Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

Past property tax legislation may lead to future financial pressures, North Liberty City Manager Ryan Heiar says.

The appropriation in the Iowa House legislation would be contingent on the U.S. Department of Agriculture approving a waiver for SNAP exemptions that could strike nearly two-thirds of food products at a grocery store from eligibility.

Iowa election recount reform legislation is advancing in the Iowa House; it differs greatly from recount reform introduced earlier by Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate.

Charles Benbrook told an Iowa City audience this week that the state’s agriculture is too pesticide intensive, and the chemicals are “harming the soil, harming public health, and it is harming fish populations and birds and the deer.”

Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday signed into law legislation removing civil rights protections for transgender Iowans.

Amid an onslaught of criticism from lawmakers and proposed legislation to codify their higher education critiques, Iowa’s Board of Regents this week directed its public universities to do “a lot more” to comply with the “spirit of the laws” — including pulling down current or archived webpages with any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Some Iowans receiving state-funded Medicaid coverage and food assistance would be required to work at least 80 hours a month to receive benefits under legislation critics say would put thousands of vulnerable Iowans at risk.

Republican lawmakers in the Iowa Legislature approved a bill that would remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act; Gov. Kim Reynolds must now decide whether to sign it into law

Hundreds of people arrived at the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines Thursday to participate in a public hearing ahead of planned votes in the House and Senate that will decide the fate of twin bills that would remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

The University of Iowa’s living learning communities house students with peers who share similar interests or majors in hopes of forming deeper community connections. Administrators confirmed to The Gazette that three of those communities — serving LGBTQ+, Latinx, and Black students — will no longer be offered starting next year.

Libraries that are “dues-paying members” of certain nationwide nonprofit organizations would be cut off from one avenue of state funding under legislation being considered by Iowa state lawmakers.

Also, under a proposed bill, the death penalty could be used for killing a law enforcement officer

Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has proposed a ‘continuum of care’ that incentivizes preschools and child care centers to work together, while House Democrats have proposed expanding child care assistance funding and tax credits

Also, Iowa House Republicans advanced a series of bills addressing carbon capture pipelines and landowner rights

The legislation would work to address the shortage of physicians -- especially in rural areas of the state -- by consolidating and boosting funding in doctors’ loan repayment programs and increasing the number of medical residencies in Iowa