Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

Iowa’s community colleges for 60 years have innovatively and persistently pursued a Legislature-levied mission to provide educational opportunities, workforce training, and community enrichment through two-year associate degrees, one-year certificates, and other continuing or high school-level academic programming.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. If it sounds like an …

Iowa lawmakers look into ways to prevent rural ‘food deserts’

This week on the podcast, Iowa’s version of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law is back in the courts and the Legislature, Middle East tensions come to the Iowa Capitol, and Gov. Kim Reynolds talks DOGE and Lutheran Services.

The general state funding increase would be the lowest in at least five years; Republicans say the proposals are sustainable, while Democrats say they are woefully inadequate

Also, House Republicans advanced a bill that would require citizenship information on Iowa driver’s licenses

GOP lawmakers reject amendments offered by Democrats condemning white nationalists pardoned by Trump

Religious leaders raise concerns of promoting Christian nationalism

House advances proposal that would expand ban to all grades

The Iowa Department of Public Safety says under current law there is no legal mechanism by which to charge individuals for sharing their sports betting accounts with others or making bets on another’s behalf.

Also, parents are asking Iowa AG Brenna Bird to stop her support for a lawsuit they fear will eliminate federal protections for children with disabilities.

Iowa House lawmakers this week advanced several bills aimed at closing Iowa's growing shortage of physicians.

Republican lawmakers Wednesday advanced

Medical practitioners, health care institutions and patients would be given broader allowance for consciously objecting to receiving or administering certain forms of medical care under proposed legislation in the Iowa legislature.

Also, ticket bot ban, which seeks to stop web applications from buying large numbers of concert tickets and reselling them for more on the secondary market, passes the Senate