While a new Iowa law that strips gender identity protections from the Iowa Civil Rights Act went into effect Tuesday, the ACLU of Iowa is reminding Iowans a number of other civil right protections remain for trans people.
Transgender and nonbinary Iowans will see their legal protections weakened this week when a law removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act goes into effect.
July 1 is the beginning of the fiscal year and the date new laws take effect, unless otherwise stated. Iowa’s majority-Republican General Assembly this year passed more than 170 laws dealing with education, firearms, crime, health care, paid family leave and more. Here’s what goes into effect this week.
Republican Iowa House Speaker Pat Grassley announced Friday he will seek re-election to the Iowa House, forgoing a run for governor in 2026.
And if such a move upsets national Democrats, ‘I don’t care,’ says new Iowa House Democrats leader Brian Meyer
Rocky De Witt, a Republican who rose from relative obscurity a decade ago to a seat on the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors and then a seat in the Iowa Senate, has died following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
The executive director of anti-abortion advocacy group Pulse Life Advocates said anti-abortion activists still have more work left to do.
More than two dozen states — including Iowa — have passed laws banning gender-affirming care for minors.
Seventy legislators in the Iowa House signed a petition to override Gov. Kim Reynolds’ veto of eminent domain and property rights legislation, the House Speaker’s Office announced Tuesday. But a special session of the Iowa Legislature remains unlikely given the lack of interest from Republican leaders in the Iowa Senate.
A list of prominent state and federal lawmakers, community leaders and abortion rights advocates recovered from the fake police vehicle used in the targeted shooting Saturday that killed a Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and left another wounded included individuals in Iowa, according to law enforcement and state legislative leaders.
During this year’s legislative session, the Iowa House of Representatives and the governor’s office used an Iowa-based AI-native program to help streamline the legislative process for evaluating and tracking bills, a first for the state.
Iowa’s Forest Reserve Program, which provides a tax incentive for property owners to maintain woodlands, remains intact after this year’s legislative session, but the Iowa Woodland Owners Association anticipates the fight to keep the program to continue.
Landowners impacted by a proposed carbon capture pipeline in Iowa say they are “not going away” and that the debate is “not over” one day after Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds vetoed legislation that sought to limit pipeline projects and the use of eminent domain.
The governor’s office announced Wednesday that Reynolds had signed or vetoed more than 20 bills.
Pharmacy benefit managers — or PBMs — will face new restrictions designed to constrain prescription drug costs and protect rural pharmacies under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
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