Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird signed on to lawsuits challenging President Joe Biden's administration and Democratic-backed laws during her first day in office Tuesday.
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More legislation is needed as the state combines the former human services, public health and aging departments
Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion rights advocates hope the Iowa Supreme Court will use a case before it to set a more permissive legal standard for considering abortion restrictions.
Republicans are eyeing property taxes, while local officials express a need to proceed with caution.
Recurring campaign donations without the donor’s active consent would be illegal, as would any hand-held use of a mobile device while driving. And pointing a laser at an aircraft would become a crime.
This Iowa state lawmaker has been involved in multiple historic legislative leadership moves; What does she say about how Iowa Democrats can bounce back?
Total state revenue will be just more than $9.62 billion in the current budget year, which is 1.9 percent less than the previous year, and $9.63 billion next year -- a marginal increase.
Monday’s agreement with CVS and Walgreens brings the total national amount of opioid settlements based to more than $50 billion. Iowa will receive a total of about $320 million over the course of 18 years, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office said.
Measure enshrines gun rights, provides strict legal protections, in state constitution.
Among the state and federal policies it aims to push in 2023, the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance and Iowa City Area Business Partnership hope to remove barriers to work by pushing solutions to immigration, child care, affordable housing, community placemaking and talent development.
Opioid deaths are on the rise in Iowa: In 2021, 258 Iowans died of opioid overdoses, a 21.2 percent increase from the previous year.
Six women will make up the Iowa House Democratic leadership team in 2023, the first time in Iowa history an all-female team has led a legislative caucus.
The outcome remains the same and the results changed little in a recount of a close Linn County statehouse race.
The bill was one of Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ flagship policy proposals during the last session, and she campaigned this year on bringing a similar measure back in the next session.
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