redistricting, the redrawing of congressional and legislative district boundaries based on the decennial census.

Paras Bassuk of Iowa City West launched the group to get the voices of youth heard by state legislators

DES MOINES — State lawmakers approved nearly 200 pieces of legislation during 2021 session. Here are the ones that have the most impact on Iowans.

Iowa City Superintendent Matt Degner suspects more students to be put in quarantine if they are exposed to COVID-19 and not wearing masks

Goal is to connect every Iowan this year with basic broadband download speeds of 25 Mbps, upload speeds of 3 Mbps

Iowa lawmakers this year enacted new mandates that cut into local control, limiting the power of school boards, elections officials, county supervisors and city councils and mayors.

Exception made for health-care facilities

Broadband, prison among spending priorities

Democrats file ethics complaints

Our reporters kept track of which bills passed and which didn’t. Here’s the outcome.

A new order was passed in the final hours of the 2021 legislative session and signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds just after midnight Thursday morning, mere hours before the next school day was to start

Gov. Kim Reynolds got some, but not all, of what she wanted from the GOP-controlled Legislature

Take a look at who won and who lost in the latest session of the Iowa Legislature