Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

And if such a move upsets national Democrats, ‘I don’t care,’ says new Iowa House Democrats leader Brian Meyer

Rocky De Witt, a Republican who rose from relative obscurity a decade ago to a seat on the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors and then a seat in the Iowa Senate, has died following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

The executive director of anti-abortion advocacy group Pulse Life Advocates said anti-abortion activists still have more work left to do.

More than two dozen states — including Iowa — have passed laws banning gender-affirming care for minors.

Seventy legislators in the Iowa House signed a petition to override Gov. Kim Reynolds’ veto of eminent domain and property rights legislation, the House Speaker’s Office announced Tuesday. But a special session of the Iowa Legislature remains unlikely given the lack of interest from Republican leaders in the Iowa Senate.

A list of prominent state and federal lawmakers, community leaders and abortion rights advocates recovered from the fake police vehicle used in the targeted shooting Saturday that killed a Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and left another wounded included individuals in Iowa, according to law enforcement and state legislative leaders.

During this year’s legislative session, the Iowa House of Representatives and the governor’s office used an Iowa-based AI-native program to help streamline the legislative process for evaluating and tracking bills, a first for the state.

Iowa’s Forest Reserve Program, which provides a tax incentive for property owners to maintain woodlands, remains intact after this year’s legislative session, but the Iowa Woodland Owners Association anticipates the fight to keep the program to continue.

Landowners impacted by a proposed carbon capture pipeline in Iowa say they are “not going away” and that the debate is “not over” one day after Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds vetoed legislation that sought to limit pipeline projects and the use of eminent domain.

The governor’s office announced Wednesday that Reynolds had signed or vetoed more than 20 bills.

Pharmacy benefit managers — or PBMs — will face new restrictions designed to constrain prescription drug costs and protect rural pharmacies under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Aspiring barbers, hairstylists and cosmetologists in Iowa will be allowed to work without a license so long as they are supervised by a licensed barber or beauty professional under legislation signed into law last week by Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said work requirements are needed to focus Medicaid on those truly in need. A nonpartisan analysis by the state’s Legislative Services Agency projects 32,000 eligible Iowans could lose coverage under the new law.

All forms of cancer will be covered by firefighters’ and other first responders’ disability insurance coverage — rather than only the 14 forms previously covered — under legislation signed into law Friday by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Iowa businesses will see a $1.2 billion reduction in unemployment insurance taxes over the next five years under legislation signed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Thursday.