Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

More jobs would be open to Iowa teenagers under a bill House lawmakers advanced on Tuesday.

The proposal comes from the head of the state’s veterans affairs department after a trust fund for veterans’ emergency expenses ran out of available money last year

Senate Republicans advanced Gov. Kim Reynolds’ sweeping health care bill, but removed a provision that would allow pharmacists to dispense birth control without a prescription.

Measure would would remove the provision in Iowa law requiring schools to teach about “the availability of a vaccine to prevent HPV” in grades seven and eight, making the instruction optional.

Iowa’s state transportation commission would be required to prioritize making Highway 30 four lanes under a bill advanced Monday.

Blind Iowans expressed their concern with how Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposed realignment of state government will impact them and the state services that help them.

Proposed pipeline-related legislation in this session mostly has come from Sen. Jeff Taylor, a Republican from Sioux Center, though none of the bills he has proposed has advanced.

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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday said it is her goal to abolish state income tax by the end of her four-year term in 2026.

Energy companies and landowners would be limited on where they can set up solar panel arrays under a bill advanced Monday in the Iowa Senate.

Weeks after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a sweeping law creating taxpayer-funded education savings accounts for private schools, Iowa lawmakers are advancing a bill to loosen testing requirements for students taking advantage of the program.

The bill would make more jobs legal for 14- to 17-year-old Iowans, and allow them to petition the state for even more work opportunities under the proposal that Democrats say could put young Iowans at risk,

The bill, expected to be signed into law, would cap non-economic damages at $2 million for hospitals and $1 million for doctors.

Iowa employers would be required to check a federal system to see if prospective employees are eligible to work in the U.S. under a bill advanced in the Iowa House on Wednesday, though lawmakers expressed reservations about the proposal and skepticism that it will advance further.

Unlike the public ceremony that marked Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signing of a private school funding bill last month, the bill that increases funding to Iowa’s public schools was signed in private on Tuesday.