About a quarter of Iowans would no longer pay co-pays and deductibles for supplemental and diagnostic breast exams under legislation that unanimously passed the Iowa House and advanced Wednesday in the Iowa Senate. But insurers say health care costs would rise for everyone.
“The proposed revisions clarify expectations regarding university management and oversight of institutional social media accounts,” according to a summary of those policy revisions, which came back before the board for approval in February. “The universities are generally expected to refrain from issuing statements on political, social, or public policy matters.”
LGBTQ Iowans shared a message of hope and perseverance in the face of legislative attacks against transgender Iowans during a rally Tuesday. About 150 people gathered in the Iowa Capitol Rotunda in a show of solidarity during LGBTQ Day on the Hill.
Also in the Capitol Notebook: Iowa House passes anti-SLAPP legislation
Also, Johnson County supervisors would be elected by districts, rather than at-large, under legislation passed by the Iowa Senate
Iowa lawmakers have advanced legislation that would allow Iowa courts to order treatment for individuals showing psychiatric deterioration when people can’t recognize they need help and are unlikely to seek it on their own.
Steele in February announced his retirement from the Waterloo-based NBC affiliate, which serves much of Eastern Iowa. His final sign off from the nightly news followed later that month.
A group of Des Moines firefighters and their family members filled a legislative committee room last week at the Iowa Capitol, hopeful that this will be the year lawmakers pass legislation to expand medical coverage for firefighters who develop cancer on the job. While a House bill passed unanimously through committee, the Senate bill was removed from a committee agenda.
For the past three years, the Iowa Long-Term Care Ombudsman’s Office has called for an increase in the “personal needs allowance” that Medicaid beneficiaries receive while in nursing homes. The last increase was 24 years ago.
State lawmakers hit the 2025 session’s first ‘funnel’ deadline, which revokes the eligibility of bills that did not reach a certain approval threshold.
With the first legislative deadline passed, Iowa legislators’ focus will shift to include more tax and fiscal policy considerations
The Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau recaps the first funnel deadline of the 2025 legislative session.
Also, Republicans advance anti-'chemtrail' bill
The legislation would phase out the rollback and cap the revenue that local governments are allowed to collect.
Iowa lawmakers this week hit their first ‘funnel’ deadline, which eliminated from further consideration any bills that did not receive a prescribed level of support.
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