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.
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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
House File 115 would require Iowa colleges and universities to establish policies prohibiting students, faculty and staff on nonimmigrant visas from “publicly espousing terrorist activity related to an ongoing conflict or ... persuading others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity related to an ongoing conflict or to support a terrorist organization unless it is the policy or practice of the United States to support such activity or organization.”
A so-called anti-SLAPP law is moving farther in the Iowa Legislature than it has in the past; it would allow Iowans to request expedited dismissal of a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds
Also, Iowans protest bill that would shield pesticide companies over failure to warn consumers about health risks of their products
Tax exemptions provide an incentive to qualifying landowners to preserve their woodlands, but bills introduced in the Iowa Legislature last year and again this year seek to change the state’s Forest and Fruit Tree Reserve program.
Committee chair thinks that’s ‘a major problem’
Also, a special election has been set to fill a vacant Iowa House seat after the death of a state lawmaker
Opponents say it targets drag shows and venues
Shortly after an analyst from a high-profile conservative policy group two weeks ago presented lawmakers with evidence that more than 20 programs across Iowa’s public universities have a negative “return on investment,” a member of the Board of Regents contacted her with questions.
Also, 3 people charged after protests at Iowa Capitol
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