Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

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

Republicans celebrate ‘great day,’ while Democrats see missed opportunities

Issue may come before Iowa voters in 2024

Not only have Iowa lawmakers rejected a Board of Regents request to restore the $8 million they cut last summer in response to COVID-19, the Republican-led Senate this week approved a $1 billion education budget that excludes any funding increase at all for Iowa’s public universities.

DES MOINES — The GOP-controlled House continued taking steps toward wrapping up its 2021 session as it worked through the …

the Republican-led Iowa Senate on Monday approved legislation that would boost support for law enforcement and increase punishments for individuals convicted of rioting.

Mike Marshall, executive director of the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board, said Monday that he has requested more information from Heritage Action after a leaked video showed the group’s director claiming the organization helped Iowa lawmakers draft legislation that constrained early voting.