Some bills won’t make it this year
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Some bills won’t make it this year
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: School swatting calls, Iowa’s baseball bill, Reynolds’ birth control bill, eminent domain, K-12 education policy and more.
Education policy dealing with graphic materials and the teaching of gender identity passed, but a bill regulating carbon capture pipelines did not
Proposed legislation would require the state to prioritize maintenance of current publicly-owned lands over the acquisition of new lands. Iowa ranks near the bottom of the list of U.S. states for its share of publicly-owned land. About 3 percent of the state is public land.
DES MOINES — Iowa House and Senate lawmakers advanced bills restricting certain instruction and library books in Iowa schools and allowing teachers to remove disruptive students from classrooms on Wednesday.
Gov. Kim Reynolds has appointed former state auditor Mary Mosiman to lead the Iowa Department of Revenue. She is currently the department’s deputy director and tax management division administrator.
The legislation that has stalled in previous years appears to have more momentum this session.
State senators now must consider changes House made to bill
With its death ahead of this week’s legislative funnel, the bill is ineligible for consideration for the remainder of the 2023 session, although leadership could resurrect it
Attorney general picks Lanny Zieman for job dealing with Iowa utilities
CapCO2 plans to have a pilot project by this summer to test a system that would capture CO2 from ethanol plants, combine it with hydrogen and turn it into green methanol -- a highly-sought renewable fuel.
Following Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signing of a new law banning gender-affirming care, families with transgender children are searching for answers.
Three years after Iowa sidestepped traditional competitive bidding to hire a cloud computing company with little state government experience, the state has ended its contract with Workday.
Senate, House ideas differ, but goal is to prevent big spikes in bills
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