The drafted plan, which would require operational improvements at two MidAmerican coal-fired power plants, is open for public comment.
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The drafted plan, which would require operational improvements at two MidAmerican coal-fired power plants, is open for public comment.
Proposed pipeline-related legislation in this session mostly has come from Sen. Jeff Taylor, a Republican from Sioux Center, though none of the bills he has proposed has advanced.
According to newly disclosed state data, 89 percent of the overpayments made last year were not the result of unemployment fraud, but of state decisions that were reversed on appeal or innocent mistakes made by Iowans seeking benefits.
The Republican attorney general made the request recently to state lawmakers.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: the medical malpractice debate comes to a head in the Iowa Legislature, the debate over books in schools continues, and said books-in-schools debate is joined by a pretty high profile out-of-stater.
LGBT groups back the proposal, but the legislation has stalled in the Iowa Senate.
The proposal was inspired by a recent case involving a sex trafficking victim who killed the man who she says raped her
Energy companies and landowners would be limited on where they can set up solar panel arrays under a bill advanced Monday in the Iowa Senate.
Weeks after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a sweeping law creating taxpayer-funded education savings accounts for private schools, Iowa lawmakers are advancing a bill to loosen testing requirements for students taking advantage of the program.
The bill would make more jobs legal for 14- to 17-year-old Iowans, and allow them to petition the state for even more work opportunities under the proposal that Democrats say could put young Iowans at risk,
The bill, expected to be signed into law, would cap non-economic damages at $2 million for hospitals and $1 million for doctors.
Unlike the public ceremony that marked Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signing of a private school funding bill last month, the bill that increases funding to Iowa’s public schools was signed in private on Tuesday.
Iowa lawmakers Tuesday advanced a bill eliminating reporting requirements and other regulations on public K-12 schools.
In an Iowa House Government Oversight committee meeting Monday evening, the parents, many of them activists with the conservative group Moms for Liberty, read passages from books they found offensive.
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