The fiscal 2023 budget proposed by House Republicans represents a less than a 1 percent increase from the current $8.1 billion budget. Gov. Kim Reynolds and Senate Republicans have proposed spending just more than $8.2 billion, a 3.5 percent increase.
Iowa’s state budget is even healthier than experts previously estimated, but over the next two budget years, once newly approved state income tax cuts go into effect, Iowa’s state revenues are projected to decline.
Proponents say bills changing the staffing ratios and allowing younger workers to operate with less supervision would allow flexibility in child care facilities, but opponents say the changes could make those settings less safe for children.
House File 2299 restricts the appraisal process, stating that appraisers shall not settle disputes between insurance companies and individuals about how damage occurred. Instead, the appraisers could determine only the cash value of a loss.
Iowa House resolution recognizes the Ukrainian people’s fight for freedom and self governance.
Proposal to provide scholarships of as much as $5,500 a year to eligible private school students cheered as providing choice to more families, panned as attack on public education during Iowa House hearing.
According to a new poll from Selzer & Co., 84 percent of Iowans said the state’s recycling law is good for the state, while just 12 percent said it is bad. And 80 percent said the state should either keep the law as it is, or expand it to add more types of eligible containers and more retail locations where containers can be returned.
The investigation could be seen as politicians trying to “push their own agenda and inappropriately interfere with a separate but equal branch of government,” House Democrats said in a letter to the speaker and Judiciary Committee chairman.
Iowa’s high school graduation rate slipped from 91.8 percent for the Class of 2020 to 90.2 percent for the Class of 2021.
Wolfe, who has been clerking for her sister, Rep. Mary Wolfe, D-Clinton, is running for an open seat in House 90 in Iowa City. Most of the district is represented by Rep. Christina Bohannan, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to the U.S. House in the new southeast Iowa district.
On this week’s On Iowa Politics Podcast: Biden’s State of the Union, Gov. Reynolds’ Republican response, and Sen. Ernst’s take on the Biden administration’s handling of Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine
Solar energy installations proved so popular that the $5 million Iowa lawmakers appropriated for the tax credits ran out. So rather than get their tax credit, nearly 3,000 homeowners were put on a waitlist. They’re still waiting.
The Judiciary Committee voted to to withdraw the subpoenas issued in its investigation of a district court judge who allegedly committed an impeachable offense during the selection of candidates for the governor to choose from in making a judicial appointment.
Transgender girls and women are no longer allowed to participate in girls’ and women’s sports in Iowa under a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Rep. Joel Fry described the newly passed bill as part of the House GOP package to increase child care access and affordability, building off bills approved last year.
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