Articles Tagged: Iowa Legislature

A proposed bill would prevent earned or good time credit from being applied to mandatory mininums for habitual, repeat and violent offenders.

The House bill would require pipeline companies to obtain 90 percent of the miles along their proposed route through voluntary easements before being granted eminent domain authority.

Proponents of the legislation said it’s needed to help contain insurance costs for hospitals, and to help recruit and retain doctors, especially in rural areas of the state.

A proposal to fix a state error in how property taxes are calculated -- which cities, counties and other local governments say will leave them in a lurch -- is headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk after House lawmakers passed the bill Wednesday.

Also, Gov. Reynolds says she will sign into law the caps on medical malpractice jury awards

Iowa law enforcement officials would be prohibited from enforcing federal gun laws and regulations, and state agencies could be fined up to $50,000 for violations

Representatives from Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa, as well as people who have experience working in and receiving care from crisis pregnancy centers, said at a news conference Wednesday the proposed $1.5 million increase in funding to the 55 centers in the state would further erode reproductive health care.

Iowa lawmakers once again are moving forward a bill that would restrict the ability of cities to use traffic enforcement cameras along state interstates and highways.

Representatives of Iowa’s public schools, cities, counties and assessors warn it will lead to public service cuts.

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.