Maya Marchel Hoff, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau

Iowa school districts would be barred from taking disciplinary action against teachers who don’t use a student’s preferred name or pronouns under legislation being considered by state lawmakers.

Iowa driver's licenses would list citizenship status under a bill aiming to home in on verifying voters' citizenship status at the polls.

The Department of Public Safety proposal comes more than a year after fatal shooting at Perry schools.

Increased tax credits for home schooling, exemptions for blood lead testing for home-schooled children and implementing gender-neutral term requirements for world language instruction for all students were among the education-related proposals in a bill considered Monday.

Under the proposed legislation — the full language of which has not been released — all Iowa school districts would be required to adopt by July 1, 2025, minimum standards for restrictions on personal electronic devices.

Iowa lawmakers consider a ‘Taylor Swift bill’ to regulate ticket bots

Also proposed: Putting those guilty of ‘grooming’ on sex registry

The law would require the state’s largest counties — and those with a regent university — to elect supervisors from districts

Also again, enrollment slightly dips in state’s public schools

A new runway for refueling tankers is also being planned.

Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Susan Christensen outlined recommendations Wednesday for the state’s judicial system, including changing the magistrate system and urging lawmakers to increase salaries for judges again.

The governor, in her annual Condition of the State Address, also proposes $1 million to start new cancer research effort.

On the opening day of the 2025 session of the Iowa Legislature, statehouse Republicans pledged to continue leading state government as they have in previous years and address taxes, immigration, public safety, higher education and more.

Property tax cuts, changes to Iowa’s higher education system and a statewide policy over cellphone use in schools are among the priorities state lawmakers intend to tackle when the Iowa Legislature convenes Monday for the 2025 session.

Members from both parties were invited to a legislative preview forum. Gov. Kim Reynolds declined, and House and Senate Republicans did not respond.