Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

The second legislative deadline of the 2024 session took out a number of bills of significant potential impact

Listen to political reporters from across Iowa talk about this week in politics

Deadline stops some bills, reveals Iowa Republicans' varied strategies

Lawmakers seek data on what unemployment tax cut could mean

The bills were introduced by House Republicans in the wake of January’s fatal shooting at Perry High School.

Also: Democrats decry jobless aid cuts as Perry meatpacking plant closure looms.

Republican leaders in the Iowa House and Senate were unable to find agreement on their separate immigration policy proposals

GOP Sen. Brad Zaun said he stopped the bill, which was approved by House Republicans, over concerns it would threaten the legality of in vitro fertilization

A bill that would limit the authority of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to purchase land for public use was shelved Wednesday ahead of a key legislative deadline.

The Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing -- which inspects nursing homes -- is asserting that emails that were completed, sent and received are preliminary “draft” documents that aren’t subject to disclosure under Iowa’s open records law.

Advocates for Social Justice members are asking for the city of Cedar Rapids to lobby against a bill that would dismantle citizen review boards that provide oversight of local law enforcement like the one Cedar Rapids created in 2021.

Hemp-derived cannabis products in Iowa would be significantly limited in their potency under a bill Iowa House lawmakers passed on Tuesday.

Despite advancing the bill to the full committee, Republican senators on the subcommittee said they were uncomfortable with its vague language.

Also, a House panel dismisses ethics complaint over a vote for private school assistance

State lawmakers say the new proposal will be an improvement upon the original, which was shut down in 2009 after an audit showed $26 million in improperly issued funds, resulting in at least seven criminal convictions.