March for Our Lives Iowa urges Legislature to support a 3-day waiting period, background checks, and mandatory reporting of lost or stolen firearms.
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March for Our Lives Iowa urges Legislature to support a 3-day waiting period, background checks, and mandatory reporting of lost or stolen firearms.
Students with March for Our Lives Iowa said this week they plan to focus during the 2023 legislative session on firearm regulations that can hold up to the newly implemented state constitutional amendment.
In November’s elections, Roby Smith ousted Mike Fitzgerald, the longest-serving state treasurer in U.S. history, and took office this week
2023 legislative priorities include fully funding 4-year-old preschool, mental health
Although a Republican-led effort last year to change the way Iowa funds its public universities didn’t materialize, the concept isn’t dead — as lawmakers are airing plans to revisit the idea in the upcoming session in their debate over how much to give the state institutions.
More legislation is needed as the state combines the former human services, public health and aging departments
Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion rights advocates hope the Iowa Supreme Court will use a case before it to set a more permissive legal standard for considering abortion restrictions.
Republicans are eyeing property taxes, while local officials express a need to proceed with caution.
The longest-serving state attorney general in U.S. history is winding down his final term after losing his reelection after four decades in office.
Brenna Bird, a Republican county attorney who defeated longtime Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat, in the November election, requested the resignations Dec. 22, according to letters obtained by Iowa Capital Dispatch.
As of November, the number of cardholders in Iowa’s program stood at 14,466, close to double the 7,865 enrolled patients in December 2021, according to a new report from the Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Board, which administers the program.
Recurring campaign donations without the donor’s active consent would be illegal, as would any hand-held use of a mobile device while driving. And pointing a laser at an aircraft would become a crime.
It is the first time in at least a decade that money available from the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund has been depleted, and it likely will remain so until this summer.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast: Is Iowa a red state now?
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