Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

Lawmakers also advanced legislation that would lower the minimum age to purchase a handgun from 21 to 18 in the state.

The new legislation would make it a felony for any Iowa law enforcement officer who knowingly and intentionally fails to cooperate with federal immigration officials

A proposal being considered would have the Iowa high school athletics associations create committees designed to oversee and approve all conference realignments.

Iowa businesses would pay nearly $1 billion less to fund benefits for unemployed workers under a proposal by Gov. Kim Reynolds advanced by Senate Republican lawmakers.

Free feminine hygiene products would be made accessible to middle and high school students in the state under legislation in the Iowa House.

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.