Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

Iowa House to weigh asset tests after passage by Senate

Estimate comes from nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency

Majority-party Republicans on the Iowa Senate’s budget committee on Monday advanced four bills that were, effectively, mere placeholders with no actual budget numbers in them.

A look back at the top news stories from the week of March 27

Some bills won’t make it this year

House and Senate Republicans differ on approach

On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: School swatting calls, Iowa’s baseball bill, Reynolds’ birth control bill, eminent domain, K-12 education policy and more.

Education policy dealing with graphic materials and the teaching of gender identity passed, but a bill regulating carbon capture pipelines did not

Lawmakers to hold public hearing on a bill that would alter eligibility requirements for Iowans to qualify for food and health care assistance.

Iowa Republican House lawmakers have proposed a measure that would require parental consent before children under the age of 18 can use social media.

Rob Sand, the lone Democrat to hold statewide office, said if Republicans want to target him directly, they should hurl insults, not advance legislation he said will harm Iowa taxpayers.

DES MOINES — Iowa House and Senate lawmakers advanced bills restricting certain instruction and library books in Iowa schools and allowing teachers to remove disruptive students from classrooms on Wednesday.

The legislation that has stalled in previous years appears to have more momentum this session.

Bill advances that would apply asset tests to applicants

State senators now must consider changes House made to bill