The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will create a new grant program for combating emerging contaminants in drinking water in small or disadvantaged communities. The program will be funded with $18.9 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
A proposal to fix a state error in how property taxes are calculated -- which cities, counties and other local governments say will leave them in a lurch -- is headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk after House lawmakers passed the bill Wednesday.
Also, Gov. Reynolds says she will sign into law the caps on medical malpractice jury awards
Iowa law enforcement officials would be prohibited from enforcing federal gun laws and regulations, and state agencies could be fined up to $50,000 for violations
The proposal comes from the head of the state’s veterans affairs department after a trust fund for veterans’ emergency expenses ran out of available money last year
Iowa Homeland Security will pay more than $600,000 to replace firefighting clothing and equipment damaged in a Dec. 8 explosion and fire in Marengo after the company whose plant exploded refused to pay.
Measure would would remove the provision in Iowa law requiring schools to teach about “the availability of a vaccine to prevent HPV” in grades seven and eight, making the instruction optional.
Blind Iowans expressed their concern with how Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposed realignment of state government will impact them and the state services that help them.
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.
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