Articles Tagged: Iowa Senate

‘Glide path’ calls for IPERS investing state surplus, with profits used to reduce taxes

Also, lawmakers advance a bill allowing families to monitor nursing home residents.

Sen. Brad Zaun has pushed to ban the traffic cameras ever since he received a citation in 2011 after a camera captured his son speeding while driving the senator’s vehicle in Cedar Rapids.

Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal received bipartisan support in its first legislative step; a Republican senator dismissed concerns over lack of transparency called for in the bill.

The move comes in the wake of a fiery derailment last year of a train carrying toxic chemicals in eastern Ohio that set off evacuations, a federal investigation and concerns about the effect the derailment and the fire could have on health and the environment.

Many of the event’s speakers addressed the recent fatal school shooting in Perry, and in response called for more armed officers and armed school staff with firearms and active shooter training in schools.

Conversion therapy, the practice of attempting to convince gay people to become heterosexual, is widely discredited and opposed by medical and psychiatric organizations

Also, Iowa Youth Poll shows strong support for Trump

In her annual Condition of the State address, the governor touts plan to raise teacher pay and reform area education agencies.

GOP leaders say they won’t act to further restrict abortion until court rules on ‘fetal heartbeat’ law.

Iowa Senate president: Investigation would 'distract’ state regulators from monitoring facilities

Iowa Sen. Todd Taylor, D-Cedar Rapids, will announce his campaign for Linn County Auditor Tuesday morning.

Legislative committee deadlocks on complaint against Cedar Rapids Democrat

Abortion rights advocates held a rally in the rotunda and far outnumbered abortion restriction advocates during a long and loud day at the Iowa Capitol.

The bill, House File 732, was passed out of both chambers by 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, about 15 hours after the special session began. Lawmakers voted mostly along party lines to ban abortions after cardiac activity is detected in an embryo or fetus, with some exceptions.