Senate Republicans passed legislation that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to work unsupervised in child care facilities, and allow child care centers to operate with one worker to every seven 2-year-olds, and one worker to every 10 3-year-olds.
The impasse over Reynolds’ private school tuition assistance proposal may be the most significant element of legislators’ attempts to finish their work for the session. It’s something Reynolds has spent multiple years pushing and Senate Republicans have backed. But the resistance where it exists within the House Republican caucus has been firm.
In addition to vouchers, K-12 transparency, unemployment benefits, a proposed ethanol mandate, and the bottle bill remain on lawmakers’ to-do list.
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In addition to raising the handling fee from one to three cents per container and letting retailers that meet certain condition opt out, SF 2378 increases enforcement through the Attorney General’s Office, offers distributors a 1-cent credit against their taxes for each container they handle and increases legislative oversight. But the Senate must agree.
As Iowa lawmakers close in on the April 19 end of daily expense money, some are “a little antsy,” according to a House leader.
Legislation to require a paper trail to establish proof of ownership when catalytic converters are sold to recyclers or scrap metal dealers was approved by the Iowa House 88-5. That will help law enforcement investigating reports of stolen catalytic converters.
The Glenwood Resource Center, home to 152 residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities, will be closed in 2024, state leaders announced Thursday.
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Twenty people lost their lives to domestic violence in Iowa in 2021, the most in a decade.
Glenwood Resource Center, the state-operated facility for Iowans with intellectual and developmental disabilities, has been under scrutiny from the federal justice department. State leaders announced Thursday it will close in 2024.
The bill calls for Iowa to adopt LEAD-K, a nationwide initiative to raise awareness of deaf or hard-of-hearing children’s experiences in language learning and to work toward school readiness and sufficient language skills by providing access to both American Sign Language and English.
If no Democrats in the Senate vote to confirm Erik Helland’s nomination to the Iowa Public Employment Relations Board, the nomination will fail.
A bill to safeguard residents of mobile home parks against rapid rent and fee increases, and well as adding protections against evictions, passed the Iowa House on Tuesday night despite criticism it had become too watered down to help tenants much.
Democrats and Republicans praise “scrappy” Bolkcom
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